A progressive is someone who is personally invested in the direction our country takes and is bold enough to use her own voice to make it happen. A progressive does not prize an ideology but wants results. A progressive believes in social and economic justice for all people everywhere all the time and is willing to make personal sacrifices. A progressive holds dear our constitutional freedoms and is skeptical of any narrowing. A progressive knows that solutions are only as successful as they are sustainable. A progressive believes that we must meet the future with vision and not our fears.

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