Buc-ee's
Buc-ee's is a privately held Texas chain of oversized travel centers and gas stations, known for its beaver mascot, barbecue and snacks, and famously clean restrooms.
Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual is a Milwaukee-based mutual life insurance and financial services company owned by its policyowners, offering life and disability insurance, annuities, and wealth management.
Brinks Home
Brinks Home is the consumer brand of Monitronics International, Inc., a Dallas-area alarm monitoring company that licenses the Brinks name and serves about 1 million residential and commercial customers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico through a network of independent authorized dealers.
Pop-A-Lock
Pop-A-Lock is a Lafayette, Louisiana based locksmith franchise founded in 1991 by two former sheriff's deputies. Its independently owned locations offer automotive, residential, and commercial lock and security services, and the brand runs a free program that unlocks cars to rescue trapped children and pets.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the volunteer-written free encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit funded mainly by small donations.
Ruff Greens
Ruff Greens is a private, Texas-based seller of vegan dog and cat nutritional supplements. It markets directly to consumers and has advertised heavily through conservative talk-radio sponsorships.
The Farmer's Dog
The Farmer's Dog is a private, direct-to-consumer company that sells fresh, human-grade dog food by subscription. It has no corporate PAC or federal lobbying on the public record.
Purina
Purina is a pet food brand owned by Nestlé, the Swiss food and beverage company. The political record examined here is Nestlé's: a corporate PAC that favored Republican candidates before shutting down, plus a foregrounded corporate diversity posture.
Petco
WOOFPetco is a national pet retailer and services company that has rebranded itself around pet health and wellness. Its federal political footprint is minimal, with no corporate PAC and no reported federal lobbying in the most recent cycle.
Chewy
CHWYChewy is an online pet retailer known for personal customer service, including sympathy gestures after a pet dies. Its federal political footprint is minimal, with no corporate PAC on the public record.
CODEPINK
CODEPINK is a women-led, anti-war nonprofit founded in 2002 to oppose the Iraq War, known for theatrical protests against U.S. military spending and foreign policy.
ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union is a century-old nonprofit that litigates and lobbies on civil liberties, and in the last decade has become a major spender in state elections.
Byrna Technologies
BYRNByrna Technologies (Nasdaq: BYRN) is an Andover, Massachusetts company that makes less-lethal, CO2-powered self-defense launchers and pepper products sold to civilians, security firms, and police.
MAC Cosmetics
MAC Cosmetics is a professional makeup brand founded in Toronto in 1984, owned by The Estée Lauder Companies since 1998.
OUAI
OUAI is a haircare and body care brand founded by celebrity stylist Jen Atkin in 2016, owned by Procter and Gamble since 2021.
rhode
rhode is a skincare and hybrid makeup brand founded by Hailey Bieber in 2022, now a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded e.l.f. Beauty.
Nature Nate's Honey
Nature Nate's, sold as Nate's Honey, is a McKinney, Texas based brand of 100 percent pure, raw, and unfiltered honey, now owned by Sweet Harvest Foods.
Vonage
Vonage is a cloud communications company owned by Sweden's Ericsson, selling internet-based phone service to households and a developer platform for calls, messaging and video to businesses.
St. Jude Children's
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a Memphis, Tennessee pediatric treatment and research institution founded in 1962 by entertainer Danny Thomas. Families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing, or food. Its fundraising arm, ALSAC, is one of the largest health charities in the United States.
UNICEF
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is the UN agency created in 1946 that provides health, nutrition, education, and emergency aid to children in more than 190 countries, funded entirely by voluntary contributions. Americans give through UNICEF USA, a separate New York based 501(c)(3) charity.
Folds of Honor
Folds of Honor is an Owasso, Oklahoma based 501(c)(3) charity founded in 2007 by fighter pilot and PGA professional Lt. Col. Dan Rooney. It provides educational scholarships to the spouses and children of fallen or disabled military service members and, since 2022, first responders.
Powell's Books
Family-owned Portland, Oregon bookseller, the largest independent new and used bookstore company in the world, best known for its City of Books flagship covering a full downtown block.
Books-A-Million
The second-largest bookstore chain in the United States, roughly 260 stores in 32 states, family-owned out of Birmingham, Alabama since a 2015 go-private buyout by the founding Anderson family.
Barnes & Noble
The largest retail bookseller in the United States, with roughly 600 stores in all 50 states, owned since 2019 by the investment firm Elliott and led by British bookseller James Daunt.
GLO (God's Love Overcomes)
GLO (God's Love Overcomes) is a Christian apparel brand and sister label of Love in Faith, a family business based in Anaheim, California.
SimpliSafe
SimpliSafe is a Boston-based, privately held home security company founded in 2006 by Chad and Eleanor Laurans, known for no-contract DIY alarm systems, optional 24/7 professional monitoring, and AI-assisted camera monitoring with live agents. It was acquired by private equity firm GTCR in November 2025.
Vivint Smart Home
Vivint Smart Home is a Provo, Utah based provider of home security and smart home products and monitoring, serving about two million customers. Founded in 1999 as APX Alarm Security Solutions, it became publicly traded in 2020 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Houston energy company NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG), which acquired it in 2023.
Ajax Systems
Ajax Systems is a privately held Ukrainian manufacturer of wireless home and business security systems, founded in 2011 in Kyiv by Aleksandr Konotopskyi. Widely described as the largest security systems maker in Europe, it sells its alarms, sensors, and cameras in roughly 130 countries and has been expanding into the United States.
ADT Inc.
ADTADT Inc. is a Boca Raton, Florida provider of home and small business security, alarm monitoring, and smart home services whose brand dates to 1874. Now publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (ADT), the company is controlled by Apollo Global Management and counts State Farm and Google among its major owners.
State Farm
The Bloomington, Illinois insurer founded in 1922, a policyholder owned mutual that is the largest home insurer in the United States and long its largest auto insurer, known for its large agent network and its good neighbor advertising.
Progressive
PGRThe Mayfield Village, Ohio auto insurer founded in 1937, now one of the largest car insurance companies in the United States, known for its Flo advertising and for selling both directly and through independent agents.
Liberty Mutual
The Boston based property and casualty insurance giant, founded in 1912, that sells auto, home, and commercial coverage under the Liberty Mutual and Safeco brands.
Dell
DELLThe Round Rock, Texas technology giant, founded and controlled by chairman and CEO Michael Dell, that makes personal computers, servers, and data storage for consumers, businesses, and governments.
EveryLife
A premium direct to consumer diaper and wipes brand launched in 2023 by the conservative marketplace PublicSquare, marketed to pro-life and faith focused families, and as of 2026 under agreement to be sold to FreeHold Brands.
Kingdom Come Home
A small Youngstown, Ohio direct to consumer brand (a division of Claiming Crowns LLC) selling clean, toxin free skincare, beauty, and wellness products, built around an explicitly Christian, scripture centered identity and a First Fruits giving practice.
Patriot Mobile
Patriot Mobile is a Texas-based wireless provider that markets itself as America's only Christian conservative phone carrier and directs a portion of its revenue to conservative political and faith-based causes.
Rolex
The privately held Swiss luxury watchmaker, owned by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation and based in Geneva, known for its Oyster, Submariner, and Datejust watches.
TAG Heuer
The Swiss luxury watchmaker, founded in 1860 and owned since 1999 by the French conglomerate LVMH, known for its Carrera, Monaco, and Formula 1 chronographs.
Breitling
The Swiss luxury watchmaker, founded in 1884 and known for aviation chronographs like the Navitimer, now owned by the private equity firm Partners Group.
Ariat
Ariat International is a privately held, female-founded American maker of western, English riding, and work footwear and apparel, based in San Leandro, California.
IKEA
IKEA is the Swedish-founded global home furnishings brand. Its U.S. stores are operated by Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee, under a foundation ownership structure with no shareholders.
Chili's
EATChili's Grill & Bar is a casual-dining chain and the flagship brand of Dallas-based Brinker International (NYSE: EAT), which also operates Maggiano's Little Italy.
Crumbl Cookies
Crumbl is a privately held, founder-controlled cookie and dessert franchise based in Lindon, Utah, known for weekly rotating flavors and pink boxes.
Pei Wei
Pei Wei Asian Kitchen is a privately held fast-casual pan-Asian chain based in Irving, Texas, owned by restaurateur Lorne Goldberg's investment firm West Coast Capital.
7 Brew
7 Brew is a privately held, drive-thru-only coffee and beverage chain founded in Rogers, Arkansas in 2017 and now operating around 800 stands across 38 states under parent company Brew Culture LLC, with Blackstone holding a minority stake since 2024.
Old Navy
GAPOld Navy is the value-priced family apparel brand of San Francisco-based Gap Inc. (NYSE: GAP), which also owns Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. Launched in 1994, it is Gap Inc.'s largest brand, selling affordable basics through more than 1,200 stores and online.
Huggies
KMBHuggies is the diaper and baby care brand of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Dallas, Texas consumer products company with $16.4 billion in 2025 net sales whose brands also include Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Kotex and Depend.
Ralph Lauren
RLRalph Lauren is the New York-based luxury fashion company (NYSE: RL) founded by designer Ralph Lauren in 1967, known for its Polo Ralph Lauren and Ralph Lauren Collection lines and its all-American style. It sells apparel, accessories, fragrances, and home goods worldwide, and remains under the founder's voting control.
Salesforce
CRMSalesforce is a San Francisco based enterprise software company and the world's largest customer relationship management (CRM) platform, providing cloud based sales, service, marketing, and AI tools to businesses.
Zoho
Zoho is a privately held, family-owned software company headquartered in Chennai, India, with its U.S. base in Austin, Texas. It sells a large suite of cloud-based business applications, including CRM, email, and office tools, to companies worldwide, and is known for a strict no-advertising privacy stance.
Levi Strauss & Co.
LEVILevi Strauss & Co. is the San Francisco-based apparel maker behind the Levi's denim brand, founded in 1853 and publicly traded (NYSE: LEVI) while still controlled by the founding Haas family. It sells jeans and clothing worldwide through its own stores, retailers, and online, and its brands include Levi's, Levi Strauss Signature, and Beyond Yoga.
Holiday Inn
IHGHoliday Inn is a hotel brand of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, a British company headquartered in Windsor, England that operates more than 6,900 hotels and over one million rooms across 21 brands in more than 100 countries.
GameStop
GMEGameStop Corp. is a Grapevine, Texas retailer of video games, consoles, trading cards and pop culture collectibles, operating 2,206 stores worldwide and trading on the New York Stock Exchange as GME.
Denny's
Denny's is a Spartanburg, South Carolina diner chain with roughly 1,500 mostly franchised restaurants, taken private in January 2026 by a group led by TriArtisan Capital Advisors and one of its own largest franchisees.
Uline
Uline is a privately held North American distributor of shipping, packaging and industrial supplies, founded in 1980 and owned by the Uihlein family.
Church's Chicken
Church''s Chicken, now branded Church''s Texas Chicken, is a privately held Atlanta-based fried chicken franchisor with more than 1,500 restaurants in 25 countries and over $1.6 billion in 2025 system sales.
Blue Bell Ice Cream
Blue Bell Creameries is a privately held Brenham, Texas ice cream maker, family-run since 1919, selling in 23 states from three plants in Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama.
Coca-Cola
KOThe Coca-Cola Company is the Atlanta beverage company behind Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Dasani, Powerade, Minute Maid, fairlife and Costa, selling in more than 200 countries with $47.9 billion in 2025 revenue.
PepsiCo
PEPPepsiCo is the Purchase, New York food and beverage company behind Pepsi, Lay''s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Mountain Dew and Quaker, with $93.9 billion in 2025 net revenue.
Bank of America
BACThe Charlotte based banking giant serving more than 70 million clients, parent of Merrill and the second largest US bank by assets.
Zillow
ZGZillow is the most visited real estate marketplace in the United States, a Seattle based technology company publicly traded on the Nasdaq as Z and ZG, known for its Zestimate home value tool, Premier Agent advertising, Zillow Home Loans, and rentals.
Conservative Move
Conservative Move is a McKinney, Texas real estate referral network, founded in 2017 by former Republican congressional candidate Paul Chabot, that connects clients with partner agents to help them relocate from what it calls blue states to red states.
Keller Williams
Keller Williams is a privately held real estate franchise founded in Austin in 1983, the largest in the United States by agent count, with roughly 1,000 offices and about 165,000 agents worldwide.
RE/MAX
RMAXRE/MAX is one of the world's largest real estate franchisors, headquartered in Denver and publicly traded on the NYSE as RMAX, with more than 140,000 agents working out of independently owned offices across over 110 countries.
IHOP
DINThe International House of Pancakes, the family dining breakfast chain owned by Applebee's parent Dine Brands Global.
Mercedes-Benz
MBGMercedes-Benz is the German luxury vehicle brand of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, known for its cars, SUVs, and vans, with major US manufacturing in Vance, Alabama.
Lyft
LYFTThe San Francisco based rideshare company, second largest in the United States, publicly traded on the Nasdaq as LYFT.
Anheuser-Busch
BUDThe St. Louis brewer of Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra, operating as the US arm of Belgium based Anheuser-Busch InBev.
World Poker Tour
The televised poker tournament brand founded in 2002, now privately owned and running live tours plus the ClubWPT online poker platforms.
Rapid Radios
Michigan-based maker of LTE push-to-talk walkie-talkies marketed nationwide with the first year of service included in the purchase price.
Wingstop
WINGThe Dallas based chicken wing chain with more than 3,000 franchised restaurants worldwide, publicly traded as WING.
Google is the search, advertising, and technology business that generates most of the revenue of its parent company, Alphabet, with products including Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, and Google Cloud.
Cracker Barrel
CBRLA Lebanon, Tennessee restaurant and country store chain, founded in 1969 and long identified with its Old Timer logo.
Just the News
Just the News is a digital news outlet launched in 2020 by investigative journalist John Solomon and owned by his company, Bentley Media Group LLC.
Peloton
PTONPeloton Interactive is a connected-fitness company that sells stationary bikes, treadmills, and a rowing machine paired with a subscription platform of live and on-demand workout classes.
Target
TGTTarget Corporation is a Minneapolis-based general-merchandise retailer operating roughly two thousand large-format discount stores across the United States.
The Walt Disney Company
DISGlobal entertainment conglomerate spanning theme parks, ABC, ESPN, Disney+, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, with a politically prominent four-year arc covering the Florida "Don't Say Gay" fight, the ABC-Trump defamation settlement, the rollback of its DEI programs, and the September 2025 Jimmy Kimmel suspension under FCC pressure.
Professional Fighters League
The Professional Fighters League, or PFL, is an American mixed martial arts organization known for its season and tournament format and its $1 million weight-class prizes. Founded in 2017 and widely regarded as the second-largest MMA promotion after the UFC, it acquired Bellator in 2023 and counts Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund among its minority investors.
UFC
TKOThe UFC is the world's largest mixed martial arts promotion, owned by publicly traded TKO Group Holdings and led by longtime president and chief executive Dana White.
Roblox
RBLXRoblox Corporation operates an online platform where users create, share, and play user-generated games and experiences, with a large audience of children and teenagers.
Guinness
DEOGuinness is an Irish dry stout first brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin in 1759 and now brewed and marketed worldwide by the London-based drinks company Diageo.
Adidas
ADDYYAdidas is the world's second-largest sportswear company, founded in Herzogenaurach, Germany in 1949 and known for its three-stripes footwear, apparel, and high-profile athlete and celebrity collaborations.
Reebok
Reebok is an American sportswear brand with roots dating to 1895, headquartered in Boston and owned since 2022 by Authentic Brands Group, known for classic sneakers, fitness gear, and its basketball heritage.
Buffalo Wild Wings
Buffalo Wild Wings is a national sports bar and chicken wing chain founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1982, now owned by Inspire Brands, the Atlanta based restaurant group backed by private equity firm Roark Capital.
World Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker is the world's largest and longest running poker tournament series, held annually in Las Vegas since 1970 and owned by NSUS Group, the privately held parent company of GGPoker.
Pampers
PGThe market-leading diaper and baby-care brand owned by consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble, whose corporate politics run through one of the most prominent advocates of LGBTQ-inclusive advertising in American business.
Panera Bread
Panera Bread is a fast-casual bakery-cafe chain known for soups, sandwiches, salads, and fresh bread, with more than 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada. It is privately owned by European investment group JAB Holding Company through its Panera Brands platform.
Wendy's
WENWendy's is the third-largest hamburger fast-food chain in the United States, founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1969 and known for its square patties, fresh-never-frozen beef, and the Frosty.
Hilton
HLTHilton is one of the world's largest hospitality companies, operating more than 8,000 properties across two dozen brands in over 140 countries from its McLean, Virginia headquarters.
Airbnb
ABNBAirbnb is a San Francisco-based online marketplace for short-term home rentals and experiences, connecting more than five million hosts with travelers in nearly every country in the world.
Kohl's
KSSThe Wisconsin-based department store chain that publicly declares itself not a political organization, yet became a conservative boycott target in 2023 over its Pride merchandise collection.
Chick-fil-A
The privately held, family-run fast food chain known for chicken sandwiches, closing every Sunday, and a Christian corporate identity that has made it a recurring flashpoint in American culture-war politics.
Nike
NKENike is the world's largest athletic footwear and apparel company, known both for its dominance in sportswear and for high-profile marketing campaigns that have waded into social and political debates.
Arvest Bank
Arvest Bank is a Walton-family-owned community bank based in Bentonville, Arkansas, with branches across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.
X
SPCXX, formerly Twitter, is the social platform owned by Elon Musk and now a subsidiary of his AI company xAI, known for a major content-moderation rollback and Musk's open political activism.
TikTok
TikTok is a short-video app owned by China's ByteDance, the target of a bipartisan US ban law and a forced sale that transferred its US operations to an American-led joint venture in January 2026.
UPS
UPSUPS (United Parcel Service) is the largest US package-delivery company, heavily unionized under the Teamsters, with a large corporate PAC that gives across both parties.
Reddit is a public discussion platform of community-run forums, known for volunteer moderation, repeated user revolts over content and API policy, and major AI data-licensing deals.
Microsoft
MSFTMicrosoft is a global technology company behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox, known for a near-even corporate PAC and a deliberate posture of working with both political administrations.
FedEx
FDXFedEx is the global overnight-delivery pioneer founded by Fred Smith, with a corporate PAC that gives across both parties and a founder identity rooted in Marine Corps service.
Ford Motor Company
FDearborn, Michigan automaker founded in 1903, maker of the F-Series pickups, Mustang, Bronco, and a recalibrated EV lineup.
Chevrolet
GMLargest brand of General Motors, maker of the Silverado, Corvette, Tahoe, and a growing EV lineup; political signals trace to parent GM.
SpaceX
SPCXPrivately held rocket and spacecraft maker founded by Elon Musk in 2002, builder of Falcon rockets, Dragon, Starship, and Starlink.
Spotify
SPOTSpotify is the world's largest music and podcast streaming service, founded in Stockholm in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
Nvidia
NVDANvidia is the Santa Clara semiconductor company whose GPUs became the core hardware of the AI boom; founded 1993, led since inception by Jensen Huang.
McDonald's
MCDMcDonald's is the world's largest fast food chain, a heavily franchised burger company headquartered in Chicago and known for the golden arches.
Best Buy
BBYBest Buy is the largest consumer electronics retailer in the United States, headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota, selling computers, phones, appliances, and Geek Squad tech support across roughly 1,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
Lowe's
LOWLowe's is the second largest U.S. home improvement retailer, with more than 1,700 stores, about 300,000 employees, and roughly $83.67 billion in fiscal 2024 sales. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, and publicly traded on the NYSE (LOW).
eBay
EBAYThe original online marketplace, where a small and access-driven political footprint sits alongside a founder famous for funding progressive causes and a string of contested corporate-conduct episodes.
Trader Joe's
Privately held specialty grocery chain owned by the Aldi Nord branch of the German Albrecht family; argued in early 2024 that the federal labor agency overseeing union elections is unconstitutional.
Temu
PDDChinese-founded online marketplace owned by PDD Holdings, known for ultra-low prices, massive ad spending, and bipartisan scrutiny in Washington over its trade, labor, and data practices.
Netflix
NFLXThe world's largest subscription streaming service, founded in 1997 and based in Los Gatos, California, with more than 325 million paid memberships worldwide.
Walmart Inc.
WMTThe world's largest retailer by revenue, a Bentonville, Arkansas based chain of supercenters, discount stores, and warehouse clubs, controlled by the founding Walton family.
The Home Depot
HDThe Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer, with a corporate PAC and a founder legacy that have long shaped its political reputation.
Amazon.com
Amazon.com is the largest U.S. online retailer and cloud-computing provider, with a corporate PAC and a high-profile founder whose political footprint pulls in more than one direction.
Apple
AAPLApple is the world's most valuable company and the maker of the iPhone, Mac, and a large services business. It has no corporate PAC, its employees donate overwhelmingly to Democrats, and CEO Tim Cook has built a working relationship with the Trump administration.
Starbucks
SBUXSeattle-based global coffeehouse chain, the world's largest specialty coffee roaster and retailer, with more than 40,000 stores worldwide.
MS NOW
VSNTAmerican cable news network owned by Versant Corporation. Founded in 1996 as MSNBC, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC News, the network rebranded as MS NOW in November 2025 and is anchored by Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Jen Psaki, and Lawrence O'Donnell.
Fox News
FOXAAmerican cable news network owned by Fox Corporation. Founded in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, Fox News has been the most-watched cable channel in the United States for nine consecutive years through 2024.
HBO
Premium American television and streaming brand owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, known for prestige drama (The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Succession, The Last of Us), recurring documentary titles on contemporary political subjects, and weekly political programming anchored by John Oliver and Bill Maher; parent company WBD shareholders approved a sale to Paramount Skydance on April 23, 2026, valued at $81 billion in equity and approximately $110 billion in enterprise value, expected to close in Q3 2026 pending US and European regulatory review.
HubSpot
HUBSCambridge, Massachusetts-based marketing, sales, and customer service software company with a progressive corporate culture marked by eight consecutive years of public diversity reporting that has remained in place through 2025 while major tech peers retreated, a notably small federal political footprint, and a co-founder whose largest publicly disclosed political-coded transaction was a $1.9 million benefit purchase for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Newsweek
Privately held American news magazine and digital publication founded in 1933, currently rated near the political center across three independent media bias trackers (AllSides Center, Ad Fontes Middle, Media Bias/Fact Check Right-Center), with deliberate editorial positioning toward balanced perspectives under current CEO Dev Pragad, though ownership is currently subject to active litigation.
Aldi
Privately held German-owned discount grocery chain known for low prices, small store footprint, and rapid US expansion; quietly removed DEI language from its US websites in early 2025.
Eli Lilly and Company
LLYIndiana-based pharmaceutical giant best known for diabetes treatments, the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Zepbound, and a high-profile November 2025 drug pricing deal with the Trump administration that the company's CEO now publicly opposes codifying into law.
ExxonMobil
XOMLargest U.S. publicly traded oil and gas company and one of the most prominent corporate political actors in the energy sector.
Costco Wholesale
COSTMembership-based warehouse club known for low margins, high employee wages, and a publicly defended commitment to corporate diversity and inclusion programs.
Uber
UBERGlobal ride-sharing and delivery platform headquartered in San Francisco, CA. One of the largest gig economy companies in the world.
Kraft Heinz
KHCOne of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, producing iconic brands including Heinz, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, and Velveeta.
Koch Industries
One of the largest private companies in America, with operations spanning energy, manufacturing, and finance. Founded by Fred Koch and led by Charles Koch.
Dr Pepper
KDPIconic American soft drink brand owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, with no meaningful political lean and bipartisan business practices.
Ben & Jerry's
Vermont-based ice cream brand with a decades-long history of progressive activism, DEI commitment, and social justice advocacy. One of the most politically outspoken consumer brands in the US.
Hobby Lobby
Faith-driven arts and crafts retailer closed on Sundays, known for conservative values and defending religious liberty. Known for their frame shop.
Black Rifle Coffee Company
BRCCVeteran-founded coffee brand with a strong patriotic identity, supporting military, veterans, and first responders.
Allegiance Flag Supply
100% American-made flag company founded in Charleston, SC in 2018. Every flag is hand-sewn by American workers using a fully domestic supply chain.
XX-XY Athletics
Athletic apparel brand founded by Jennifer Sey, explicitly built around protecting women's sports and spaces from male-bodied athletes. Brand identity, ambassadors, and public positioning are firmly in the conservative cultural movement.
MyPillow
Minnesota-based pillow and bedding manufacturer founded by Mike Lindell, whose personal political activism, election-integrity advocacy, and active Republican gubernatorial campaign have become inseparable from the brand identity.
Buc-ee's
Buc-ee's is a privately held Texas chain of oversized travel centers and gas stations, known for its beaver mascot, barbecue and snacks, and famously clean restrooms.
Both Buc-ee's owners are heavy Republican donors. Co-founder Arch Aplin III gave more than $2.8 million to Texas campaigns between 2015 and 2024, led by over $1 million to Governor Greg Abbott, and has kept giving since; co-founder Don Wasek has also given substantial sums to Texas Republicans.
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Northwestern Mutual is a Milwaukee-based mutual life insurance and financial services company owned by its policyowners, offering life and disability insurance, annuities, and wealth management.
Through its PAC and its employees, federal campaign money tied to Northwestern Mutual has gone majority-Republican in nearly every cycle for decades, though the Republican share fell from about 76 percent in 2016 to about 58 percent in 2024.
View Full Profile →Brinks Home
Brinks Home is the consumer brand of Monitronics International, Inc., a Dallas-area alarm monitoring company that licenses the Brinks name and serves about 1 million residential and commercial customers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico through a network of independent authorized dealers.
Under its own names, Monitronics and Brinks Home, the company has no OpenSecrets organization profile, which means no reported corporate PAC and no reported federal lobbying, though that is a federal finding only and Texas state PACs are outside what those databases cover.
View Full Profile →Pop-A-Lock
Pop-A-Lock is a Lafayette, Louisiana based locksmith franchise founded in 1991 by two former sheriff's deputies. Its independently owned locations offer automotive, residential, and commercial lock and security services, and the brand runs a free program that unlocks cars to rescue trapped children and pets.
Pop-A-Lock runs a formal veterans program that promotes veteran franchise ownership and hiring and gives active-duty and retired military a discount on services, framing the program around support for the military.
View Full Profile →Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the volunteer-written free encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a San Francisco nonprofit funded mainly by small donations.
In a June 2020 statement signed by its CEO and COO, the Foundation declared "there is no neutral stance" on racial justice and said it stands "with the movement for Black Lives," then built a $4.5 million Knowledge Equity Fund to address racial inequities.
View Full Profile →Ruff Greens
Ruff Greens is a private, Texas-based seller of vegan dog and cat nutritional supplements. It markets directly to consumers and has advertised heavily through conservative talk-radio sponsorships.
Ruff Greens advertises almost entirely through conservative talk media, running dedicated sponsor pages and offer codes for hosts including Glenn Beck, Jesse Kelly, Sebastian Gorka, and Matt Walsh, plus the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.
View Full Profile →The Farmer's Dog
The Farmer's Dog is a private, direct-to-consumer company that sells fresh, human-grade dog food by subscription. It has no corporate PAC or federal lobbying on the public record.
No corporate political action committee and no federal lobbying appear on the public record for The Farmer's Dog, leaving the company nearly absent from federal political money.
View Full Profile →Purina
Purina is a pet food brand owned by Nestlé, the Swiss food and beverage company. The political record examined here is Nestlé's: a corporate PAC that favored Republican candidates before shutting down, plus a foregrounded corporate diversity posture.
Purina's corporate PAC sent about 69 percent of its 2019 to 2020 candidate contributions to Republicans, concentrated on Missouri and agriculture-committee members, then gave $0 to candidates and terminated by 2024.
View Full Profile →Petco
WOOFPetco is a national pet retailer and services company that has rebranded itself around pet health and wellness. Its federal political footprint is minimal, with no corporate PAC and no reported federal lobbying in the most recent cycle.
Petco has taken several documented, company-initiated LGBTQ+ and diversity positions, including an Official Corporate Partner tie to The Trevor Project with a Pride-collection donation, seven identity-based employee resource groups, and a publicized 95 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.
View Full Profile →Chewy
CHWYChewy is an online pet retailer known for personal customer service, including sympathy gestures after a pet dies. Its federal political footprint is minimal, with no corporate PAC on the public record.
Chewy removed its "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" section from its annual report between 2024 and 2026, retitling it "People and Culture" and dropping the DEI language entirely.
View Full Profile →CODEPINK
CODEPINK is a women-led, anti-war nonprofit founded in 2002 to oppose the Iraq War, known for theatrical protests against U.S. military spending and foreign policy.
Code Pink is an anti-war organization of the left: it campaigns to cut U.S. military spending ("Defund the Pentagon"), opposes U.S. military aid to Israel and supports the BDS movement, and opposes U.S. sanctions and intervention against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and Russia.
View Full Profile →ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union is a century-old nonprofit that litigates and lobbies on civil liberties, and in the last decade has become a major spender in state elections.
The ACLU has become one of the biggest spenders in state-level elections. It has run voter-education and electoral programs of about $25 million in both 2018 and 2024 and a record $25.5 million across nine states for 2026, plus a separate $24.5 million election-safeguarding effort. That money targets abortion-rights ballot measures, state Supreme Court and secretary-of-state races, and LGBTQ and transgender protections.
View Full Profile →Byrna Technologies
BYRNByrna Technologies (Nasdaq: BYRN) is an Andover, Massachusetts company that makes less-lethal, CO2-powered self-defense launchers and pepper products sold to civilians, security firms, and police.
Byrna markets itself through a roster of prominent conservative-media figures, including Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk, Lara Trump, and Donald Trump Jr., and features Trump Jr. on a dedicated page of its own website.
View Full Profile →MAC Cosmetics
MAC Cosmetics is a professional makeup brand founded in Toronto in 1984, owned by The Estée Lauder Companies since 1998.
Through its VIVA GLAM lipstick, MAC has for three decades given 100 percent of the selling price to HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ causes, raising more than 540 million dollars, and the fund now backs sexual, racial, gender, and environmental equality, with past partners including Planned Parenthood and GLAAD.
View Full Profile →OUAI
OUAI is a haircare and body care brand founded by celebrity stylist Jen Atkin in 2016, owned by Procter and Gamble since 2021.
Under Procter and Gamble ownership, OUAI has run Pride campaigns every year that fund LGBTQ groups, including a Florida organization it said was fighting the state's Don't Say Gay law, and it lists support for LGBTQIA people among its stated values.
View Full Profile →rhode
rhode is a skincare and hybrid makeup brand founded by Hailey Bieber in 2022, now a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded e.l.f. Beauty.
rhode is now owned by e.l.f. Beauty, one of the few large U.S. public companies still loudly promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. e.l.f. ran the 2024 "So Many D****" and Change the Board Game corporate board-diversity campaign and reaffirmed those commitments through 2025 and 2026 as many big companies scaled back.
View Full Profile →Nature Nate's Honey
Nature Nate's, sold as Nate's Honey, is a McKinney, Texas based brand of 100 percent pure, raw, and unfiltered honey, now owned by Sweet Harvest Foods.
The brand carries an explicitly Christian identity built by its founder, including a Bible verse on every bottle, presenting sponsorship of the 2017 GMA Dove Awards, and a 2019 Best Christian Workplaces certification. The verse is still on the label, though the company has foregrounded that identity less since its 2022 sale.
View Full Profile →Vonage
Vonage is a cloud communications company owned by Sweden's Ericsson, selling internet-based phone service to households and a developer platform for calls, messaging and video to businesses.
The corporate political money now behind Vonage is its parent's: the Ericsson Inc. U.S. Employees PAC gave federal candidates $66,000 split exactly 50.00 percent Democratic and 50.00 percent Republican in the 2020 cycle, $117,500 at 50.64 percent Democratic in 2022, and $86,500 at 45.09 percent Democratic to 54.91 percent Republican in 2024, with its two largest 2022 checks going in equal $5,000 amounts to the Democratic and Republican leaders of House Energy and Commerce.
View Full Profile →St. Jude Children's
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a Memphis, Tennessee pediatric treatment and research institution founded in 1962 by entertainer Danny Thomas. Families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing, or food. Its fundraising arm, ALSAC, is one of the largest health charities in the United States.
Neither St. Jude nor its fundraising arm, ALSAC, operates a political action committee or gives to candidates or parties. The only documented federal advocacy is issue lobbying for pediatric research and children's hospital funding, a cause with deep support in both parties.
View Full Profile →UNICEF
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is the UN agency created in 1946 that provides health, nutrition, education, and emergency aid to children in more than 190 countries, funded entirely by voluntary contributions. Americans give through UNICEF USA, a separate New York based 501(c)(3) charity.
As a 501(c)(3) charity, UNICEF USA runs no political action committee and reports no contributions to federal candidates or parties; its documented political footprint is issue lobbying rather than partisan giving.
View Full Profile →Folds of Honor
Folds of Honor is an Owasso, Oklahoma based 501(c)(3) charity founded in 2007 by fighter pilot and PGA professional Lt. Col. Dan Rooney. It provides educational scholarships to the spouses and children of fallen or disabled military service members and, since 2022, first responders.
Folds of Honor engages in political activity, but of a nonpartisan, mission-funding kind: its 2024 IRS filing reports $115,000 in direct lobbying of federal and state legislators to fund scholarships for military and first responder families, alongside no PAC, no candidate contributions, and no political campaign activity.
View Full Profile →Powell's Books
Family-owned Portland, Oregon bookseller, the largest independent new and used bookstore company in the world, best known for its City of Books flagship covering a full downtown block.
Powell's has litigated free-expression cases in its own name for two decades: it was a named respondent alongside the ACLU in Ashcroft v. ACLU challenging the federal Child Online Protection Act (1998 to 2004), and in Powell's Books v. Kroger (9th Cir. 2010) it won a ruling striking down two Oregon statutes on furnishing sexual material to minors as overbroad.
View Full Profile →Books-A-Million
The second-largest bookstore chain in the United States, roughly 260 stores in 32 states, family-owned out of Birmingham, Alabama since a 2015 go-private buyout by the founding Anderson family.
Books-A-Million operates no corporate PAC, reports zero federal lobbying, and has made no foregrounded corporate political statements, leaving little company-level partisan signal in either direction.
View Full Profile →Barnes & Noble
The largest retail bookseller in the United States, with roughly 600 stores in all 50 states, owned since 2019 by the investment firm Elliott and led by British bookseller James Daunt.
Barnes & Noble has taken affirmative pro-book-access positions, joining a 2023 federal amicus brief opposing Texas's HB 900 book-restriction law and publicly defending the sale of challenged titles.
View Full Profile →GLO (God's Love Overcomes)
GLO (God's Love Overcomes) is a Christian apparel brand and sister label of Love in Faith, a family business based in Anaheim, California.
The brand's entire public identity is built on overt Christian faith, with products centered on Bible verses, the Gospel, and Scripture.
View Full Profile →SimpliSafe
SimpliSafe is a Boston-based, privately held home security company founded in 2006 by Chad and Eleanor Laurans, known for no-contract DIY alarm systems, optional 24/7 professional monitoring, and AI-assisted camera monitoring with live agents. It was acquired by private equity firm GTCR in November 2025.
In February 2018, SimpliSafe ended its NRA member discount within days of the post-Parkland #BoycottNRA campaign, after first defending the relationship.
View Full Profile →Vivint Smart Home
Vivint Smart Home is a Provo, Utah based provider of home security and smart home products and monitoring, serving about two million customers. Founded in 1999 as APX Alarm Security Solutions, it became publicly traded in 2020 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Houston energy company NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG), which acquired it in 2023.
NRG's employee funded corporate PAC gave $101,000 to federal candidates in the 2023 to 2024 cycle and split it about two thirds to Republicans, after leaning Democratic in the 2020 and 2022 cycles.
View Full Profile →Ajax Systems
Ajax Systems is a privately held Ukrainian manufacturer of wireless home and business security systems, founded in 2011 in Kyiv by Aleksandr Konotopskyi. Widely described as the largest security systems maker in Europe, it sells its alarms, sensors, and cameras in roughly 130 countries and has been expanding into the United States.
Ajax co-developed Ukraine's national Air Alert air-raid warning app with the government's Ministry of Digital Transformation, then built military fundraising into it, so the app solicits donations, routed through the state UNITED24 platform, to buy reconnaissance drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
View Full Profile →ADT Inc.
ADTADT Inc. is a Boca Raton, Florida provider of home and small business security, alarm monitoring, and smart home services whose brand dates to 1874. Now publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (ADT), the company is controlled by Apollo Global Management and counts State Farm and Google among its major owners.
ADT's federal political activity is minimal and non-partisan: a small, employee funded PAC that reports no independent expenditures, no party committee contributions, and no super PAC spending, with its most consistent giving ($5,000 almost every year from 2017 through 2023) flowing to its own industry's trade PAC rather than to either party.
View Full Profile →State Farm
The Bloomington, Illinois insurer founded in 1922, a policyholder owned mutual that is the largest home insurer in the United States and long its largest auto insurer, known for its large agent network and its good neighbor advertising.
State Farm's federal political money, through its corporate PAC and aggregated employee giving, has leaned Republican for decades, though the Republican share has narrowed from about 88 percent in 2000 to roughly 59 percent in the 2024 cycle.
View Full Profile →Progressive
PGRThe Mayfield Village, Ohio auto insurer founded in 1937, now one of the largest car insurance companies in the United States, known for its Flo advertising and for selling both directly and through independent agents.
Individual federal donations from people who list Progressive as their employer have leaned heavily Democratic in recent cycles, roughly 82 to 88 percent, though this reflects employee choices rather than company funds.
View Full Profile →Liberty Mutual
The Boston based property and casualty insurance giant, founded in 1912, that sells auto, home, and commercial coverage under the Liberty Mutual and Safeco brands.
Liberty Mutual actively publicizes its diversity and LGBTQ workplace commitments, earning a perfect Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index score for eight consecutive evaluations and offering benefits that include gender-affirming care.
View Full Profile →Dell
DELLThe Round Rock, Texas technology giant, founded and controlled by chairman and CEO Michael Dell, that makes personal computers, servers, and data storage for consumers, businesses, and governments.
Dell makes no corporate political contributions and gives federally only through an employee-funded PAC, whose 2024 candidate donations leaned slightly to Democrats, about 54 percent, and whose employees' aggregated giving made Kamala Harris the top recipient ahead of Donald Trump, with no outside election spending reported.
View Full Profile →EveryLife
A premium direct to consumer diaper and wipes brand launched in 2023 by the conservative marketplace PublicSquare, marketed to pro-life and faith focused families, and as of 2026 under agreement to be sold to FreeHold Brands.
EveryLife is built and marketed as an explicitly pro-life brand, calling itself the first and only pro-life diaper company and directing its Buy For A Cause donations to pro-life organizations and pregnancy resource centers.
View Full Profile →Kingdom Come Home
A small Youngstown, Ohio direct to consumer brand (a division of Claiming Crowns LLC) selling clean, toxin free skincare, beauty, and wellness products, built around an explicitly Christian, scripture centered identity and a First Fruits giving practice.
The company builds its brand around an explicitly Christian identity, describing itself in its own materials as biblically inspired, framing wellness as worship, and calling its products co-created with the Holy Spirit.
View Full Profile →Patriot Mobile
Patriot Mobile is a Texas-based wireless provider that markets itself as America's only Christian conservative phone carrier and directs a portion of its revenue to conservative political and faith-based causes.
Markets itself as America's only Christian conservative wireless provider and directs a portion of revenue to conservative and Christian causes built around its Four Pillars.
View Full Profile →Rolex
The privately held Swiss luxury watchmaker, owned by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation and based in Geneva, known for its Oyster, Submariner, and Datejust watches.
Rolex engaged directly with the Trump administration over trade policy in 2025. After a 39 percent US tariff hit Swiss watches, Rolex invited President Trump to its box at the US Open, its chief executive joined a Swiss business delegation that met him in the Oval Office, and the company presented him with a Rolex desk clock; the tariff was later cut. Rolex framed the outreach as sport and sponsorship and said it never negotiated with the US government, and the episode was single-issue and transactional rather than partisan.
View Full Profile →TAG Heuer
The Swiss luxury watchmaker, founded in 1860 and owned since 1999 by the French conglomerate LVMH, known for its Carrera, Monaco, and Formula 1 chronographs.
In its own marketing TAG Heuer foregrounds gender-equality and inclusion. In 2025 it became official partner and first official timekeeper of the all-female F1 Academy series, running a car whose slogan declared it is no longer a man's world and framing the tie-up as an expression of its egalitarian spirit and openness to all. This is the brand's own public values messaging rather than a partisan endorsement.
View Full Profile →Breitling
The Swiss luxury watchmaker, founded in 1884 and known for aviation chronographs like the Navitimer, now owned by the private equity firm Partners Group.
Breitling engaged directly on US trade policy in 2025, retaining the Washington firm Ballard Partners for tariff work and, through CEO Georges Kern, publicly opposing the Trump administration's 39 percent tariff on Swiss goods. The engagement was framed around export and business interests rather than any partisan alignment, and the firm it hired is closely tied to the Trump administration.
View Full Profile →Ariat
Ariat International is a privately held, female-founded American maker of western, English riding, and work footwear and apparel, based in San Leandro, California.
Political donations by people who list Ariat as their employer, including founder and longtime CEO Beth Cross, run almost entirely to Democrats, among them Clinton, Kerry, Biden and Harris, with a single $50 gift to a Tennessee Republican the lone exception.
View Full Profile →IKEA
IKEA is the Swedish-founded global home furnishings brand. Its U.S. stores are operated by Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee, under a foundation ownership structure with no shareholders.
IKEA's U.S. arm has taken consistent, documented public positions on climate, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, voting rights and racial justice, including backing the Paris Agreement, the Equality Act, DACA protections, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and a $3 million racial-justice commitment.
View Full Profile →Chili's
EATChili's Grill & Bar is a casual-dining chain and the flagship brand of Dallas-based Brinker International (NYSE: EAT), which also operates Maggiano's Little Italy.
Brinker keeps a minimal federal political footprint for its size: a small employee-funded PAC, no corporate or party committee money, and no federal lobbying reported in 2023 or 2024.
View Full Profile →Crumbl Cookies
Crumbl is a privately held, founder-controlled cookie and dessert franchise based in Lindon, Utah, known for weekly rotating flavors and pink boxes.
No corporate PAC, no federal lobbying registration, and no federal contributions by founders Jason McGowan or Sawyer Hemsley surfaced in the campaign-finance records reviewed.
View Full Profile →Pei Wei
Pei Wei Asian Kitchen is a privately held fast-casual pan-Asian chain based in Irving, Texas, owned by restaurateur Lorne Goldberg's investment firm West Coast Capital.
No corporate PAC, no federal lobbying registration under the names searched, and no significant federal contributions by owner Lorne Goldberg surfaced in the campaign-finance records reviewed.
View Full Profile →7 Brew
7 Brew is a privately held, drive-thru-only coffee and beverage chain founded in Rogers, Arkansas in 2017 and now operating around 800 stands across 38 states under parent company Brew Culture LLC, with Blackstone holding a minority stake since 2024.
No corporate PAC, registered federal lobbying, or significant political contributions surfaced for 7 Brew, its parent Brew Culture LLC, or founder Ron Crume in the federal campaign-finance and lobbying records reviewed.
View Full Profile →Old Navy
GAPOld Navy is the value-priced family apparel brand of San Francisco-based Gap Inc. (NYSE: GAP), which also owns Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. Launched in 1994, it is Gap Inc.'s largest brand, selling affordable basics through more than 1,200 stores and online.
Old Navy is a brand of publicly traded Gap Inc., so its political record is really the parent company's, shared with Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. That record splits into two very different stories: the founding family's personal politics and the company's own money and positions.
View Full Profile →Huggies
KMBHuggies is the diaper and baby care brand of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Dallas, Texas consumer products company with $16.4 billion in 2025 net sales whose brands also include Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Kotex and Depend.
Kimberly-Clark, the parent behind Huggies, runs no corporate PAC and states in its own disclosure that it spends no corporate money on candidates, political parties, or political committees, and it reported $0 on ballot initiatives in 2024.
View Full Profile →Ralph Lauren
RLRalph Lauren is the New York-based luxury fashion company (NYSE: RL) founded by designer Ralph Lauren in 1967, known for its Polo Ralph Lauren and Ralph Lauren Collection lines and its all-American style. It sells apparel, accessories, fragrances, and home goods worldwide, and remains under the founder's voting control.
Campaign contributions from individuals who list Ralph Lauren Corporation as their employer, a group that includes the founder, have gone overwhelmingly to Democrats: about 95 percent in the 2024 cycle and more than 80 percent in most cycles on record.
View Full Profile →Salesforce
CRMSalesforce is a San Francisco based enterprise software company and the world's largest customer relationship management (CRM) platform, providing cloud based sales, service, marketing, and AI tools to businesses.
Federal contributions tied to Salesforce and its employees have run overwhelmingly to Democrats for more than a decade, about 92.9 percent of the two-party money in the 2024 cycle and 95.4 percent in 2020, almost entirely from individual employees rather than a corporate PAC.
View Full Profile →Zoho
Zoho is a privately held, family-owned software company headquartered in Chennai, India, with its U.S. base in Austin, Texas. It sells a large suite of cloud-based business applications, including CRM, email, and office tools, to companies worldwide, and is known for a strict no-advertising privacy stance.
Zoho leaves almost no trace in U.S. political money: RedRightBuyer found no corporate PAC, no OpenSecrets organizational profile, and no federal lobbying registration, unusual for a company that sells across the United States.
View Full Profile →Levi Strauss & Co.
LEVILevi Strauss & Co. is the San Francisco-based apparel maker behind the Levi's denim brand, founded in 1853 and publicly traded (NYSE: LEVI) while still controlled by the founding Haas family. It sells jeans and clothing worldwide through its own stores, retailers, and online, and its brands include Levi's, Levi Strauss Signature, and Beyond Yoga.
In its own corporate voice, Levi Strauss has taken sustained, high-profile progressive stands across guns, abortion, LGBTQ rights, climate, immigration and voting, making it one of the most consistently outspoken large consumer brands on left-coded social issues.
View Full Profile →Holiday Inn
IHGHoliday Inn is a hotel brand of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, a British company headquartered in Windsor, England that operates more than 6,900 hotels and over one million rooms across 21 brands in more than 100 countries.
In its own voice, IHG has been publicly forward on workforce values, issuing a 2024 press release celebrating Human Rights Campaign recognition and detailing benefits for same-sex and opposite-sex partners, surrogacy and adoption, under a diversity strategy tied to its Journey to Tomorrow plan.
View Full Profile →GameStop
GMEGameStop Corp. is a Grapevine, Texas retailer of video games, consoles, trading cards and pop culture collectibles, operating 2,206 stores worldwide and trading on the New York Stock Exchange as GME.
Executive Chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen, the company's largest shareholder and public face, uses his personal account for right-coded politics, including a July 2024 Trump endorsement, a post repeating the word TRUMP 665 times, and a February 2025 jab at wokeness and DEI tied to selling the Canadian and French operations.
View Full Profile →Denny's
Denny's is a Spartanburg, South Carolina diner chain with roughly 1,500 mostly franchised restaurants, taken private in January 2026 by a group led by TriArtisan Capital Advisors and one of its own largest franchisees.
Denny's foregrounds a diversity and civil-rights identity under its own name, committing $3.3 million in 2024 to partners including the NAACP, the National Urban League and the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce and running long-standing DEI programs and supplier-diversity targets.
View Full Profile →Uline
Uline is a privately held North American distributor of shipping, packaging and industrial supplies, founded in 1980 and owned by the Uihlein family.
Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, who own and run the company, are among the largest Republican and conservative donors in the country, giving more than $250 million to federal candidates and groups since 2016, better than 99 percent of it to Republicans.
View Full Profile →Church's Chicken
Church''s Chicken, now branded Church''s Texas Chicken, is a privately held Atlanta-based fried chicken franchisor with more than 1,500 restaurants in 25 countries and over $1.6 billion in 2025 system sales.
Its chief legal officer chaired the board of the National Council of Chain Restaurants in 2018 and had won that group's award for encouraging franchisees and executives to become more politically involved, and the company has held International Franchise Association membership since 1988.
View Full Profile →Blue Bell Ice Cream
Blue Bell Creameries is a privately held Brenham, Texas ice cream maker, family-run since 1919, selling in 23 states from three plants in Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama.
Blue Bell's most visible federal engagement is the July 14, 2025 industry pledge to strip certified artificial colors from ice cream, announced at USDA headquarters alongside Secretary Brooke Rollins, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, with Rollins crediting participating companies with advancing the president's Make America Healthy Again agenda; Blue Bell confirmed its participation a week later.
View Full Profile →Coca-Cola
KOThe Coca-Cola Company is the Atlanta beverage company behind Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Dasani, Powerade, Minute Maid, fairlife and Costa, selling in more than 200 countries with $47.9 billion in 2025 revenue.
The company has twice intervened publicly in Georgia state politics, opposing the 2016 religious liberty bill and calling the 2021 voting law unacceptable on CNBC, and it suspended all political giving in the week after January 6, 2021.
View Full Profile →PepsiCo
PEPPepsiCo is the Purchase, New York food and beverage company behind Pepsi, Lay''s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Mountain Dew and Quaker, with $93.9 billion in 2025 net revenue.
PepsiCo's own PAC split its 2024 candidate money almost evenly, $65,887 to Democrats and $68,000 to Republicans, and as a federal contractor the company is barred from the independent expenditure spending most large corporations use.
View Full Profile →Bank of America
BACThe Charlotte based banking giant serving more than 70 million clients, parent of Merrill and the second largest US bank by assets.
Bank of America's aggregate federal giving is close to even and has drifted to the center over time, splitting about 50.3 percent to Democrats and 49.7 percent to Republicans in 2024 after leaning Republican a decade earlier.
View Full Profile →Zillow
ZGZillow is the most visited real estate marketplace in the United States, a Seattle based technology company publicly traded on the Nasdaq as Z and ZG, known for its Zestimate home value tool, Premier Agent advertising, Zillow Home Loans, and rentals.
Campaign contributions tied to Zillow's name run heavily to Democrats: about 88 percent of roughly $524,000 in the 2024 cycle, with even steeper shares in earlier cycles.
View Full Profile →Conservative Move
Conservative Move is a McKinney, Texas real estate referral network, founded in 2017 by former Republican congressional candidate Paul Chabot, that connects clients with partner agents to help them relocate from what it calls blue states to red states.
Conservative Move's core product is partisan relocation, built entirely around helping conservatives leave states it calls blue and resettle in red ones.
View Full Profile →Keller Williams
Keller Williams is a privately held real estate franchise founded in Austin in 1983, the largest in the United States by agent count, with roughly 1,000 offices and about 165,000 agents worldwide.
Keller Williams is unusual in publicly disavowing political activity: it runs no corporate PAC, reported no federal lobbying in 2024, and in a March 2025 statement said it does not donate to campaigns, specifically denying a rumor that it had funded Project 2025.
View Full Profile →RE/MAX
RMAXRE/MAX is one of the world's largest real estate franchisors, headquartered in Denver and publicly traded on the NYSE as RMAX, with more than 140,000 agents working out of independently owned offices across over 110 countries.
The federal contributions tied to the RE/MAX name, about $1.72 million in 2024 and entirely from individual agents and staff, have favored Republicans in every cycle on record, narrowing from roughly 65 percent Republican in 2016 to a near even 53 percent in 2024.
View Full Profile →IHOP
DINThe International House of Pancakes, the family dining breakfast chain owned by Applebee's parent Dine Brands Global.
In the 2024 election cycle, individuals reporting Dine Brands as their employer sent about 75 percent of their federal candidate donations to Democrats, led by Kamala Harris.
View Full Profile →Mercedes-Benz
MBGMercedes-Benz is the German luxury vehicle brand of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, known for its cars, SUVs, and vans, with major US manufacturing in Vance, Alabama.
Federal campaign giving tied to Mercedes-Benz USA is small and nearly evenly split, about 48.7 percent to Democrats and 50.2 percent to Republicans across all cycles since 1990, and comes overwhelmingly from individual employees rather than a corporate PAC.
View Full Profile →Lyft
LYFTThe San Francisco based rideshare company, second largest in the United States, publicly traded on the Nasdaq as LYFT.
Federal political giving leans strongly Democratic. OpenSecrets recorded $361,236 in Lyft-associated contributions in the 2024 cycle, 92.65 percent to Democrats, and a Democratic majority in every cycle back to 2014. The corporate PAC gave all of its 2024 candidate money to Democrats.
View Full Profile →Anheuser-Busch
BUDThe St. Louis brewer of Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra, operating as the US arm of Belgium based Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Federal campaign giving connected to Anheuser-Busch, which OpenSecrets aggregates from the corporate PAC, employee and owner donations of $200 or more, soft money to parties, and affiliates including Busch Properties and Craft Brew Alliance, totaled $1,221,409 in the 2024 cycle and ran 63 percent Republican to 37 percent Democratic among dollars attributed to a party. The two preceding cycles ran the other way, 57 percent Democratic in 2020 and 55 percent in 2022, and the 2014, 2016 and 2018 cycles each leaned Republican. The largest 2024 recipients were GOPAC at $265,000, all of it from PACs, and the Republican National Committee at $238,665, all of it from individual donors.
View Full Profile →World Poker Tour
The televised poker tournament brand founded in 2002, now privately owned and running live tours plus the ClubWPT online poker platforms.
RedRightBuyer found no federal corporate PAC and no federal lobbying registration for either the World Poker Tour or its owner, Element Partners.
View Full Profile →Rapid Radios
Michigan-based maker of LTE push-to-talk walkie-talkies marketed nationwide with the first year of service included in the purchase price.
No federal PAC, no federal lobbying, and no political contributions from Rapid Consulting LLC or its two named executives surfaced in FEC, OpenSecrets, and Michigan state records reviewed for this report.
View Full Profile →Wingstop
WINGThe Dallas based chicken wing chain with more than 3,000 franchised restaurants worldwide, publicly traded as WING.
Wingstop's own Flavor for Good platform names diversity and inclusion as a stated pillar and publicizes Pride Month and multiple heritage months, and its 2026 proxy added greenhouse gas, animal welfare, and waste-reduction disclosures.
View Full Profile →Google is the search, advertising, and technology business that generates most of the revenue of its parent company, Alphabet, with products including Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, and Google Cloud.
Google's political money runs in two directions at once. Its corporate PAC, NetPAC, split its 2024 federal candidate giving nearly evenly, $372,000 to Republicans and $357,566 to Democrats. Alphabet-affiliated donors, mostly employees giving as individuals, sent 89.66 percent of their two-party dollars to Democrats in the same cycle, a tilt that has held between 73 and 94 percent every cycle since 2016.
View Full Profile →Cracker Barrel
CBRLA Lebanon, Tennessee restaurant and country store chain, founded in 1969 and long identified with its Old Timer logo.
After conservative backlash and a direct call from President Trump, the company reversed its 2025 logo redesign within a week, then pulled Pride and diversity content from its public materials, halted store remodels, and in 2026 replaced the CEO who led the change.
View Full Profile →Just the News
Just the News is a digital news outlet launched in 2020 by investigative journalist John Solomon and owned by his company, Bentley Media Group LLC.
The site is owned by founder John Solomon's Bentley Media Group, whose largest grant on record came from the Informing America Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that distributed more than $8 million to conservative and right-leaning media in 2022.
View Full Profile →Peloton
PTONPeloton Interactive is a connected-fitness company that sells stationary bikes, treadmills, and a rowing machine paired with a subscription platform of live and on-demand workout classes.
Individual donors associated with Peloton have given overwhelmingly to Democrats across five election cycles, from 100 percent in 2016 and 99.73 percent in 2020 to 82.32 percent in 2024, with the Republican share rising in each of the last two cycles.
View Full Profile →Target
TGTTarget Corporation is a Minneapolis-based general-merchandise retailer operating roughly two thousand large-format discount stores across the United States.
In January 2025 Target made its first presidential inaugural donation in at least a decade, giving 1 million dollars to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, days before it announced its retreat from DEI.
View Full Profile →The Walt Disney Company
DISGlobal entertainment conglomerate spanning theme parks, ABC, ESPN, Disney+, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, with a politically prominent four-year arc covering the Florida "Don't Say Gay" fight, the ABC-Trump defamation settlement, the rollback of its DEI programs, and the September 2025 Jimmy Kimmel suspension under FCC pressure.
In the 2024 election cycle, OpenSecrets recorded the Walt Disney Co corporate PAC giving roughly 89.74 percent of its candidate contributions to Democrats and 10.26 percent to Republicans, with broader Disney-affiliated giving running about 85.48 percent Democratic, even as Disney's own corporate disclosure describes the PAC as evenly split.
View Full Profile →Professional Fighters League
The Professional Fighters League, or PFL, is an American mixed martial arts organization known for its season and tournament format and its $1 million weight-class prizes. Founded in 2017 and widely regarded as the second-largest MMA promotion after the UFC, it acquired Bellator in 2023 and counts Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund among its minority investors.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, through its SRJ Sports Investments arm, holds a minority equity stake and a board seat in PFL. The partnership also created the PFL MENA regional league and a slate of pay-per-view events staged in Saudi Arabia.
View Full Profile →UFC
TKOThe UFC is the world's largest mixed martial arts promotion, owned by publicly traded TKO Group Holdings and led by longtime president and chief executive Dana White.
The UFC made an unusually overt corporate political choice, spending an estimated 60 million dollars to stage UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn for the president's birthday and the nation's 250th anniversary.
View Full Profile →Roblox
RBLXRoblox Corporation operates an online platform where users create, share, and play user-generated games and experiences, with a large audience of children and teenagers.
Aggregate employee and individual federal contributions tied to Roblox skew heavily to Democratic recipients (about 98 percent of party-coded giving in 2024), and the company operates no corporate PAC.
View Full Profile →Guinness
DEOGuinness is an Irish dry stout first brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin in 1759 and now brewed and marketed worldwide by the London-based drinks company Diageo.
Guinness is not an independent Irish company. It has been owned since 1997 by Diageo plc, a London-listed British multinational, so its finances, disclosures, and political activity all run through the parent.
View Full Profile →Adidas
ADDYYAdidas is the world's second-largest sportswear company, founded in Herzogenaurach, Germany in 1949 and known for its three-stripes footwear, apparel, and high-profile athlete and celebrity collaborations.
Federal political giving tied to Adidas and its people has tilted Democratic in every cycle from 2016 through 2024, reaching 97.76 percent to Democrats in 2024 and peaking at $78,779 in the 2020 cycle at roughly 93 percent Democratic, with 2024 recipients led by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party committees. The overall dollar footprint is very light and driven largely by employee rather than corporate treasury money, but the direction is consistent and one sided (OpenSecrets, ID D000042006).
View Full Profile →Reebok
Reebok is an American sportswear brand with roots dating to 1895, headquartered in Boston and owned since 2022 by Authentic Brands Group, known for classic sneakers, fitness gear, and its basketball heritage.
Reebok's most sustained public-affairs identity is progressive-coded: the Reebok Human Rights Award program dates to 1988, and the brand revived it in 2022 alongside a Human Rights Now! product platform and a $600,000 donation to RISE, a social justice nonprofit, with partners including the ACLU and Sports Illustrated.
View Full Profile →Buffalo Wild Wings
Buffalo Wild Wings is a national sports bar and chicken wing chain founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1982, now owned by Inspire Brands, the Atlanta based restaurant group backed by private equity firm Roark Capital.
Corporate PAC giving leaned Republican but moderated: 86.8 percent to Republicans in 2013-14, 52.7 percent by 2021-22.
View Full Profile →World Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker is the world's largest and longest running poker tournament series, held annually in Las Vegas since 1970 and owned by NSUS Group, the privately held parent company of GGPoker.
No public record shows the WSOP or its private, foreign owner NSUS Group making US political contributions, and no corporate PAC operates under the WSOP or NSUS name in public reporting. NSUS is a privately held Toronto company barred, as a foreign entity, from US campaign giving, so the brand has essentially no documented partisan financial footprint in either direction (Caesars sale release; no WSOP or NSUS committee surfaced in OpenSecrets or FEC during this research).
View Full Profile →Pampers
PGThe market-leading diaper and baby-care brand owned by consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble, whose corporate politics run through one of the most prominent advocates of LGBTQ-inclusive advertising in American business.
Pampers' parent, Procter & Gamble, directs its political giving modestly toward Democrats: the corporate PAC's 2024 candidate donations split about 57 percent Democratic, and the organization's overall federal contributions of roughly $599,595 split about 62 percent Democratic.
View Full Profile →Panera Bread
Panera Bread is a fast-casual bakery-cafe chain known for soups, sandwiches, salads, and fresh bread, with more than 2,000 locations across the United States and Canada. It is privately owned by European investment group JAB Holding Company through its Panera Brands platform.
Panera founder Ron Shaich has a long, documented record of personal giving to Democratic candidates and committees, including the Obama Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee, and is a public advocate of "conscious capitalism."
View Full Profile →Wendy's
WENWendy's is the third-largest hamburger fast-food chain in the United States, founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1969 and known for its square patties, fresh-never-frozen beef, and the Frosty.
Wendy's corporate PAC has favored Republican candidates in every recent cycle, giving about 64 percent of its 2023-2024 federal candidate money to Republicans and 31 percent to Democrats, after wider Republican margins of roughly 66 percent in 2022, 72 percent in 2020, and 81 percent in 2018.
View Full Profile →Hilton
HLTHilton is one of the world's largest hospitality companies, operating more than 8,000 properties across two dozen brands in over 140 countries from its McLean, Virginia headquarters.
Hilton's corporate PAC splits its federal candidate money almost evenly, giving $27,000 (about 53 percent) to Democrats and $24,000 (about 47 percent) to Republicans in the 2023-2024 cycle, with a Democratic tilt in the House and a Republican tilt in the Senate.
View Full Profile →Airbnb
ABNBAirbnb is a San Francisco-based online marketplace for short-term home rentals and experiences, connecting more than five million hosts with travelers in nearly every country in the world.
Airbnb's own political activity tilts modestly left of the corporate average: its small federal PAC gave 60 percent of its 2023-2024 candidate dollars to Democrats, and after January 6 it pledged to withhold PAC support from members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election, one of the more aggressive corporate responses at the time.
View Full Profile →Kohl's
KSSThe Wisconsin-based department store chain that publicly declares itself not a political organization, yet became a conservative boycott target in 2023 over its Pride merchandise collection.
Kohl's maintains a documented corporate-neutrality posture: its Political Activity Policy and Fiscal 2025 report state it runs no corporate PAC and makes no company contributions to candidates, parties, ballot measures, 527s, 501(c)(4)s, or convention host committees, and it declined to sponsor either the RNC or DNC in its hometown of Milwaukee.
View Full Profile →Chick-fil-A
The privately held, family-run fast food chain known for chicken sandwiches, closing every Sunday, and a Christian corporate identity that has made it a recurring flashpoint in American culture-war politics.
The founding Cathy family and the company's foundation have a long, documented record of conservative Christian giving, including earlier WinShape and foundation grants to groups that opposed same-sex marriage, and chairman Dan Cathy's personal donations to the National Christian Charitable Foundation.
View Full Profile →Nike
NKENike is the world's largest athletic footwear and apparel company, known both for its dominance in sportswear and for high-profile marketing campaigns that have waded into social and political debates.
Nike's company-sponsored PAC gave about 76% of its 2024 federal candidate money to Democrats, a roughly three-to-one Democratic tilt.
View Full Profile →Arvest Bank
Arvest Bank is a Walton-family-owned community bank based in Bentonville, Arkansas, with branches across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.
The Arvest Bank Group corporate PAC gave 100 percent of its federal candidate money to Republicans in both the 2024 cycle ($27,500) and the 2020 cycle ($37,500), with every recipient a Republican from the bank's four-state footprint.
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SPCXX, formerly Twitter, is the social platform owned by Elon Musk and now a subsidiary of his AI company xAI, known for a major content-moderation rollback and Musk's open political activism.
Owner Elon Musk personally spent roughly $290 million through his America PAC and allied committees to elect Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024, among the largest individual outlays of the cycle.
View Full Profile →TikTok
TikTok is a short-video app owned by China's ByteDance, the target of a bipartisan US ban law and a forced sale that transferred its US operations to an American-led joint venture in January 2026.
As a foreign-owned company, TikTok is barred from making US corporate political donations, so it has no PAC or candidate-giving record to read a partisan lean from.
View Full Profile →UPS
UPSUPS (United Parcel Service) is the largest US package-delivery company, heavily unionized under the Teamsters, with a large corporate PAC that gives across both parties.
UPS runs one of the country's larger corporate PACs and tilted its 2023-2024 candidate giving about 59 percent to Republicans, a more pronounced Republican lean than many large corporate PACs.
View Full Profile →Reddit is a public discussion platform of community-run forums, known for volunteer moderation, repeated user revolts over content and API policy, and major AI data-licensing deals.
Reddit maintains no major corporate PAC and minimal federal lobbying, leaving little direct partisan signal at the company level.
View Full Profile →Microsoft
MSFTMicrosoft is a global technology company behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox, known for a near-even corporate PAC and a deliberate posture of working with both political administrations.
Microsoft's corporate PAC splits nearly evenly with a slight Republican tilt (53.40 percent R, 45.16 percent D on $800,500 in 2024 candidate giving), while its far larger employee-driven contribution total of $14.67 million leaned Democratic, led by $2.54 million to Kamala Harris's campaign and $1.97 million to the DNC.
View Full Profile →FedEx
FDXFedEx is the global overnight-delivery pioneer founded by Fred Smith, with a corporate PAC that gives across both parties and a founder identity rooted in Marine Corps service.
FedEx's corporate PAC gave $706,000 to federal candidates in 2023-2024, splitting it 53.97% to Republicans and 45.40% to Democrats, with Senate giving leaning more Republican than its near-even House giving.
View Full Profile →Ford Motor Company
FDearborn, Michigan automaker founded in 1903, maker of the F-Series pickups, Mustang, Bronco, and a recalibrated EV lineup.
In August 2024, CEO Jim Farley announced Ford would scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, dropping the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and ending diversity hiring quotas, after public pressure from conservative activist Robby Starbuck.
View Full Profile →Chevrolet
GMLargest brand of General Motors, maker of the Silverado, Corvette, Tahoe, and a growing EV lineup; political signals trace to parent GM.
GM took a roughly $49.5 billion federal bailout in 2008 and 2009, then donated $1 million and vehicles to Donald Trump's 2025 inaugural fund, with CEO Mary Barra calling the company and the incoming administration "goal-aligned."
View Full Profile →SpaceX
SPCXPrivately held rocket and spacecraft maker founded by Elon Musk in 2002, builder of Falcon rockets, Dragon, Starship, and Starlink.
The SpaceX corporate PAC tilted Republican in 2023-2024, giving $671,500 (about 62 percent) to Republicans and $400,500 to Democrats, with the sharpest lean in Senate races.
View Full Profile →Spotify
SPOTSpotify is the world's largest music and podcast streaming service, founded in Stockholm in 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
Federal contributions tied to Spotify employees and affiliates skew heavily Democratic, with roughly 94% of candidate money going to Democrats in 2024 and Kamala Harris the top recipient.
View Full Profile →Nvidia
NVDANvidia is the Santa Clara semiconductor company whose GPUs became the core hardware of the AI boom; founded 1993, led since inception by Jensen Huang.
Nvidia operates no corporate PAC and has a written policy against making political contributions of any kind; its heavy Washington activity, including lobbying, the export-control fight, and the 15% China revenue-share deal, is driven by chip-market access rather than partisan allegiance.
View Full Profile →McDonald's
MCDMcDonald's is the world's largest fast food chain, a heavily franchised burger company headquartered in Chicago and known for the golden arches.
The employee-funded McDonald's PAC directed about 66 percent of its 2024 federal candidate contributions to Republicans.
View Full Profile →Best Buy
BBYBest Buy is the largest consumer electronics retailer in the United States, headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota, selling computers, phones, appliances, and Geek Squad tech support across roughly 1,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
Best Buy's employee funded PAC directed most of its 2024 candidate money to Republicans, giving $95,000 (about 57 percent) to Republican candidates and $67,000 (about 40 percent) to Democrats out of $165,500 total.
View Full Profile →Lowe's
LOWLowe's is the second largest U.S. home improvement retailer, with more than 1,700 stores, about 300,000 employees, and roughly $83.67 billion in fiscal 2024 sales. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, and publicly traded on the NYSE (LOW).
In the 2024 cycle Lowe's employee PAC (LOWPAC) gave more to Democrats than Republicans, $246,500 (about 53 percent) to Democratic federal candidates versus $204,500 (about 44 percent) to Republicans, a slight Democratic tilt close to the mirror image of rival Home Depot's Republican-leaning PAC.
View Full Profile →eBay
EBAYThe original online marketplace, where a small and access-driven political footprint sits alongside a founder famous for funding progressive causes and a string of contested corporate-conduct episodes.
eBay's own corporate political activity is small and access-oriented, with no consistent partisan program, which keeps the company near the center.
View Full Profile →Trader Joe's
Privately held specialty grocery chain owned by the Aldi Nord branch of the German Albrecht family; argued in early 2024 that the federal labor agency overseeing union elections is unconstitutional.
In a January 16, 2024 hearing before the National Labor Relations Board, Trader Joe's joined SpaceX, Amazon, and Starbucks in formally arguing that the NLRB itself is unconstitutional, a position widely associated with the conservative movement to roll back New Deal-era federal labor protections.
View Full Profile →Temu
PDDChinese-founded online marketplace owned by PDD Holdings, known for ultra-low prices, massive ad spending, and bipartisan scrutiny in Washington over its trade, labor, and data practices.
Temu takes no side in US politics: it has no corporate PAC, makes no federal campaign contributions, and as a foreign-owned company is barred by law from doing so, leaving no electoral lean to measure.
View Full Profile →Netflix
NFLXThe world's largest subscription streaming service, founded in 1997 and based in Los Gatos, California, with more than 325 million paid memberships worldwide.
Netflix's founder and top executives are major Democratic donors. Co-founder Reed Hastings gave $7 million to a pro-Harris super PAC in 2024 and, with his wife, more than $20 million to Democrats in recent years, while co-CEO Ted Sarandos has donated exclusively to Democrats and bundled for Barack Obama.
View Full Profile →Walmart Inc.
WMTThe world's largest retailer by revenue, a Bentonville, Arkansas based chain of supercenters, discount stores, and warehouse clubs, controlled by the founding Walton family.
Walmart's political money leans right. Its corporate PAC tilted Republican in the 2024 cycle (about 58 percent to 42 percent to party committees), and combined Walmart and Walton family spending leans further right once family donations and issue PACs are counted.
View Full Profile →The Home Depot
HDThe Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer, with a corporate PAC and a founder legacy that have long shaped its political reputation.
Co-founders Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone are both longtime major Republican donors, with Marcus giving roughly $64M in federal political contributions over the decades, including millions to pro-Trump super PACs.
View Full Profile →Amazon.com
Amazon.com is the largest U.S. online retailer and cloud-computing provider, with a corporate PAC and a high-profile founder whose political footprint pulls in more than one direction.
Amazon's political money points both ways: employees donate heavily to Democrats while the corporate PAC gave about $799K to candidates of both parties in the 2023-24 cycle.
View Full Profile →Apple
AAPLApple is the world's most valuable company and the maker of the iPhone, Mac, and a large services business. It has no corporate PAC, its employees donate overwhelmingly to Democrats, and CEO Tim Cook has built a working relationship with the Trump administration.
Apple employees and individuals gave about 95 percent of their 2024 federal candidate money to Democrats and 5 percent to Republicans, with no corporate PAC money involved at all (OpenSecrets).
View Full Profile →Starbucks
SBUXSeattle-based global coffeehouse chain, the world's largest specialty coffee roaster and retailer, with more than 40,000 stores worldwide.
Across multiple election cycles, individuals who list Starbucks as their employer have directed the large majority of their federal political donations to Democrats, by most analyses around 87 to 90 percent.
View Full Profile →MS NOW
VSNTAmerican cable news network owned by Versant Corporation. Founded in 1996 as MSNBC, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC News, the network rebranded as MS NOW in November 2025 and is anchored by Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Jen Psaki, and Lawrence O'Donnell.
Two of the most senior anchors at MS NOW are former senior Democratic administration officials. Jen Psaki, host of The Briefing Tuesday through Friday at 9 p.m., served as White House press secretary under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2022 and previously held senior communications roles in the Obama administration. Symone Sanders-Townsend, who co-hosts The Weeknight, served as chief spokesperson and senior advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris.
View Full Profile →Fox News
FOXAAmerican cable news network owned by Fox Corporation. Founded in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, Fox News has been the most-watched cable channel in the United States for nine consecutive years through 2024.
At least 19 former Fox News hosts, contributors, or staff have been appointed to senior posts in President Trump's second-term administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for D.C. NPR reported a similar pattern in the first Trump term, with roughly 20 Fox-affiliated appointees.
View Full Profile →HBO
Premium American television and streaming brand owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, known for prestige drama (The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Succession, The Last of Us), recurring documentary titles on contemporary political subjects, and weekly political programming anchored by John Oliver and Bill Maher; parent company WBD shareholders approved a sale to Paramount Skydance on April 23, 2026, valued at $81 billion in equity and approximately $110 billion in enterprise value, expected to close in Q3 2026 pending US and European regulatory review.
HBO's weekly political programming, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (since 2014) and Real Time with Bill Maher (since 2003), reliably operates from left of center; Maher complicates the picture as a liberal who regularly hosts conservatives, opposes progressives on issues like trans athletes in women's sports, and has been a vocal critic of "woke" politics within his own party since 2024, but the network has no comparably durable conservative-hosted weekly program.
View Full Profile →HubSpot
HUBSCambridge, Massachusetts-based marketing, sales, and customer service software company with a progressive corporate culture marked by eight consecutive years of public diversity reporting that has remained in place through 2025 while major tech peers retreated, a notably small federal political footprint, and a co-founder whose largest publicly disclosed political-coded transaction was a $1.9 million benefit purchase for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
HubSpot has published eight consecutive annual Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging reports through 2024, maintains a VP of Culture, DI&B, and ESG role, runs multiple employee resource groups including BlackHub and a Pride 5K, and has committed $20 million to social impact investing including capital deployed to Minority Depository Institutions. The company has not publicly rolled back any of this infrastructure during the 2025 corporate DEI retreat, when major peers including Amazon, Google, Meta, Target, McDonald's, Walmart, and Salesforce publicly scaled back their DEI programs.
View Full Profile →Newsweek
Privately held American news magazine and digital publication founded in 1933, currently rated near the political center across three independent media bias trackers (AllSides Center, Ad Fontes Middle, Media Bias/Fact Check Right-Center), with deliberate editorial positioning toward balanced perspectives under current CEO Dev Pragad, though ownership is currently subject to active litigation.
Three independent media bias rating organizations using different methodologies all rate Newsweek near the political center as of 2026: AllSides rates the publication "Center" (March 2026 Editorial Review), Ad Fontes Media rates it "Middle" with "Generally Reliable" reliability, and Media Bias/Fact Check rates it "Right-Center." The triangulation around center from three independent methodologies provides strong evidence of genuinely centrist editorial positioning.
View Full Profile →Aldi
Privately held German-owned discount grocery chain known for low prices, small store footprint, and rapid US expansion; quietly removed DEI language from its US websites in early 2025.
In late January 2025, Aldi US quietly removed all dedicated diversity, equity, and inclusion language and pages from its US careers and corporate websites without issuing any public statement, while keeping similar DEI pages live on its UK, Ireland, and Australia websites.
View Full Profile →Eli Lilly and Company
LLYIndiana-based pharmaceutical giant best known for diabetes treatments, the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Zepbound, and a high-profile November 2025 drug pricing deal with the Trump administration that the company's CEO now publicly opposes codifying into law.
In November 2025, Eli Lilly signed a high-profile "Most Favored Nation" drug pricing agreement with the Trump administration, agreeing to deep discounts on its GLP-1 obesity drugs alongside a broader policy package that included tariff relief on pharmaceutical imports and FDA "national priority" vouchers for specific drug applications.
View Full Profile →ExxonMobil
XOMLargest U.S. publicly traded oil and gas company and one of the most prominent corporate political actors in the energy sector.
ExxonMobil PAC contributions to federal candidates skewed approximately 73 percent Republican to 27 percent Democrat in the 2024 cycle, with the PAC's separate giving to other PACs and party committees historically running closer to 87 percent Republican.
View Full Profile →Costco Wholesale
COSTMembership-based warehouse club known for low margins, high employee wages, and a publicly defended commitment to corporate diversity and inclusion programs.
In January 2025 the Costco board of directors unanimously recommended that shareholders reject an anti-DEI proposal, publicly defended its diversity programs, and shareholders rejected the proposal by approximately 98 percent, breaking from peer retailers that had scaled back DEI under similar pressure.
View Full Profile →Uber
UBERGlobal ride-sharing and delivery platform headquartered in San Francisco, CA. One of the largest gig economy companies in the world.
Uber Technologies and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi contributed a combined $2 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration fund — Khosrowshahi's largest political donation ever.
View Full Profile →Kraft Heinz
KHCOne of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, producing iconic brands including Heinz, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, and Velveeta.
The Kraft Heinz PAC contributed to both Republican and Democratic candidates in the 2024 cycle, with no outside spending or super PAC activity — consistent with a bipartisan, business-first approach.
View Full Profile →Koch Industries
One of the largest private companies in America, with operations spanning energy, manufacturing, and finance. Founded by Fred Koch and led by Charles Koch.
Koch Industries and its affiliated PAC have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican candidates and conservative policy organizations over decades.
View Full Profile →Dr Pepper
KDPIconic American soft drink brand owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, with no meaningful political lean and bipartisan business practices.
No significant public political stance or corporate activism identified.
View Full Profile →Ben & Jerry's
Vermont-based ice cream brand with a decades-long history of progressive activism, DEI commitment, and social justice advocacy. One of the most politically outspoken consumer brands in the US.
Consistently advocates for progressive political causes including racial justice, climate change, and immigration reform.
View Full Profile →Hobby Lobby
Faith-driven arts and crafts retailer closed on Sundays, known for conservative values and defending religious liberty. Known for their frame shop.
Won landmark 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014) on religious-liberty grounds, exempting closely-held corporations from the ACA contraceptive mandate.
View Full Profile →Black Rifle Coffee Company
BRCCVeteran-founded coffee brand with a strong patriotic identity, supporting military, veterans, and first responders.
Veteran-founded brand with mission language centered on serving people who love America.
View Full Profile →Allegiance Flag Supply
100% American-made flag company founded in Charleston, SC in 2018. Every flag is hand-sewn by American workers using a fully domestic supply chain.
Brand identity is entirely built around American manufacturing, patriotism, and bringing textile jobs back to the United States.
View Full Profile →XX-XY Athletics
Athletic apparel brand founded by Jennifer Sey, explicitly built around protecting women's sports and spaces from male-bodied athletes. Brand identity, ambassadors, and public positioning are firmly in the conservative cultural movement.
Founder Jennifer Sey was personally invited to stand directly behind President Trump at the signing of the executive order banning trans athletes from women's sports, wearing an XX-XY shirt at the signing.
View Full Profile →MyPillow
Minnesota-based pillow and bedding manufacturer founded by Mike Lindell, whose personal political activism, election-integrity advocacy, and active Republican gubernatorial campaign have become inseparable from the brand identity.
Founder and CEO Mike Lindell has stated publicly that he spent at least $40 million of his own money to fund efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, with no comparable activity from any other RRB-rated bedding brand.
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