Clik here to view.
Meet Benjamin Wolf, 2018 Candidate for Illinois Fifth District
You know that you’re dealing with a serious grassroots candidate when you do research on them one night with plans to contact them for an interview, and then run into them the next day canvassing on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Progressives: Purity and Purpose A Movement Against Itself
What is a Progressive? David Sirota says “progressives” are those who focus on using government power to make large institutions play by a set of rules. Another definition is the favoring or advocating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet David Hildebrand, Senate Candidate Seeking Progressive Change for...
California has long held the title of America’s most liberal state but does not host the most liberal politicians to match it. It is time for Senator Dianne Feinstein to pass the torch to a progressive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No, the Progressive Left Should Not Ally with White Supremacists
Let me start this piece by stating what should already be obvious: The progressive left is an unequivocally anti-racist movement. Done! But surely, a self-proclaimed “lefty” like Caitlin Johnstone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Institute for Progressive Memetics
As you probably haven’t noticed, I haven’t been putting out any posts recently. My absence here has come at the expense of getting something very cool off the ground, namely, the Institute for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Call to Progressive Coalition
A house divided cannot stand. Yet that is precisely where the progressive left finds itself. We are a fragmented movement, though we march the same road. With each new wave of the political diaspora...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Net Neutering
I was thinking about Teddy Roosevelt this week. It was more than 100 years ago that President Roosevelt became known as the trust-buster for challenging the monopolies which had come to control the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Incumbent Establishment Democrat Tried to Remove Progressive Challenger From...
One of the first congressional candidates to be recruited by Brand New Congress, a progressive organization founded by former Bernie Sanders staffers to help grassroots candidates run for Congress, was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
But Our Chains
Read Part One here. When it comes to real transformation, it has become apparent that today’s progressives are just like yesterday’s liberals, and they will only go as hard for an issue as it cuts into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Else But Bernie?
At the start of the last decade of the 20th century, the Democratic Party was in disarray. Demolished by Reagan in 1980 and ‘84, and then again by H.W. Bush in ‘88, the ideological foundations which...
View Article