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The Squad is an informal progressive and left-wing coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives forming part of the Democratic Caucus. [1] All are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The squad was initially composed of four members elected in the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections: [2] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is a congressional caucus affiliated with the Democratic Party in the United States Congress. [4] The CPC represents the progressive faction of the Democratic Party. [2] [5] It was founded in 1991 and has grown since then, becoming the second-largest Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives.
Members who have attained higher office outside of Congress, having left that body, are no longer in the caucus. Tammy Baldwin (WI-2) – elected to Senate in 2012 Sherrod Brown (OH-13) – elected to Senate in 2006 (defeated for re-election in 2024)
Democrats’ crowded far-left field gave Biden the nomination by default; it also converted him de facto. Because Democrats refused to have a contested nomination in 2024, their leftward drift ...
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) launched a postelection critique of progressive Democrats, claiming they helped Donald Trump win a second White House term. Torres, who overwhelmingly won his ...
Democrats started to boo Trump when he started his speech, prompting Republicans to respond in turn by chanting "USA." Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, became particularly rowdy during the address, and ...
Unlike some members of the historical progressive wing, such as Bryan who held fundamentalist religious views, [26] modern progressives in the Democratic Party are secular and culturally liberal on social issues like race and identity, where they draw inspiration from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 proposed by ...
While Drum favors more left-wing positions, he conceded, "over the past two decades Democrats have moved left far more than Republicans have moved right….The truth is that the Democratic Party ...