The Black Panther Party was a communist Black militant organization founded in 1966 that allied with extremist New Left organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and communist regimes abroad.

For more see: Students for a Democratic Society, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn The Weather Underground (also known as Weatherman or the Weathermen) was a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. What became known as the Weather Underground began

The Venceremos Brigade is a radical-left activist group that organizes trips to communist-ruled Cuba as a way for sympathetic Americans to demonstrate their solidarity with the country’s government and their opposition to related United States government policies. As of 2024, it is a fiscally-sponsored project of The People’s Forum,

The USPC Peace Education Fund is affiliated with the U.S. Peace Council, a member organization of the World Peace Council. 160 All three organizations

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

VoteVets PAC was founded in 2006 with the goal of electing to Congress Afghanistan or Iraq war veterans who were critical of the execution of the war in Iraq.192 VoteVets PAC has given nearly

Massachusetts Peace Action (MPA) is the Massachusetts branch of Peace Action, a nonprofit which supports a nonintervention foreign policy and nuclear disarmament. The MPA trains activists, organizes protests, and lobbies elected officials and political candidates to advocate for its goals.

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group that is active on a variety of public policy issues. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with 2020 revenues totaling approximately $6.9 million. Since 2021, its executive director has been Tope Folarin.

9to5 (also known as 9to5, National Association of Working Women) is a labor union-aligned advocacy group founded by union operative Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy in 1973 in Boston during the rise of the Women’s Movement. Nussbaum would later head the AFL-CIO organizing affiliate Working America.

Anna Burger spent a nearly 40-year career working for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).532 Labeled as the “Queen of Labor,”

Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation (Tides) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization and pass-through funder for other left-of-center nonprofits. The organization supports nonprofits through grants, fiscal sponsorship, donor-advised funds, and more. 580 Tides was founded

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest union for government workers other than teachers in the United States. Founded in 1932 in Wisconsin, a state that was for decades a stronghold of organized labor, AFSCME represents over 1.3 million government workers and over 188,000