"She Has the Power." Gloria Totten and Progressive Majority. The Nation.

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This group allied with DFA for the last year.

http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2227

Gloria Totten is the savvy executive director of Progressive Majority--and she's bullish about Howard Dean's ascendance: he will speak "with a clear voice," pursue a "movement-building politics" and "bring a well-rounded approach to the chairmanship."

Indeed, the former Vermont Governor and former head of the Democratic Governor's Association shares Totten's commitment to rebuilding state parties, mobilizing new voters and using new technologies and fresh ideas to inspire the grassroots. In short, Dean gets it--and so does Totten.

In 2004, Dean's group Democracy for America endorsed scores of candidates running in local and state races--from a school board member in Huntsville, Alabama, to a mayoral contender in Salt Lake County, Utah. Working with like-minded progressive organizations such as Progressive Majority and 21st Century Democrats, DFA sought to give back power to citizens, and recruit and support the next generation of grassroots leaders.

Looking ahead, we need to see action and real muscle behind the commitment to localism and fighting in the states. We're now well into 2005, and for Dean and Totten, it's a chance to build on their work of the 2004 campaign....."

http://progressivemajority.org/

Here is their advisory committee at Progressive Majority.
Jesse Jackson, Jr., Jan Schakowsky, and Hilda Solis

http://progressivemajority.org/leadership/profile.asp