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Interest Groups

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An interest group is an organization that seeks to influence government policy around specific issues, without running candidates under its own label.

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Groups form around taxes, the environment, professions, gun policy — narrow nets, deliberately.

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Supporting candidates is common; fielding them under the group's label is what groups do not do.