U.S. Rep. Jim Himes was the sole member of Connecticut’s all-Democratic House delegation to vote for the $1.1 trillion federal spending bill, stoking more criticism from a liberal interest group that cited his Wall Street ties.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which backs the populist, anti-big bank message of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said in an email Thursday that Himes favored the legislation for “deregulating Wall Street” even though the bill contained numerous other measures.

Elizabeth Warren, for her winning message. If there’s a beating heart of the post-Obama Democratic Party, it’s Elizabeth Warren, the crusading populist senator from Massachusetts who can’t seem to kick the notion, lovingly encouraged by her supporters, that she should run for president in 2016.

After the midterms, liberals insisted that what lost was the cautious moderation of the likes of Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.), while proud Democrats like Warren were winners. “Warren was the most popular Democrat on the campaign trail this cycle — in red states, purple states and blue states,” said Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

A leading progressive group blasted out an email to its members flagging a Wall-Street-backed measure in Congress’ spending bill that would badly weaken the financial reform law passed after the 2008 crisis.

But with a vote scheduled for Thursday afternoon on the spending bill and Republicans mostly on board, the message could be too little, too late.

The email, sent Thursday morning by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), raises the alarm about a late addition to the spending bill, reportedly written by a Citigroup lobbyist, that repeals a key provision of the 2009 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. That provision put restrictions on Wall Street banks’ trading of derivatives — the complex financial instruments that helped cause the near meltdown of the world financial system six years ago. Financial industry lobbyists have been working quietly but doggedly in recent years to get the law scrapped.

“Will you call [your representative] and tell him to vote NO on the spending bill?” the email asks PCCC’s nearly 1 million members.

PCCC spokeswoman Laura Friedenbach also told msnbc that President Obama should veto the spending bill if it comes to his desk with the Dodd-Frank repeal in it.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is pushing its nearly 70 Democrats to oppose a sweeping funding bill on Thursday because it rolls back a key aspect of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

The whipping from the CPC came as liberal groups off Capitol Hill began to marshal opposition against the spending bill. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, one of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s biggest boosters, urged its members to call on lawmakers to oppose the anti-Dodd-Frank measures.

“Democrats lost in 2014 because they failed to inspire Americans with bold ideas that would tangibly improve people’s lives,” said Adam Green, PCCC co-founder. “One thing is for sure during the budget negotiations: Easing regulations on big Wall Street banks and gutting campaign finance laws would represent Democrats marching in the exact wrong direction.”

President Barack Obama’s choice of Antonio Weiss, an investment banker at Lazard Ltd., has put him at the center of an ideological fight within the Democratic Party over the finance industry’s clout in Washington.

So far, six senators have announced their opposition to Weiss. In addition to Manchin, Shaheen and Franken, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Durbin of Illinois both said they would oppose Weiss, as did independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucuses with Democrats.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has supported primary challenges to Democrats, urged its members in a Dec. 8 e-mail to press for opposition to Weiss.

Financial reform groups that back Sen. Elizabeth Warren are joining the Massachusetts senator’s rally against Obama’s nominee for the Treasury, reported Talking Points Memo. This nomination is part of the revolving door between Wall Street banksters and public officials.

Joining Warren is liberal group, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), which sent an email to its supporters discussing the mistake that is Weiss’ nomination.

The extreme right has power, and that’s something the left hasn’t had much of for a long time. But in the aftermath of the party’s disastrous midterm performance, it’s very possible that the Democratic Party leadership will be facing its own Tea Party-style insurgency from the other side of the spectrum. “You’re going to get a fight within the Democratic Party. There is a substantial disagreement coming up,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, an outspoken Congressional Progressive Caucus member, recently told the Wall Street Journal.

The only question is, how serious a fight will it be? Will it be a polite spat that results in what has happened most often before—the fast marginalization of the left, with the best elements of the various critiques being stitched together by a centrist Hillary Clinton, or whoever is the nominee in 2016? Or are the populists ready to stage their own grassroots rebellion, setting their sights on eradicating all corporate influence from the Democrats and undermining any attempt by President Obama to compromise with Republicans by any means necessary?

Progressive activists such as the feisty Progressive Change Campaign Committee would love to be able to instill some of their own intraparty fear, sharpen their populist pitchforks and prod Democratic leaders leftward. And there is reason to believe this could be their moment.

The rebels offer a message about the chronic unfairness of the system so potent that even the Koch brothers aren’t above poaching it (a recent ad from the Kochs’ political arm chastised newly deposed Sen. Mary Landrieu for flying in private jets, even though the brothers have a few of their own.) The new liberal insurgency is savvy enough to stress issues that poll well and relate to the economic anxieties gripping the electorate, such as increasing Social Security benefits and shrinking the size of Wall Street, instead of chasing stale leftist pipe dreams like nationalizing the health insurance industry.

Liberal backers of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are throwing their support behind her latest cause: defeating President Obama’s pick for a top Treasury Department spot.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is sending emails to backers, calling on them to call members of the Senate Finance Committee and urge them to oppose the president’s nomination of Antonio Weiss.

The administration remains behind the Weiss nomination, and has touted his years of work on complex financial issues as a potential boon at a critical role.
But PCCC is working to scuttle the pick at the committee level.

In the email, the PCCC criticizes Weiss’s work on tax inversions – a corporate restructuring that reduces U.S. tax obligations that has been criticized by the administration — as well as his Wall Street resume.

Backers will also have the option of calling committee members to oppose the pick. A script provided by PCCC argues Weiss lacks the proper experience.

Concerns are continuing to mount over President Barack Obama’s choice of Antonio Weiss for a top Treasury Department post, but now progressives aren’t the only ones saying he’s not a good fit. Prominent financial industry insiders are speaking out, too.

Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, says Weiss has “no known relevant qualifications or experience” to become the next Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. The job requires, among other things, overseeing consumer protection and domestic regulatory functions at Treasury.

In the meantime, progressive groups are rallying behind Warren to try to sink the nomination. CREDO, a progressive activist group, has collected signatures from more than 115,000 people urging the Senate to reject Weiss. On Monday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee sent an email to its 1 million supporters urging them to contact their senators and tell them to vote no.

Liberal groups aligned with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are pushing supporters to help in Warren’s fight to prevent banker Antonio Weiss from becoming undersecretary of the Treasury for domestic policy. And they are drawing a hard line in the sand.

On Monday another liberal-aligned organization, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) sent out an email to supporters saying that Weiss’s nomination “is a big mistake.”

Even if Elizabeth Warren isn’t running for president, her liberal allies are determined to place the Massachusetts senator’s vision at the fulcrum of the Democratic Party’s 2016 primary debate.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has deployed one of its top organizers to the early primary state of New Hampshire to ask elected officials and political leaders there to pressure all candidates to take stands on Warren’s agenda – one that includes expanding Social Security benefits, reforming the way Wall Street banks operate and making college more affordable.

“We’re trying to assess who is in and who is out in our strategy to exert pressure to get all Democratic candidates for president to embrace Elizabeth Warren-style ideas,” says Adam Green, the committee’s co-founder.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), which is closely aligned with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has a hired an organizer to work full time in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary in 2016.

But, with Warren unlikely to run for the White House, the group isn’t supporting any specific candidate. In fact, it’s hoping to convince Democrats and union leaders in the state not to support anyone for the moment, in order to build a non-aligned coalition that can pressure all candidates to adopt a populist economic agenda.

Adam Green, the group’s co-founder, said the PCCC is telling New Hampshire Democrats to “keep your powder dry, don’t rush.”

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has deployed Democratic organizer Don Weigel to meet with local Democratic Party leaders, county chairs, union leaders, elected officials, and PCCC activists in New Hampshire and begin organizing a local coalition ahead of 2016, ABC’s Kirsten Appleton reports. “We’re organizing in New Hampshire to ensure that all Democratic candidates for president are pressed to actively campaign on an Elizabeth Warren-style agenda of big economic-populist ideas,” said PCCC co-founder Adam Green. “Big ideas like expanding Social Security benefits, reforming Wall Street, and making college more affordable are wildly popular in red, blue, and purple states — and are the path to primary and general election victory for Democrats.”

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which delivered funds and field resources to Elizabeth Warren’s Senate allies in 2014, is planning to organize in early presidential primary states, the group announced this morning, with a nascent effort already underway in New Hampshire. Democratic organizer Don Weigel is in the Granite State for meetings with local elected officials and supporters to help build a network for the 2016 presidential campaign. ‘We’re organizing in New Hampshire to ensure that all Democratic candidates for president are pressed to actively campaign on an Elizabeth Warren-style agenda of big economic-populist ideas,’ said PCCC co-founder Adam Green.

There was an emphasis on the issues uniting the two sides: trade agreements, corporate tax reform, infrastructure spending, immigration reform. Obama referred to them as “sweet spots for this group.” In the end, the president pledged himself “open to common sense,” and there was much applause from the CEOs.

Further complicating the White House outreach is the watchfulness of Democratic progressives, who are normally allies of the president but still angry that he didn’t strike a more populist tone in the midterm elections, believing that would have been more successful. They reacted quickly to Wednesday’s meeting at the Business Roundtable. Obama “should spend his final two years in office pushing an economic populist agenda like Elizabeth Warren’s, not delivering more giveaways to big business,” said T.J. Helmstetter, a spokesman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, adding that trade deals and corporate tax cuts “are not the kind of big ideas that voters are looking for.”