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Vote Common Good is an left-leaning voter advocacy and education group focused on religious voters. Founded in 2018 by longtime liberal evangelical activist Doug Pagitt, Vote Common Good was explicitly founded to oppose the policies of the Trump administration.
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Jonathan Smith is the executive director of the Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC), a left-of-center public interest law firm that advocates for expanded welfare programs, pro-labor-union policies, and expanded legal protections for illegal immigrants.
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Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein is an attorney and public policy professional who currently directs the Liberty and National Security Policy portfolio at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-of-center advocacy group and public interest legal center located at New York University. Much of Goitein’s professional work centers around the analysis
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The CO2 Coalition is a right-of-center advocacy organization that educates policy makers and the general public about the importance of carbon dioxide to our lives and the U.S. economy. The Coalition intends to be part of the current discussion about climate change, including the role that humans play, climate models’
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The American Commitment Foundation is a right-leaning advocacy group that educates the public on issues related to economic freedom and limited government. 1 It is the charitable sister organization of
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the director of policy and strategy at The Emes Project LLC, a project of Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz, that works with the left-of-center Schultz Family Foundation. 1 Prior to
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Ezra Rosenberg is a left-of-center lawyer and advocate for the abolition of voter identification laws among minority communities. He is currently co-director for the left-of-center Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which has sued Texas over the state’s attempts to remove non-citizens from the voting pool and require
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The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) is a membership organization that pushes left-of-center talking points on issues such as education, health, infrastructure, voting rights, and immigration. The organization created the NALEO Educational Fund, the charitable arm of the NALEO, to focus on funding initiatives that promote
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Reclaim New York is a right-leaning watchdog group that seeks to inform and engage citizens and policy makers on challenges facing the state of New York. 1
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The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is a membership organization of women from various labor unions. The organization was founded in the 1970s to promote the feminist movement within organized labor and continues to promote “workplace affirmative action” policies along with other left-leaning gender policies in the United States.
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Hector Sanchez Barba is the executive director of Mi Familia Vota, an organization that seeks to increase Democratic Party voter registration in Latino communities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and Texas.
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Dale Ho is a left-of-center attorney who specializes in voting rights cases. As of March 2022, he is a nominee for a U.S. district judgeship. As director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Voting Rights Project, Ho has argued against requiring proof of citizenship in order to register
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Jeffrey L. Bradach is a co-founder and managing partner of the Bridgespan Group, a charitable organization which provides consultation to nonprofit groups. 1 Before forming Bridgespan with Tom Tierney, both founders worked at managing consulting
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Charles H. “Chuck” Robbins is the chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco, a leading information technology company. He also sits on the board of directors of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management firm, and the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest left-of-center
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Peter Thiel is a technology investor and a mega-donor to Republican Party candidates. 1 Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998 and in 2004 was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was on the Facebook
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Blair Bowie is a lawyer and career left-of-center activist. She works for the Campaign Legal Center, which promotes campaign finance laws and electoral district boundary-drawing that favors left-of-center politicians. Previously, Bowie worked at Free Speech for People, another campaign finance advocacy group, as well as the environmentalist organization
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Kris Hayashi is a left-of-center activist and transgender man who is the current executive director of the Transgender Law Center, a left-of-center public interest law firm that advocates for the rights of transgendered and gender nonconforming people. The Transgender Law Center was founded in 2002 as a project of
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Katherine Lorenz is the chair of the board of the left-of-center environmental activist Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (CGMF). 1
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Melannie Denise Cunningham is a multicultural activist in Tacoma, Washington working on critical race theory-aligned equity, racism, and racial recognition matters. Cunningham promotes conferences with left-of-center speakers and provides educational training to students and teachers. Background Melannie Denise Cunningham has worked for Pacific Lutheran University since 2006.
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Coronavirus War Room is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded in March 2020 that has supported vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization is a project of Protect Our Care, a dark-money group operating under the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which funds a variety
