Warren has repeatedly denied interest in running for president — although she did suggest some wiggle room recently — but she remains a forceful voice on income inequality and refinancing college loans. Liberals hope Warren’s popularity within the party encourages Clinton to adopt some of their concerns. But they remain wary of the former secretary of state’s ties to Wall Street.

“The single best way for Hillary Clinton to ingratiate herself with Elizabeth Warren is to embrace Warren’s populist agenda of reforming Wall Street, reducing student debt and expanding Social Security benefits,” said Adam Green, who leads the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has been a staunch supporter of Warren.

In fact, virtually every traditional pillar of Democratic support, from Hispanics and African-Americans to young voters and progressives, has some level of dissatisfaction with the White House and party leaders.

Some liberals say that Democrats’ problems show they didn’t lean hard enough on their populist message this year. Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said that national Democrats would have a more energetic base if they had better followed the lead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

“Warren’s economic populist agenda offers a pathway to success for Democrats in 2014 and 2016 — if they choose to take it,” Green said.

Sen. Majority LeaderAi??HarryAi??ReidAi??sent a fundraising email to the PCCC’s nearly 1 million members nationwide yesterday saying that aAi??Senate Republican Majority would “hold our government hostage in order to pressure President Obama to swallow right-wing policies.”

Sen.Ai??ReidAi??urged PCCC members to supportAi??Ai??Mark Udall (CO-Sen), Bruce Braley (IA-Sen), and Mark Begich (AK-Sen) to help Democrats keep the Senate and avoid a Republican Majority.

In addition to raising the prospect ofAi??impeachmentAi??in a Republican Senate,Ai??ReidAi??spoke publicly about expanding Social Security benefits for the first time ever.

Check out Sen. Reid’s email:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From:Ai??Sen. Majority LeaderAi??HarryAi??Reid
Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2014
Subject:Ai??I need these three

Mary,

In 6 days, the fate of the final two years of the Obama administration will be determined.

Either House Speaker John Boehner and a new Senate Republican Majority hold our government hostage in order to pressure President Obama to swallow right-wing policies.

Or, we shock Karl Rove, the Koch Brothers, and many pundits like we did on Election Night 2012 — and have a Democratic Senate that puts hard-working Americans first.

I need Mark Udall (Colorado), Bruce Braley (Iowa), and Mark Begich (Alaska) to win their elections. All three races are neck and neck.

If you want Democrats to keep our Senate majority, please donate $3 to their campaigns. Please do it right away.

Udall, Braley, and Begich stand with me in opposing cuts to Social Security. In the red state of Alaska, Begich is narrowly leading after campaigning to expand Social Security benefits.

Americans are struggling. They need a government that actually tries to solve problems.But Republicans have already shown they have zero interest.

Frankly, a Republican House and Senate could go beyond shutting down the government — they could waste months of our lives onAi??impeachment.Ai??And every month that goes by without solutions, struggling Americans are in pain.

Join me …

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned in a fundraising pitch Wednesday that Republicans could try to impeach and remove President Obama from office if the GOP wins control of the Senate in next week’s elections.

“Frankly, a Republican House and Senate could go beyond shutting down the government — they could waste months of our lives on impeachment,” Mr. Reid said in a fundraising email sent by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which is an outside group whose goal is to bolster liberal Democrats.

The email appeal asks for support for three Democrats in particular: Sen. Mark Begich in Alaska, Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado, and Rep. Bruce Braley, Democrats’ nominee in Iowa.

It’s crunch time in the midterm elections, and Democrats are pulling out all the stops to hold on to their endangered Senate majority, including reviving the specter of impeachment if they lose control.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will sound the siren in an email set to be sent on Wednesday afternoon to the roughly 1 million members of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a copy of which was viewed in advance by TPM.

Even if Republicans were to win control of the Senate, it would not mean they’d have the two-thirds majority needed to remove the president from office in the event that the House votes to impeach him. There was some talk of impeaching President Barack Obama among Republicans earlier this year but that has largely died down in the run-up to next week’s midterm election.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is raising the specter of impeachment to rouse Democratic donors with less than a week before the midterm vote.

In a fundraising email to members of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), Reid warns that a Republican-controlled Senate could lead to a congressional effort to impeach President Obama.

The PCCC has had some success marshaling its supporters in favor of progressive candidates in the past.

But Reid’s fundraising email comes at a time when Republicans are increasingly optimistic about their chances of netting the six Senate seats needed to capture control of the upper chamber. GOP candidates have pulled ahead in races that could swing Senate control and are close in seats Democrats had expected to hold easily.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, facing the likely loss of Democratic control of the Senate, is bringing out the bogeymen.

In an email to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s 1 million members with the subject “I need these three,” Mr. Reid writes that a Republican-controlled Senate would “hold our government hostage in order to pressure President Obama to swallow right-wing policies.”

He points to the Senate races in Alaska, Iowa and Colorado as “neck and neck” and asks donors to give $3 to the Democratic candidates in those states.

And Mr. Reid brings home his point with a big “or else.”

“Frankly, a Republican House and Senate could go beyond shutting down the government — they could waste months of our lives on impeachment,” he said.

Is Hillary Clinton contending for the Democratic left, the ground Elizabeth Warren has been stomping? Adam Green and Ruth Marcus join to discuss.

And the more anti-corporate tone is pleasing to the ears of liberals who have pined for Senator Elizabeth Warren, a scourge of Wall Street banks, to challenge Clinton for the Democratic nomination. And, they say, it’s a message Clinton can use against Republicans because many in the GOP have turned wary of Wall Street and big corporations since the 2008 financial crash.

“Warren’s economic populist agenda offers a pathway to success for Democrats in 2014 and 2016 –if they choose to take it,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “Hillary Clinton may be realizing that Elizabeth Warren’s economic populist positions are the path to electoral success in 2016–both in the primary and general election.”

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and liberal firebrand Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., sent an email to PCCC members – about a million nationwide, including about 125,000 in California – urging them to donate money to or make phone calls for Honda’s campaign. PCCC also is adding Honda to its “Call Out The Vote” program, mobilizing calls to voters from its national election headquarters and volunteers across the country on his behalf.

PCCC spokeswoman Laura Friedenbach said Friday that helping Honda win is a no-brainer for her group, especially since Khanna sent out a mailer blasting Honda as being too liberal.

“Khanna can’t seem to decide what party he sides with, but he’s made one thing clear: He’s not on the side of progressives,” she said. “This race is center stage in a national battle taking place between corporate Democrats and Elizabeth Warren wing Democrats for the soul of the Democratic Party.”

The former secretary of state and likely presidential candidate reached out a hand to the restive base of her party by wrapping her arms around Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a speech in Boston Friday where the two politicians shared a sage.

“As Hillary Clinton strikes a populist tone and people speculate about Elizabeth Warren’s plans, one thing remains clear: Warren’s economic populist message resonates with voters of all stripes, and her agenda offers a pathway to success for Democrats in 2014 and 2016 – if they choose to take it. That’s why Warren is the most sought after campaigner for Democrats across the country this year,” said Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which was an early support of Warren’s.

Much to the disappointment of her ardent fans, Elizabeth Warren has repeatedly, emphatically and in no uncertain terms said she is not running for president in 2016.

Or is she?

The senator’s office in Washington had no immediate response, but Warren enthusiasts most certainly did, seeing it as just the opening needed to propel her possible candidacy.

“Her economist populist message resonates with voters of all stripes, and her agenda offers a pathway to success for Democrats,” said Adam Green, co-founder Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which supports like-minded candidates.

Stephanie Taylor, PCCC co-founder — The Progressive Change Campaign Committee knows how to make noise in Democratic circles, and more importantly it knows how to rake in the dollars online. A longtime labor organizer, Taylor co-founded the PCCC alongside Adam Green in 2009, and has been applying data and technology to the committee’s outreach efforts ever since. While the PCCC may be a thorn in the side of some moderate Democratic candidates, and even some Washington-based Democratic groups, there’s no denying the group’s following and impact among progressives, and that influence is expanding in Washington. The group played a leading role in generating grassroots support and money for now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced this morning that it’s crossed the 2 million phone call threshold in its question to elect lawmakers who will align with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The group, which has raised nearly $1.4 million this cycle for Democrats, said it’s made more than 204,000 calls for Paul Clements in MI-06, 187,000 for South Dakota Democratic Senate nominee Rick Weiland and 176,000 for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, among others. It’s also putting resources and muscle behind Democratic nominees in Colorado, Iowa and South Dakota.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared to crack open the door to a potential presidential run after months of tamping down speculation on White House ambitions, telling People magazine that she’s learned to not “be so sure about what lies ahead.”

[…] “People want to know about Elizabeth Warren’s plans for the same reason she is the most sought after campaigner for Democrats across the country,” Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said in a statement. “If Democrats lose next month, it will be because they failed to heed Warren’s example early enough in the campaign. … Warren’s populist message is what excites voters.”

PCCC’s Call Out the Vote program just blew past another huge milestone: 2 million calls to voters in key states and districts, so far in 2014.

With 12Ai??days left until Election Day, the PCCC is on trackAi??pass its 2012 record ofAi??more than 2 million calls to voters on behalf of progressive candidates including over 574,000 calls for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). In its first year of operation in 2010, COTV made over 1 million calls to voters.Ai??The PCCC is going big with the goal of achieving 4 million calls for top progressive candidates by Election Day.

PCCC members have contributedAi??over $1.37 million through 179,000 donations to “Elizabeth Warren wing” candidates this cycle — including over $338,000 through over 43,000 grassroots donationAi??to majority makersAi??Mark Udall, Bruce Braley, Rick Weiland, Al Franken, and Jeff Merkley.

“These are candidates who will fight to takeAi??on Wall Street, get Big Money out of politics,Ai??reduce student loan debt, andAi??expand Social Security benefits,” says Stephanie Taylor, PCCC co-founder. “The PCCC’s unique infrastructure is helpingAi??progressives win, and win progressively, with people-powered campaigns.”

Members are pulling out all the stops to push progressives to victory on November 4. Check out the top candidates COTV is making calls for:

204,000+Ai??calls forAi??Paul Clements (MI-6)
187,000+ calls for progressive majority makerAi??Rick Weiland (SD-Sen)
176,000+Ai??calls for progressive majority makerAi??Al Franken (MN-Sen)
170,000+ calls forAi??Shenna Bellows (ME-Sen)
137,000+ calls forAi??big progressive primary winnerAi??Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)
91,000+ calls forAi??Alan Grayson (FL-9)
46,000+ calls for progressive majority makerAi??Jeff Merkley (OR-Sen)
40,000+ calls for progressive majority makerAi??Bruce Braley (IA-Sen)Ai??
40,000+Ai??calls for progressive majority makerAi??Mark UdallAi??(CO-Sen)
26,000+ calls for big progressive primary winnerAi??Pat Murphy (IA-1)

We’ve shattered our 2012 record of 2 million calls, and we still have two weeks to go. Progressive candidates need your help! Here are some of the top progressive candidates that COTV is helping:

Rick Weiland in South …

Most pollsters predict the Democrats will lose their Senate majority in next month’s midterm elections, but the Progressive Change Campaign Committee thinks they have a strategy to avoid this outcome, and it involves what they call the “Warren wing” of the party.

PCCC and MayDay PAC have poured over $2 million into this year’s Senate races in order to build a “firewall” around a group of Democrats they see as staunch liberals and economic populists in the mold of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts). The two groups are separate entities. PCCC is focused on promoting a progressive political agenda, while MayDay, which was founded by Harvard Law School professor and activist Lawrence Lessig, is dedicated to campaign finance reform. However, MayDay recruited the PCCC’s independent expenditure team to manage several of its efforts this cycle and, in those races, the PAC’s efforts are clearly aiding the “Warren wing” strategy.

We’re pulling out all the stops for bold progressive Bruce Braley in Iowa, who is running one of the most closely-watched and tightest races in the country that could decide control of the Senate.

The latest poll shows Braley up by a single point.

According to PCCC co-founder, Stephanie Taylor, the path to winning the Senate runs through Iowa. And PCCC members are sparing no effort to help Bruce win.

In the last 24 hours, the PCCC’s Call Out The Vote program has made 23,671 calls to voters in support of Braley. In total, the COTV program has made over 1.5 million phone calls to voters on behalf of bold progressive candidates across the country ai??i?? including Senate candidates Mark Udall (CO), Rick Weiland (SD), Al Franken (MN), Jeff Merkley (OR), and others.

Our members have raised more than $69,000 for Braley from 10,470 grassroots donations across the country. The PCCC has raised more than $1.3 million for candidates this cycle from over 179,000 small-dollar donations.

The Iowa race could be decided by just a few hundred voters. PCCC is searching for every single vote, and we need your help to do it.

Can you sign up to call out the vote for progressive majority makers like Bruce Braley?

Mayday is responding with even more money. As of this morning it’s upping its investment from $1 million to $1.25 million.

The straight-to-camera testimonial should be familiar to anyone who watches Mayday and its South Dakota partner, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. As Noam Scheiber explained last week, “PCCC insists on ads featuring local voters — often Republicans — which it unearths from its list of nearly one million members, distributed across every congressional district in the country.” It supplements this with direct outreach to its members, which MoveOn is also doing in South Dakota, in a race that’s unlikely to see more than 350,000 total votes cast.

Few progressives look forward to the prospect of a smaller Democratic caucus, especially one that loses the majority. But if there is a silver lining for activists, it will be that the candidates likely to win this November are those who have adopted a muscular, Elizabeth Warren-inspired approach; those who clung to muddled centrism will likely have lost.

“This year could show the Democratic Party that progressive populism is where the country is right now,” said T.J. Helmstetter, a spokesman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has worked to fortify the campaigns of those lawmakers who represent what it calls “the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party.”

“That is going to be the lesson coming out of these elections: that this message doesn’t just work for America, it works for the Democratic Party,” Helmstetter said.

Our modeling of the district and our polling clearly showed a path to victory as long as we stayed focused and disciplined with our message and communications universe. This gave our communication team, headed by Darcy, a former staffer of Gov. Jon Corzine (D), the ammunition it needed to chip away at the media’s perceived view of the race. It also helped to bring early support from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Laborers International Union, critical early endorsers of the campaign, and to drive the all-important fundraising effort as more and more people came to believe that Watson Coleman could win.

While it’s not yet clear if the progressive wing of the party will rally around one left-wing figure who could serve as the anti-Hillary candidate, liberal leaders believe a successful Democratic candidate must embrace Ms. Warren’s message.

“An economic populist tide is sweeping the country, and by 2016 every presidential candidate will need to say whether they agree with Warren on key issues like taking on Wall Street, expanding Social Security benefits, and reducing student loan debt,” said Laura Friedenbach, spokesperson for the increasingly powerful Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

With just under a month to go beforeAi??November 4, let’s talk about the centerpiece of our plan to win major progressive victories and keep a Democratic Senate.

It’s the PCCC’s cutting-edge Call Out The Vote program (COTV).

It has three parts:

Calls from the PCCC’s Election Headquarters
National volunteers, calling from home (and house parties)
Local volunteers, calling from target districts

In 2010, we made 1 million calls. In 2012, we made 2 million.

In 2014, COTV has made over 1 million calls already, and we’re going big with the goal of achieving 4 million calls for top progressive candidates by Election Day.

PCCC members have helped 5 Elizabeth Warren wing candidates defeat more conservative opponents in tough primary battles this cycle: Ruben Gallego (AZ-7), Brian Schatz (HI-Sen), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Mike Honda (CA-17), and Pat Murphy (IA-1).

Other incumbents and candidates PCCC members are helping across the finish line include Al Franken (MN-Sen), Jeff Merkley (OR-Sen), Rick Weiland (SD-Sen), Bruce Braley (IA-Sen), Shenna Bellows (ME-Sen), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-1), Rick Nolan (MN-8), Alan Grayson (FL-8), Keith Ellison (MN-5), Michael Eggman (CA-10), and Kelly Westlund (WI-7).

PCCC volunteers made over 574,000 calls for Elizabeth Warren in 2012. Our COTV program is the single-most effective tool we have in an election year.

It’s how we make people power match and surpass corporate power in elections. The Super PACs and the Koch brothers can’t do this — only we can.

The reason it’s so effective is that with our new dialing technology, we can contact a ton of voters in a very short amount of time. We’ve nearly doubled the amount of contacts we can make compared with past elections.

It really is that much of a game changer. But don’t take our word for it. Here’s what big primary winners and bold progressives elected to Congress …

ActBlue’s roots lie in the fund-raising strategies employed by Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential campaign. And in its early years the site often was used by candidates and committees using the “progressive” label. One of its heaviest users has been the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has backed more liberal Democrats such as Bill Halter, who mounted an unsuccessful challenge to Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas in 2010, and Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator. The committee has pulled in more than $3.2 million this year via ActBlue donors.

When Lessig launched Mayday, the consultants he envisioned employing were the sort of high-priced Washington hands who cut issue ads for billionaires on behalf of their pet candidates. In the months since then, however, Mayday’s understanding of “bad-ass campaign shops” has evolved. Mayday has now essentially outsourced oversight of the $1 million it’s investing in South Dakota, as well as $3 million in other races, to a nonprofit grassroots outfit called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), which styles itself in opposition to the professional consultant class.

The typical media consultant takes a 15 percent commission out of any media buy a campaign makes—potentially millions of dollars in a statewide race. Right off the bat, PCCC negotiated a zero-commission deal with the three ad consultants it retained. (They will receive a flat fee instead.) The typical consultant tends to favor slick, highly-produced ads. PCCC insists on ads featuring local voters—often Republicans—which it unearths from its list of nearly one million members, distributed across every congressional district in the country. The typical campaign uses some combination of paid staff, robots, and volunteers to encourage voters to turn up on Election Day, but it keeps their efforts separate, and the campaigns often lack a critical mass of volunteers needed to make calls efficiently. PCCC, using its “Call Out the Vote” program, can seamlessly supplement the campaigns’ own efforts with calls from the humans on its membership list, providing that critical mass continuously. And because the list is so extensive, it can make calls at enormous volume in a very short period of time. It recently placed 23,000 get-out-the-vote calls in a single night in Minnesota, a scale the typical statewide campaign often achieves in a week.