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The Progressive Revolution
Open Left - Front Page — I have big news. Today, my first book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, comes out in bookstores, and you can order it online ...

Mike Lux: The Progressive Revolution
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... I have big news. Today, my first book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, comes out in bookstores, and you can order it online ...

Finally the tables are starting to turn, Talkin' bout a revolution
SteveAudio — ... Several really good books on progressive politics and values have come out in the last year or so. The most recent is The Progressive Revolution, by Mike Lux: ...

The LiberalOasis Radio Show: Progressive Revolution Edition
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... , and author of the new book, The Progressive Revolution. Lux offered his perspective from working on the inside of the Obama-Biden transition team, and shared his insights on the state of the progressive movement. ...

Mike Lux: Big Disappointment
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Cross-posted at OpenLeft Those of you who are regular readers know that I am an Obama loyalist. I volunteered to help out during the transition; I think it's desperately important that he succeed; I am more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt; I have consistently defended him when some of my progressive friends have been critical; and I generally swallow my tongue when I don't agree with something because I want to be able to work quietly and constructively with his administration whenever I can. I so much believe in his transformational agenda that I have even made the decision to give all of the ...

Big Disappointment
Open Left - Front Page — Cross-posted at HuffPo Those of you who are regular readers know that I am an Obama loyalist. I volunteered to help out during the transition; I think it's desperately important that he succeed; I am more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt; I have consistently defended him when some of my progressive friends have been critical; and I generally swallow my tongue when I don't agree with something because I want to be able to work quietly and constructively with his administration whenever I can. I so much believe in his transformational agenda that I have even made the decision to give all of the money I ...

STREAMING LIVE TODAY: Michael Lux on America's Progressive Revolution
The Washington Note — Live Streaming by Ustream.TV My good friend and colleague Mark Schmitt, a senior fellow here at the New America Foundation and also the Executive Editor of the American Prospect, will be moderating a live discussion today with Michael Lux, President & CEO of Progressive Strategies and author of The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. I unfortunately am going to have to sit this one out because of a bad cold - but I encourage ...

Mike Lux: From Lincoln to Limbaugh: Oh How The Republican Party Has Fallen
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... As I discuss in my book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, the Republican Party began as the party of radical reform. In the Big Change Moment of the 1860s, they abolished slavery, passed the three most far reaching progressive constitutional amendments in history outside of the Bill of Rights, made sure the freedoms of the Bill of Rights would be enforced in the states, gave away millions of acres of free land to poor people, started the land grant university system, and passed the nation's first progressive income tax. Although they ...

From Lincoln to Limbaugh : Oh How The Republican Party Has Fallen
Open Left - Front Page — ... As I discuss in my book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, the Republican Party began as the party of radical reform.  In the Big Change Moment of the 1860s, they abolished slavery, passed the three most far reaching progressive constitutional amendments in history outside of the Bill of Rights, made sure the freedoms of the Bill of Rights would be enforced in the states, gave away millions of acres of free land to poor people, started the land grant university system, and passed the nation's first progressive income tax. ...

Is Our Big Change Moment Coming?
Open Left - Front Page — ... My new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, makes the case that major progressive reform in this country comes in tectonic plate shifts that move the country forward fundamentally for generations to come, something I call "Big Change Moments." In the 1860s, early 1900s, 1930s and 1960s, these Big Change Moments swept the country, making huge progress on a range of important issues possible. It was made possible by a combination of presidential leadership willing to be bold on major problems in our country and a big, strong progressive movement. ...

Great opportunity: Mike Lux book signing in StL on Friday
Fired Up! Missouri — Friday night, author Mike Lux will be in St. Louis to talk about his new book, The Progressive Revolution, and celebration the Grand Opening of Left Bank Books' downtown location. In the book, Lux doesn’t shy away from recounting the errors of Democrats and other progressives while citing the lessons of history. However, he maps how progressives have been instrumental in creating “Big Change Moments” and argues that as the Obama Administration begins its service, the time is ripe for a dramatic, new “Big Change ...

Jason Rosenbaum: Do you want a straight majority vote on health care?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — It comes down to this: Do you think health care reform should get a straight majority vote in Congress? Or should a few Senators be allowed to single-handedly block reform? As we speak, the Senate is working on President Obama's budget. At stake is something called "budget reconciliation," a Senate rule that forces Senators to take a simple majority vote on the budget. In other words, the budget cannot be filibustered. The bill the House Budget Committee passed yesterday includes "reconciliation instructions" for health care, which means health care reform, according to the relevant committee in ...

Mike Lux: Historical, Hysterical Conservatives
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Conservatives have been in a historical state of mind lately, and as the author of a new book on the history of the American political debate (The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be), it has been pretty entertaining to watch. ...

Historical, Hysterical Conservatives
Open Left - Front Page — Conservatives have been in a historical state of mind lately, and as the author of a new book on the history of the American political debate (The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be), it has been pretty entertaining to watch. ...

Secession Politics
Open Left - Front Page — ... In fact, as I argue in my book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, John C. Calhoun - with his fiery philosophy of states' rights - was in fact the founder of the political movement that became modern American conservatism. Calhoun argued that the rights and prerogatives of the individual states were more important than that of the federal government. He argued that states had originally joined the union of their own free will, and had every right to - at any time and for any reason -nullify national laws for that state, to refuse to enforce laws ...

Mike Lux: Secession Politics
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In fact, as I argue in my book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, John C. Calhoun -- with his fiery philosophy of states' rights -- was in fact the founder of the political movement that became modern American conservatism. Calhoun argued that the rights and prerogatives of the individual states were more important than that of the federal government. He argued that states had originally joined the union of their own free will, and had every right to -- at any time and for any reason -- nullify national laws for that state, to refuse to ...

The More Things Change... Meet Mike Lux, Author Of "The Progressive Revolution"
DownWithTyranny! — ... I went to a public lecture last night. Mike Lux, author of The Progressive Revolution, spoke at Book Soup in Los Angeles and led an inspiring talk about the history of American politics-- going right back to the drafting of the Constitution and the difficulty progressives had in getting conservatives to agree to the Bill of Rights. ...

GRITtv Live: Torturer in Chief? The Media Pick Pelosi Over Cheney
Firedoglake — ... Dick Cheney's office "suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner, a former intelligence official for Saddam Hussein, who was suspected to have knowledge of a Saddam-al Qaeda connection." Leave that to the blogs. Well, today, we have the best in the business when it comes to deconstructing the mainstream media. Its lapses, omissions, and outright distortions. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters and the author of Bloggers on the Bus, Mike Lux author of The Progressive Revolution and founder of Open Left, and Katharine Zaleski Senior News ...

Mike Lux: Daschle Is Dead Wrong About the Public Option
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... This kind of politics -- trying to avoid a fight with the big special interests by walking away from the most important piece of the puzzle -- is exactly what has gotten Democrats into political trouble time and again over the last 40 years. It's what I call in my book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, the culture of caution. It's what President Obama campaigned against when he ran, saying he would take on the special interests and bring change to Washington. So far on health care, he has held up his end of the bargain. So have the Progressive ...

Mike Lux: Progressives, re-start your engines
BlueOregon — ... As we progressives commence to the pushing and prodding of these folks we worked our asses off to elect, author Mike Lux has written about the way the progressive movement has evolved in America. Last week I interviewed Mike about his his new book: The Progressive Revolution. ...

Drinking Liberally
HorsesAss.Org — ... Author Mike Lux will stop by Drinking Liberally tonight (around 8:30) to discuss his new book The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came To Be. ...

Podcasting Liberally
HorsesAss.Org — ... to discuss his new book The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came To Be. Some introspection about bloggers, journalists, and progressive politics happens. ...

Blended Spaces--Making Sense of Partial Perceptions Of Obama
Open Left - Front Page — ... First off, this analysis, however, is itself (a) utterly ahistorical and without foundation, and (b) the product of two quite different discourses.  Taking (a) first, as Mike has shown in his book, The Progressive Revolution, major problems do not get solved by bipartisan consensus, they get solved by progressive supermajorities during brief windows of historical opportunity.  There are exceptions, of course: the Great Depression was finally ended when World War II virtually eliminated conservative opposition to the sort of massive government ...

But Dammit, He's OUR Quiet Policy Wonk
Open Left - Front Page — At Netroots Nation last week, I saw a lot of friends of mine from various progressive circles, and one conversation-starter many of them ask me was "what's going on for you besides health care?" To which I talk about The Progressive Revolution (I manage the press, website and book tour) some other work I'm doing at ...

Referendum 71 Qualifies in Washington State
Open Left - Front Page — ... , the organization in large part responsible for Washington State's "everything but marriage" protections for LGBT families, is managing it. And my good friend Josh Cohen, who did a lot of volunteer work around Prop 8 and general all-around tech guru, is helping with new media for the campaign. Josh C., in his capacity working at Microsoft, worked hard to help me set up a great event there for The Progressive Revolution book tour when Mike went to Seattle a few months ago. Both Joshes came to Netroots Nation two weeks ago to reach out and ask for help, and ask what they could do ...

Saturday Night
Open Left - Front Page — As many of you know, I organized the book tour for Mike's book, The Progresive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be. Several of those events were house parties from close friends of ours. We did a swanky one in NYC, a relaxed and groovy one in Lawrence, KS with the local college community, another one with really excellent political conversations and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge out in San Francisco. But what I loved most about them were that people were opening their homes to promote progressive politics and dialogue. The people who came didn't just have good food, drink and conversation- they helped ...

The Definition of Success
Open Left - Front Page — ... I think being complementary is warranted to some extent, but there is a difference between success as an event and success as a venture. What is the definition of success here? I put together over 60 events on a national book tour for The Progressive Revolution, nearly all of which were called "successes" by attendees and in my own opinion. But I would be the first to tell you the book was not a smashing success in the sense that it was on the NYTimes bestseller list or anything. That is not to say it wasn't a success in terms of a venture, and wasn't worth doing, as a tiny ...