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Heritage Action, founded in 2010 as Heritage Action for America, is a conservative advocacy organization. [2] Heritage Action, which has affiliates throughout the United States, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a sister organization of The Heritage Foundation , a conservative think tank .
VoteVets.org Action Fund, the group's non-profit wing, has also been active in the paid airwaves. The first ad generated by the action fund was an ad critical of then-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, for "failing to ask the tough questions" on the war. The group ran a newspaper ad and radio ad, featuring Jeremy Broussard, in Connecticut.
Podesta remained with the organization as chairman of the board until he joined the Obama White House staff in December 2013. The Center for American Progress has a youth-engagement organization, Generation Progress, and a sister advocacy organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF).
The American Action Network is an advocacy group, incorporated on July 23, 2009, [1] and founded by Fred Malek, founder of Thayer Capital and former Republican National Committee deputy chairman. The organization says that it was founded to promote and support center right issues, conceived in part to counterbalance the liberal Center for ...
America Votes does not disclose its donors. The group raised $12.7 million in 2013, and projects revenue of $8.5 million in 2014. According to the Center for Public Integrity, "Between 40 percent and 50 percent of that sum is projected to come from wealthy donors connected to the Democracy Alliance, a secretive nonprofit whose funders include the likes of billionaire investor George Soros and ...
The political action committee emerged from the labor movement of 1943. [10] The first PAC was the CIO-PAC, formed in July 1943 under CIO president Philip Murray and headed by Sidney Hillman. It was established after the U.S. Congress prohibited unions from giving direct contributions to political candidates. [10]
Before Dave McCormick stepped down as CEO of hedge-fund giant Bridgewater Associates in 2022, underlings used to joke that he should be leader of the free world.
Democracy for America (DFA) was a progressive political action committee headquartered in Burlington, Vermont.Founded by former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean in 2004, DFA led public awareness campaigns on a variety of public policy issues, trains activists, and provided funding directly to candidates for office, until it ended operations in 2022.