They are demanding and trying to push forward effective, unified, progressive representatives who can turn their courage into political gains.
Instead, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid gave their blessing Obama's plan, and only a small band of progressive representatives are even pushing to put the military action to a vote.
What's more, the White House has pre-empted and marginalized the progressive representatives with its centrist budget and talking points.
Jones thrives on the feedback from his readership, welcoming ideas and opinions on his concerns for gun control, the strike on Syria and the climate crisis, and is confident their inspiration will allow him to bring a "truly representative progressive voice to CNN".
"I'm not envious of people's success in Silicon Valley," Representative Rush Holt, the progressive congressman running against Booker who helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last year, told me.
The meeting was attended by Steve Arnold, a progressive elected representative from Fitchburg in Wisconsin.
Therefore, if a journalist has no real interest in soliciting a more democratic, progressive or representative story this is not necessarily poor or unethical journalism.
But a leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Representative Lynn Woolsey, Democrat of California, predicted that over time "more and more people will select the public option".
"With advances in technology, methods of expression have also become more progressive," a representative of the event was quoted saying.
But are they inspired by an honest drive to make their titles more progressive and representative, or simply following consumer trends?
