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March for Truth is a left-of-center coalition of activist groups that have rallied and lobbied in support of investigations into alleged 2016 Trump campaign improprieties and in support of President Donald Trump being impeached and removed from office. The group originally organized a series of marches in cities across the
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The Foundation for Civic Leadership is an incubator for left-leaning voter engagement programs. Its founder and president is Ian Simmons, a longtime Democratic donor and a co-founder of Blue Haven Initiative, an investment firm which uses returns to fund left-leaning social policy.
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Census Counts 2020 is a project of the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the 501(c)(3) component of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a left-of-center civil rights-focused political advocacy group which has staunchly opposed President Donald Trump. The program aims to increase participation among demographic groups likely to
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The Johnson Family Foundation is a New York City-based left-of-center private grantmaking organization. It is also known as the Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson foundation. Until 2000, the foundation’s giving was oriented more towards education and religious philanthropic causes. But since then, the foundation has become a major contributor
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The Beldon Foundation was a grantmaking foundation based in New York City that operated from 1982 to 2009. It was founded by John Hunting, the son of Steelcase office furniture manufacturer founder David Hunting. The foundation focused on funding left-of-center environmentalist causes. The foundation adopted a 10-year “spend down” strategy
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Matt Brix is the managing director of State Voices. Previously he had worked as the executive director of Common Cause’s New Mexico branch, as CEO for Center for Civic Policy, and as a member of the ethics and campaign reform task force of governor Bill Richardson (D-NM).
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Keshia Morris is the census and “mass incarceration” project manager at left-of-center advocacy group Common Cause. 55 Morris leads Common Cause’s 2020 Census campaign, in addition to leading initiatives focused on promoting left-of-center criminal justice
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Paul Ehrlich is a biologist, environmental activist, and population control advocate. He is the author of a number of books supporting population control policies, including The Population Bomb (1968). Ehrlich was a founding member of Population Connection (then called Zero Population Growth), a left-wing organization created to reduce population
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Ryan Alexander is the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a tax policy advocacy organization that is funded by a number of left-of-center advocacy grantmakers. She has worked for non-profits for the majority of her career and often appears on news outlets to discuss tax policy and other issues.
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Issue One Action is the lobbying branch of Issue One, a left-leaning organization that promotes restrictions on election-related speech activity and supports The ReFormers Caucus, a group of former legislators who lobby congress in that vein. Issue One Action supports a parallel caucus within congress: The Congressional Reformers Caucus.
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Ethica Media LLC is a political consulting firm incorporated in 2018 that caters to a number of left-leaning and Democratic Party clients. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the firm was ranked 43rd among the top 50 vendors in the 2018 election cycle, reporting $13.9 million in receipts from candidates,
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The Piper Action Fund is a donor advocacy collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofit Proteus Action League. It is affiliated with the Piper Fund, a donor collaborative hosted by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Proteus Fund. Both the Piper Action Fund and Piper Fund advocate for center-left campaign finance reform
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Fair Districts PA is a project of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania-state chapter of the left-leaning League of Women Voters, which was formed to influence the Pennsylvania redistricting process. Background Fair Districts PA was founded in January 2016 in Pennsylvania by representatives of organizations
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Jordan Uhl is a left-of-center activist who currently serves as the video distribution manager for agitation group MoveOn.org. Uhl is also the founder of Nobody is Above the Law, a nationwide coalition designed to support President Donald Trump’s impeachment, conviction, and removal from office. Political Organizing Uhl currently works
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Maryland Center on Economic Policy is a left-of-center organization in Maryland focused on primarily fiscal matters. Though the organization claims to be non-partisan, it has generally supported liberal positions. The organization has been vocal in support of tax increases to support the recommendations of the Kirwan Commission, a commission of
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The Chang K. Park Foundation (CKPF) is a left-of-center organization that funds multiple left-wing and left-of-center groups. It was founded and is led by Chang K. Park, CEO of Universal Remote Control and an immigrant from South Korea who came to the United States as a teenager to gain
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Chang K. Park is the founder and CEO of Universal Remote Control, a New York company that designs and manufactures remote controls for televisions and other household and office appliances. The initial beginnings of his company took place in his sister’s garage in Korea.
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Phil Radford is a left-wing environmentalist activist and the former executive director of Greenpeace USA (2009-2014). He is also the founder of president of Progressive Power Lab, co-founder of the Democracy Initiative, a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and a board member of the left-of-center environmental advocacy group Green
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Janet Domenitz is a left-of-center activist and executive director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), one of the largest members of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US-PIRG), an alliance of left-of-center research and advocacy groups founded by former left-wing activist and presidential candidate Ralph
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Marc Elias is an American attorney best known for his involvement in Democratic Party political campaigns, redistricting litigation, and election litigation. He was formerly a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP and head of its Political Law practice, which assists Democratic political committees and other left-of-center clients. In August