Progressive movement

1. A movement for reform that occurred roughly between 1900 and 1920. Progressives typically held that irresponsible actions by the rich were corrupting both public and private life. They called for measures such as trust busting, the regulation of railroads, provisions for the people to vote on laws themselves through referendum, the election of the Senate by the people rather than by state legislatures, and a graduated income tax (one in which higher tax rates are applied to higher incomes). The Progressives were able to get much of their program passed into law. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were associated with the movement.

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Elections last week revealed the emergence of a growing progressive movement in Schumer’s hometown, where the longtime senator declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani in his successful bid for New York City mayor.

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And just as the progressive movement sometimes loses other elections, progressive prosecutors should be expected to sometimes lose their elections too.

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His proposals shocked the city’s corporate elite and minted him a new leader of the progressive movement.

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That struggle has unfolded in unusually close quarters in Brooklyn, where two of the party’s most powerful figures have strained to cope with a rising progressive movement, embodied by Mamdani, that is already looking past them.

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Calling on Labour and the progressive movement to build a rival "ecosystem" of influencers, podcasters and social media channels, White said Labour needed to start telling more compelling stories.

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