For two days in the middle of July, Whitehouse led Democrats in holding the Senate floor to try to open debate on the Disclose Act, a bill that would force groups spending more than $10,000 on elections to name their contributors. The bill was blocked — twice — by a Republican filibuster. “We can’t give up in the Senate,” Whitehouse said on a conference call organized by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee on Tuesday. “I talked to my colleagues about what I call the Jericho principle, which is just because you didn’t win the first time around doesn’t mean you aren’t going to win down the road.”

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s national profile continues to rise. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee will hold a national conference call on Tuesday at noon for its members and the press where Whitehouse will discuss efforts to overturn the Citizens United ruling and his Disclose Act, WPRI.com has learned.

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The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) told its supporters on Thursday that it raised $800,000 for Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts over the past year. Warren has so far raised nearly $25 million, outraising Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown in a race that is projected to be one of the most expensive in the country.

A day of protests and rallies at the Michigan Capitol has begun with Democratic Rep. Barb Byrum of Onondaga seeking an apology from Republicans for a one-day, House floor speaking ban last month. Byrum, along with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy For America members, said she delivered more than 115,000 signatures calling on Republican House Speaker Jase Bolger to publicly apologize for the ban

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group, has generated hundreds of calls to Senate offices and launched an online advertising campaign targeting several Senate Republicans on the eve of the Monday vote. Ads were aimed at GOP Sens. Tom Coburn (Okla.), Susan Collins (Maine), John McCain (Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dick Lugar (Ind.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine.)

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) has just announced this afternoon that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has said that there will be a vote on the DISCLOSE (Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections) Act on Monday. The DISCLOSE Act helps make election spending more transparent, by requiring the disclosure of donors to certain groups that run advocacy ads intended to influence elections.

Five more companies, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, have left the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) since the Feb. 26 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla… after the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and other liberal groups launched anti-ALEC activities. Nearly 30 companies and nonprofits have quit by now.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has launched an effort to reform the nation’s campaign finance system

Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) is urging support for a Michigan lawmaker who was barred from speaking on the state House floor after using the word “vagina” in an abortion debate.. Peters grabbed attention for joining a petition in support of Brown and her colleague, Barb Byrum (D)… The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which is behind the petition, has launched online ads targeting Bolger and another GOP leader in response to the scandal.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee will release a five part campaign today aimed at overturning Citizens United. The plan includes some of the following points: “Pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, require corporations to get shareholder approval before any political spending…”

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is launching “Take Back Democracy” a five-part campaign to overturn Citizens United and fight corporate money in politics.