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 America a Is Bes. Ta’s Progressive.
he Cener or American Progress he Cener or American Progress Acion Fund
 
ii www.americanprogress.org 
 
Reclaiming he Naional Agenda
 John Podesa, Presiden and CEO
2008 HERALDS THE WELCOMED END
o a presidenialadminisraion and a change in leadership or our counry. 2008may very well also mark he year ha our naion begins a 21scenury era o progress based on he progressive radiions o  America a is bes. Americans appear o be ready, afer eigh long years o desrucive, small-minded, and ineecual conservaivepolicies, o embrace a new direcion and a progressive agenda.By reclaiming a naional mandae or change, progressives now have a manies opporuniy o:• End he war in Iraq and resore America’s global leadership• Accelerae America’s ransormaion rom an economy basedon high-carbon sources ha pu our naional securiy andhealh o our plane a risk o a low-carbon economy buil onsusainable sources o energy • Reinvigorae our economy and ensure ha workers a all skilllevels have prospecs or good jobs, rising incomes, and auncioning saey ne• Provide aordable healh care o every American• Expand access o eecive educaion or all our children andgive hem he skills hey need o succeedPuting progressives in a posiion o assume he leadership o ourcounry has been a long and arduous journey. I mean rebuildinga progressive movemen rom he ground up ha could go “oeo oe” wih esablished and well-unded conservaive rivals. Irequired esablishing new and lasing insiuions ha wouldprovide new soluions o he challenges acing he counry and asharp and reasoned criique o conservaive policy. I demandeda modernizaion o our communicaions capabiliies so haprogressives could hen demand a new balance in he mulimediaenvironmen in which o cials and elies debae.Te Cener or American Progress and our siser organizaion,he Cener or American Progress Acion Fund, provide a oun-daion or oday’s progressive acivism and voice. We have led heeor o push back agains ailed conservaive policies and con-sruced a ramework or wha oday’s progressive polices couldlook like and how hey could be realized. Our powerul blend o policy analysis and media sophisicaion helps creae an environ-men in which public o cials and media elies now debae hecriical policies and issues more and more on our erms. And ourparnerships and convening bring aciviss and voers ogeher odemand he seismic changes he counry requires.Geting here, however, may only prove o be hal he batle. We changed he way progressives gh. Now we need heprogressive policies o be pu in place.I 2008 is he year progressive ideas win he day, hen 2009 willsurely begin he hard labor o seeing our ideas and ideals enacedino a new progressive governing agenda or our naion. CAPand CAPAF sand ready o help propel our policies over he ruenish line—creaing anew a naion seeped in he pracice, policy,and ideals o he American progressive movemen.
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