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Non-profit
The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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Non-profit
Our Revolution is a left-wing advocacy group that was formed in the wake of the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Its primary focus is on supporting the election of candidates on the left-flank of the Democratic Party through campaign resources and activism. Notable Our
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Person
Lily Eskelsen Garcia is a teachers union activist and the former president of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. Eskelsen Garcia was considered a top contender for the Education Secretary in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Eskelsen Garcia began
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The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Democratic political committee supporting the campaigns and election of Democrats to state and territorial governorships. As of October 2023, DGA represents 24 state governors and the Mayor of Washington D.C.
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Non-profit
The Strong Economy for All Coalition is a labor-union-backed coalition of left-of-center interest groups active in New York politics. Organizations that are members of the coalition include 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, Citizen Action of New York, Communications Workers of America (CWA), Make the Road
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Non-profit
Not to be confused with DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a division of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities focusing on the District of Columbia. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is a labor union-supported think tank based near Albany, New York that advocates pro-labor union and other left-of-center policies
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Non-profit
One Pennsylvania (or OnePA) is a left-of-center activist group associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Its president, Gabe Morgan, is a vice president of 32BJ, an SEIU local union active throughout the northeastern United States; its executive director, Erin Kramer, is also a career SEIU organizer.
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Person
Glenn Simpson is an American journalist, corporate researcher, and political opposition researcher. He is a founding partner at Fusion GPS, the research firm which produced the controversial and unverified document commonly known as the “Steele dossier” containing allegations against then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign during
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For-profit
Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm created by former Wall Street Journal reporters in 2011. The firm gained public notoriety after the 2016 election cycle. During the election, Fusion GPS controversially worked for persons associated with the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to
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Labor Union
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is an international labor union with more than 200,000 members across the transportation sector. Its members include bus drivers, light rail operators, maintenance workers, and baggage handlers. It operates 252 chapters in the U.S. and Canada, including operations in 44 states and Washington, D.C., and is
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Person
Terry McAuliffe is a Democratic Party politician and fundraiser1 most notable for serving as the 72nd Governor of Virginia.
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Movement
The “Fight for $15” is a corporate campaign principally orchestrated and funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which seeks to unionize the quick-service franchise restaurant industry and raise the federal minimum wage by more than double to $15 per hour, using the slogan “$15 and a union.”
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Non-profit
Michigan Citizen Action (MCA) was a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based, left-leaning advocacy nonprofit that supported higher taxes and increased government spending on public schools, roads, and mass transit. MCA also lobbied to end Michigan’s law prohibiting consumers from re-selling tickets to sports and entertainment events at higher prices than face value (“ticket
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Non-profit
United Vision for Idaho (UVI) is a left-of-center organization that attempts to influence public policy in the state of Idaho. The organization organizes campaigns and protests in support of a left-progressive policy agenda, including a universal government-controlled health care system, expanded entitlement programs, universal student loan forgiveness, an end to
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Person
Patrick Gaspard is the president of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Gaspard is a Democratic political operative who previously worked as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the principal philanthropic entities of left-of-center billionaire George Soros, from 2017 until late 2020. Prior to joining OSF, Gaspard
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Not to be confused with the similarly named 501(c)(4) advocacy group NextGen Climate Action Also see Steyer Network NextGen Climate Action Committee is the unlimited-contribution independent expenditure committee (known as a Super PAC) for NextGen America, an organization associated with left-wing environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer that
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Labor Union
Workers United, SEIU is a labor union and division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) that was founded in 2009 as a result of the dissolution of the merged labor union Unite Here. In March 2009, fifteen regional joint boards of Unite Here voted to leave the
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Person
Robert Redford is an American actor and political and environmental activist. In 1980, Redford established the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization that holds film workshops each summer for young filmmakers.1 Redford is a trustee
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Non-profit
The Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) is a Billings, Montana-based lobbying and advocacy1 coalition of left-leaning political activist groups based in seven western states with prominent agricultural and energy industries.
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Non-profit
The Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) is a left-leaning voter registration and mobilization organization. Its parent organization is the left-progressive Hispanic-activist group Mi Familia Vota (Spanish for My Family Votes). MFVEF guides immigrants through the citizenship process to increase the political power of left-leaning Latino voting blocs and
