I've already made a difference because I've built a progressive coalition increasing our chances of victory.

And to do that, we're putting together a progressive coalition of Democratic activists, labor unions and others.

Letters: A radical government requires a proportional system and a 'progressive coalition'.

And in a midnight phone call to Brown last night, Clegg made his early departure a condition of negotiations for a progressive coalition.

Fortunately, in this cacophony of political forces lie the seeds of a potent, progressive coalition.

The progressive coalition has already collected more than half the signatures it needs to force a recall.

The progressive coalition now faces the additional task of having to educate voters about the new law in order to qualify them to vote.

Now, though, Wisconsin's progressive coalition is mobilising once more for its biggest push yet - the effort to unseat the governor in 2012.

"I've never been tempted to run as an independent and divide the progressive coalition."

It's a diminishing constituency, unfortunately, in the progressive liberal coalition.