News

Can Virginia Be For Lovers and For Our Black Students?

As someone who wants to raise her children in Virginia, it breaks my heart to know that Virginia leads the nation in pushing children out of school and into the hands of the broken criminal justice system. But it makes my heart feel a little better knowing that there are local organizations fighting to keep […]

News

Spotlight: VA LAN Leading the Fight for Reproductive Justice for Virginia Immigrants

Imagine being an immigrant woman in Virginia and finding out you’re pregnant. In a country that is so hostile to immigrants and women, even more so during the Trump administration, how would you move forward with little to no access to reproductive health care?  People treat immigration and reproductive rights as two separate issues, but […]

News

2020 Eyes on Richmond Legislative Fellows

Progress Virginia is a multi-issue progressive advocacy organization that combines cutting edge online organizing and communications with rapid and hard-hitting earned media strategies. Year-round, we work to engage citizens from across the Commonwealth around issues of immediate state or local concern. Our mission is to provide a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical […]

News

Let’s Raise the Wage in 2020!

Now that we have a progressive majority in Virginia’s General Assembly, we can take on raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Virginia! It’s shameful that tens of thousands of workers in the Commonwealth are paid $7.25 an hour. People can’t raise their families with dignity with those kinds of wages, forcing many […]

News

We Won. Now Let’s Get to Work!

We won! Democrats now control both the House of Delegates and the State Senate!  We knocked doors. We made phone calls. We talked to our friends and neighbors. We voted. We worked our butts off, and it paid off!  But our work is not finished yet. Not to be a downer, but our work is […]

News

We’re hiring!

Project Manager Job Description Location: Richmond, VA Classification: Contract, beginning immediately through May 15, 2020 Salary: $4,000/month About Progress Virginia Progress Virginia is a multi-issue progressive advocacy organization that combines cutting edge online organizing and communications with rapid and hard-hitting earned media strategies. As Virginia’s leading progressive communications shop, we work all year round to […]

News

5 Reasons Why the New Lady Leadership is a Game-Changer for Virginia

Unless you were sleeping under a rock the past couple of weeks, you know that we did the damn thing and turned the General Assembly blue! We now have a Democratic majority in the legislature, and with it, more female leadership than ever before. This includes the new Speaker of the House, Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, […]