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Non-profit
Common Cause Massachusetts is the Massachusetts state-level chapter of Common Cause, an advocacy group that promotes left-of-center policies. Common Cause Massachusetts has previously advocated in favor of state legislation advancing left-of-center policy on voting access, campaign finance, and government transparency.
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Non-profit
Common Cause Texas is the Texas state branch of Common Cause, a left-of-center advocacy organization. Common Cause Texas lobbies for changes to the Texas judicial-selection process, campaign finance laws, and election laws. The organization’s executive director said he was “really concerned about violence at the polls” prior to the
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Non-profit
The Common Cause Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) partner organization of Common Cause, an influential and controversial 501(c)(4) advocating for left-of-center causes headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Common Cause Education Fund exists to raise tax-deductible dollars from liberal donors and foundations that can be used to support the progressive
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Non-profit
Common Cause is a lobbying and advocacy group focused on advancing left-of-center policy priorities at the national, state, and local levels. Common Cause has state offices in 28 states and a sister education and advocacy group called the Common Cause Education Fund.
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Non-profit
More in Common is a think tank based in New York with several offices in Europe that conducts polls used to support left-of-center advocacy. Its research initiatives support including critical race theory (CRT) in curriculums and analyze opposition to environmentalist policies.
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Non-profit
Social Impact Commons is a network of fiscal sponsors, sponsored projects, and funders that seeks to advance left-of-center nonprofit causes through increasing access to fiscal sponsorship for more organizations. 74 Several of
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Non-profit
Faith Commons is an interfaith organization that advocates for left-of-center social policies in Dallas, Texas. It welcomes “multi-faith, multi-ethnic” members and focuses on education, discussion, and advocacy related to left-leaning issues such as race, immigration, and abortion access. During the 2024 election cycle, Faith Commons produced a series of videos
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Non-profit
Common Crawl is a nonprofit which maintains an open repository of “crawled” internet data. The group makes the information which it crawls from the internet free and open to researchers. Some news outlets began demanding that the group not crawl their websites because of the group’s role in training artificial
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Political Party/527
Alliance for Common Sense is a political organization founded by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) to support the re-election of Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D). The Alliance sponsored several ads in 2022 that attacked the Republican candidate Tim Michels, claiming he was too radical and divisive for
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Non-profit
Common Justice is a Brooklyn-based criminal justice advocacy organization that promotes efforts to defund the police and end the incarceration of criminals, including violent felons. 139 The
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Non-profit
Common Good Iowa is a left-of-center advocacy organization that advocates increased social welfare spending in Iowa. The organization opposes cutting Iowa’s state income tax, claiming that tax cuts would benefit the wealthy and lead to draconian cuts in Iowa’s welfare spending.
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Non-profit
Vote Common Good is an left-leaning voter advocacy and education group focused on religious voters. Founded in 2018 by longtime liberal evangelical activist Doug Pagitt, Vote Common Good was explicitly founded to oppose the policies of the Trump administration.
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Non-profit
The Common Sense Institute (CSI) is a non-partisan, public-policy think tank that intends to protect and promote Colorado’s economy using principles that support free markets, individual freedom, and individual opportunity. 176 CSI is
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Non-profit
Common Future (formerly known as Business Alliance for Local Living Economies or BALLE) is a left-of-center advocacy and organizing group promoting collectivist and localist visions of business and production. In 2019, the group renamed itself Common Future and shifted its focus from a localist economic model to a more radical
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Non-profit
The Commonwealth Fund is a health care policy-focused private foundation. It funds research on and advocacy for health care systems, frequently taking a left-of-center perspective on state intervention in the medical system
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Other Group
Rally for Common Ground is a left-wing organization which helps organize protests and events promoting left-wing environmental causes.235
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Non-profit
Common Dreams is a left-wing nonprofit news organization which frequently publishes news and opinion pieces with a left-of-center perspective. 236 Though the organization claims to maintain editorial independence by refusing corporate and government funding, Common Dreams explicitly
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Other Group
DistrictBuilder is an open-source software application developed by the Public Mapping Project that allows users to draw experimental redistricting maps for 25 states. 257 The software allows users to
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Non-profit
Texans Against Gerrymandering is a left-of-center advocacy organization that opposes Republican-led redistricting efforts in the state while favoring independent redistricting commissions as a substitute. 268 TAG was listed as a member of the
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Non-profit
Conservation Voters New Mexico (CVNM) is a state affiliate of the League of Conservation Voters, an organization that promotes the campaigns of political candidates who support left-of-center environmentalist policies.