by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 17, 2014 | Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/A1_Og-lfDtw[/fve] Zephyr Teachout, who challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from the left earlier this year, encouraged other progressives to follow her lead at a recent forum in Washington – including fielding a primary challenge against Hillary...
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision, Winning Issues for 2014
As debate reignites between populist progressives and self-described "centrists" over why Democrats lost the midterms and how they should recalibrate, it's worth recalling that Republicans won in part by co-opting populist positions and themes. Sure, there were plenty...
by Robert Reich | Nov 12, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The President blames himself for the Democrat’s big losses Election Day. “We have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction,” he said Sunday. In other words, he didn’t...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 11, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
“When the American people choose divided government, I don’t think it means they don’t want us to do anything,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told reporters. “We ought to start with the view that maybe there are things we can agree on to make progress for...
by Elizabeth Warren | Nov 9, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
There have been terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Election Days for Democrats before — and Republicans have had a few of those, too. Such days are always followed by plenty of pronouncements about what just changed and what’s going to be different going forward....
by Dave Johnson | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Across the country progressive policies won at the ballot box, while Democratic candidates lost. Many of those Democratic candidates ran on "centrist" (i.e. "corporate") platforms that repudiated ("distanced themselves from") core Democratic policies and positions....
