ProgressNow

ProgressNow, previously the Rocky Mountain Progressive Network, is a progressive 501(c)(4) advocacy organization in the United States. Founded in 2003, ProgressNow bills itself as a network of state based communications hubs which act as a marketing department for progressive ideas.

ProgressNow was created in 2003 as a response to the libertarian Independence Institute. It has since grown a subscriber base of more than 350,000 grassroots activists in Colorado. In 2006, ProgressNow began to expand its network outside of Colorado and has since created ProgressNow Partners Networks in twenty-one states: Courage Campaign (CA), ProgressNow Colorado, Progress Florida, Better Georgia, ProgressIowa, ProgressMass, Progress Michigan, Alliance for a Better Minnesota,Bold Nebraska, Progress Missouri, ProgressNow Nevada, Granite State Progress (NH), Progress New Mexico, Progress North Carolina, ProgressOhio, Keystone Progress (PA), Progress Texas, Alliance for a Better Utah, ProgressVirginia, Fuse Washington, and One Wisconsin Now. As of 2015, the organization reported that it had an email list of over four million names.

The first chairman was Rollie Heath, a Boulder executive who gained office as the 18th district's state senator in 2008. Heath was followed by Dr. Albert Yates, the former president of Colorado State University. The founder of ProgressNow is Michael Huttner, a Brown University and University of California Hastings College of Law graduate and lawyer turned political strategist. The current executive director is Arshad Hasan, who previously led Democracy for America.

Its founding board members included Wes Boyd, founder of MoveOn.org, Rob McKay, chairman of the board of the Democracy Alliance and president of the McKay Family Foundation,Jared Polis, elected in 2008 as the U.S. Congressman for Colorado’s 2nd District, and Ted Trimpa (the current chair), an attorney and government relations expert.