A month ago the Progressive Change Institute (PCCCs C3 sister organization) launched theBig Ideas Project at ThinkBig.US-- a crowd-sourced platform allowing the public to submit and vote on big ideas they believe progressives should champion in 2015 and 2016.
And in that month, the crowd definitely responded.
Over 800,000 votes have been cast on over 2,000 user-submitted ideas, including over 30 from policy experts fromAFL-CIO,Demos,ROC United,Lawrence Lessig, former SenatorsByron DorganandTed Kaufman, plus many more.
The top 20 ideas that rise to the top will be seriously considered by over 30 members of Congress, including Senators Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Jon Tester and Representatives Raul Grijalva, Keith Ellison, Alan Grayson, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Ruben Gallego, and more.
The PCCC will even be polling ideas pulled from the project in battleground states.
Posted on January 10, 2015 by Marissa Barrow
The PCCC enter the new Congress with more partners than ever. Bold progressives won early primaries against corporate Democrats -- electing Senator Brian Schatz in Hawaii, and Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman in New Jersey, Ruben Gallego in Arizona, and Ted Lieu and Mike Honda in California. These bright-blue districts will be represented by real progressives! And PCCC members helped elect great progressives to the Senate and House in November. (Read the full 2014 Elections Report.)
Thousands of national volunteers signed up to Call Out The Vote (COTV). Together, they made over 4 million phone calls to voters in key races. The PCCC was the only national call program of this scale that worked directly with campaigns -- so they could use the data the PCCC collected, making the work twice as effective. These calls helped key progressive champions like Al Franken and Jeff Merkley win re-election to the Senate -- and helped Rep. Rick Nolan in Minnesota win one of the tightest House elections.
Posted on December 31, 2014 by Marissa Barrow
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