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Other Group
Sludge is an online investigative journalism outlet that attempts to expose special interest spending in politics, particularly targeting entities that oppose left-of-center environmentalist, defense, and social policies. Sludge launched in 2018 using the controversial and struggling blockchain-based journalism platform Civil.
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For-profit
GateHouse Media is the largest publisher of daily newspapers in the United States, as measured by number of distinct publications. 16 It is owned by New Media Investment Group, and as of 2019 was publishing 146 daily
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For-profit
Motivote is a software company that serves clients including businesses, colleges and universities, and left-of-center advocacy groups. The company operates a get-out-the-vote platform that encourages voter turnout among young voters with an emphasis on voters on college campuses and allows users to complete tasks including voting and voter registration to
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Non-profit
The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a left-leaning environmentalist organization that advocates against businesses which produce conventional energy sources (such as oil and natural gas), paper products, and consumer goods. Founded in 1985, RAN frequently ties its mission to the identity politics common on the American Left.
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Non-profit
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,
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Person
Guillermo Quinteros is a program director at the left-of-center Solidago Foundation. His father was a university professor in Peru until a Cold War-era coup by a Communist-aligned military dictatorship; Quinteros later moved to Honduras and Mexico, becoming a left-wing activist.
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Political Party/527
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is the formal governing body of the Republican Party in the United States. The committee is responsible for supporting Republican nominees for President and Vice President of the United States as well as providing support to Republican Party nominees for the U.S. House of Representatives
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Non-profit
The Passport Foundation is a left-of-center San Francisco, California-based grantmaking institution, founded by financier John H. Burbank III and his wife, Alison Carlson.
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Person
Will Menaker is one of three co-founders and regular co-hosts of Chapo Trap House (Chapo), a for-profit socialist podcast. As of March 2019, Chapo was grossing more than $120,000 per month through the website Patreon.
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Person
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Facebook. Zuckerberg founded the company while at Harvard with classmates Andrew McCullum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are also active left-of-center advocacy philanthropists; in 2015, the couple founded the philanthropic limited liability
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Person
Nick Gourevitch is a partner and managing director of research at the Global Strategy Group, a public affairs and research firm for left-liberal campaigns, causes, and other partner organizations. The group also claims to be the largest Democratic polling firm in the country. Moreover, he is a pollster for
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Non-profit
Stop Payday Predators is a left-of-center financial services policy advocacy organization. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)(4) funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors and are a Project of the organization Sixteen Thirty Fund.
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Non-profit
Tax Plan Answers is a left-leaning tax policy advocacy organization. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization for left-progressive lobbying projects managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors.
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Non-profit
The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.” Sunrise
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Non-profit
The Colcom Foundation is a grantmaking organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provides funding to advocacy groups that deal with causes related to immigration restriction, family policy, and environmental conservation. The foundation frames these issues as part of a larger global crisis which it describes as a “sixth mass extinction”
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Political Party/527
Justice Democrats is a Democratic Party-aligned 527 political action committee (PAC) that recruits and supports left-wing Democratic primary challengers to establishment Democratic members of Congress. In the 2018 election it targeted 12 incumbent Democrats and defeated ten-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY), who lost to socialist Alexandria
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Person
Scott Goodstein is a left-of-center advocacy organizer who runs the consulting firms Revolution Messaging and Catalyst Campaigns. He has been involved in launching several major political activist movements in the United States, including the Rock Against Bush campaign opposing the George W. Bush administration and several activism projects
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Non-profit
The Campion Foundation is a private foundation created and funded by Tom and Sonya Campion. It supports left-leaning environmentalism and left-of-center public policy organizations such as the New Venture Fund, the Center for American Progress, TSNE Missionworks, the Alaska Wilderness League, and the League of
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Non-profit
The Iowa Policy Project (IPP) is a left-of-center advocacy group that conducts research on areas of the environment, tax and budgets, family issues, and economic prosperity specific to the state of Iowa. It is a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) coalition backed by the labor-union aligned Economic
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Non-profit
The Needmor Fund was founded in 1956 by Duane Stranahan, a member of the Stranahan family that formed the Champion Spark Plug Company, and his wife Virginia Secor Stranahan who came from a wealthy Ohio family. The Needmor Fund is still operated by the Stranahan family as of 2019 and