Advocacy groups, think tanks, and non-profits shaping political discourse
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Organization founded by Joy Buolamwini that combines art and research to document bias in AI systems, best known for the facial recognition audits behind the Gender Shades and Actionable Auditing papers.
Civil liberties organization founded in 1920 that litigates and lobbies on constitutional rights, including government surveillance and speech online.
501(c)(3) founded by Robert B. Carleson, formerly named the American Civil Rights Union, that litigates and files amicus briefs on constitutional questions including election administration.
Washington public policy research organization, formally the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, that states it operates independently of any political party.
501(c)(4) advocacy organization with chapters in all 50 states that describes itself as a grassroots advocacy organization working to change policy at local, state and federal levels.
Organization founded in 1913 whose stated mission is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all; since 2017 it has run a dedicated centre on online hate.
Consumer technology company whose App Store is one of two gatekeeping distribution channels for mobile applications, including news and political apps.
Washington public policy research institution formed in 1927 from the merger of three earlier bodies, the oldest of which dates to 1916.
Data analytics company that the FTC charged with deceiving Facebook users to harvest personal information for voter profiling and targeting; it filed for bankruptcy and never settled the allegations.
Washington public policy research organization that describes itself as nonpartisan and independent and that promotes libertarian ideas in policy debates.
Washington policy institute that describes itself as independent and nonpartisan and dedicated to improving American lives through progressive ideas; paired with a 501(c)(4) action fund.
Global media company publishing magazine and digital brands including Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, across print, video, digital, audio and social.
Vermont-based federal political committee that filed as Democracy for America from the 2004 cycle onward; its FEC filings wound down to zero receipts by 2025.
Membership organization founded in 1982 whose membership grew sharply after 2016 and which has backed candidates in Democratic primaries from local office to Congress
Legal membership organization founded in 1982 that describes itself as a group of conservatives and libertarians dedicated to reforming the current legal order, and that runs debates and chapters across the legal profession.
Advocacy organization founded in 1984 as Citizens for a Sound Economy and later renamed FreedomWorks; its website went offline during 2024 and no longer resolves.
Digital publishing company owned by Great Hill Partners that assembled Gizmodo Media Group and Onion Inc. titles in 2019 and sold off all of its media assets, ending with The Root; its own site now carries an epilogue.
Company founded in 1998 as a secure student email provider that now sells K-12 districts monitoring of student activity on school-provided technology, combining automated flagging with 24/7 human review.
Youth-led 501(c)(4) that describes itself as using social media, advocacy and code to drive progressive change, activating a coalition of creators and building web tools for constituent contact.
Search and advertising company, the largest business of Alphabet Inc.; its Google Services segment includes Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Google Play and the advertising business.
Palestinian organization active in the Gaza Strip, designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States on 8 October 1997.
Washington policy research organization whose stated mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies; publisher of the Mandate for Leadership series.
Public policy research center at Stanford University, founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919 as a documentary collection on the First World War.
Global network of Independent Media Centres that began in Seattle in 1999 with a media centre and website organising coverage of the WTO protests; indymedia.org survives as a directory of local sites and states it is being rebuilt.
Network of local groups founded in 2016 by former congressional staffers, which began as a publicly shared guide to constituent pressure tactics and grew into a national organization.
Legal foundation that uses open-records litigation to obtain and publish government documents; it describes itself as a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation.
Hybrid political action committee registered in January 2017 that recruits and backs candidates in Democratic primaries and states that it accepts no corporate PAC or corporate lobbyist money.
Auburn, Alabama nonprofit that promotes teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard, and publishes its library free online.
Web-based 501(c)(3) research centre launched in May 2004 that describes itself as dedicated to monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Adam Mockler's media company, which operates his merchandise storefront and is the entity his Substack subscriptions support
Parental-rights organization founded in Florida in 2021 by two former school board members, organised as county-level chapters focused on school boards and education policy.
Nonprofit that operates More Perfect Union, which describes itself as an Emmy award-winning advocacy journalism nonprofit reporting on labor, business and economics through a class lens.
Online advocacy organization founded in 1998, operating as a 501(c)(4) and a federal political committee, known for petitions, member endorsement votes and small-dollar fundraising.
Membership organization chartered in New York in 1871 to promote rifle marksmanship, now a 501(c)(4) that describes itself as a defender of Second Amendment rights and a firearms education organization.
New York state charter of the Young Republican National Federation, the source of the private Telegram chat whose leaked contents became a national story in October 2025.
Organization whose founder and Florida chapter leader were convicted of seditious conspiracy by a federal jury in November 2022 over the 6 January 2021 Capitol breach.
Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure company; its products and services, in its own words, build, run and support enterprise IT frameworks.
Media company that traded as Paramount Global until August 2025, when it was succeeded by Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (Nasdaq: PSKY); it owns CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures and Paramount+.
Washington research organization that describes itself as nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonadvocacy, funded primarily by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and publishes its survey research free of charge.
501(c)(4) advocacy and electoral arm associated with Planned Parenthood, distinct from the health-care federation; it sponsors a federal PAC and works on reproductive rights legislation and elections.
Organization described in federal court documents as a self-styled "pro-Western fraternal organization"; several of its leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy over the 6 January 2021 Capitol breach.
Nonpartisan 501(c)(3) founded in 1990 by music executive Jeff Ayeroff in response to a censorship campaign against hip-hop and rap artists; it runs an online voter registration platform used by other organizations.
Company founded by Scott Galloway, originally an online business-education provider, now trading as Section AI and selling enterprise AI training and adoption software.
Privately held film and television production company founded by David Ellison; through a 2025 merger it became the controlling half of the public company Paramount, a Skydance Corporation.
Montgomery, Alabama legal advocacy organization founded in 1971 that litigates civil rights cases and publishes an annual count of hate and antigovernment groups.
Youth climate organization that campaigns for a Green New Deal through chapters, electoral organizing and direct action.
Tea Party-era organizing group, now operating publicly as Tea Party Patriots Action, whose stated mission is to equip Americans to be engaged citizens and effective activists.
Electric vehicle and energy company reporting in two segments — automotive, and energy generation and storage — reincorporated in Texas and led by Elon Musk.
Diversified entertainment company reporting in three segments — Entertainment, Sports and Experiences — whose Entertainment segment contains the ABC Television Network, eight owned ABC stations, Disney+ and Hulu.
Student organization founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk whose stated mission is to identify, educate, train and organize students to promote fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government.
US 501(c)(3) founded in 2003 that hosts the technical infrastructure for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects and supports their volunteer editors.
National federation of Republican clubs for members aged 18 to 40, organised nationally in 1931 and formally constituted as the YRNF in 1935; its state charters run local clubs and campaign volunteer programmes.
