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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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Antonio Weiss's loss was Elizabeth Warren's gain. The would-be Treasury Department nominee ended up on the wrong side of the liberalMassachusetts senator and pulled his name from consideration.

Joiningwith other progressives, Warren objected to Weiss's close ties to Wall Street and what those connections might mean for bank regulations and oversight.

In a letter written to President Obama, first obtained by Politico, Weiss, an investment banker, bowed out:

I am writing to request that the administration not re-submit my nomination. I do not believe that the Treasury Department would be well served by the lengthy confirmation process my renomination would likely entail.

More like bloody confirmation process, with Warren leading an emboldened band of progressives who have little governing muscle but can gum up the nomination process. This is the Warren way.

It happened before with Larry Summers, Obama's pick to lead the Federal Reserve. He drew the ire of Warren and other Democrats and subsequently pulled his name from consideration. (Warren wanted Janet Yellen at the Federal Reserve, and she got Janet Yellen.)

These are the fights that progressives lost in 2008, when Obama picked a slew of Clinton-era financial advisers. And it remains one of the biggest sore spots for progressives, driving a sense of buyer's remorse that makes Warren's rhetoric such a draw for them.

Warren's November op-ed on Weiss, titled"Enough is Enough: The President's Latest Wall Street Nominee,"sums up the progressive view. Now because of Warren's focused fight, progressives are notching small victories, dooming Obama's hand-picked financial advisers who they see as soft on regulation and too cozy with Wall Street.

With these moves, Warren is showing howshe will be a player in 2016 and beyond. There aren't any signs she will run, and there is also little evidence that she could outflank Hillary Clinton with the Obama coalition. But she will be a hard-liner on financial issues, vetting Clinton's campaign picks, just as she did with Weiss and Summers.

It's not hard to see Warren making herself into a kind of shadow financial adviser for Clinton. Her tacit stamp of approval wouldinform not only her rhetoric but who Clinton surrounds herself with. (Obama is surely thinking about a Warren-proof nominee for the Treasury post).

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Former Nevada Assemblyman Jason Frierson urged lawmakers to pass a broad-based tax and put more money toward public schools in a speech two days before the governor's.

The Democrat delivered the Progressive State of the State speech Tuesday at a Las Vegas union hall. The address aimed to give a more left-leaning perspective on policy issues before Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval delivers his official State of the State address on Thursday.

Immigration activist Astrid Silva was set to deliver the speech in Spanish.

The prepared remarks decried low Democratic voter turnout that led to widespread Republican victories in November and handed control of the Legislature to the GOP. Frierson himself lost his seat to a little-known candidate.

Frierson urged the new crop of lawmakers to treat their responsibilities with dignity.

(AP)

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Progressives Tell Their Side Before Sandoval's Big Speech

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Progressives in Nevada are giving their version of the annual state of the state address two days before the Republican governor gives his.

Former Nevada Assemblyman Jason Frierson is delivering the speech Tuesday evening at the Las Vegas office of the Service Employees International Union. Immigration activist Astrid Silva will give the speech in Spanish.

The speech is organized by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and will focus on liberal groups' state policy priorities, including more education funding and preventing laws that would require voter identification at the polls.

Gov. Brian Sandoval will deliver the official state of the state address and release his proposed budget on Thursday.

Frierson is a Democrat who lost his Assembly seat to a little-known candidate in November amid widespread Republican victories in Nevada.

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THE governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress on Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has promised that his administration would be committed to the restoration of peace if elected as the state governor in February 2015.

Peterside, who gave this assurance on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy visit to the paramount ruler of Abua Kingdom, King Kaleh Obuge, in Abua/Odual Local Government Area, said he would run a government that believed in justice and peace.

He pointed out his administration would ensure that justice prevailed in every situation, adding that without justice, it would be difficult to achieve peace.

The APC governorship, who said he was at the kings palace to receive royal blessings, noted that there would be no tangible development without peace, love and unity.

Your Majesty, I am here to inform you, as our traditional and spiritual leader that your son has been nominated by one of the leading political parties, the All Progressives Congress, to run for the governorship of Rivers State on February 28, 2015, and to seek your blessings.

One of our cardinal programmes if we are elected in February is that we will pursue peace in our communities. Nobody can talk of peace if you dont look at the foundation that promotes peace; that is justice.

Where there is love and unity, peace reigns. Where there is no peace, if you like, construct the best road there,put the best electricity there; there will be no peace there. Your Majesty, we will need your support and partnership as we pursue peace in Rivers State, Peterside stressed.

He also promised that his administration would liaise with the Federal Government and other relevant authorities for the establishment of police stations in strategic communities in Abua/Odual.

The governorship candidate maintained that his government would ensure that waterways within the area were adequately manned by security agents in order to forestall any form of security breach within the area.

On agriculture, Peterside said his administration would enrich farmers in the area through credit support to enable them to maximise the agricultural potential of their communities.

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