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Periodically wisdom breaks through the noise that passes for analysis on Wall Street. Here is George Soros on TheStreet.com making sense: the financial crisis we are suffering now can be traced directly back to Ronald Reagan and the failed conservatism that he peddled.

Movement Vision Lab offers this powerful video testimonial from Juan, an undocumented immigrant teenager, to build support for its Building America Together campaign, establishing four key principles to immigration reform.

Take Back America 2008 closing plenary, featuring Deepak Bhargava, The Honorable David Bonior, Anna Burger and Cecile Richards.

Jim Gilliam of Brave New Films is given the Maria Leavey Award at Take Back America 2008. The award is given to a person who has given outstanding service behind the scenes to the progressive movement. To read more about Gilliam, the Maria Leavey Award and the finalists, click here.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger warns progressives that "what will happen on November 5 will be more important than what happens on November 4." To prepare to lay out a bold agenda that will last beyond Election Day, Schlesinger discusses how progressives have to be smarter about influencing the political process and holding elected officials to a higher standard.

With our economy sputtering, can America afford to export more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs to France? As this video shows, Sen. John McCain sure seems to think so. He helped the U.S. military choose the French company Airbus for a contract estimated at more than $30 billion – a contract that could have generated at least 40,000 jobs here at home, in the USA. American workers cry foul. McCain’s adoring French fans cry, “Vive John McCain!”

For more, see our backgrounder on the ad and our blog.

Plenary Speaker Norman Lear, introduced by Iara Peng of "Young People For"

Featuring: Jared Bernstein, Arianna Huffington, John Podesta, Brad Woodhouse

OurFuture.org interviews Majora Carter, the director of Sustainable South Bronx, about how she is using environmental practices to transform her native community. She also offers her reaction to receiving the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award at the Take Back America gala dinner March 18.