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ProgressNow
ProgressNow, previously the Rocky Mountain Progressive Network, is a Progressivism in the United States, progressive 501(c)(4) advocacy organization in the United States. Founded in 2003, ProgressNow bills itself as a network of state based communications hubs which act as a marketing department for progressive ideas. History and mission ProgressNow was created in 2003 as a response to the Libertarianism in the United States, libertarian Independence Institute. It has since grown a subscriber base of more than 350,000 grassroots activists in Colorado. In 2006, ProgressNow began to expand its network outside of Colorado and has since created ProgressNow Partners Networks in twenty-one states: Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Alliance for a Better Utah, Battle Born Progress (formerly ProgressNow Nevada), Better Georgia, Better Idaho, Courage Campaign (California), Fuse Washington, Granite State Progress (New Hampshire), Keystone Progress (Pennsylvania), One Wisconsin Now, Progress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Huttner
Michael Huttner is an American Attorneys in the United States, attorney, author, crisis communications expert and political entrepreneur. Huttner is a partner witCulture of Giving Backto advise donors on progressive causes and he also serves as Chief Executive Officer oNext Titan Capital a boutique investment bank focused on cannabis and psychedelics. Huttner was formerly the CEO of Powerplant Global Strategies, a public affairs firm focused on investments in the cannabis industry. In January 2010, he convened a small group of drug reform and policy leaders in Colorado, which laid the groundwork for Colorado to become the first state to decriminalize cannabis in the country. In January 2020, Huttner convened the first meeting to legalize psychedelics statewide in Colorado which culminated with the passage of thNatural Medicine Health Actin November, 2022. Previously, Huttner served as the CEO Fenton Communications, Fenton, the largest social change agency in the US. He is the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuse Washington
Fuse Washington is a Progressivism in the United States, progressive advocacy organization in Washington state. It is a member of the ProgressNow network. Fuse, a 501(c)(4) organization, along with its sister organization the Fuse Innovation Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, claims to be the state's largest progressive organization because of its email list of more than 100,000 people. History and mission Fuse was launched in 2007 by executive director Aaron Ostrom. Since then, the organization has grown to a staff of 14 with a ten-member board of directors. Like other ProgressNow organizations, Fuse uses e-mail campaigns and grassroots organizing to inform its subscribers about local politics and lobby elected officials. Fuse focuses primarily on campaigns involving climate change, racial justice, tax reform, political accountability, and workers rights. Voters guide Washington Fuse started their Progressive Voters Guide in 2008 as an online elections guide to races and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arshad Hasan
Arshad Hasan was the executive director of ProgressNow. He was previously executive director for Democracy for America. Education Arshad grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School. Arshad attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in political science. While at Penn, Arshad received the Senior Bowl Man Award, and was part of the Sphinx Honor Society and Oracle Senior Honor Society. While in college, Arshad worked as a paid canvasser and managed teams of paid canvassers on issue campaigns in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. While at Penn, Arshad also wrote for the school’s online newspaper, ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'', and was part of the LGBT community. Early political career Arshad traces his involvement with Howard Dean to February 2003, when Arshad founded one of the nation’s first organized pro-Dean groups, Philly for Dean. From 2003 to 2004, Arshad worked as a statewide organizer for Green Corps on c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Trimpa
Ted Trimpa (born February 12, 1967) is a Democratic strategist, lobbyist and political consultant based in Denver, Colorado. He is the founder and CEO of Trimpa Group, a consulting firm.Vyong, Andy (August 6, 2010). Colorado Political Operative Trimpa to Launch Lobbying Firm. The Denver Post. He serves or has served as a board member for a number of progressive organizations, including the Democracy Alliance, ProgressNow, Third Way, and the Citizen Engagement Laboratory. Trimpa serves on the board of Tectonic Theater Project, a New York City-based theater group known for The Laramie Project and 33 Variations.Tectonic Theater Project, Board of Directors', accessed Sept. 20, 2013. Career Trimpa is an attorney and political strategist. He received his B.A. and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver. In 2010, Trimpa founded Trimpa Group, a political consulting and government relations firm specializing in progressive policy advocacy and political strategy at the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democracy Alliance
The Democracy Alliance is a network of progressive donors who coordinate their political donations to groups that the Alliance has endorsed. It has been described by ''Politico'' as "the country's most powerful liberal donor club". Members of the Democracy Alliance are required to contribute at least $200,000 a year to groups the Democracy Alliance vets and recommends. From its founding in 2005 through 2014, the Alliance helped distribute approximately $500 million to liberal organizations. In 2017 and 2018 alone, Democracy Alliance members increase that sum to $600 million. Prominent members of the group include billionaires George Soros and Tom Steyer. The Democracy Alliance planned to spend $374 million during the 2014 midterm election cycle to boost liberal candidates and causes. According to the Democracy Alliance's website, the group "was created to build progressive infrastructure that could help counter the well-funded and sophisticated conservative apparatus in the areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now is a liberal issue advocacy organization based in Wisconsin that focuses on advancing "progressive leadership and values." Created in 2006, One Wisconsin Now rose to prominence in 2006 when the group unsuccessfully opposed the election of Annette Ziegler to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The group has called for investigations of a number of candidates for public office, including Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. '' Isthmus'', a Madison alternative weekly newspaper, called One Wisconsin Now "ne ofthe most prominent players" in the 2006 Wisconsin Supreme Court elections. One Wisconsin Now is an affiliate of ProgressNow ProgressNow, previously the Rocky Mountain Progressive Network, is a Progressivism in the United States, progressive 501(c)(4) advocacy organization in the United States. Founded in 2003, ProgressNow bills itself as a network of state based communi .... References External links One Wisconsin Now web page Political organiza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rollie Heath
Stratton Rollins Heath Jr. (born December 28, 1937) is an American politician and former state legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado who previously served as the Colorado State Senate Assistant Minority Leader. Elected to the Colorado State Senate as a Democrat in 2008, Heath represented Senate District 18, which encompasses Boulder, Colorado and portions of Boulder County. Heath served as State Senate Majority Caucus Leader from October 2013 to 2014. Prior to winning elective office, Heath was the founding chairman of ProgressNow, a progressive advocacy organization. Term limited, he did not run for re-election in the 2016 elections, so his term ended in January 2017. Heath is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder. Political career Heath was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2002. He lost to incumbent Republican governor Bill Owens. Legislative career 2008 election Heath faced University of Colorado Regent Cindy Carlisle in the August 12, 2008, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courage Campaign
Courage California (formerly Courage Campaign) is a state-based 501(c)(4) progressive grassroots advocacy organization founded in 2005 and based in California. The organization claims an online grassroots activism network of over 1 million members. The group works on a variety of progressive causes including LGBT equality, gun control and healthcare reform, including support of single-payer health care. The group has taken a role in various California statewide ballot measures, including supporting Proposition 30 and opposing Proposition 32 in 2012. Courage California's EqualityOnTrial.com was founded to cover the ''Perry v. Schwarzenegger'' trial when the courtroom forbade live television coverage. Courage California is an affiliate of ProgressNow. Activities In 2011, Courage California organized a flash mob protest against Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Over fifty people danced to Madonna’s hit "Like a Prayer" outside of the 2011 California Republican Party con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cory Gardner
Cory Scott Gardner (born August 22, 1974) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States senator from Colorado from 2015 to 2021. A Republican, he was the U.S. representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011. Gardner defeated Democratic incumbent Mark Udall in the 2014 Senate race. Gardner was chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2017 to 2019. After the 2018 midterm elections, he and University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl became the only Republicans to hold statewide elected office in Colorado. Gardner announced in 2019 he would run for re-election for a second term, but lost his 2020 reelection bid to former Governor John Hickenlooper by just over 9 percentage points. After leaving the Senate, Gardner joined lobbying firm Michael Best Strategies, and has remained active in fundraising for Republican candidates. Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Media And Democracy
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a progressive nonprofit watchdog and advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. CMD publishes ExposedbyCMD.org, SourceWatch.org, and ALECexposed.org. History CMD was founded in 1993 by progressive writer John Stauber in Madison, Wisconsin. Lisa Graves is the former president of CMD. Author Sheldon Rampton was formerly an editor of PR Watch. In a report released on April 6, 2006, CMD listed information on 77 television stations that had broadcast video news releases (VNRs) in the prior 10 months. CMD said that in each case the television station actively disguised the VNR content to make it appear to be its own reporting, and that in more than one-third of the cases, the stations aired the pre-packaged VNR in its entirety. In August 2006, the Federal Communications Commission mailed formal letters to the owners of the 77 television stations, asking for information regarding agreements between the stations and the creators of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Caller
Daily or The Daily may refer to: Journalism * Daily newspaper, newspaper issued on five to seven day of most weeks * ''The Daily'' (podcast), a podcast by ''The New York Times'' * ''The Daily'' (News Corporation), a defunct US-based iPad newspaper from News Corporation * ''The Daily of the University of Washington'', a student newspaper using ''The Daily'' as its standardhead Places * Daily, North Dakota, United States * Daily Township, Dixon County, Nebraska, United States People * Bill Daily (1927–2018), American actor * Elizabeth Daily (born 1961), American voice actress * Joseph E. Daily (1888–1965), American jurist * Thomas Vose Daily (1927–2017), American Roman Catholic bishop Other usages * Iveco Daily, a large van produced by Iveco * Dailies, unedited footage in film See also * Dailey, surname * Daley (other) * Daly (other) Daly or DALY may refer to: Places Australia * County of Daly, a cadastral division in South Australia * Daly Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Jones (magazine)
''Mother Jones'' (abbreviated ''MoJo'') is an American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture. Clara Jeffery serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine. Monika Bauerlein has been the CEO since 2015. ''Mother Jones'' is published by the Foundation for National Progress. The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, socialist advocate, and ardent opponent of child labor. History For the first five years after its inception in 1976, ''Mother Jones'' operated with an editorial board, and members of the board took turns serving as managing editor for one-year terms. People who served on the editorial team during those years included Adam Hochschild, Paul Jacobs, Richard Parker, Deborah Johnson, Jeffrey Bruce Klein, Mark Dowie, Amanda Spake, Zina Klapper, and Deirdre English. According to Hochschil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
