progressive
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While Brooks canvassed for the state’s largest progressive community action organization, she thought about one of her first interactions knocking doors this cycle.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The most-streamed tracks on her debut, 2024’s dazzling “Epistolares,” favor a progressive reggaeton vein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Appalachian people don’t trust the government for a lot of reasons,” said Kim Roney, a progressive member of the blue Asheville city council.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
In defenders Harry Maguire and Lisandro Martinez, United have punchy progressive passers from deep too.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The meeting concluded with a new sense of optimism, a feeling that perhaps a united black community, working in tandem with a sympathetic white mayor, would force Durham to live up to its progressive reputation.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his seemingly supernatural competence at both city management and marketing, has laid a blueprint for kitchen-table progressives looking to bust out of the Trump-era holding pattern.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
But as excitement over his campaign began to mount among progressives on a national level, Ryan said, El-Sayed’s public posture swung to a middle ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Eventually, Stevens consolidated establishment and centrist support, while El-Sayed consolidated progressives.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
So while it may seem like progressives and conservatives in the U.S. agree on little or nothing, they seem to be finding some common ground on solutions to the housing crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Middle-class progressives, disgusted by the corrupt politics of both Thompson and Sweitzer, threw their weight behind an independent reformer.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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