progressive
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Talarico, a 37-year-old former teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2018 and built a national following with speeches combining progressive politics, biblical teaching and criticism of wealthy elites.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
These changes interfere with normal brain function and are associated with the progressive loss of neurons, the specialized cells responsible for transmitting information throughout the brain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Bass gathered her progressive friends in her living room and pitched Community Coalition to fight the crisis she saw on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Somos PAC, a progressive group that seeks to boost Latino turnout held an event in the parking lot of Pulido’s final concert.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
His sermons were given in a small Catholic church—St. Jean Bosco in Port-au-Prince—which had become the progressive, liberation theology church in Haiti.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
A swath of disaffected progressives started tuning in to his daily marathon livestreams, where Piker riffs on the latest batch of headlines with a trademark off-the-cuff panache.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
By the turn of the century, both parties were made up of economic populists, institutional conservatives and nationalist progressives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Piker, who earlier this year appeared on the campaign trail with El-Sayed, is a major influence among progressives and a boogeyman to establishment Republicans and Democrats alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The most electable progressives are instead happy warriors, a quality Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have in spades.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Middle-class progressives, disgusted by the corrupt politics of both Thompson and Sweitzer, threw their weight behind an independent reformer.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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