Hello and welcome to The Progressive Dictionary. My goal with this site is to help develop and organize useful words and frames to create a practical political vocabulary for American progressives.

Look around, see what you think of the terms I've come up with already, and please tell me what you think of them (both to help improve them and to let me know that somebody's reading this!). You can leave comments on every page or send me an email at fang2415 at fangjaw dot com.

For lots of other resources on progressive framing and language, check out the Rockridge Institute and their community site, Rockridge Nation.

You can also fish $8 out of your couch and buy George Lakoff's life-changing book Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. If you're too cheap to even do that, check out Lakoff's 2004 Boston Globe opinion piece that got me started thinking about political language in the first place.

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