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For-profit
Perkins Coie is a Seattle-based law firm of more than 1,000 lawyers, roughly 40 of which work for its political law practice that serves Democratic and left-of-center political candidates and non-profit clients. Perkins Coie received at least $26 million for legal fees and related expenses during the 2016 election cycle
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Political Party/527
End Citizens United (ECU) is a Democratic-aligned political action committee (PAC) founded by three former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) staffers in 2015. The PAC endorses political candidates who promise to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC.
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Person
Heather Booth is a career left-of-center activist and organizer. Her political involvement began in the Civil Rights Movements. She was involved with a number of radical left causes in the 1960s and 1970s, but entered mainstream Democratic Party politics in the 1980s. In the 1960s, Booth started an underground network
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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). 117 Throughout her 54-year career of labor union activism,
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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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Non-profit
Ragtag is a group of left-of-center programmers and lawyers who volunteer to provide technical development and support for left-wing groups. As of 2018, the group has over 600 volunteers. 166 Ragtag is structured as a nonprofit LLC.
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Non-profit
The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that supports race-based identity politics, stringent gun-control laws, organizations that seek to weaken voter integrity laws, and organizations that intervene in federal immigration proceedings. The foundation originally intended to support increased access to health care for lower-income individuals.
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Political Party/527
The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) is a Democratic Party PAC (political action committee) conceived in late 2016 by political operatives in the Democratic Party and the Obama administration, including President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder. It officially launched on January 12, 2017.
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Person
Michael “Mike” McCabe is a Democratic Party activist and the former founding executive director of the left-leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a position he held for 15 years. He has led several left-of-center nonprofit advocacy groups that have pushed for policies including government-run healthcare, universal basic income, and energy policies
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Non-profit
Citizens Climate Education (CCE) is an environmentalist advocacy organization affiliated with the lobbying group Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). CCE promotes a carbon tax scheme as its primary solution to climate change, which it refers to as a “carbon fee and dividend.”
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Non-profit
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (Fidelity Charitable) is the largest public charity in the United States, holding over $30 billion in assets under management as of 2019. Fidelity Charitable was the first commercial provider of donor-advised fund (DAFs), managing charitable accounts through which donors can distribute gifts over time to
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Non-profit
The Proteus Action League (PAL) is the 501(c)(4) lobbying and advocacy arm of the Proteus Fund. PAL supports and opposes specific legislation and referenda regarding the death penalty, campaign financing, the LGBT interests, and other issues in which the Proteus Fund is actively involved.
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Person
Deepak Bhargava is a career left-of-center activist and community organizer who worked for 16 years as executive director and president of the Center for Community Change (CCC), a left-of-center national organization that coordinates local community organizers. Bhargava led the organization to focus on liberal expansionist immigration policy and ethnic
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Person
Elizabeth H. Shuler is an American labor union official who assumed the presidency of the AFL-CIO after the death of Richard Trumka.403 She
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Non-profit
The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a left-of-center nonprofit primarily devoted to opposing the detention of immigrants. The organization seeks to end all involuntary immigration detention and defund both Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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Non-profit
Nonprofit VOTE is a left-of-center organization which engages non-profits to mobilize individuals they interact with to participate in elections and vote. 428 The group has received funding from left-of-center funder organizations, most prominently the Ford Foundation,
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Non-profit
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation is a private foundation based in Houston, Texas. The foundation was founded in 2008 by hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The foundation focuses on criminal justice and public safety, higher education, health care, public finance, infrastructure, and evidence
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Non-profit
The Friedman Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that donates money to other left-of-center organizations primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area with the goal of reducing poverty.
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Non-profit
Peace Action is a left-of-center anti-war advocacy organization founded during the Cold War in opposition to nuclear proliferation. Originally called SANE/FREEZE and formed by the merger of the Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Peace Action has dozens of affiliates at the state and
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Non-profit
Church Women United (CWU) was formed to advance a petition in support of the formation of the United Nations (UN). It consists of 1,200 units spread across the United States and its members represent at least 70 Christian denominations.