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Non-profit
Tax March is a left-of-center group that lobbies for tax increases. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a left-of-center funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a philanthropy consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
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Non-profit
Protect Our Care is a left-of-center healthcare advocacy organization created to lobby for the preservation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (better known as “Obamacare”). Protect Our Care’s executive director is Brad Woodhouse, a prominent Democratic Party operative and political activist who previously served as president of American
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Non-profit
Video the Vote is a project that was formed by Ian Inaba of Guerilla News Network and James Rucker of Color of Change in 2006. The project is run by volunteer journalists who document alleged acts of voter suppression and election irregularities and post them on the
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Non-profit
The Protect Democracy Project (PDP) is a left-of-center litigation organization created to oppose the policies of President Donald Trump. United to Protect Democracy is the 501(c)(4) advocacy affiliate of the Protect Democracy Project. Activity Petition for Resignation of Attorney General William Barr Eight legal analysts that work for CNN and
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Person
Khalid Pitts is a businessman and activist who currently serves as the executive vice president at FairVote, a principal at Democracy Partners, and an executive board member at the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority. He previously ran the political operations of the Service Employees Union International (SEIU)
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Person
Loretta Johnson is a labor union activist and the secretary-treasurer emeritus of the left-of-center American Federation of Teachers (AFT). 1 Throughout her 54-year career of labor union activism,
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Other Group
The Labor Coalition for Community Action (LCCA) was founded in 2000 to be the umbrella organization for AFL-CIO constituency groups.
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Person
Jacob Jeremiah “Jake” Sullivan is a prominent Democratic foreign policy professional. Sullivan held several positions in President Barack Obama’s administration, initially as deputy chief of staff to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and later as national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden and director of
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Non-profit
National Security Action (NSA) was a left-wing 501(c)(4) advocacy group largely composed of former Obama administration staffers and leadership. NSA works to advance global policies and oppose the foreign policy of the Trump administration.1 NSA
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Person
Charlotte Pera is the vice president for strategy and programs of the Bezos Earth Fund. She is the former president and CEO of the ClimateWorks Foundation and held multiple high-level positions at the Energy Foundation, including director of United States programs, U.S. transportation program director, and senior
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Political Party/527
Color of Change PAC is a political action committee closely associated with Color of Change, a left-of-center lobbying group focusing on racial issues and racial-aligned advocacy, and its associated charitable arm Color of Change Education Fund. The organization and its “Voting While Black” mobilization project have endorsed a number of
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Person
Karl Frisch is a Democratic politician and political operative who has worked with several left-progressive political campaigns and organizations as a communications director, press secretary, and field director at the federal level. He is member of the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia and sits as chair of the board’s
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Non-profit
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), formerly Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) Action, is a Louisville, Kentucky-based far-left agitation group that is the advocacy and lobbying arm of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Education Fund.
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Person
Doug Hattaway is a Democratic Party consultant who has worked in a variety of press and communications roles for prominent elected Democrat politicians since the 1990s. Hattaway is involved on the board of directors for a number of left-of-center nonprofits, including the 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship group Sixteen Thirty
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For-profit
Upworthy (legal name Cloud Tiger Media) is a left-of-center news aggregation site. Founded by left-of-center activists Eli Pariser and Peter Koechley, Upworthy attempts to manipulate “emotional data” in order to influence readers’ “decision making” on social issues.
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Person
Arkadi Gerney is the founder and former executive director of the Hub Project, a left-of-center coalition-building media strategy group that services national and local advocacy campaigns. 1 In 2022 he announced that he
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Non-profit
The Open Philanthropy Action Fund (OPAF) is the political arm of the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP), a grantmaking foundation that gives to numerous left-of-center organizations concerned with criminal justice policy. The OPP began as a project of GiveWell, a group which seeks to improve philanthropy, and Good
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with Open Philanthropy Project (Nonprofit) The Open Philanthropy Project Fund (OPPF) is a donor-advised fund based in Silicon Valley that disburses most of the donations for the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP), a grantmaking foundation established along “effective altruism” principles which gives to many left-of-center
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Person
Cari Tuna is a left-of-center political donor and philanthropist. Tuna married Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in 2013, and the couple have since co-founded four philanthropic organizations after signing the Giving Pledge to give away their entire fortune before their deaths. The couple founded the Good Ventures Foundation,
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For-profit
Facebook is a Menlo Park, California-based social media and social networking service. Along with current chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founders include Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. The company is colloquially considered among the “Big Four” technology firms which include Google,
