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CONNECTING THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, IDEAS, AND CONGRESS

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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Just over a year ago, we took the first significant steps toward implementing the long-held vision of connecting progressive leaders inside Congress with their allies on the outside for an inside-outside bridge to enable better policymaking. ProgressiveCongress.org (formerly American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation) was launched in 2009 to be that bridge, convening critical discussions and bringing key policy ideas and expertise across congressional boundaries, with a focus on peace and global security; energy independence and environmental sustainability; civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights; public health; education; and economic opportunity.

When we began in 2009, the model we were proposing was entirely untested. Over the course of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, we were able to build and refine a model for inside-outside work with Congress that has the potential to reshape how we approach progressive governance at a national level.

We’ve realized significant lasting benefit from the investments that were made. The capacity to discuss key issues and facilitate the flow of information and collaboration has been greatly improved by our efforts. We are excited to build on this inside-outside model in 2010, leveraging the progressive movement’s vast resources to create lasting progressive policy changes.

We sincerely thank our individual donor and foundation partners for making our work this last year possible. Starting a new organization during our country’s worst financial crisis in recent years was not an easy task. Without your support, ProgressiveCongress.org would not have made it through its inaugural year. Now into year two, with your continued partnership we will actively engage in the many opportunities that exist to strengthen the progressive movement and facilitate ideas into reality.

As we head into a period in which our country faces challenges in almost every area, the need for progressives to participate aggressively in the debate and policymaking is only increasing. We hope you will join us in 2010 as we continue our work to connect the progressive movement, ideas, and Congress.

Sincerely,

Darcy Burner Executive Director

Darcy Burner Executive Director

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OVERVIEW OF ORGANIZATION Congress has traditionally acted far less progressively than the people of the United States want them to. Contrary to the insistence of some in the media that this is a “center-right” nation, polling shows that the people of the United States are quite progressive: overwhelming majorities support progressive policies on everything from environmental regulation to health care reform to government guarantees of adequate food and shelter.*

Despite this, however, Congress has behaved far less progressively than the people they are supposed to represent.

Aggressive investments to remedy this in the last decade have begun to bear fruit in two distinct areas:

H We have seen success in building progressive institutions such as the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America’s Future, EPI, and so forth; and

H We have elected new progressives to both the House and the Senate.

The strategic key to a more progressive America is leveraging both sets of investments by building a direct connection between the progressive movement and elected progressives in Congress. The internal infrastructure has long existed in the form of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; until 2009, though, that internal infrastructure wasn’t linked to the outside.

In 2009, we built the bridges to create this leverage and saw significant changes in the U.S. House of Representatives—particularly around health care reform. Now it’s time to go to the next level

PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG AT THE INTERSECTION ProgressiveCongress.org was built at the intersection between the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the progressive movement to connect the progressive movement, ideas, and Congress. Founded by the leadership and staff of the CPC and key leaders in the progressive movement, the board includes a broad cross-section of the progressive community in the United States and the leadership of the CPC.

Like the CPC, ProgressiveCongress.org focuses its efforts around four key policy areas:

H Peace and global security;H Energy independence and environmental sustainability;H Civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights;H Public health, education, and economic opportunity.

BUILDING LEVERAGEIn a nutshell:

H The progressive movement has built structures and processes to get people elected, but until 2009 did not have adequate mechanisms for helping them govern once they succeed; and

H Progressives in Congress haven’t had the resources to adequately shape either policy or the public debate.

*Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 2009 Values Survey, April 2009

“ProgressiveCongress.org has been a solid ally in policy fights and continues to be a good partner in lending us intellectual and political support.”

Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (Arizona-07)

In the House, the Blue Dogs provided a model to demonstrate how a bloc of members who can swing sufficient votes to provide the margin of victory for legislation can use that leverage to change policies. Until the fight over the public option as part of health care reform, the Congressional Progressive Caucus had not been effective at using this leverage—in part because they lacked a key piece of infrastructure allowing them to harness progressives outside of Congress to their cause to help them evaluate policy options and to frame the public dialogue.

However, in the fight over the health care bill, newly formed ProgressiveCongress.org built those key connections—transforming the debate both on and off of Capitol Hill.

ProgressiveCongress.org played the key organizing role in:H Bringing outside experts in to educate members of Congress and

staff on the substantive policy behind a public option;H Convening daily discussions through meetings, phone calls, and

online discussion groups for staff and outside experts, keeping everyone informed on what was happening and providing them with opportunities to act in concert;

H Creating the echo chamber to talk about the public option, working with organizations like MoveOn.org and DailyKos as well as placing people and quotes in the press on MSNBC, C-SPAN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Huffington Post, and so forth to change the consensus view both inside and outside of D.C.

In addition to playing these key roles in health care reform, ProgressiveCongress.org has done similar work around national security (with an emphasis on Afghanistan, where we arranged a six-part briefing series for members and staff), job creation, and the use of the budget reconciliation process to move progressive legislation.

ProgressiveCongress.org has also created key databases of progressive organizations, key individuals, and seminal papers, as well as a mechanism for contacting all progressive staffers in the House and Senate assigned to particular policy areas.

MISSION The mission of ProgressiveCongress.org is bringing together the collective wisdom and experiences of progressives inside and outside of Congress and Washington, D.C. to promote

H Peace and global security;H Energy independence and environmental sustainability;H Civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights;H Public health, education, and economic opportunity.

ProgressiveCongress.org is a unique and much-needed progressive intersection and a communications, fact-finding, research, and education hub for progressive organizations, leaders and other public policy-makers, issue advocates from the national to the grassroots levels of civil society, the media, and the general public inside and outside of Congress and Washington, D.C.

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For the first time since they formed in 1995, the Blue Dogs have been out-organized by their liberal counterparts.

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THE PROBLEM INSIDE-OUTSIDE INFRASTRUCTUREThe resource imbalance between progressives in Congress and more conservative members has long been a problem for advancing progressive ideas and policies. While business interests have long funded think tanks and an extensive network of lobbyists whose principal purpose is to provide information, resources, and messaging to more conservative members of Congress to shore up their positions, progressive members of Congress and the staff who support them have been largely on their own.

The rise of progressive organizations and an active progressive grassroots in the last several years have had the potential to act as a significant counterweight if leveraged, but the bridges needed to connect those outside factors to the inside of Congress—the staffers and members—had until last year been missing.

ProgressiveCongress.org spent 2009 and the first quarter of 2010 building the first set of those bridges, beginning to correct the resourcing problem and put progressives on more even footing.

Members of Congress—and particularly House members—don’t independently have adequate resources to advance progressive policies. More than 75 percent of staff resources are used on basic constituent services. That leaves an average of just under three staff per House office to do everything else—from evaluating legislation to writing speeches to scheduling the member. Few resources are available to invest in strategy and organizing necessary to advance policy. This problem was created with the defunding that accompanied the Gingrich revolution and can be solved through leveraging both the ability of members to act as a coalition and the alignment of progressives on both the inside and outside.

In January of 1995, Newt Gingrich used his newly elected majority in Congress to consolidate power in his Speaker’s office. He defunded congressional organizations like the Democratic Study Group which had provided policy research and services to members of Congress, and he left individual congressional offices with inadequate resources to deal with the challenge. Because he then controlled the information members had, it was much more straightforward for him to control what the House did.

At this point, the only way for individual members to influence the content of legislation has been to address the leadership as a bloc and say they have enough votes to block it. The ideological caucuses form the critical blocs needed to exercise this strategy.

The Blue Dogs on the right side of the Democratic Party have demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique, repeatedly leveraging their cohesion into policy changes aligned with their ideology. The CPC, however, has traditionally not been nearly as effective. One factor contributing to this has been the lack of a key outside organization to help them evaluate policy options and to frame the public dialogue.

The progressive movement has much greater mass and resources than are available anywhere else on the political spectrum; the key is to harness these.

GOALS 1. PROGRESSIVE HUB

We are a hub connecting members of Congress with the progressive movement outside of Congress, and connecting the pieces of the progressive movement with each other.

2. PROGRESSIVE POLICY INCUBATOR We serve as a progressive policy incubator, funneling progressive concepts from think tanks and the world outside of D.C. into workable proposals and talking points usable by members of Congress and their staffs.

3. PROGRESSIVE ECHO CHAMBER We frame the critical policy debates the country faces in progressive terms and use all available channels—including traditional media and the grassroots—to get the public to think of the issues in terms that lead to progressive conclusions.

YEAR IN REVIEW

SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTSPrototyped unprecedented model for alignment and coordination of progressives inside and outside of Congress

H Brought key progressive outside experts in to brief members of Congress and staff on national security and Afghanistan, health care reform and the public option, and the economy and job creation.

H Created venues for daily inside-outside coordination between staffers and outside groups and experts, including daily coordination phone calls, weekly meetings, and topic-specific online discussion groups around health care reform. These activities engaged a broader range of outside entities than any previous efforts.

H Created a mechanism for members of the public to submit and vote on questions to ask members of Congress, and for members of Congress to answer those questions on C-SPAN and in the Congressional Record.

Developed and used aggressive PR operation and echo chamber to advance progressive ideas in the public discourse

H Developed a press operation that placed quotes and key progressive members of Congress in the media—surpassing in a single year the coverage House progressives had gotten in the entire decade prior to that. Harnessed the progressive media, including blogs and organizations like MoveOn.org, to act as an echo chamber amplifying the message.

H Blogged on the front pages of leading national blogs, including Huffington Post, Daily Kos, OpenLeft, and Crooks and Liars.

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The White House expressed surprise last week that the “left of the left” had clung so forcefully to the public insurance option as a must-have element of health care reform. Some old hands in the administration were more likely surprised by the simple fact that, at this late stage, they still have to deal with progressives in Congress. And who can blame them?...“The fact that we have stuck to our guns about the public option has surprised people,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva.

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Created infrastructure for inside-outside bridgesH Created comprehensive database of the legislative staff members

assigned to cover health care, the economy, defense, foreign policy, homeland security, and seven other topic areas in every Democratic office in the House and the Senate.

H Put in place the infrastructure to crowdsource a database of outside progressive experts and organizations for use by members of Congress and staff.

Convened and trained on a progressive national security paradigmH Delivered unprecedented six-part series on Afghanistan to

members of Congress and their staffs, resulting in the creation of a set of principles that form the basis for progressive members’ Afghanistan policies.

H Convened national security working group now meeting monthly to bring insiders and outsiders together to work on national security problems.

Worked toward reframing the public debate on national securityH Made multiple front-page posts on national security issues in the

largest-read blog on the Internet.H Gave presentations on progressive approaches to national

security at multiple conferences and events.

BLESSED ARE THE BOTHERSOME, FOR THEY SHALL HAVE HEALTH CARE On the evening of December 8, news outlets were

touting the death of the public option. Gathered in the cold on Capitol Hill were health care reform activists and representatives of several dozen progressive groups, faith-based organizations, and health care providers, along with seven Congress members, to declare their commitment to continue to fight for the most progressive health reform possible in this legislative time.

Senators Sanders and Burris, and Representatives Grijalva, Lee, Jackson-Lee, Christensen, and Woolsey spoke about the importance of the diverse organizations brought together around the vigil, and the work of these organizations in driving home the sense of urgency and moral necessity that frames this debate over health care reform.

Leslie Boyd spoke of her son, Mike, who died of cancer while unable to get health insurance. Amidst candles and among faith leaders, activists, and members of Congress, she held a framed photo of her son before a backdrop of the Capitol, where last-minute health care reform agreements were being negotiated.

In between speakers, a marching band played St. James Infirmary, and a Jewish cantor sang. The evening ended with the declaration, “Blessed are the bothersome, for they shall have health care!” And a call was issued for continued vigilance and organizing as the Senate began to move toward their final bill and the progressives to push for a better result from the conference committee.

“We have never had the Progressive Caucus organized the way it is right now,” Burner said during a Friday roundtable with Roll Call. “This is not the normal scenario. And Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] knows it.”

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The vigil was co-hosted by MoveOn, NAACP, National Physicians Alliance, Health Care for America Now, Campaign for America’s Future, DC for Obama, Faithful Reform in Health Care, ProgressiveCongress.org, United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society, American Medical Student Association, NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, Union for Reform Judaism, Disciples Justice Action Network (Disciples of Christ), United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries, Doctors Council of DC/NUHHCE/AFSCME, Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ (Washington, D.C.), Bon Secours Health System Inc., American Muslim Health Professionals, Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Coalition, African American Health Alliance, The Cave Institute, and Presbyterian Church (USA) Washington Office.

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS ProgressiveCongress.org has significant partnerships with key D.C. organizations, including established progressive organizations, progressive membership–based organizations, independent and progressive media, organizations representing communities of color, and online netroots leaders and bloggers. They include:

CURRENT ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERSAfrican American Health AllianceAFL-CIOAlliance for Health CareAmerican Federation of Government EmployeesAmericans for Democratic Action

American Medical Student AssociationBlack Nurses AssociationCampaign for America’s FutureCampaign for Better Health Care, IllinoisCampus ProgressCenter for American ProgressCenter for Community ChangeCenter for Policy AnalysisColorOfChange.orgCREDOCrooks and Liars Daily Kos Democracy for AmericaDemocracia USA ActionDoctors Council of the District of Columbia/NUHHCE/AFSCMEDolores Huerta FoundationEconomic Policy InstituteEqual Justice Society

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Faith United Church of ChristFenton CommunicationsFuture MajorityGenerational AllianceHealth Care for America NowHerndon AllianceHuffington PostInstitute for Policy StudiesLULACMedia Matters Action NetworkMetro New York Health Care for All CampaignMetropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIOMoveOn.org Political ActionNAACPNational Black Nurses AssociationNational Center for Lesbian RightsNational Physicians AllianceNational Security NetworkNational Union of Hospital and Health Care EmployeesNational Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, District 1199JNetroots NationOpenLeft.comPeople for the American Way FoundationPeoples Congregational United Church of ChristPlymouth Congregational United Church of ChristPower PACProgressive Congress Action FundProgressive States NetworkRacial and Ethnic Health Disparities CoalitionRaising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We NeedRoger Manno, Maryland State DelegateRoosevelt Institute Campus NetworkSEIUThe Cave InstituteThe Commonweal InstituteUnited Church of Christ, Justice and Witness MinistriesUnited Methodist Church – General Board of Church and SocietyUniversal Health Care Action NetworkUSActionWANDWin Without War CoalitionYoung Americans for Health Care Reform

Young Invincibles

“ProgressiveCongress.org has such huge promise, with strong progressive principles, significant numbers, and sharp strategic focus.”

Scott Wallace, Co-Chair, Wallace Global Fund

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

DARCY BURNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORDarcy Burner is the executive director of ProgressiveCongress.org and the Progressive Congress Action Fund. As such, she is responsible for strategy and management of the organizations.

She has been a guest featured on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and “The Ed Show,” C-SPAN, ABC, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and a host of local programs, and featured in Roll Call, Politico, The Hill, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, The Nation, Mother Jones, and as a keynote speaker at Netroots Nation alongside Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. She is a regular front-page contributor to OpenLeft.com discussing matters pertaining to Congress, and writes for Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, and Huffington Post as well.

She’s a board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Campaign for a Livable World’s PeacePAC, the SNAP PAC Advisory Board, the Progressive Ideas Network Advisory Board, Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC, and the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative, a part of Netroots Nation.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG BOARD OF DIRECTORSU.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva volunteer Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison volunteer Congressional Progressive Caucus Vice Chair

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee volunteer Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Emeritus

Robert Borosage Chair of Board, Founder and Co-Director of Campaign for America’s Future

Conrad Martin Treasurer of Board, Executive Director, Fund for Constitutional Government

Stephen Shaff Secretary of Board, Founder and President of Community Vision Consultants

Wes Boyd Co-Founder of MoveOn.org

John Cavanagh Executive Director, Institute for Policy Studies

Lisa Hasegawa Executive Director, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development

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“ProgressiveCongress.org has been instrumental in broadening much-needed channels of regular communication between progressive leaders in Congress and the broader progressive movement across the country.”

Congressman Keith Ellison (Minnesota-05)

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Keith Harper Partner and Head, Native American Affairs Practice Group, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

Amy Isaacs Former National Director, Americans for Democratic Action

Jeff Krehely Center for American Progress, Director of LGBT Research and Communications Project

Larry Mishel President of the Economic Policy Institute

Markos Moulitsas Founder of DailyKos.com

Angela Oh Attorney, Teacher, and Public Lecturer

Katrina vanden Heuvel Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Nation

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS ACTION FUND BOARD OF DIRECTORSMichael Wolkowitz Chair of Board, Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Howie Klein Treasurer of Board, Board Member of People for the American Way

Heather Parton Secretary of Board, Blogger at Digby’s Hullaballoo

Robert Borosage Founder and Co-Director of Campaign for America’s Future

Wes Boyd Co-Founder of MoveOn.org

Celinda Lake Principal at Lake Research Partners

Mike Lux Board member of nearly everything progressive, former Clinton White House staffer

James Rucker Executive Director, Color of Change

Pam Spaulding Blogger at Pam’s House Blend

“If the thousands of progressive groups across the country had a transmission belt to aggregate their collective power with their progressive counterparts in Congress, imagine what we could accomplish. Today, such a transmission belt exists in ProgressiveCongress.org.”

John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies

IN THE NEWS

ON MESSAGE: PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG AND THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUSSince June 2009, ProgressiveCongress.org worked to amplify the CPC’s work around health care and specifically its push to include a public option. We worked with key communications staff from CPC leadership offices to help broaden the reach of their press outreach and, in compliance with House rules, pushed out their press statements, releases, and advisories. It resulted in the the CPC being mentioned in the mainstream media more in a four-month time period then it was in the previous 10 years combined.

To raise the profile of ProgressiveCongress.org, Darcy Burner, Executive Director, had one-on-one meetings with key political and health care reporters from ABC News, Washington Post, Roll Call, The Hill, Politico, Huffington Post, and The Nation to brief them on the work of the organization. In addition, Darcy appeared on political programs on ABC News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN to discuss developments around health care. Darcy has also appeared on numerous radio shows all over the country.

NEWS SUCCESS: PRESS CLIPSHuffington Post, 4/8/2010 – Power Struggle: Inside the Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party As the remaining reporters file out, Grijalva says he will begin the fight again tomorrow. He’ll have company. Organized labor, MoveOn.org, and progressive members of Congress are increasingly breaking from the orbit of the White House and the Democratic establishment, beginning to take on the administration, build an independent infrastructure, and back progressive primary challengers. Unions are working to groom progressive candidates in small, local races and inside Congress, the progressive caucus—after years of being treated like the stepchild of the House—has the potential leadership and organizing vision in place to be ready the next time the nation clamors for a step forward and, in the meantime, to finish what was started on March 21, 2010.

Huffington Post, 2/22/2010 But if the final bill is to include a public option, leaders in Congress and outside organizations advocating on its behalf will need to do it without Obama. “Congress and the people of the United States will have to lead in truly taking on the insurance companies,” Burner said.

Huffington Post, 9/23/09 For the first time since they formed in 1995, the Blue Dogs have been out-organized by their liberal counterparts.

Roll Call, 8/31/09 Darcy Burner, executive director of the ProgressiveCongress.org, said the health care debate has rallied traditionally disparate congressional liberals to hang together, while galvanizing support for their position from an array of left-leaning outside groups. The result, she said, is that Democratic leaders will not be able to clear a package through the

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A review of press coverage shows that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has been discussed more often by the press in a four-month period—more than 1,200 mentions in mainstream media since June 1, 2009—than in the decade prior to that.

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House if it does not include the public plan. “We have never had the Progressive Caucus organized the way it is right now,” Burner said during a Friday roundtable with Roll Call. “This is not the normal scenario. And Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] knows it.”

Roll Call, 8/31/09 An early experiment this spring confirmed for her the potential power of the linkage. She solicited the netroots for questions to put to progressives that they would answer on the House floor, live on C-SPAN, during the group’s weekly “special orders” session on Thursday nights. Burner said she expected a couple thousand people to participate, but in the first four weeks, 60,000 people weighed in.

Roll Call, 8/31/09 The group’s organizational strength faces its most serious test this fall, and Burner acknowledged it is incumbent on liberals to convince the White House it will have an easier time getting a bill through the Senate with a public insurance option than getting one through the House without one. “If progressives aren’t willing to do the work to make the President do the right thing, it’s unlikely he will,” she said.

Huffington Post, 8/25/09 The caucus also brought on Darcy Burner to help with outreach to progressive groups. Burner had twice run for Congress and is a hero of the netroots community of bloggers and activists. She arranged for Jacob Hacker, the intellectual architect of the public option, and Diane Archer, co-president of the Health Care for All Project, which is run by the Institute for America’s Future, to brief the caucus.

Huffington Post, 8/25/09 The White House expressed surprise last week that the “left of the left” had clung so forcefully to the public insurance option as a must-have element of health care reform. Some old hands in the administration were more likely surprised by the simple fact that, at this late stage, they still have to deal with progressives in Congress. And who can blame them? “We’re the group that speaks to the righteousness of an issue, [but] inevitably the decisions about how that issue’s going to be addressed are conducted somewhere else,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), describing the traditional fecklessness of progressives in Congress.“The fact that we have stuck to our guns about the public option has surprised people.”

Huffington Post, 8/25/09 A majority of the 81 Congressional Progressive Caucus members of the House have vowed to oppose any health care bill that does not include a “robust public option.” That threat has kept it alive. With 256 seats in the House and 218 needed to pass a bill, Democrats simply can’t move health care reform on their own without progressive caucus support.

The Nation, 6/15/09 “I’m a huge believer in small-d democracy—the idea that you want as many people to be actively participating in government as you can manage,” she said. Burner wants to translate the “huge upsurge” in progressive participation in elections “into an upsurge in participation in governing…This is the next obvious step. How do you get from merely electing people—which I’ll grant is very important—to actually having people participate on a day-to-day basis in the process of governing?” Both the grassroots and the CPC stand to benefit from this kind of focus on the progressive infrastructure.

An early experiment this spring confirmed for her the potential power of the linkage. She solicited the netroots for questions to put to progressives that they would answer on the House floor, live on C-SPAN, during the group’s weekly “special orders” session on Thursday nights. Burner said she expected a couple thousand people to participate, but in the first four weeks, 60,000 people weighed in.

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NEWS SUCCESS: PRESS CLIPSDarcy posted on many occasions at Huffington Post, OpenLeft, and Daily Kos, often appearing on the front page of these widely read blogs.

How we can get the health care bill across the line, 1/25/2010 www.huffingtonpost.com/darcy-burner/how-we-can-get-the-health_b_435286.html

How much does President Obama want a health care bill? 1/22/2010 http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/22/829068/-How-much-does-President-Obama-want-a-health care-bill

My resolutions for the new decade, 12/31/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/31/820957/-My-resolutions-for-the-new-decade

Health care, the 16% problem, and a leaky roof, 12/24/09 http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=16652

Joe Lieberman’s health care bill is worse than doing nothing— Kill it, 12/15/09 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darcy-burner/joe-liebermans-health care_b_392139.html

With no public option, lowering the Medicare age to 55 will make our problems worse, 12/8/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/darcy-burner/with-no-public-option-low_b_384122.html

The REAL Republican plan, compared to Alan Grayson’s summary, 11/2/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/2/799834/-The-REAL-Republican-plan, compared-to-Alan-Graysons-summary

Gravitational slingshots: Health care reform and building progressive power, 11/2/09 http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=15796

Rep. Alan Grayson apologizes (just not to the Republicans), 9/30/09 www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/30/788209/-Rep.-Alan-Grayson-apologizes-(just-not-to-the-Republicans)

Why bipartisanship can’t work right now: The other axis, 9/22/09 http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14869

Just a touch of math, 9/8/09 http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14982

Why the House progressives should kill health care reform if there’s no public option, 9/6/09 http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14959

Public option: Nope, still not dead yet, 8/31/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/31/15839/7451

Energy bill: Damned if we do, damned if we don’t, 6/25/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/25/746862/-Energy-Bill:-Damned-if-we-do,-damned-if-we-dont

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Now ask them about energy, 6/9/09 http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/9/740531/-Now-ask-them-about-energy

You asked, they answered—on C-SPAN and on the record, 6/8/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/8/740146/--You-asked,-they-answeredon-C-SPAN-and-on-the-record

Health care reform and political realities, 6/6/09 www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/6/115640/6964/918/739460

Q&A for the Congressional Progressive Caucus again tonight, 6/4/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/4/738709/-QA-for-the-Congressional-Progressive-Caucus-again-tonight

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“I’m a huge believer in small-d democracy—the idea that you want as many people to be actively participating in government as you can manage,” she said. Burner wants to translate the “huge upsurge” in progressive participation in elections “into an upsurge in participation in governing…This is the next obvious step. How do you get from merely electing people—which I’ll grant is very important—to actually having people participate on a day-to-day basis in the process of governing?” Both the grassroots and the CPC stand to benefit from this kind of focus on the progressive infrastructure.

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It’s high time the people we elected to Congress answered to us, 5/20/09 www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/20/733564/-Its-high-time-the-people-we-elected-to-Congress-answered-to-us

Commitment, and bending the arc of the moral universe, 4/27/09 http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=13060

BLOG POSTS BY LORELEI KELLY, 2009 NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM DIRECTORLorelei posted on several occasions at the most widely read political blog in the country, Huffington Post, and her posts were featured on the front page.

Can the Pentagon do hope and change? 1/26/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/can-the-pentagon-do-hope_b_160771.html

Iraq War Year Six: Our long goodbye to the Cold War, 3/19/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/iraq-war-year-sixour-long_b_176812.html

Prague ’09: Swan song for Star Wars, 4/3/09 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/prague-09-swan-song-for-s_b_182743.html

Getting our game back: The first hundred days, 4/29/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/getting-our-game-back-the_b_192618.html

A progressive case for the supplemental, 5/14/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/a-progressive-case-for-th_b_203401.html

Our President in Cairo: Muslims listened. Did America? 6/5/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/our-president-in-cairo-mu_b_211745.html

Congress, the F-22, and the monkey on our back, 6/24/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/congress-the-f-22-and-the_b_219927.html

Liz Cheney: Wrong on national security, wrong about our President, 7/14/09 www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/liz-cheney-wrong-on-natio_b_231325.html

The exit strategy we need at home, 9/1/09 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/the-exit-strategy-we-need_b_273758.html

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LOOKING FORWARD

PROPOSED CORE PROGRAMS 2010–2011

NATIONAL SECURITY Build progressive capacity to influence the U.S. approach to national security in order to build a more secure and sustainable peace by:

H Building an internal-external consensus around progressive agendas for Afghanistan and for Iraq as well as other national security issues as they arise (e.g., Iran).

H Creating internal and external consensus around a congressionally driven new framework for national security based on multilateralism and better use of non-military power in conflict resolution and peace-building.

H Expanding capacity among progressives in Congress to understand, discuss, and formulate policy in the national security and related arenas.

ECONOMY Build progressive capacity to make the U.S. economy function in a more progressive way by:

H Championing progressive approaches to job creation, including helping progressive members of Congress frame the debate for the public. Train and place progressive champions in the media to argue for progressive solutions during the national discussion over the next year.

H Creating alignment around progressive approaches to financial sector reform, building on work done by Congressmen Frank and Grayson, Elizabeth Warren and her congressional commission, and economists such as Dean Baker.

H Developing inside-outside strategies related to improving wages and working conditions (aka fixing the real economy), partnering particularly closely with organized labor.’

H Developing inside-outside strategies to make progress on leveling the playing field economically for persons of color and women.

EXPANDING OUTREACH TO PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND CONSTITUENCIES Broaden the circle of influence and partnership for the Congressional Progressive Caucus by engaging communities and organizations that reach communities of color, progressive faith-based communities, organized labor, women, and young people.

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ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY-BUILDING Expand the capacity of the organization to be of assistance to the CPC by:

H Developing key technologies to facilitate progressive inside-outside coordination, including a new website, broader email list, online public whip tool, and tools to facilitate online discussion.

H Launching a wiki to index the progressive movement and its key people, organizations, and ideas.

H Develop expertise and capacity to influence a progressive bloc on the Senate side.

FILIBUSTER REFORM: A PROJECT OF PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG Work inside-outside strategies to reform the undemocratic Senate filibuster rules at the window when it’s possible in January 2011:

H Educate and serve as a resource on procedures around the filibuster for organizational leaders, the progressive grassroots, Members of Congress, congressional staff, and the press.

H Align and coordinate progressives inside and outside of Congress around a coherent strategy for ending the filibuster.

H Use the bully pulpit enjoyed by progressive Senators and House members, and the echo chamber of the progressive grassroots, Netroots, and progressive press, to frame the debate in the minds of the public so that they support filibuster reform.

PLANNING SUMMIT Convene a summit of Congressional Progressive Caucus Members and staff as well as key leaders from progressive outside partner organizations and constituencies to create a progressive strategic plan for the upcoming session of Congress:

H Educate and serve as a resource on procedures around the filibuster for organizational leaders, the progressive grassroots, Members of Congress, congressional staff, and the press.

H Align and coordinate progressives inside and outside of Congress around a coherent strategy for ending the filibuster.

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Total Income 229,359.25 0.00 110,000.00 0.00 0.00 339,359.25

Gross Profit 229,359.25 0.00 110,000.00 0.00 0.00 339,359.25

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Total 60900 Business Expenses 5,731.92 2,599.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8,330.92

62100 Contract Services 62110 Accounting Fees 5,250.00 0.00 1,705.00 0.00 0.00 6,955.00 62150 Outside Contract Services 0.00 150.00 5,000.00 0.00 0.00 5,150.00 62160 PR Consulting 0.00 0.00 0.00 38,718.50 0.00 38,718.50 62170 Paychex Fees 4,371.49 0.00 612.77 0.00 0.00 4,984.26

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62800 Facilities and Equipment 62840 Equip Rental and Maintenance 238.43 0.00 0.00 328.50 0.00 566.93 62890 Rent, Parking, Utilities 3,030.41 500.00 4,122.00 7,719.50 0.00 15,371.9162800 Facilities and Equiipment – Other 3,277.07 0.00 0.00 916.00 0.00 4,193.07

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65000 Operations 65020 Postage, Mailing Service 305.59 0.00 43.60 0.00 0.00 349.1965040 Supplies 3,215.25 325.82 2,402.33 0.00 0.00 5,943.4065050 Telephone, Telecommunications 810.70 0.00 307.32 1,004.81 0.00 2,122.83 65060 Website 32.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.26 130.26 65190 Bank Fees 24.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 24.00

Total 65000 Operations 4,387.54 325.82 2,753.25 1,004.81 98.26 8,569.68

66000 Payroll Expenses 66100 Salary 18,750.00 12,000.00 87,000.00 103,458.29 0.00 221,208.29

66200 Payroll Taxes 66210 Social Security Employer Share 1,081.90 744.00 5,356.88 6,346.26 0.00 13,529.0466220 Medicare Employer Share 253.03 174.00 1,252.78 1,484.25 0.00 3,164.0666230 FUTA 43.60 60.00 67.20 95.21 0.00 266.0166240 State Unemployment 702.80 292.50 291.61 469.34 0.00 1,756.25 Total 66200 Payroll Taxes 2,081.33 1,270.50 6,968.47 8,395.06 0.00 18,715.3666400 Health Insurance 6,193.20 1,510.20 3,776.44 3,775.50 0.00 15,255.3466500 Retirement Expense 210.00 360.00 240.00 1,670.00 0.00 2,480.00

Total 66000 Payroll Expenses 27,234.53 15,140.70 97,984.91 117,298.85 0.00 257,658.99

68300 Travel and Meetings 68310 Conference, Convention, Meeting 421.04 0.00 3,096.82 0.00 0.00 3,517.8668320 Travel 958.75 0.00 5,500.00 283.80 0.00 6,742.5568330 Meals 424.22 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 424.22

Total 68300 Travel and Meetings 1,804.01 0.00 8,596.82 283.80 0.00 10,684.63

Total Expense 56,070.40 18,715.52 120,774.75 166,269.96 98.26 361,928.89

Net Ordinary Income 173,288.85 -18,715.52 -10,774.75 -166,269.96 -98.26 -22,569.64

Transfer from Carryover 48,902.57 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 48,902.57

Transfer from General -195,858.49 18,715.52 10,774.75 166,269.96 98.26 0.00

Net Income 26,332.93 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 26,332.93

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