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Posted by | May 5, 2014
Running Digital Campaigns: What’s Changed and What’s Still Working?

This is the 10-year-anniversary of Howard Dean's revolutionary digital campaign. Despite the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and mobile campaigning over the past decade, email remains the primary way that we...

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Fighting for Truth and Universal Healthcare

Obamacare has finally been fully implemented, but the fight to successfully reform our healthcare system has a long way to go. Come hear detailed analysis of how we got here,...

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Fighting Fake Science: When the Right tries to Derail Your Movement with Misinformation

This panel will discuss right wing tactics—from climate change deniers to misinformation campaigns on birth control, sex ed, and abortion—that use fake science to try to attack progressive movements. Panelists...

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Voting Rights: On the Frontlines

Candidates running for Secretary of State will discuss voting rights issues that come up in the states and what participants can do to help fight back against Voter ID laws...

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Headline Risk and Social Cost: Hitting the 1% Where it Hurts

Headline risk remains one of the largest realms where progressives can force change on the masters of the universe. This session will examine the assets society has against the 1%,...

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The Rise of Janet Yellen: Why the Fed Matters, and How Progressives Fought for the First Female Chair of the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve wields great economic power; it is often said that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is the second most powerful person in America. In 2013, a ragtag...

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Manufacturing a Middle Class with Quality Jobs

Rebuilding our manufacturing base is the key to building a strong economy for the future and putting millions of people back to work in good middle class jobs. Manufacturing has...

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Beyond Livable Wage: Creative Strategies to Get to the Root of Inequality

Around the country, progressives are pushing for much-needed increases in the minimum wage toward a more realistic "livable wage." However, what else can we do to change the debate to...

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The Organizing Edge: Online Predictions for the 2016 Elections

What propelled progressive candidates to victory in 2008 and 2012 won't be enough to keep us there in 2016. If we stood on our laurels in 2008 marveling at the...

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Progressive National Security in the 2014 Elections and Beyond

National security played an unusually strong role in the 2012 elections, with Barack Obama ranked as one of the most effective national security presidents in recent memory. With the memory...

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