Friend --

Thank you for joining the Allied Progress team! I’m Derek, the Research Director here, and we’re thrilled to have you with us in our fight to put consumers first by holding Wall Street and special interests accountable.

I wanted to take a minute to tell you about some of our projects, and ask you to take a quick survey so we can learn which issues are most important to you.

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We use hard-hitting research to call out and stand up to corporate special interests while holding their allies in Congress and the White House accountable. Our work is one of a kind and gets the attention of our targets, whether they’re big corporations or members of Congress. In fact, we’ve even gotten calls asking us to back off! (We refused.)

Here’s some of what we do:

Supporting the Original Mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
The Bureau exists to protect consumers. However, the Trump administration is trying to defang the CFPB and make it serve financial institutions rather than consumers. Allied Progress is fighting them every step of the way -- and our research has uncovered unsavory ties between the CFPB and special interests.

Taking on Payday Lenders.
The Trump administration is incredibly cozy with predatory payday lenders, and we’re making sure people know it. We’re holding them accountable by exposing these ties -- recently we launched a “Payday Party” campaign (which included a mobile billboard outside the annual payday industry gathering -- held at a Trump resort, of course).

Protecting Student Borrowers.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has failed to protect student borrowers from massive student loan servicers like Navient and Nelnet. We’re putting pressure on her to do her job.

Stopping Media Monopolies.
Allied Progress led the charge and successfully stopped the merger of Tribune Media and the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which would have pushed an extreme pro-Trump viewpoint into 72% of American households. The collapse of this merger was a major victory for American consumers and a defeat for the propaganda pushers at Sinclair.

Holding Big Banks Accountable.
The largest banking institutions in the country are back to the same kind of risky behavior that led to the financial crisis and the Trump administration isn’t stopping them. Trump has rolled back banking enforcement and regulation at the worst time, so we’re turning up the heat up on Congress and regulators to do what Trump won’t: rein in the big banks.

Friend, activists like you play a huge role in our work, and we want to hear what you’re most interested in. Will you take this quick survey to let us know?

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Thanks,

Derek Martin
Research Director
Allied Progress

 



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