Progressive Democrats of America Blog
A Leader for Our Times: Rashida Tlaib and the Struggle to Redeem American Democracy
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America In 2019, the world was introduced to a new generation of American leadership when four brilliant young women of color entered Congress: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and...
The Two Most Important Elections that You Probably Haven’t Heard About
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America 2020 is an extremely significant election year. Of course, every four years we are invariably told "this is the most important election of our lifetime." However, this time the hyperbole rings...
“And Yet…” Thoughts about Life in the Age of COVID-19 on the Occasion of my daughter’s 13th Birthday
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America We're four months into this thing with no end in sight. Already, it's fair to say that nothing outside of the two World Wars has altered the day-to-day existence of global modernity like this...
Reflections on the 244th Birthday of the United States of America
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of AmericaForty-four years ago I sat among one million people under the Gateway Arch to watch a spectacular fireworks display over the Mississippi River in my hometown of St Louis, MO. The event was the...
A Tremor In The Force: Mitchell Stollberg passes at 66.
Progressive Democrats of America staff It is with a heavy heart that we tell you that world class progressive organizer, warrior for peace, healthcare for all, and all forms of justice, and our dear friend Mitchell Stollberg passed at his home this past week. As our...
If you want Joe Biden to Govern more like FDR than Jamie Dimon, Vote for Bernie Sanders on Tuesday in New York and Kentucky
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America | Common DreamsHeading into Tuesday's New York and Kentucky primaries, Joe Biden has already won enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. Given that, it must seem counter-intuitive to...
Further Reflections on American Sovereignty in a Time of Popular Rebellion
photo: Wikimedia Commons By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America This article is an addendum to my column from last week, We the People are Sovereign. Let's Demand Justice, which raised the question of whether the people of the United...
We the People are Sovereign. Let’s Demand Justice.
photo: credit: KIMT By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of America One of the central tenets of modern society is that the State has a monopoly on violence in order to ensure social order. In turn, the sovereign rulers of the State set the...
The Devil and Larry Summers
photo: Larry Summers seated at the White House - Reuters By Alan Minsky, Executive Director - Progressive Democrats of AmericaLarry Summers is a recurring motif in American politics, rising to prominence every few years. Recently, he has been meeting with Joe Biden....
Memorial Day And Mail Voting – Ballots Not Bullets
By Mimi Kennedy, Board Member - Progressive Democrats of America Memorial Day Weekend, COVID-19. It’s summer’s kick-off, but we’re not gathering the way we usually do. Still, we remember our war dead. PDA was formed in 2004 to bring the peace movement inside the...