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Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took aim at the Democratic Party’s diminishing moderate wing at the annual Netroots Nation meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday and said the party’s progressives are “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is under fire from fellow progressives for supporting bipartisan legislation that would amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the crippling boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder provided a group of liberal lawyers and activists in San Francisco with a pep talk this week, and encouraged them to keep fighting President Donald Trump and his administration.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) returned to his home stomping grounds on Tuesday to deliver the keynote speech at Brooklyn College, where he reiterated his commitment to dismantling the “corrupt political system undermining American democracy” and called for the creation of a “new America based on progressive” values and the achievement of other tenets for which he rallied during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a potential candidate for the 2020 presidential election, took on a populist tone in her speech at the Center for American Progress 2017 Ideas Conference on Tuesday as she called for the rooting out of money’s influence in politics and continued her resistance against President Donald Trump.

During an interview with Bloomberg this week, progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said, “I’m not running for president.”

Former Barack Obama campaign staffer Ammar Campar-Najjar, who is challenging Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), says he is willing to work with President Donald Trump.

Thousands of professional progressive protesters are plotting to disrupt a town hall event for Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) here on Saturday morning, Breitbart News has learned, as part of a grander effort to grind down President Donald Trump and his America First agenda on the national stage.

Democratic candidates will take the stage at the CNN Center in Atlanta on Wednesday night to make a final appeal as to why they should become the next Democratic National Committee chair.

The Times notes how Miller’s patriotism and resistance to political correctness were a focus of contention among him and his peers at “Samohi,” i.e. Santa Monica High School — and seem to be what propelled his rapid political rise.

The world’s eight richest people own as much as half the world’s population, according to an analysis by the charity Oxfam.

Progressive disciples of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in California, many of whom backed the Vermont senator when he ran for president last year, are seeking to take over the Democratic institutions they once railed against in last year’s elections.

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) was able to garner another 35 endorsements in his bid to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Friday, which included support from 10 House members — four from California — and Sen. Tammy Duckworth.

“Get ready for war with Russia” if Hillary Clinton is elected president, said progressive Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein.

While Donald Trump has been consolidating his base of support, the opposite appears to be happening for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who seems to be hemorrhaging supporters from her progressive base.

Recent controversies plaguing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign may have created an opportunity for Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein to win over the hearts of some progressives and jump start her far-left “people-powered” movement.

The Wall Street executive who is the leading candidate to be Treasury Secretary if Hillary Clinton is elected, is now quietly touting a plan to grab control over the $25 trillion in Americans’ private retirement accounts.

New polling info from Reuters finds a nationwide toss-up 2016 contest between GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton — but he’s beating her by 20 points, 46 percent to 26 percent, among white working-class voters.

With Oscar prospects plummeting for the anti-Wall Street film The Big Short, Brad Pitt is rallying Tinseltown progressives to pump up the buzz for his two-hour morality lecture.