Bill Maher, Conservative, Liberal Progressives agree who #39;s to blame for Israel Gaza conflict
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At the turn of the 20th century, Minnesota #39;s entrenched Republican party was challenged by most successful radical third-party in American history. From 1918...
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Progressives in Nevada delivering speech
Progressives in Nevada delivering speech.
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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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