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What the freedom-minded are up against
The leftist regressive totalitarian agenda is extremely well-organized and of considerable force. They have hundreds of organizations that they have either built or have infiltrated/corrupted to spread their ideas and policies throughout the U.S. and the world. Everyone must be aware of what they are thinking and planning if you are to fight to maintain freedom in our country and in the world. Listed below are many of the leftist organizations that seek to fundamentally transform America. Do not be fooled by their names as they use Orwellian tactics of calling the organization the opposite of what it is. Some also were legitimate groups in the past that now have been co-opted to promote leftist brainwashing.
What you can do! Join some of these groups and find out what they are doing, gather intelligence and share. Become an active member and fight to remove the leftist messaging and purpose from them. Fight to replace their board members and officers with normal people.
Leftist organizations
These organizations push a leftist ideology in America either in whole or in part.
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Aggressively defends equal rights under the law and our constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties including challenging government surveillance, opposing voter suppression laws, championing reproductive justice and marriage equality.
- People for the American Way (PFAW)
- An advocate for the values and institutions that sustain a diverse democratic society and that are threatened by the radical right.
- National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)
- An alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups that are united by a conviction that freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression must be defended.
- Defending Rights and Dissent
- Protects the right of political expression to strengthen participatory democracy, and to fulfill the promise of the Bill of Rights for everyone.
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
- Dedicated to providing free legal assistance to journalists since 1970.
- National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC)
- Protects the public’s right to oversee its government by offering grants to help foster the creation and growth of state FOI coalitions and works to start up and support citizen-driven state FOI and First Amendment organizations.
- American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE)
- The bookseller’s voice in the fight against censorship, working to promote and protect the free exchange of ideas, particularly those contained in books, by opposing restrictions on the freedom of speech; issuing statements on significant free expression controversies; participating in legal cases involving First Amendment rights; collaborating with other groups with an interest in free speech; and providing education about the importance of free expression to booksellers, other members of the book industry, politicians, the press and the public.
- AFL-CIO
- Works to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to the nation by organizing workers into unions, building a strong political voice for workers in a changing economy, and encouraging the labor movement to create a strong voice for workers in their communities.
- Change to Win Federation
- A federation of seven labor unions working for a paycheck that supports a family, universal health care, a secure retirement, and the freedom to form a union to give workers a voice on the job.
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
- A democratic national union representing some 35,000 workers in a wide variety of manufacturing, public sector, and private non-profit sector jobs — an independent union (not affiliated with the AFL-CIO) and proud of its democratic structure and progressive policies.
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- A union which represents 1.8 million workers in hospital systems, long term care, property services, and public services, and which works for more secure jobs for our communities and helps ensure that workers, not just corporations and CEOs, benefit from today’s global economy.
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- A union which represents 1.4 million workers in public service including nurses, EMTs, bus drivers, child care providers, custodians, and librarians, and which organizes for social and economic justice in the workplace and through political action and legislative advocacy.
- Communications Workers of America (CWA)
- Represents 700,000 workers in private and public sector employment in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico who work in telecommunications and information technology, the airline industry, news media, broadcast and cable television, education, health care and public service, law enforcement, manufacturing and other fields.
- UNITE HERE
- The merger of UNITE (formerly, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union).
- UAW — International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
- A union which represents 640,000 active workers and over 500,000 retired members in many sectors of the economy, and which struggles to secure economic and social justice for all people.
- National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
- Fights for the dignity and fair treatment of the millions of domestic workers in the United State, most of whom are women.
- National Education Association (NEA)
- A union which represents 3.2 million members working at every level of education — from pre-school to university graduate programs.
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- A union representing 1.6 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide of pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; nurses and other healthcare professionals; early childhood educators; and retiree members.
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
- A union which represents more than 1.3 million workers at supermarkets, packinghouse, food processing plants, and retail stores across North America, and which is on the frontlines in the fight for affordable health care, equal opportunity, job and retirement security, and fairness in the workplace.
- National Nurses United (NNU)
- A union which represents close to 160,000 members and advocates for guaranteed healthcare by expanding and updating Medicare to cover all Americans, negotiates good collective bargaining contracts for RNs, and sponsors innovative legislation and regulatory protections for patients and nurses.
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
- Represents 700,000 federal government workers nationwide and overseas and District of Columbia government workers.
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Champions of freight drivers and warehouse workers as well as organized workers in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector with 1.4 million members total.
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- A union working to create one big union and to abolish the wage system.
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
- Seeks to create connections between the feminist movement and the labor movement in the United States.
- US Student Association (USSA)
- Works to build grassroots power among students to win concrete victories that expand access to education at the federal, state, and campus level.
- Parents For Public Schools (PPS)
- A national organization of community-based chapters working to strengthen public schools through broad-based enrollment, that is, ensuring public schools attract ALL families in a community by making sure ALL schools effectively serve ALL children.
- Annenberg Institute for School Reform
- A national policy-research and reform-support organization focused on improving conditions and outcomes in urban schools, especially those serving disadvantaged children.
- Alliance for Excellent Education
- A policy, advocacy, and research organization created to help middle and high school students receive an excellent education, especially the 6 million most at-risk students — those most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future.
- Institute on Education and the Economy (IEE)
- An interdisciplinary policy research center based at Teachers College, Columbia University, which examines the interaction between educational reform and economic change.
- National Center for Fair & Open Testing
- Works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers, and schools is fair, open, valid, and educationally beneficial.
- MoveOn
- An on-line organization that works to realize the progressive vision of our country’s founders by providing a way for its busy but concerned 3.3 million members across America to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.
- Indivisible
- A network of 5,800 local groups in every Congressional District that lobby for progressive change.
- Daily Kos
- A news organization with over 18 million readers, a community of 3 million people, and an activist hub working for electoral and policy change.
- Our Revolution
- Built upon the success of Bernie Sanders’ presidential 2016 campaign, it organizes grassroots action to elect progressive candidates to political office, from school boards to congressional seats.
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
- A Quaker lobby that works with people from many different races, religions, and cultures to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government.
- Congressional Progressive Caucus Center
- Brings together progressive members of Congress, community leaders, organizers, advocates, unions, and policy experts to advance racial, economic, and gender justice as well as peace, energy independence, environmental sustainability, and human rights.
- Data for Progress
- A multidisciplinary group of experts using state-of-the-art techniques in data science (polling, voter analysis) to support progressive activists and causes.
- Demand Progress
- Seeks to protect the democratic character of the internet (Net Neutrality). Through Rootstrikers.org, works to eliminate the corrupting influence of big money in politics and reform the financial system. Also, works to win progressive policy changes for ordinary people through organizing and grassroots lobbying on issues of civil liberties, civil rights, and government reform.
- RootsAction
- An online initiative dedicated to galvanizing people who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights for all, civil liberties, environmental protection, and defunding endless wars.
- Faithful America
- An online community of citizens motivated by faith to take action to end poverty and promote economic security for all, promote peace and restore America’s commitment to human rights and diplomacy, prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change, counter hate speech and misinformation in the media pertaining to people of faith, and create welcoming communities where immigrants and people of all faiths are welcome.
- Stand Up America
- An online effort to provide its network of 2 million people with the information they need to take timely, impactful action on stopping corruption and increasing voter participation, restoring voting rights, and reducing the influence of big money in politics.
- Sierra Club
- Works to inspire all Americans to explore, enjoy, and protect the Earth’s wild places, to practice and promote responsible use of the Earth’s ecosystems and resources, and to work to restore the quality of the natural environment that sustains us.
- Greenpeace USA
- Uses non-violent direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
- Earth Island Institute (EII)
- An organization founded by environmentalist David Brower that fosters the efforts of creative individuals by providing organizational support in developing projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment.
- Friends of the Earth (FOE)
- A global network, representing 74 different countries, that defends the environment and champions a healthy and just world.
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- Uses law, science, and the support of its members to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places and ensure a safe and healthy environment for all people.
- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
- Works to stop environmental pollution by encouraging business, labor, government, and citizen groups to cooperate and identify practical policies to protect the environment.
- Stand.earth
- Challenges corporations and governments to treat people and the environment with respect. Formerly, ForestEthics.
- Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE)
- Conducts peer-reviewed research on the full range of sustainable development challenges humanity faces, including climate change, deforestation, extinction, inequality, and poverty, develops innovative solutions such as new measures of progress and new policies to expedite the transition to renewable energy, and also advocates for change, using legislative and administrative processes, the courts, and grassroots mobilization.
- Environment America
- A federation of state-based, citizen-funded environmental advocacy organizations that use time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposes, grassroots organizing, door-to-door canvassing, and litigation to raise awareness of environmental issues and promote sensible solutions.
- Blue-Green Alliance
- Unites 12 of our country’s largest unions and environmental organizations and advocates for more and better quality jobs in the clean economy by expanding a broad range of industries, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, the substitution of safer, cleaner chemicals, modern transportation systems and advanced vehicle technology, domestic manufacturing, high-speed Internet and a smart, efficient electrical grid, green schools and other public buildings, improving our nation’s water infrastructure, recycling, and sustainable agriculture.
- Earthjustice
- A law firm for the environment. Formerly, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
- League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
- Serves as the political voice for members of environmental groups by educating citizens about the environmental voting records of Members of Congress.
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
- Provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies.
- Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
- Shows urban communities locally and all across the country how to develop more sustainably: showing that development that is good for the economy and the environment makes better use of existing resources and community assets and improves the health of natural systems and the wealth of people.
- Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)
- A coalition of 47 national organizations that seek to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy.
- Brady United Against Gun Violence
- Fights to prevent gun violence by educating the public and working to enact and enforce sensible regulations including regulations governing the gun industry. Formerly, Hangun Control, Inc. and the Million Mom March.
- Everytown for Gun Safety / Moms Demand Action
- A movement of almost 6 million Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities.
- Violence Policy Center (VPC)
- Works to reduce gun death and injury in America by approaching firearms violence as a public health issue and illustrating the need to hold firearms to the same health and safety standards we hold all other consumer products.
- Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
- Researches, writes, and defends the laws, policies, and programs proven to save lives from gun violence.
- Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
- An organization of health care professionals that support a single-payer national health insurance (NHI) program in which the government finances health care but leaves the delivery of health care to private entities.
- Healthcare-NOW!
- Fights to achieve a national single-payer healthcare system by raising up the voices of patients who feel isolated in their struggles with the healthcare system, educating activists to gain the knowledge and skills they need to become leaders, and mobilizing the single-payer healthcare movement through collective action.
- Families USA
- Dedicated to achieving high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
- Doctors for America
- Mobilizes doctors and medical students to be leaders in putting patients over politics on the pressing issues of the day to improve the health of our patients, communities, and nation.
- Community Catalyst
- Provides leadership and support to state and local consumer organizations, policymakers, and foundations working to change the health care system so it serves everyone — especially vulnerable members of society.
- Doctors Without Borders USA
- An international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. Also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
- Promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in medical research.
- Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) A multi-issue think tank working for peace, justice, and the environment.
- Demos Conducts original research and builds networks of civic and economic reformers around the United States to strengthen democracy and create more broadly shared prosperity.
- Center for American Progress (CAP) A think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action and using a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter.
- Generation Progress Works with and for young people to promote progressive solutions to key political and social challenges. Formerly Campus Progress.
- Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Helps states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and families and will ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
- Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) Seeks to change policy by conducting research into overlooked, but important social and economic issues, by engaging policymakers and opinion leaders, and by offering platforms to amplify the ideas of those who are working for social and economic fairness.
- Longview Institute for the Public Good Articulates and promotes a vision of a moral economy and a just society to help bring us closer to a society that is just, democratic, humane, and environmentally sustainable.
- Century Foundation Conducts public policy research and analyses of economic, social, and foreign policy issues, including inequality, retirement security, election reform, media studies, homeland security, and international affairs.
- Citizen Works Founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation and giving people the tools and opportunities they need to build democracy.
- Roosevelt Institute A policy organization devoted to carrying forward the legacy and values of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by developing progressive ideas and bold leadership in the service of restoring America’s health and security.
- Amnesty International USA (AI) A worldwide movement of people who campaign for human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
- Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monitors human rights in over seventy countries worldwide.
- Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) A legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Human Rights First (HRF) Works to protect and promote human rights and hold all governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the International Bill of Human Rights. Formerly, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
- Global Exchange A membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.
- Grassroots International Promotes global justice through partnerships with social change organizations and through grantmaking, education, and advocacy.
- Global Rights In international human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice.
- International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies (IAOHRA) An organization of statutory human rights and human relations agencies with authority for enforcing a variety of human and civil rights laws in their respective jurisdictions.
- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) An organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to Quaker values of social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) Advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies.
- Human Rights Resource Center An integral part of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and works to create and distribute Human Rights Education (HRE) resources via electronic and print media and train activists, professionals, and students as human rights educators.
- Physicians for Human Rights Mobilizes health professionals, with their specialized skills, ethical duties, and credible voices, to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all.
- MADRE Documents and condemns human rights abuses, works with women who are affected by violations to help them win justice and, ultimately, change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses, and challenges U.S. policies that undermine human rights.
- Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) Works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families, and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.
- WITNESS An international human rights organization founded by Peter Gabriel that empowers human rights defenders to use video to shine a light on those most affected by human rights violations, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools of justice.
- Prevent Human Trafficking Institute (PHI) Promotes sustainable solutions in the fight against human trafficking.
- Free the Slaves Works to end slavery worldwide.
- Oxfam America US chapter of Oxfam International that is committed to creating lasting solutions to global poverty, hunger, and social injustice by feeding the hungry, strengthening communities, and campaigning for change.
- World Social Forum Creates an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs, and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely, and network for effective action.
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Advocates for fair trade policies that promote strong health standards, labor and human rights, the environment and, most fundamentally, democratic institutions.
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR) A coalition of more than 200 diverse national organizations working to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States.
- National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) Works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people through leadership, education and outreach, membership services, public policy initiatives, advocacy, and enforcement.
- Color of Change The nation’s largest online civil rights organization building grassroots political power for African-Americans and working for social change for all people.
- Race Forward A public policy institute advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism (it publishes Colorlines).
- Political Research Associates (PRA) A research center that works to facilitate public understanding of the threat posed to human rights by oppressive and authoritarian right-wing movements in the United States.
- American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA) The association of professionals managing affirmative action, equal opportunity, diversity and other human resource programs.
- Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) Provides research and communications infrastructure and strategic support for local organizations working on campaigns to win structural change by directly taking on the financial elite that are responsible for pillaging communities of color, devastating working class communities, and harming our environment.
- Center for Media Justice (CMJ) Develops and teaches creative, effective, and participatory communications and media activism strategies that support the fight for racial justice, economic equity, and human rights.
- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
- A national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship, advocates for greater diversity in the press, and scrutinizes media practices that marginalize public interest, minority, and dissenting viewpoints.
- Free Press
- Works to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.
- Media Matters for America
- Progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
- Commercial Alert
- A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities from commercialism: preventing commercial culture from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity, and democracy.
- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
- Seeks to broaden public discourse by providing news releases that offer well-documented analysis of current events and underlying issues to working journalists and other media professionals.
- Media Access Project (MAP)
- A non-profit public interest telecommunications law firm which promotes the public’s First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow.
- Center for Media and Democracy — PR Watch
- Works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are genuinely informative and broadly participatory and by removing the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media.
- Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
- Seeks to preserve the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realize the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.
- Center for Rural Affairs
- Works to establish strong rural communities, social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, and genuine opportunity for all while engaging people in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities.
- League of Rural Voters
- Uses grassroots organizing and communications tools to connect with rural voters in pivotal Midwestern states, focusing on progressive issues like economic development, immigration, trade and farm policy, health care and education.
- RuralVotes
- Promotes initiatives and ideas supporting the revitalization of rural America and is dedicated to building a solid, informed and participatory base of rural citizens, actively engaged in community, civic and electoral processes at the federal, state and local levels.