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American Economic Liberties Project

U.S. progressive / left-populist

Owned byIndependent 501(c)(4) nonprofit; governed by a board of directors. No corporate owner. Founded by Sarah Miller (former Deputy Director of the Open Markets Institute and former U.S. Treasury official), who later moved to the board.
FundingFoundation grants and individual donations. Major funders include George Soros's Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Sandler Foundation, the ClimateWorks Foundation, and Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. The organization states it accepts no corporate funding.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

The American Economic Liberties Project was launched in February 2020 by Sarah Miller, who had previously served as Deputy Director of the Open Markets Institute and as a Department of the Treasury official. It was created to translate the intellectual momentum of the anti-monopoly movement into concrete policy advocacy. The organization is associated with the 'New Brandeis' school of antitrust thought, which argues that decades of narrow 'consumer welfare' antitrust standards allowed harmful concentrations of corporate power. Key figures include Matt Stoller, Director of Research, a longtime anti-monopoly writer and author of the book Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Miller stepped down as Executive Director in early 2023, transitioning to the board; Nidhi Hegde subsequently led the organization. Although AELP describes itself as nonpartisan, its leadership, funding base, and policy positions align closely with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. It occasionally finds common ground with right-populist critics of big business on antitrust grounds. During Trump's second term, AELP has been consistently critical, co-releasing a fact sheet titled 'The Cost of Corruption' alleging that the administration's self-dealing raises costs for ordinary Americans, and hosting a March 2026 event titled 'Bending the Knee: How the Legal Establishment and Corporate America Embraced Corruption in the Trump Era.'

Sources

  1. American Economic Liberties Project – Wikipedia
  2. About Us – American Economic Liberties Project
  3. American Economic Liberties Project – InfluenceWatch
  4. Anti-Monopoly Branding, Big-Foundation Backing – Pinpoint Policy Institute
  5. AELP Press Release: The Cost of Corruption
  6. American Economic Liberties Project – ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
  7. American Economic Liberties Project – Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Profile compiled 2026-07-14; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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