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Joseph B. Uehlein is the founding president of the Labor Network for Sustainability, a left-leaning labor union-backed group that supports far-left environmentalist policies including the Green New Deal. Uehlein has a long career in labor union organization and holds numerous positions in the labor union community, most notably
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Michael Moore is a left-wing documentary filmmaker, former editor of the left-wing magazine Mother Jones, and liberal activist. Moore was born in an up-state Michigan bedroom community outside Flint, Michigan
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Bradley Beychok is a Democratic political strategist based in Washington, D.C. He currently works as the president and co-founder of American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic Party-aligned opposition research organization. The organization was co-founded by conservative-journalist-turned-Democratic-activist David Brock. Previously, Beychok was president of Media Matters for America
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Angelo Carusone is the president and CEO of Media Matters for America (MMfA), a left-of-center organization that purports to “fact check” conservative media and political commentators. 1 Carusone frequently discusses “fake news”
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Tom Perriello is a former Democratic Congressman from Virginia who ran unsuccessfully for the party’s 2017 gubernatorial nomination. From 2018 to July 2023, Perriello served as executive director for U.S. programs at the Open Society Foundations, the private philanthropic network of George Soros.
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The Latino Victory Project is a left-of-center nonprofit advocacy group. It is one of three affiliated Latino Victory organizations co-founded by actress Eva Longoria and political activist Henry R. Munoz III that advocates for progressive policies and priorities in the Latino community. The Latino Victory Project works in
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The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) is a left-of-center professional organization for trial attorneys. Founded in 1958, ABOTA exists to support the use of trial by jury in civil cases and has frequently opposed attempts to establish arbitration or easier mechanisms for dispute resolutions.
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William Hall Janeway is a left-of-center economist and policy advocate. He is the co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded in 2010 with the financial backing of billionaire financier and left-of-center philanthropist George Soros that pushes for increased government involvement in the
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Generation Citizen is a left-of-center advocacy group that operates campaigns targeted at high school students. The organization is most notable for its support of a national campaign to lower the voting age to 16. The campaign, which is called Vote16USA, has pushed for both lowering the national voting age and
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The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) is a left-of-center labor union that claims to represent more than 200,000 educators in New Jersey. 1 The union is affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA),
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Amelia Warren Tyagi is an American businesswoman, left-of-center political activist, consultant, and author. Tyagi is the daughter of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and has been called her “full political partner.”
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James Rucker is a left-of-center political activist who co-founded the left-of-center advocacy and activist groups Color of Change and Citizen Engagement Lab. He is considered a pioneer of contemporary left-of-center “Netroots Nation”-style digital activism, especially on racial issues. Background Rucker was born and raised in Seaside, a town in Monterey
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Richard Painter is an American lawyer, law professor, and political pundit. Painter served as chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush, and is the vice chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as well as a founding board member of Take Back Our Republic. Painter’s
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Faithful America is a left-of-center activist group which protests center-right policies and runs campaigns related to various social issues.1 From 2013 to 2018, Faithful America had operated as a project of the Citizen Engagement Lab
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The California Budget and Policy Center (formerly California Budget Project) 1 is a labor union- and left-of-center-foundation-funded policy advocacy group focusing on the state of California.
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Morris Pearl is a left-of-center financier and activist. He is the board chair of The Patriotic Millionaires, an organization of wealthy individuals who advocate for higher taxes on high-income Americans. The group also pushes for other left-leaning economic and social policies such as an increased minimum wage. Pearl also
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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is the teachers’ union for 25,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, and other public school employees in the Chicago, Illinois public school system, the third-largest school system in the United States. The CTU represents its members through collective bargaining for compensation, benefits, employee work conditions, and school governance.
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Markos Moulitsas is a left-of-center activist who founded the progressive-activist blogging platform Daily Kos, the annual conference for left of center bloggers Netroots Nation, and was a cofounder and former board member of Vox Media. Through his platform of the Daily Kos, Moulitsas has raised large amounts
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Vox is a digital media brand of Vox Media that operates the left-leaning Vox.com news and opinion website as well as an expanding network of branded podcasts, videos, and other online content. Vox was founded by left-wing journalists and activists Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell in 2014.
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Erica Payne is a left-of-center political operative who started a number of organizations aimed at influencing the news and public policy through media campaigns featuring influential liberal donors and activists and publicity stunts. She began her career in politics working for former U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC) and later worked
