Progressive Democrats of America  Do you know them? Here is why you shouldSteven Leser
"They are doing everything they can to destroy the progressive movement in this country," said the senator.
Part of Democrats’ problem is that they are leaderless; Hakeem Jeffries is no Nancy Pelosi, who ruled her fractious House caucus (and her party) with an iron fist. Another issue is that they have ceded far too much influence to the progressive wing of the party. ...
Krasner, a Democrat, emphasizes the importance of being tough on violent crime. But he also maintains that the progressive movement remains ascendant and influential, despite setbacks for some prosecutors. In Philadelphia, “we have gone in the direction of fr...
There was, for about 125 years, an America that resembled the one in which the Constitution was born. Then came the “Progressive Era” of the late 1800s and early 1900s, during which the constitutional boundaries on the power of the central government were breached. The rest is history —...
The Democratic Party, he says, needs “to shift from coddling white progressive voters to a policy platform that … cultivate(s) economic centrists and marginalize(s) culture warriors.” In truth, no one really knows why the Democrats lost in 2024 and what it means for the party’s ...
For now, at least, Sanders stands alone as the only elected progressive willing to mount a national campaign to harness the fear and anger of the sprawling anti-Trump movement. He drew a crowd of 4,000 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday night. He faced another 2,600 or so the next morni...
In their respective campaign launches this fall, both candidates sounded themes once familiar to voters in their home states in the heyday ofprogressive populism, but not heard much lately. While picketing with General Motors workers in Martinsburg in October,Shrewsbury explainedthat he’s “running...
In the next several months, Democrats will have to coalesce around a unified message ahead of the midterms and find a way to harness the energy of the more progressive base while also battling in states where the party has lost ground to Trump. “If the Democrats can’t compete in the M...
Porter is an unabashed progressive, but this seat remains swingy in the previous GOP stronghold of Orange County. Baugh narrowly lost a bid against Porter two years ago, while Min came up short in a prior bid for Congress. The state of play: A late September...