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Kevin F. Gilbert is a public education official and labor union activist who has sat on the executive committee of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States and a major contributor to left-of-center political causes.
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Rebecca Pringle is a teacher and teachers’ union officer working as the president of the National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest labor union. Pringle has been an outspoken opponent of reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even to the point of supporting teacher strikes against school districts. Pringle worked
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Non-profit
Citizens Climate Education (CCE) is an environmentalist advocacy organization affiliated with the lobbying group Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). CCE promotes a carbon tax scheme as its primary solution to climate change, which it refers to as a “carbon fee and dividend.”
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Donald Sussman, born Selwyn Donald Sussman, is a hedge fund executive who funds Democratic Party political campaigns and left-of-center activist groups. 1 Sussman is the founder
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Hassan Jaber is the president and chief executive officer of the Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS), a Detroit-based organization providing social services to Muslim communities in Detroit and across the United States. Personal Life Jaber immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in 1977 and
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Lily Anne Welty Tamai is a left-leaning activist, author, and lecturer in Asian-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tamai sits on the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations (NAC), which has been criticized by right-of-center sources for its association with left-of-center
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Meghan Maury is a LBGT rights activist and operative who serves as the Policy Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force (formerly the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, also known simply as The Task Force). Maury’s policy work for the task force promotes a wide array of left-leaning
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John C. Yang is a lawyer and activist who works as president of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC. Prior to leading AAJC, Yang served as a trade adviser to Obama administration Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
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Non-profit
The left-of-center Roddenberry Foundation was created by Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, to honor his father’s politically progressive world view.
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Deepak Bhargava is a career left-of-center activist and community organizer who worked for 16 years as executive director and president of the Center for Community Change (CCC), a left-of-center national organization that coordinates local community organizers. Bhargava led the organization to focus on liberal expansionist immigration policy and ethnic
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Kevin Moore is an official in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents transportation workers and is one of the largest private-sector unions in the United States. Moore serves as Vice President of Michigan Teamsters Joint Council 43, as well as President of Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit. He
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Political Party/527
New Democrat Network Political Action Committee (NDNPAC) was formed in 1996 as a left-of-center committee to advocate and elect Democrats to office. After reorganizing in 2003, the political action committee and its parent organization, New Democrat Network, were involved in funding controversies and the PAC ceased operations after the
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New Democrat Network (NDN) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group. Originally associated the moderate “New Democrat” wing of the party, it has shifted toward supporting more-liberal candidates and policy positions. History and Work New Democrat Network is a self-described liberal think tank and advocacy organization.
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Cindy Estrada is a vice president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW). Identified as a “key to the UAW’s future,” 1
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Lee Saunders is a government worker labor union official who currently leads the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the largest union of government workers who are not teachers in the United States and a staunch supporter of multi-issue left-progressive politics.
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Cecil E. Roberts Jr. is president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); by virtue of holding that position he is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO and sits on the AFL-CIO’s executive council. Roberts has won the Eugene V. Debs Award, which is named for
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Jeffrey David Cox is the former national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), an AFL-CIO affiliated union of federal government workers. In February 2020, Cox resigned as AFGE president amid allegations of sexual harassment
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Non-profit
Public Democracy Action is a left-of-center Christian-influenced lobbying group. Originally founded by former Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign advisor Burns Strider as the American Values Network,
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Other Group
For more information, see Democracy Alliance (Other Group) The Colorado Democracy Alliance (CODA) is a left-wing membership and strategy organization created to assist the Democratic Party in turning Colorado into a consistently left-leaning state in elections.
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Other Group
See Also: Democracy Alliance (DA) (Other Group) The Committee on States is the state-level counterpart organization to the left-of-center donor conglomerate Democracy Alliance. According to Democracy Alliance documents, the Committee on States and the Democracy Alliance both share the same address,