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While we live through a Second Gilded Age, let us emerge bolder and wiser by learning from the past to reform; to break down barriers for the many; to unleash, with better vision for the future, a New Progressive Era! substack.com/@newprogressiveera

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Build a New Progressive Era @newprogressiveera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The disaster of our current era is not impending: It is here and ongoing. A New Progressive Era cannot wait for elections or magnetic personalities to come to the rescue.
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Build a New Progressive Era @newprogressiveera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day Weekend! #NewProgressiveEra
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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Patricia G. Barnes, J.D. @patriciagbarnes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It is hard to reconcile Trump's consternation about meatpacker monopolies and his support for the proposed merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
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From Meatpackers To Meta: Monopoly Power Is Everywhere
President Donald J. Trump talks tough about meatpackers after signing off on a merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, which would greatly consolidate the movie and news industries.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Analyst: James Talarico teaming up with Mark Cuban is really interesting. He’s going after Big Pharma and coming up with a healthcare solution that people haven't talked about before, which is to break up the healthcare monopolies through antitrust. I think that's a really smart move.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check.
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The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin
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piobair.bsky.social @piobair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“…and what was in sausage meat was a terrifying mystery. In the early twentieth century, middle-class Americans demanded regulation of the food and drug industry, ushering in the reforms that we now call the Progressive Era.”
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August 20, 2026
On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.
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jtkstc @jtkstc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Are We On the Verge of a Progressive Revolution Like the New Deal?
Do we stand on the edge of a grand new progressive era, with good wages for all, racial and gender equality and justice, and America joining the rest of the developed world with cheap college and…
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Puget Bob @pugetbob.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We've seen this movie before, during the Gilded Age. And the result was the Progressive Era. If @democrats.org can get their act together, we might have Progressive Era II.
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Tynaqua @tynaqua.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a big diff. between 'then' and 'now' is the lack of a muckraking journalism class (a la Sinclair Lewis) and strong leadership among the working class trades (a la John Lewis). can't have a progressive labor movement that is ONLY coming from politicians, imho. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
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Opinion | We’re in a New Era of Class Warfare. History Points to a Way Out. (Gift Article)
The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself.
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Tod Jones @tfosteroaks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era represent a connected sequence in American history where extreme industrial growth and corruption led directly to sweeping social and political reforms. We are ripe for another sweep of reforms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psYG...
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Let’s talk some of the reasons the 2026 election in Texas is kinda weird for Progressive Era historians who live here… 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8v6Tjy5/
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Let’s talk the 2026 #Texas #election & state #history in the Progressive Era because sometimes it’s weird to be a historian #Tallarico #Paxton & Dan Patrick
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Gardenia (Гарденія) Fella💙💛🌊 🫘 @gardenia2112.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If anyone hasn't read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, it can be read as a free PDF on the Gutenberg website. gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...
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The Jungle
Release date: March 11, 2006 [eBook #140] Most recently updated: January 10, 2026
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An Amazon worker died in one of Amazon's warehouses. As he lay on the floor dying, management told the other workers: "Just turn around and don't look. Get back to work." That was a human being. A child of God. Sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Most Democrats today have little conception or memory of how bold the party was before Reagan. I give you the 1972 Democratic Party platform’s full-throated endorsement of federally administered, nationalized healthcare. The party dropped that, pivoting to “universal” coverage—without the teeth.
Establish a system of universal National Health Insurance which covers all Americans with a comprehensive set of benefits including preventive medicine, mental and emotional disorders, and complete protection against catastrophic costs, and in which the rule of free choice for both provider and consumer is protected. The program should be federally-financed and federally-administered.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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GarwoodStevens @garwoodstevens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Gilded Age came crashing down with the Panic of 1893, which set off an economic depression that ushered in the sweeping reforms of the Progressive Era. Return to: Muckrakers Expose Corruption Populism Silverites Progressive Era Reforms Theodore Roosevelt
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smellytoe @smellytoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Society seems to be lining up to revisit this period again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progres...
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Progressive Era - Wikipedia
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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Relearning the food regulation lessons of the Progressive Era, one hospitalization or death at a time. bsky.app/profile/wash...
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The Captain @thoreau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
the last time we had something similar to this was the Gilded Age 1.0. Then we had: massive wealth inequality media capture vast corruption in politics extreme oligarcy. When we woke up, we got: THE NEW DEAL AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA AND 80 YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS. History tends to repeat.
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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In today's"Letters from an American", @hcrichardson.bsky.social shows how the brutal 1890s Yukon Gold Rush was born from economic panic—and set the stage for the Progressive Era. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-16-... Full carousel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DcI-uRHlr5...
First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, August 16, 2026. A curly-haired dog is pictured in a teal circle on the left. Text reads: "In today's Letters from an American, Heather explains how the brutal 1890s Yukon Gold Rush was driven by desperate Americans fleeing deep political division and economic depression following the Panic of 1893. She highlights how the eventual influx of Yukon gold inadvertently helped heal the nation's bitter currency debates, opening the door for the reforms of the Progressive Era.”
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Social Scientist (Mostly) in Exile @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I told you that you would miss the Progressive Era if you voted for the Gilded Age. Objectively kind of impressive how fast business has started killing and maiming people once Elon Musk murdered the federal regulatory state, though. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Outshine Frozen Fruit Bars Recalled Over Glass Contamination Concern (Gift Article)
The parent company, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, voluntarily recalled five flavors nationwide. No injuries linked to the recalled products have been reported.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Diogenes1147 @diogenes1147.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Something Pithy @tiifcv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A key part of the transition from the Gilded Age into the Progressive Era was a cultural/rhetorical shift away from individualism toward social responsibility. The argument for universal healthcare is the same argument for K-12 education. It benefits *us* as a country when everyone is covered.
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The Upswing
From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis of social capital, civic e...
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Sty Fy @styfy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The parallels to our current situation are almost unbelievable. Yes -- as we have been taught by Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freemen among others -- we can learn a lot from our history. youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?...
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The Gilded Age | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
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Sam W @samiw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump's cronyism is off the charts. His best buddies are the Robber Barons of the modern age. The New Gilded Age has arrived, and it is just as shitty as the original recipe. medium.com/@SamWorld-We...
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Let’s Talk About the Robber Barons
We keep mentioning them. But who were they and what did they do?
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Betsy Chadwell @curleygrey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
An excellent short comparison of our society today to that of the Gilded Age, and what that means. weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/s...
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Thomas (he/him) @thomas--72.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The first gilded age showed us we need government to regulate food safety. The second gilded age is showing us we need government to re-regulate food safety.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
History rhymes. Trump et al. calls it the “Golden Age”. This is the Gilded Age part 2. The wealthy lived like kings & paid no taxes, got away with crimes. It didn't last. The Gilded Age from the 1900s was followed by the Progressive Era Vote Blue in the midterms. Flip the House & Senate. #Pinks
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Honestly this is the right way to look at things
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
3 become. When Eva asks why I let it happen,I’m determined to answer truthfully: I didn't!"
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
2 “We’ve amassed enough firepower to end the world 1,000 times over,but we can’t summon the will to guarantee healthcare and pre-K.” “I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark,dangerous,and cruel as this one threatens to ---👇
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🦋 @allenanalysis.bsky.social #JonOssoff “I’ve got two little girls at home;Eva is four, Lila is one.Soon enough,they’ll learn there are microplastics in human blood & breast milk,that toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are in half the country’s drinking water,and that the butterflies are dying off 1 -3
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It is important to understand that Trump is not the cause of the enshittification of America. He is a consequence. Unless the system is fundamentally changed, the enshittification will continue even after Trump is long gone. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-ensh…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To put it another way, I think one of the things we most need is a return to rigorous antitrust enforcement, up and including some good old-fashioned Teddy Roosevelt-style trust-bustin'.
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cosmoknows.bsky.social @cosmoknows.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Time for another Progressive Era.
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Somethingbytes @somethingbytes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We're in a second gilded age, just this time the robber barons are tech moguls. It's crony capitalism again like it was then. Hopefully we get a second progressive era. Maybe just this time without rhe war and depression.
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Bullies Suck @bulliessuck2024.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
1896: Progressive Era Began Context: Spanning 1896 - 1916, the era prompted widespread social activism and political reform across the U.S. Activists pushed initiatives such as suffrage (allowing women to vote) race relations, anti-corruption in politics and modernization. #AmericanHistory 1/5
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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Discouraged R voters means elected D candidates. The elected Ds need to deliver some tangible positive change. Time to invoke the Progressive Era and bust some trusts.
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
For no reason at all The Progressive Era ended the Gilded Age
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Something Pithy @tiifcv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Great answer that touches on something very important. The cultural pendulum swinging away from individualism/selfishness toward community/social responsibility was a key part of the transition out of the Gilded Age and into the Progressive Era. We need to do it again.
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The Upswing
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bdamude.bsky.social @bdamude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wisconsin governor primary upset highlights Democratic divide ahead of midterms Source: 41nbc.com People need to recognize that we are in the midst of a 2nd Progressive Era, which consisted by in large, of Social Democrats and their ideas. A direct result of the economic pressures of the times.
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Rbhines @rbhines.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We need a Progressive Era, like during the Roosevelts. Not just a few candidates. Trump and Trickledown must go, lock, stock and catering cart.
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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · 12/08/2026
Jane Addams, Hull House, and the complicated reality of Progressive-era reform in Chicago. New #UnsungHistory podcast 🤓 with @feministkelly.bsky.social #MSWMedia Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Back when the GOP wasn't completely insane.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We are in the midst of a massive political shift upending politics, establishment parties (e.g., socialism, MAGA). But historical parallels fit this era (e.g. Gilded Age) Will this new Gilded Age lead to a new Progressive Era? timothymcbride.substack.com/p/what-are-t... @thebulwark.com
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