TONIGHT: Preparing for Mental Health Awareness Month on Disabilities Issue Organizing Team call Join us Wednesday, 8pm ET/5pm PT, as we Highlight the Shortfalls in Mental Health Care in the US, and How We Can Change That. RSVP Now!   In observance of the upcoming Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we’re excited to have brilliant clinician, educator, and author, Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein as our featured speaker this week. Dr. Sharfstein recently retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sheppard Pratt Health System, where he has worked for 30 years. He is also Clin ..read more

Press Release: Progressives Urge Senate to Put Israeli Aid In Escrow For Immediate Release April 23, 2024 Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Urges the U.S. Senate to Hold All Israeli Military Aid in Escrow to Ensure That Israel Fully Complies with U.S. and International Law, and to Secure a Ceasefire in Gaza Contacts: Mimi Kennedy, Actor, Activist, Former Chair of Progressive Democrats of America Advisory Board, Mimi@pdamerica.org 818-515-1291 Alan Minsky, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of America Alan@PDAmerica.org 818-749-9497 Mike Hersh, Communications D ..read more

ESCROW FOR ISRAEL AID IS U.S. SELF-DEFENSE Mimi Kennedy is an LA-based actress and Board Member of Progressive Democrats of America. The inability of U.S. citizens, even a majority, to influence our country’s policies of war and peace in a rapid and effective way has long been obvious to many.  Our support for Israel’s war in Gaza has made it painfully obvious – and now perilous.  The U.S. stands before the world as an accomplice to Israel’s flagrant violation of international law in Gaza. Yet Congress continues to pass aid because so many of our legislators – and their ..read more

Sunday: The Young Americans leading the fight against the climate emergency. RSVP now! Join us this Sunday at 4pm ET/1pm PT for a special Earth Day National Town Hall led by Young Progressive Democrats of America (YPDA), who will highlight the youth-led legal challenges designed to reverse government policy in order to protect humanity from catastrophic man-made climate destruction. RSVP now!   The team from Young Progressive Democrats of America (YPDA) is bringing you a very special Earth Day Town Hall this Sunday, focusing on a nationwide movement that has come t ..read more

Please RSVP now for THURSDAY: Campaign to Victory call focusing on Squad Member Summer Lee and Berniecrat Zach Shrewsbury for Senate from WV Join us Thursday, 9pm ET/6pm PT, to help bring home victories for Summer and Zach: RSVP Now   We’re coming off of our single most successful event ever for any of our endorsed candidates with our Summer Lee event Saturday before last, and Zach Shrewsbury running to fill Joe Manchin’s vacated Senate seat in WV knocked it out of the park on our Sunday Progressive Town Hall the day after. We’re in with both, but please take note this is our fin ..read more

And Environmental Justice For All: The Struggle to Make Environmentalism Universal “Those who are most affected by climate change must have a say in plans to respond to the problem.”—Dr. Robert Bullard   The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. It soon became apparent that white communities were primary beneficiaries of new environmental protection laws, while communities of color remained repositories of lax enforcement, toxic dumping, and accompanying higher rates of asthma, cancer, and other environmentally sourced diseases. To be sure, activists such as Cesar Chavez and Black st ..read more

TONIGHT: Ceasefire Now Congressional Liaison organizing meeting. RSVP now! Join the Organizing for Peace Liaisons call TONIGHT, Monday, April 15, 8pm ET/5pm PT: RSVP Now   PDA is participating with a Coalition of Organizations, convened by our allies at Peace Action, in a set of Grassroots Advocacy Days calling for Ceasefire Now! in Gaza. We will be mobilizing fully on Tuesday, April 16, calling all Members of Congress and the President to support a complete Ceasefire Now! We will also be having an organizing call for our Congressional Liaison project, in which all PDA membe ..read more

PDA Weekly Review and Preview for 4-13-24. Join us! Author Much Done, and Much More to Do: Here’s How We Can All Help Bring Home Wins   Many thanks to those who were in the game with us over the past week. Your efforts are making a real difference! Coming off of the hugely successful fundraiser we helped coordinate for Summer Lee last Saturday, we’ve been hitting the phones hard for her as well as progressive Senate candidate Zach Shrewsbury, who is looking to fill Joe Manchin’s vacated seat in West Virginia with a serious working-class progressive! We continued our work for pea ..read more

Sunday: Squad Member Delia Ramirez, plus the Ceasefire Now! campaign. RSVP Now!  This is a Town Hall you won’t want to miss! Join us Sunday at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT as we speak with Congresswoman and Squad Member Delia Ramirez, a true Superstar of Progressive politics. Also, learn how you can join PDA’s biggest push yet for a Ceasefire Now! in Gaza. RSVP here.   The other day, PDA Executive Director Alan Minsky was privileged to be at a meeting with Representative Delia Ramirez and he came away astonished: “I’ve seen the future of American politics and it r ..read more

A New episode of Positively Progressive, PDA’s podcast hosted by Donna Smith Listen to the new episode of PDA’s Podcast Positively Progressive hosted by Donna Smith—”The New Generation: Jena Griswold and YPDA”     In the new installment of Positively Progressive we hear from Young Americans taking the lead in forging a progressive present and future. First, host Donna Smith and PDA Executive Director Alan Minsky are joined by the brilliant and path-breaking Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is on the front lines of protecting American democracy fr ..read more