Build a New Progressive Era

“The Progressive movement sought to ‘restore a type of economic individualism and political democracy that was widely believed to have existed earlier in America and to have been destroyed by the great corporation and the corrupt political machine.’” www.history.com/news/gilded-...

It’s all pretty simple and you’re really just an asshole if you disagree. #NewProgressiveEra

time.com/article/2026... Though none of us remember the welcome mat laid out for us, here we are. And it is why we need to Build a New Progressive Era! #NewProgressiveEra

We must plan for what happens after this second Gilded Age is brought to a screeching halt… We must do better.

Trump's family has pocketed $3 billion in cash and gifts since the 2024 election. Much of that came from crypto schemes as he deregulated the industry. That money could pay for a full year of SNAP benefits for 1.3 million people, or more than 600 million free school lunches. Second Gilded Age.

Vote angry. That’s what the progressive era was about. Heather Cox Richardson frequently talks Ally the patterns matching that time and that we’re due for an epochal shift in American governance. I say frequently that we need with a new figure like Theodore Roosevelt or the equivalent in Congress.

We Must Keep a Progressive Vision of the Future Alive in the Trump Era www.commondreams.org/opinion/prog...

Gilded Age 2 will hopefully lead to The Progressive Era 2. We stuck it to the rich before, we can do it again. - Working Americans

Gilded Age 2.0 Which should be followed by Progressive Era 2.0

“I will note that the Gilded Age begat the Progressive Era, a period of unprecedented social and political reform in the early 20th century that rose from the backlash against the decadence and impunity of the previous era.” www.editorialboard.com/rage-against...

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Wealth inequality fast becomes a downward spiral if it isn’t addressed at a policy level. We traced how antitrust, progressive tax, regulation and organised labour once constrained the barons of the Gilded Age and what happened when those counterweights were stripped back.

For decades, economic policy has too often relied on tax cuts, deregulation, and the assumption that markets will deliver shared prosperity for everyone. Roosevelt has spent years building a different approach. In the weeks ahead, we'll make the case for a governing agenda that shifts power.

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

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The disaster of our current era is not impending: It is here and ongoing. A New Progressive Era cannot wait for elections or magnetic personalities to come to the rescue.

Happy Labor Day Weekend! #NewProgressiveEra

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

It is hard to reconcile Trump's consternation about meatpacker monopolies and his support for the proposed merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

Analyst: James Talarico teaming up with Mark Cuban is really interesting. He’s going after Big Pharma and coming up with a healthcare solution that people haven't talked about before, which is to break up the healthcare monopolies through antitrust. I think that's a really smart move.

The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check.

“…and what was in sausage meat was a terrifying mystery. In the early twentieth century, middle-class Americans demanded regulation of the food and drug industry, ushering in the reforms that we now call the Progressive Era.”

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We've seen this movie before, during the Gilded Age. And the result was the Progressive Era. If @democrats.org can get their act together, we might have Progressive Era II.

a big diff. between 'then' and 'now' is the lack of a muckraking journalism class (a la Sinclair Lewis) and strong leadership among the working class trades (a la John Lewis). can't have a progressive labor movement that is ONLY coming from politicians, imho. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era represent a connected sequence in American history where extreme industrial growth and corruption led directly to sweeping social and political reforms. We are ripe for another sweep of reforms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psYG...

Let’s talk some of the reasons the 2026 election in Texas is kinda weird for Progressive Era historians who live here… 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8v6Tjy5/

If anyone hasn't read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, it can be read as a free PDF on the Gutenberg website. gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

An Amazon worker died in one of Amazon's warehouses. As he lay on the floor dying, management told the other workers: "Just turn around and don't look. Get back to work." That was a human being. A child of God. Sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.

Most Democrats today have little conception or memory of how bold the party was before Reagan. I give you the 1972 Democratic Party platform’s full-throated endorsement of federally administered, nationalized healthcare. The party dropped that, pivoting to “universal” coverage—without the teeth.

The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.

The Gilded Age came crashing down with the Panic of 1893, which set off an economic depression that ushered in the sweeping reforms of the Progressive Era. Return to: Muckrakers Expose Corruption Populism Silverites Progressive Era Reforms Theodore Roosevelt

Society seems to be lining up to revisit this period again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progres...

Relearning the food regulation lessons of the Progressive Era, one hospitalization or death at a time. bsky.app/profile/wash...

the last time we had something similar to this was the Gilded Age 1.0. Then we had: massive wealth inequality media capture vast corruption in politics extreme oligarcy. When we woke up, we got: THE NEW DEAL AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND 80 YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS. History tends to repeat.

In today's"Letters from an American", @hcrichardson.bsky.social shows how the brutal 1890s Yukon Gold Rush was born from economic panic—and set the stage for the Progressive Era. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-16-... Full carousel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DcI-uRHlr5...

I told you that you would miss the Progressive Era if you voted for the Gilded Age. Objectively kind of impressive how fast business has started killing and maiming people once Elon Musk murdered the federal regulatory state, though. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

A key part of the transition from the Gilded Age into the Progressive Era was a cultural/rhetorical shift away from individualism toward social responsibility. The argument for universal healthcare is the same argument for K-12 education. It benefits *us* as a country when everyone is covered.

The parallels to our current situation are almost unbelievable. Yes -- as we have been taught by Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freemen among others -- we can learn a lot from our history. youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?...