For more see: Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, and Bernardine Dohrn Bill Ayers was an original co-founder and one of the top leaders of the Weather Underground, a radical-left violent extremist group that was active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Prior to

The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based center-left election reform advocacy group formed in 2012. The organization pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration. It has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation and is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations

Kyle Kulinski is the socialist-leaning host of Secular Talk, a YouTube-based political talk show he created in 2008 while a student at Iona College. A report on the show in the socialist opinion journal Jacobin stated that its format is part of the YouTube “logic warriors” trend, “a battleground that

The Praxis Project is a left-of-center organization that provides seed money, strategic support, and fiscal sponsorship to community-based advocacy groups, especially those focused on health care policy and racial minority communities. It has been funded by several large left-of-center donors including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Tides

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a left-leaning law professor at UCLA and Columbia University known for her work in “civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.” 205 She is also

The United Workers Association (UWA) is a labor-union-aligned  worker center and environmentalist pressure group based in Baltimore, Maryland that promotes left-of-center labor and environmental policy. 225 In 2002, a group of homeless men

Paul Growald is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Growald Family Fund with his wife, Eileen Rockefeller Growald. He served in the first gubernatorial administration of California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and has supported a number of left-of-center and environmentalist causes through his foundation and his public

Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded in 2001 that promotes the increased regulation of internet and technology companies. 252 CDD has participated in antitrust litigation to reduce the power

Unite America Institute (UAI) is a center-left, Colorado-based, advocacy organization that supports structural changes in the election system it claims will reduce voter partisanship and benefit ostensibly “centrist” and independent candidates for public office. 281

The 1619 Project is an artistic and journalistic project of the New York Times Magazine that asserts the central event in the founding of the United States was the first importation of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619  and not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the drafting of

Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is an LGBT advocacy group which has branched out into general progressive left-of-center advocacy. It was founded in 1993 at the annual national conference of the National LGBTQ Task Force to provide support to LGBT groups in the southeast United States. In 2017, SONG

The Sustainability Group at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge is an investment advisory group involved in the left-of-center “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) movement that is a part of the Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge investment firm. The group mostly works with individuals and trusts by handling investment management, investment advisory accounts,

Pennsylvania Spotlight is a pro-labor union organization in Pennsylvania. The organization focuses on opposing center-right organizations working in the state, accusing them of being funded by out-of-state billionaires. It also supports left-wing causes, primarily labor unions.

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is an advocacy organization that promotes an expansive view of “animal welfare” that would eliminate many common farming, hunting, and fishing practices, in addition to other commercial uses of animals in entertainment and scientific research.

The Limestone Foundation is a left-of-center family foundation that is one of two successor organizations of the left-of-center Stoneman Family Foundation formed by one of two daughters of Sidney and Miriam Stoneman and her children. 425 The foundation

Center for Global Policy Solutions is a left-of-center nonprofit founded by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, a candidate for U.S. Representative in the special election to fill the seat for the 7th District, and widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).

Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) was a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.

Real Justice PAC was founded by Shaun King, Becky Bond, Zack Malitz, and Michael Kieschnick in 2017 to push left-of-center policing and criminal justice policies. Real Justice PAC supports county prosecutors or district attorneys who support limiting or eliminating cash bail, restricting policing practices that left-of-center activist groups deem

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Ron Unz is a financially successful former investment industry and software entrepreneur. Since 2013, he has been the publisher of the Unz Review, a website notable for spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, especially about U.S. policies related to Israel and the Middle East. Unz Review writers, including Unz himself, have