Progressive Kick is a national progressive 527, focused on elections and accountability. We target the United States Congress and state legislators.

Victory in Iowa! Together with Working Families Win we raised over $10,000 for the Iowa Senate special election. Progressive Democrat Liz Mathis won her race on November 8th with 56% of the vote, allowing Democrats to retain control of the Iowa Senate and preventing a complete GOP takeover of Iowa government.

We teamed up with EMILY’s List this summer on a donation-matching program which raised over $60,000 for the Wisconsin Senate recall candidates. Five of the six Democratic challengers running in the Wisconsin recall elections were progressive women — and two won their elections. Our other Wisconsin project this year involved teaming up with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in April on a donation-matching program to raise over $20,000 for signature gathering expenses for the Wisconsin Senate recall. In 2010 we ran a program called Win Big by Thinking Small!, which was a donation matching contest for state legislative races in key redistricting battleground states. This built off a donation-matching program we ran in Virginia in 2009, Virginia’s Progressive Kicks.

We are an organization of pragmatic progressives, dedicated to construction of a society that values the needs/rights/responsibilities of all of its members-from the most powerful to the least. Since the most powerful are already being taken care of, our capacity building focuses on the rest of us.

Our activities include:

Spotlighting the betrayal of citizens’ interests by elected office holders on both the Congressional and State levels with the idea of informing & capacitating citizens to make more intelligent decisions about their relationship with their Federal and respective State governments.

Exploring 21st Century Technologies for use as innovative new tools, we reach people who are often not reached by conventional messaging technologies &/or reach people in more cost effective ways.