Name names: Which current or prospective national legislators are already on our side?

[NYC_SKP]

US Senators:
Sanders, VT
Warren, MA

And there's the Congressional Progressive Caucus:
Progressive Caucus members list here: http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/

Are they all true and active Progressives? I'm only familiar with a few.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/USProgressives

Who else do we want to engage?

I stumbled on this page, "21st Century Democrats", search by state for candidates, etc.

http://www.21stcenturydems.org/endorsements/

I think it would might be constructive to reach out to some of all of these people to see who wants to work with a bunch of us in organizing.

Name Names!!!

[hedda_foil]

1. Jan Schakowsky and Democracy for America

DFA for their membership of millions of populist Dems. Schakowsky because she's always got our back.

[randys1]

2. Jerry Brown, Alan Grayson, Bernie of course

[KoKo]

3. Recommend!..I'm trying to think beyond those already mentioned in replies.....

I'm trying to think .......????

John Conyers used to be really good...but he was "gone after." ...He's older now..I think if he was his younger self I'd list him...

I'll think more...

[KoKo]

4. Marci Kaptur and Barbara Mikulski were always great for Labor/Populist Issues...

Both can be looked up. But, I don't hear much about them these days on Lib Left Sites...the few that there are these days.

[KoKo]

5. Deleted..

[Bohunk68]

6. Was surprised not to see Paul Tonko's

name there. He has always been very Progressive. He represents the Albany area in Upstate. Used to be my critter, but we got redrawn and now we have a Teabagger who just got re-elected.

[onecaliberal]

7. John Garamendi

Ca 3rd. He's a true progressive.

[sabrina 1]

8. Grayson, on almost all issues. Wyden, especially on Civil Liberties issues.

[demwing]

9. Kicked & Rec'd /nt

[femmocrat]

10. Sherrod Brown, Ohio

http://www.sherrodbrown.com/issues/

[Zorra]

11. Raul Grijalva!

http://www.ontheissues.org/house/raul_grijalva.htm

[NYC_SKP]

12. Thank you!

I want to compile these names and maybe make an effort to collectively (us reformers at DU) send all of them an invitation to acknowledge our reaching out to them, and maybe begin a little coordination among ourselves and any of them willing to provide even a little support.

[UrbScotty]

13. Dan Kildee (D-MI)

http://dankildee.house.gov

[wavesofeuphoria]

14. Zephyr Teachout, not an office holder, but should be

https://www.facebook.com/zephyr.ny

http://www.teachoutwu.com/

Zephyr Teachout’s ‘Corruption in America’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/zephyr-teachouts-corruption-in-america.html?_r=0

How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy
http://www.thenation.com/article/181565/how-zephyr-teachout-taught-democrats-lesson-democracy

The Nation's Sarah Jaffe writes:
No, Teachout didn't beat the incumbent governor with the $35 million war chest, but she took nearly 35 percent of the vote Tuesday night, enough to leave a sizable gash in his left flank and do some permanent damage to his hopes of running for national office one day. She won nearly the entire Hudson Valley, a swath of the middle of the state, and even got 54 percent of the vote in far north St. Lawrence County, according to The New York Times’s election results maps. She took over 10,000 votes in the state’s capital, Albany County, compared to just over 6,000 for the governor. The 62.1 percent of the vote Cuomo garnered is among the poorer performances by an incumbent governor running for re-election in primaries since 2002—a figure that hovers somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth percentile of victory margins, according to FiveThirtyEight. That's pretty bad—the median percentage by which a governor won re-nomination was over 90 percent.

[dflprincess]

15. Al Franken and Keith Ellison