2021 Annual Report

• The New Progressive Alliance (NPA) continued to expand our organizational outreach and is now allied with 59 other active national and international organizations. All allies are listed with internet addresses on our website.
• Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at the New Progressive Alliance, Leftist Third Party and Independent Candidates, Green Party Discussion, Truth Bomb Activists, and Progressive Perspectives. Because of problems with privacy and censorship on Facebook, we also publish on Twitter.
• We support with documentation those who support the ideas of the Unified Platform.
• In January we published “The top 10 weather and climate events of a record-setting year - In an all-around bizarre and largely unpleasant calendar year, extreme weather and climate-related changes contributed to the woes of 2020.” Failure to address climate change will result in an ever worsening future.
• In January we published “Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom.” Our prosecution of whistleblowers will have severe consequences. 
• In January we published an article showing Assange was not granted parole and called it unforgivable.
• In January the New Progressive Alliance signed on with other organizations asking to expel members of the House of Representatives that enabled sedition and an attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol during the vote to confirm Biden as President.
• In January the New Progressive Alliance signed on with other organizations to support Representative Cori Bush’s draft resolution seeking an investigation of those House members that have supported Trump’s efforts to invalidate the 2020 election and incited the mob at the Capitol. We also asked for the immediate impeachment of Trump.
• In January we published “22 disasters, 262 dead, $95bn in damages: US saw record year for climate-driven catastrophes.”
• In January we published the New Progressive Alliance article “Corporate Overreach” with over 430 references.
• In January we reviewed the book The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back our Planet by Dr. Michael E. Mann. We published the review for Amazon, the organization Extinction Rebellion, and in our recommended books list found in the NPA “Make your Case” at http://www.newprogs.org/make_your_case
• In January we published “UChicago study: Ultimate cost of carbon 1,000 times greater than cost to current generation.” 
• In January we published “Biden Urged to Fire Entire Postal Service Board for Complicity in 'Devastating Arson' by Trump and DeJoy - Trump confessed he was wrecking USPS to rig the election. His toady Postmaster General DeJoy carried out that arson. It's time to clean house."
• In February we published our NPA article “Civil Rights” with over 670 references.
• In February the New Progressive Alliance combined with 112 organizations to urge Congress to take quick action to enact President Biden’s American Rescue Plan to provide economic and medical relief from the Corona virus which will soon exceed 500,000 deaths.
• In February the New Progressive Alliance signed on to a letter with other organizations and individuals to urge the United States not to get involved in the internal affairs of Haiti.
• In February we published “Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Are on the Rise Due To COVID-19. Here’s How To Help.”
• In February we published an excellent article which takes a hard deep look at basic economic assumptions, war, and the Democratic Party by Jeff Roby, a Florida activist. The name of the article was “Nobody’s feet are going to be held to the fire.”
• In March we published the New Progressive Alliance article “Beware the Biden Administration.”
• In March the New Progressive Alliance joined other organizations with a petition to both Chambers of Congress and to the Office of Management for a Budget Clean Budget Coalition sign for FY22.
• In March we published “Small Acts Can Become a Power No Government Can Suppress.”
• In March we published a United Nations report on how other nations are doing on climate change.
• We should never forget Assange, the prosecuted whistleblower. In March we published “An Honest Government Ad” from Australia humorously pointing out the danger to a free press.
• In March we published “This Obscure Energy Treaty Is the Greatest Threat to the Planet You’ve Never Heard Of - The Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action on climate change. It must be stopped before it’s too late.”
• In March we joined 151 other organizations to support the Public Health Funding Prevents Pandemics Act, introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representative Doris Matsui. The bill would restore funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund to its originally authorized level of $2 billion, starting in FY2021 and for each year thereafter.
• In March we published our NPA article “The Economy” with a companion article “Economic Graphs and Videos” with a combined number of over 1,750 references.
• In March we published a YouTube video on the urgency of climate change.
• In March the New Progressive Alliance with other organizations supported the PLUM Act Letter (Periodically Listing Updates to Management Act) to the House Oversight and Reform leadership which endorses legislation that would create a continuously updated database of presidential appointees.
• In March the New Progressive Alliance with 17 other organizations supported the FACA Amendments Act (Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments) which would modernize transparency around federal advisory committees.
• In March the New Progressive Alliance with over 300 organizations from nearly 50 countries endorsed the Banking on Climate Chaos 2021 report. This annual Banking on Climate Chaos report exposes banks for their financing of fossil fuels. The report is used by activists to call out banks for their funding of climate destruction.
• In March we published an article showing election reform is needed.
• In March we published a disturbing example of fossil fuel corruption “Donziger Legal Team Blasts New York Appellate Court for Refusing Release After 600 Days of Home Imprisonment on a Misdemeanor Charge.”
• In April we published a graph showing infrastructure spending in context.
• In April we published “Coca-Cola and Delta Only Opposed Georgia Election Bill After Public Backlash.”
• In April we published our NPA article “Education” with over 940 references.
• In April we published an article from the founder of the New Progressive Alliance reminding us that the democrats are not all our friends.
• In April we published “Greenpeace Says Biden Tax Plan for Fossil Fuel Subsidies Simply Not Good Enough - Not a dime of our tax dollars should go towards corporations that poison our communities and wreck our climate."
• In April we published a plea for all to take the coronavirus vaccine.
• In April we joined other organizations in urging the U.S. House of Representatives to pass H.R. 51 making the District of Columbia a state.
• In April we posted, "As of April 19 anyone 16 years of age or older can get the vaccine in every state. It has been thoroughly tested. President Trump got it as soon as it was available. The death toll is now over half a million thanks largely to the spreading of falsehoods."
• In April we published a graph by Dr. Mann showing renewable energy works and is available now in mass.
• In May we published “Hmmm... Sounds familiar...” about the continual problem of democrats kicking the can down the road.
• In May we encouraged people to get vaccinated.
• In May we published “Enter the Debt Jubilee.”
• In May we published our NPA article “Education” with over 940 references.
• In May the New Progressive Alliance welcomed Friday For Future as an ally.
• In June we published our NPA article on the environment with over 5,000 references.
• In June we published “New Wind and Solar Up 50% Globally in 2020, as China Beats US by Over 4 to 1.”
• In June we supported multiple rallies to free journalist Assange with documentation on whistleblowers.
• In June we published “Hey, John Kerry – the renewable tech we need already exists.”
• ·         In June we published “Key readings on IEA’s ‘Net Zero by 2050’ report - It’s not often that a report from the International Energy Agency, IEA, commands the attention of global energy and financial experts. This one does just that.”
• ·         In June we published “Empire of the Dead: The Fossil Fuel Order and the clean-energy rebellion.”
• ·         In June we published “Boeing Restarts Donations to Members of the So-Called Sedition Caucus.”
• In June the New Progressive Alliance joined other organizations in a letter urging congressional leadership to include Senator Murray’s Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act (PHISLA, S. 674) in any infrastructure legislation being developed.
• In June we published “8 Key Components On The Pathway To Net-zero 2050.”
• In a July letter we joined with other organizations in a urging congress to act against FERC-regulated fracked gas infrastructure and the abuses of power and law inflicted on communities by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
• In July we published our NPA article on election reform with over  625 references.
• In July we published “6 months after Capitol assault, corporate pledges fall flat.”
• In July we published “We Still Won’t Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie.”
• In July we published “Dare we hope? Here’s my cautious case for climate optimism.”
• In July we started publishing on Facebook in Cascadia Progressive Forum.
• In July we published “11 Charts on Taxing the Wealthy and Corporations” illustrating increasing inequality.
• In July we published “Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era.”
• In July we published “The number of lives that clean energy could save, by U.S. state - Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes over 50,000 U.S. deaths and $445 billion in economic damage annually.”
• In July we published an excellent YouTube summary by Dr. Mann of where we are on climate change. It is fully documented in his book “The New Climate War.” 
• In July we published “‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report.”
• In July we published “Wildfires, floods and extreme heat: It is time to heed warnings from climate scientists.”
• In July we published “Plans of four G20 states are threat to global climate pledge, warn scientists - ‘Disastrous’ energy policies of China, Russia, Brazil and Australia could stoke 5C rise in temperatures if adopted by the rest of the world.”
• In July the New Progressive Alliance joined with over 100 other organizations to stop financing fossil fuels. In the 5 years since the Paris Agreement, the world’s 60 biggest banks alone have already provided a staggering USD 3.8 trillion to the fossil fuel sector.
• We lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Failure to face this will mean losing more needless wars. In July we published, “Don’t let the generals dictate the war’s legacy, make them answer for it - Expect the military officials who commanded Afghanistan to invoke ‘cutting and running.’ Let’s talk about why they failed.”
• In July we published “Subsidies really do matter to the US oil & gas industry.”
• In August we published the article about COVID 19 “I'm An ICU Doctor And I Cannot Believe The Things Unvaccinated Patients Are Telling Me.”
• In August we published a graph showing the correlation on COVID between the three least vaccinated states and the three most vaccinated states.
• In August we published our NPA article on healthcare with over 350 references.
• In August we published “Bipartisan bill leaves out key climate, clean energy steps.”
• In August we published “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency.”
• In August we published “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Is a Return to the Old Way of Politics. That’s A Problem for the Climate” by Dr. Mann.
• In August we published the YouTube video “The HORRIFIC State of the American Empire” by Chris Hedges.
• In August the NPA published connections to the international United Nations IPCC report. The situation with climate change is grim and we must act now.
• In August we published “That Was Me, People - The new U.N. report confirms that a repeat of Obama’s climate denialism will doom humanity — and at least a few Democrats may finally recognize that.”
• As we are about to clearly lose our longest war in Afghanistan, reflection on future actions is in order. Wars cost more than just lives and money. In August we published the New Progressive Alliance article “Continuous Wars” with over 1,200 references.
• In August we posted similar pictures of retreating helicopters after being defeated in Vietnam and Afghanistan. For Afghanistan it was 20 years, thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Afghan lives, and trillions of dollars. All for nothing but the lined pockets of bankers and weapons contractors. We also posted the New Progressive Alliance article “Continuous Wars” with over 1,200 references.
• In August we published “The Afghanistan Debacle: How Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Bamboozled the American Public.”
• In August we published “We Can't Let Pro-War Generals Who Lied About the Afghanistan War Define Its Legacy - The U.S. architects of the ruinous war are getting the last word on its lessons."
• In September we published our NPA article on our crumbling infrastructure with over 115 references.
• In September we published “The war in Afghanistan was far, far different from how it has been depicted in American media.” This article traces the tragic Vietnam mistakes we remade over a 20 year period. It cost us dearly in lives, money, lost opportunity costs to rebuild our nation, and lost international influence for decades.
• In September we published a video showing how Carbon Capture and hydrogen are false solutions to climate change.
• In September we published an interview with Dr. Michael Mann who discussed the extreme weather events and the urgency of action.
• In September the New Progressive Alliance welcomed BankTrack as an ally. BankTrack’s mission is to stop banks from financing harmful business activities; to promote a banking sector that respects human rights and contributes to just societies and a healthy planet; and to support fellow civil society organizations in their engagement with banks.
• In September the New Progressive Alliance welcomed the Climate Accountability/Drilled News as an ally. Climate Accountability/Drilled News reports on climate accountability and investigates the obstacles to action on climate change.
• In September the New Progressive Alliance published an article and YouTube video showing how Trudeau has fooled Canadians into thinking he is fighting climate change while fully cooperating with fossil fuel interests. Alas, democrats in the United States and leaders of most other countries have copied the Trudeau Formula. Unfortunately, climate change proceeds on physics and not politics. Future generations will be very unforgiving.
• In September we published “How America Made Osama Bin Laden’s Dream Come True.” We failed badly in Afghanistan and all our wars since 1953.
• The Cascadia Progressive Forum has consistently refused to post from the New Progressive Alliance so we will stop trying to post there. Possibly they are a sponsored by the Democratic Party and tolerate no criticism.
• In September we published “It’s Not Too Late to Learn the Lessons We Didn’t Learn From 9/11.”
• In September we published “9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed.”
• In September we published documentation of the increasing worldwide trend of killing, violence, and death threats towards environmentalists.
• In September we published how different countries are doing on being 1.5°C Paris Agreement compatible.
• In September we published “They Knew: How the U.S. Government Helped Cause the Climate Crisis.” James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In this interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings.
• The New Progressive Alliance made Public Comment 233 to the Federal Aviation Administration supporting SpaceX in an Environmental Assessment. Space X operations have a negligible effect on the environment. We oppose the continual expansion of and giving huge subsidies to fossil fuels which constitute the real danger to the environment. The Public Comment may be found in full at https://www.newprogs.org/public_comments_2020_224
• In September we published “Analysis Shows Facebook Allows 99% of Climate Disinformation to Go Unchecked - The new study coincided with Facebook's new initiative to combat climate lies, which civil society groups criticized as "too little, too late." This Facebook description closely matches the eleven year experience of the New Progressive Alliance.
• In September we published “Ukraine Showdown” by Jeff Roby who recently passed away. The article warns against the United States fixation on war. He wrote and maintained the Green Party of Florida website and wrote many insightful articles over the years giving the big picture. The New Progressive Alliance will later post a tribute with links to many of his writings.
• In October we published “Fair Winds and Following Seas…” a tribute to Jeff Roby who recently passed away. Jeff was a lifelong fighter for justice and is survived by fellow fighter and writer Rose Roby.
• In October the New Progressive Alliance welcomed Climate Strike as an ally. Climate Strike’s mission is organizing young people to build a sustainable world.
• In October we published a New Progressive Alliance article which describes the decline of labor over decades thanks to the policies of both parties. It has over 80 references.
• In October we welcomed Earthjustice as an ally. Earthjustice is a nonprofit public interest environmental law organization that wields the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.
• In October we published “Biden's silent climate betrayal.” Obama played this game for eight years. We no longer have time.
• In October we published “Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds - Trillions of dollars a year are ‘adding fuel to the fire’ of the climate crisis.” The New Progressive Alliance continued its documentation on massive subsidies for fossil fuels by also including a link to our article on the environment with many other documented examples of massive fossil fuel subsidies.
• In October we published “1000 companies driving the world towards climate chaos.” We are expanding – not contracting coal usage. Future generations may be very unforgiving.
• In October we published “Global Update: Climate target updates slow as science demands action.” We are running out of time to address climate change.
• In October we published “Deathly Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him” and “PATRICK LAWRENCE: Instead of a Free Press.” Freedom of the press only as long as they publish non-controversial subjects does not mean the press is free.
• In October we published “Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks.” As long as Assange is imprisoned the United States has no moral right to criticize other nations for lack of press freedom.
• In October we joined the Clean Budget Coalition for a tweet storm calling on federal lawmakers to remove the dark money poison pill riders from FY 22 appropriations legislation.
• In October the New Progressive Alliance joined with other organizations to urge Senator Peters (D-MI) to hold a historic markup hearing on S.51 to elevate the call for D.C. statehood and advance the bill so that we may deliver equal representation to the 700,000 mostly Black and Brown residents of Washington, D.C.
• In October we started publishing on the Facebook Page “Progressive Perspectives.”
• In October we published “USPS mismanaged DeJoy’s conflicts of interest and tried to cover it up.” We asked why does this corrupt Trump appointee still has a job.
• In October we published “People Right Now Are Absolutely Feeling the Climate Emergency.” The democrats and press are complicit in the climate crisis.
• In October we published a YouTube “Honest Government Ad” which starts in Australia, but also mentions the tactics many other countries are using to avoid responsibility for climate change for COP26.

• In October we published “Weather and climate extremes in Asia killed thousands, displaced millions and cost billions in 2020.” Few count the world wide costs of maintaining the status quo on the environment.
• In October we published “The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains.” Future generations will be very unforgiving.
• In October we published “Vanessa Nakate Wants Climate Justice for Africa.” Climate change is a worldwide problem.
• In November we published “On the climate crisis, delay has become the new form of denial” by Dr. Mann. We are out of time and cannot afford to continually delay.
• In November the New Progressive Alliance welcomed Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) as an ally. FAIR is a national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
• In November we published a New Progressive Alliance article which describes the dramatic increase in poverty over decades thanks to the policies of both parties. It has over 300 references.
• In November we welcomed Fossil Free Media as an ally. Fossil Free Media is a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to end fossil fuels and address the climate emergency.
• In November we published Net Zero 2050, an “Honest Government Ad” from Australia which is an excellent summation of avoidance strategies while running out of time to deal with climate change. (It has a brief appearance by Greta at the end!)
• In November the New Progressive Alliance wrote an encouraging letter to Steven Donziger, a human rights and environmental lawyer and activist illegally imprisoned in the United States. We along with Amnesty International and the United Nations support whistle blowers and human rights activists such as Donziger and Assange. To find out more about the case see reference 566 at https://www.newprogs.org/whistleblowers_under_the_democratic_republican_uniparty Our letter is in Public Comment 234 at https://www.newprogs.org/public_comments_2020_224
•  In November we published the updated “Make your Case with the United Nations on Climate Change.” It has the COP history and described how to be involved with the U.N. on climate change through the New Progressive Alliance. While inadequate and needing the assistance of many organizations such as Extinction Rebellion to make needed future progress, some small steps were made.

• In November we made Public Comment 235 to the Federal Insurance Office to make insurance accountable for their part in climate change. Insurance companies are fueling climate change. They provide coverage for fossil fuel wells, pipelines, and refineries. They also invest billions into companies that produce fossil fuels. Insurance companies are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and yet they continue to insure new fossil fuel wells, pipelines, and refineries that will only make the climate crisis worse. It is necessary to hold insurance companies accountable for the harm they cause to vulnerable communities as they take advantage of and contribute to the climate crisis. Public Comment 235 in full is found at https://www.newprogs.org/public_comments_2020_224
• In November we published “Ten Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change.” There are signs of hope for climate change. This battle is not yet over.
• In December we published the New Progressive Alliance article “The Powerless Press” which describes the dramatic decrease in both the power and effectiveness of the public media. It has over 820 references.
• In December we published “A Dystopian Hellscape Beckons: 21 Dark Clouds Over 2021 Amerika, by Paul Street.”
• In December we published “21 Things We Learned about Money in 2021” which showed the need for electoral reform.
• In December we published a timely reminder from the founder of the New Progressive Alliance entitled “The Lesson Democrats Never Learn” by Anthony Noel.
• The New Progressive Alliance article on the environment has over 5,000 references spread into different categories such as global warming, coal, fossil fuel corruption and dishonesty, killing of environmentalists, water problems, and others. To make access easier we will have one central article on the environment with connections to NPA articles in the other 20 areas. Applicable references will be in each of the articles on other areas of the environment and dead references will be deleted. This is a big job that won’t be finished until 2022, but then it will be a more user friendly reference.
• After updating the environment article in 2022 we will also begin to search for other places on Facebook and Twitter to regularly post articles supporting the NPA Unified Platform.
• After celebrating the 11^th anniversary of the founding of the New Progressive Alliance on December 16, on New Year’s Eve we posted the 2021 Annual Report. Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year to all!