When progressives attack Super PACs, are we saying average voters are too stupid to make up their own minds when faced with these ads? So what are progressives to do? Think about the campaign against smoking.
A Progressive Way
Featured posts and interviews on progressive ideals and strategy, highlighting opinion leaders and issues important to the progressive community.
Smoking Super PACs: what anti-smoking campaigns can teach progressives
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Terry O’Neill, President of NOW: Her path to progressive action.
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Terry begins the interview with a description of her family and why she started, stopped, then resumed her political activism after a 20 year break, She then talks about how she found a home with NOW, the similarities and… [Continue Reading]
What Labor brings to the Progressive Movement: an interview with union activist Paul Lemmon.
July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Paul Lemmon is the classic labor organizer, the mix of agitator and educator key to the success of unions in America. Through a decades-long career with the United Mine Workers to his recent retirement from the AFL-CIO as assistant to… [Continue Reading]
Independents are not just moderate: the latest polling research from the Pew Center for the People and the Press
July 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Listening to the American political conversation is not a clear flip through digital channels, it is more like tuning in a radio. You need to pay attention and hear where the signal breaks through the noise. The Pew Research Center… [Continue Reading]
The Progressive Era for today’s progressives: an interview with John Halpin, Center for American Progress.
June 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Progressive Era for today's progressives: an interview with John Halpin, Center for American Progress. [ 9:58 ] Download
John Halpin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the American Progress where he is the co-director and creator of its Progressive Studies Program. The progressive era is the topic of the podcast–the time from 1890’s to the 1920s… [Continue Reading]
Celinda Lake: Progressives are not seizing opportunities.
June 9, 2011 By
Celinda Lake: Progressives are not seizing opportunities. Progressive Way Episode 4 [ 8:56 ] Download
Celinda Lake is a leading pollster for the Progressive Democratic community in America. With over three decades in the field, she has learned a great deal about American voters and how we respond to progressive ideals. Our conversation with Celinda… [Continue Reading]
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree – a Progressive island.
June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
For mainlanders, islands are about getting away. But there is another lesson about island life–one of community and having to find ways to work together with neighbors to identify priorities and do what needs to be done to ensure a… [Continue Reading]
“It’s about Independence.” An interview with Representative Raul Grijalva
May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In a series about being progressive in America, it made sense to start our interviews with Representative Raul Grijalva, co-chair of the 75 member Progressive Caucus in the U.S. Congress. We are the history we’ve lived through. Our life experiences,… [Continue Reading]
The First Podcast
April 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
This is the Progressive Way, a place for Progressives to talk about what we care about and how to share our ideas with the rest of the country. The plan is of this podcast to be a series of interviews… [Continue Reading]
