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Alianza Americas is a network of Latin American migrant-led organizations that advocate for expanded immigration into the United States. It filed a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) for transporting illegal migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in September 2022.
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The Action Network is an online tool for left-of-center outlets to organize, fundraise, and circulate petitions for left-of-center causes. Action Network was used to organize the left-of-center demonstration Women’s March, environmentalist protests against the Keystone XL pipeline, and the March for Our Lives events supporting gun control. The
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Voto Latino (also known as the Voto Latino Action Fund) is a left-of-center voter mobilization group targeted at Latino voters and aimed at assisting Democratic candidates. Co-founded by Maria Theresa Kumar and actress Rosario Dawson, Voto Latino has registered hundreds of thousands of voters since 2004. The organization also advocates
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URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity is a left-of-center pro-abortion and gender-activist organization. It has chapters at colleges and universities in Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas. 79
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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Thousand Currents is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that provides financial assistance to left-leaning projects and organizations and activists in developing nations (i.e.: the so-called “global south”). 158 It is funded by many left-leaning institutional donors, which
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Lily Eskelsen Garcia is a teachers union activist and the former president of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States. Eskelsen Garcia was considered a top contender for the Education Secretary in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Eskelsen Garcia began
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Fe Y Justicia Workers Center (FYJWC) is a left-of-center worker center that provides a gathering place and organizing network for low-wage workers in Houston, Texas. 228 The organization provides low-wage workers with
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Hamilton “Ham” Fish V is a liberal activist who has financially supported or published numerous liberal political journals, including The Nation, the New Republic, and the Washington Spectator. In November 2017, Fish resigned as publisher of the New Republic following allegations that he had sexually harassed female
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Also see Democracy Fund Voice (Non-profit) The Democracy Fund is a left-of-center public policy-oriented foundation chaired and solely funded by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar.274
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Michael Moore is a left-wing documentary filmmaker, former editor of the left-wing magazine Mother Jones, and liberal activist. Moore was born in an up-state Michigan bedroom community outside Flint, Michigan
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The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) is a left-of-center professional organization for trial attorneys. Founded in 1958, ABOTA exists to support the use of trial by jury in civil cases and has frequently opposed attempts to establish arbitration or easier mechanisms for dispute resolutions.
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Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington came to America in 1980 and quickly made a name for herself as a Manhattan “It Girl” among New York’s powerful. 390 In the mid-1980s
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For more information, see American Immigration Lawyers Association (Nonprofit) The American Immigration Council (AIC) is an advocacy group that promotes left-of-center immigration policies such as increasing immigration to the United States and granting legal status to cases of undocumented immigrants. It was founded by the American Immigration Lawyers
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Cheryl Mills is an attorney, a longtime counselor to the Clinton family, and the founder and CEO of BlackIvy Group, a company that builds businesses in Africa. Mills first began working with the Clintons in 1992 when President Bill Clinton was elected. Mills rose to prominence in 1999 when
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is a principal campaign committee of the Democratic Party tasked with fundraising for and conducting advocacy supporting the Democratic Party’s campaign efforts for the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 2022, DCCC has been chaired by U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene (D-WA), who was appointed
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Cecile Richards was a social activist who worked as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 2006 through 2018.498 As president of
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Sheldon Whitehouse (born 1955550) is a Democratic politician and the junior U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, serving since 2007. 551 He
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The Niskanen Center is a nominally libertarian 501(c)(3) environmental think tank with ties to center-left environmental groups. The Center was created in January 2015 and was initially headed by Jerry Taylor, a global warming advocate and environmental activist who authored a 2015 report The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax.
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(Freddie) Ray Marshall is a labor union-aligned, progressive economist and retired University of Texas professor who served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter Administration.