Progressive Democrats plot path forward with 'Persuasion 2025' event
Source: Politico
09/30/2025 05:55 AM EDT
A group of progressive politicians and strategists will call on Democrats to take a more leftward path out of the political wilderness at a private confab Tuesday — underscoring ongoing rifts within the party.
The event, Persuasion 2025, is hosted by liberal donor group Way To Win and ad-testing platform Swayable. They’re bringing together top progressive leaders to diagnose Democrats’ failings in 2024 and propose fixes ahead of the upcoming midterms and 2028 presidential election. The details of the event were described first to POLITICO.
“2024 was such a catastrophic loss and a wake-up call that Democrats need new thinking,” said Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, co-founder of Way To Win. “We cannot continue to be the more palatable party or the lesser of two evils. We need to try to think bigger … and we don’t have to compromise our values in order to win.”
The event, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at a Washington, D.C., hotel, is just the latest in a series of new groups, conferences, research and podcasts to lay bare the party’s ongoing disagreements over how to recover. In some ways, Tuesday’s event represents the progressive answer to WelcomeFest, a center-left meeting in June, when Democrats urged candidates to run toward the ideological center.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/progressive-dems-plot-path-forward-with-persuasion-2025-event-00586041
Link to "Way to Win" website - https://waytowin.us/
= new reply since forum marked as read
