随着民主党在国会两院均取得惊天动地的胜利，该党内的进步派正向较为温和的领导层发出信号：是时候为要求采取实质性行动的选民兑现承诺了。
Now that Democrats have secured earth-shattering wins in both chambers of Congress, the party’s progressives are sending a message to their more moderate leaders: It’s time to deliver for voters who are demanding meaningful action.
“即使候选人不是自称进步派，进步派昨晚也大获全胜，”国会进步派核心小组主席、得克萨斯州民主党众议员格雷格·卡萨尔周三在记者电话会上表示。“全国范围内，所谓的温和派候选人都以结束‘永久战争’为竞选纲领，”他补充道，并指出民主党抨击共和党投票否决了国会阻止唐纳德·特朗普总统不得人心的军事行动的尝试——这些努力是由进步派核心小组组织的。
“Even where the candidate wasn’t a self-described progressive, progressives won big last night,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, D-Texas, during a press call on Wednesday. “Across the country, so-called moderate candidates ran on ending forever wars,” he added, pointing out that Democrats went after the GOP for voting down congressional attempts to stop President Donald Trump’s unpopular military actions — efforts that the progressive caucus had organized.
截至周三美东时间下午4点30分，民主党在两院均拥有舒适的多数席位——参议院54席，众议院237席——如今拥有立法腾挪空间，可兑现降低生活成本、铲除政府腐败、结束特朗普在伊朗失败战争的承诺。
With comfortable majorities in both chambers — 54 seats in the Senate and 237 in the House, as of 4:30 p.m.
但他们必须在一位愤怒的跛脚鸭总统手下取得这些成就，后者昨晚通过在Truth Social发布一张其标志性红帽子的帖子，誓言将对这批新当选的民主党人行使否决权。目前国会两院的民主党领袖、参议员查克·舒默和众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯，都有长期与左派交锋的记录。当进步派队伍在1月壮大时，他们会优先推进哪些目标？
ET Wednesday — Democrats now have the legislative breathing room to deliver on their promises to reduce the cost of living, root out government corruption, and end Trump’s failed war in Iran. But they’ll have to notch these achievements under an angry lame-duck president who vowed last night — via a Truth Social post of one of his signature red hats — to wield his veto against the new class of Democrats. The current Democratic leaders in each house of Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, both have long track records of sparring with the left.
“我们将推出第1号至第10号众议院决议，聚焦成本、医疗和腐败问题，”卡萨尔周三表示，指的是他希望本党推动的前10项众议院决议。“现在每一周，我们都应该向唐纳德·特朗普的办公桌送达一项法案，这项法案深受美国民众欢迎，能够遏制企业贪婪、遏制哄抬物价、遏制大额资金在政治中的影响。”对于威尔·劳伦斯来说，周二在密歇根州一个摇摆选区击败共和党现任众议员汤姆·巴雷特，民主党取得的历史性成功之夜意味着肩负起实现变革性变化的责任。劳伦斯是“日出运动”的联合创始人，曾是“美国民主社会主义者”成员。
And which of their goals will progressives prioritize when their ranks swell come January? “We will have an H.R. 1 through 10 that focuses on costs and healthcare and corruption,” Casar said Wednesday, referring to the first 10 House resolutions he wanted to see his party push. “Every single week, we should now be sending a bill to Donald Trump’s desk that is overwhelmingly popular with the American people, that cracks down on corporate greed, that cracks down on price gouging, that cracks down on big money and politics.”To Will Lawrence, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement and a former member of the Democratic Socialists of America who beat Republican incumbent Rep. Tom Barrett in a Michigan swing district on Tuesday, the Democrats’ historically successful night translates into a responsibility to achieve transformative change.
“毫无疑问，这是全国范围内的全面授权，”劳伦斯表示，他的竞选活动聚焦于反对数据中心，这是一个臭名昭著的、不受欢迎的科技开发领域，左翼一直在推动民主党予以反对。
“It’s undoubtable that this was a sweeping mandate around the entire country,” said Lawrence, who ran a campaign focused on his opposition to data centers, a notoriously unpopular area of tech development that the left has pushed Democrats to oppose.
众议员萨默·李（民主党-宾夕法尼亚州）告诉《拦截报》，人工智能行业的过大影响力是进步派必须应对的另一个关键领域。她说，她和其他进步派将推动立法，终结亿万富翁和超级政治行动委员会资金在选举中的外部影响，包括她提出的禁止超级政治行动委员会和推翻“联合公民诉联邦选举委员会案”最高法院判决的法案。
The outsized influence of the artificial intelligence industry is another critical area for progressives to tackle, Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., told The Intercept. She said that she and other progressives will push legislation to end the outside influence of billionaire and super PAC money in elections, including her bills to ban super PACs and overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
“每年，我们都会看到历史上最昂贵的竞选在数百万美元的规模上刷新纪录，”李说。“在第120届国会，我期待我们的党派认识到特殊利益集团和亿万富翁影响力在我们政治中的有害作用，无论这些影响来自加密货币、人工智能还是美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）。” 其他进步派优先事项包括推行全民医保、终结企业腐败、投资经济适用房等政策。
“Every year, we see record-breaking numbers for the most expensive races in history by the millions,” Lee said. “In the 120th Congress, I look forward to our party recognizing the detrimental impact of special interests and billionaire influence in our politics, whether it be from crypto or AI or AIPAC.”Other progressive priorities include passing policies like Medicare for All, ending corporate corruption, and investing in affordable housing.
这些理念是由参议员伯尼·桑德斯（无党籍-佛蒙特州）推广的再分配纲领的核心原则，桑德斯今年早些时候在全国各地动员选民“反抗寡头统治”，并帮助提升了本周期许多新晋候选人的声势。
The ideas are tenets of the redistributive platform popularized by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who rallied voters across the country to “fight oligarchy” earlier this year and helped elevate many of this cycle’s upstart candidates.
周三，进步派似乎尚未准备好承诺首先推动哪一项单一议题。当《拦截线》询问他们重返国会后的“首日优先事项”时，卡萨尔表示，进步派计划在即将到来的两年国会任期内持续保持立法施压。
On Wednesday, progressives did not yet seem prepared to commit to which single issue they would push for first. Asked by The Intercept about their Day-One priorities when they return to Congress, Casar said progressives planned to keep up the legislative pressure throughout the two years of the coming congressional term.
支持劳伦斯且经常致力于推动民主党向左转的“劳动家庭党”，将周二的结果视为“选民希望民主党停止数据中心的建设扩张并管束人工智能行业”的信号，该组织发言人拉维·曼格拉表示。与国会进步派一样，劳动家庭党也列举了未来几年的一系列优先事项：保障医疗和低成本托儿服务、降低住房成本、为美国工人提供更多工会工作岗位。
The Working Families Party, which backed Lawrence and often works to push Democrats to the left, saw Tuesday’s results as a sign that “voters want Democrats to stop the buildout of data centers and rein in the AI industry,” said Ravi Mangla, the group’s spokesperson. Like the congressional progressives, WFP cited a range of priorities for the years to come: guaranteeing healthcare and low-cost childcare, lowering housing costs, and providing more union jobs to American workers.
事实上，在摇摆州劳工领袖组织的一项承诺推行一套亲劳工政策的承诺书上签名的候选人，是民主党周二晚间最大的赢家之一。“与劳动美国契约”的签署者包括特洛伊·杰克逊，他在缅因州击败了连任三十年的共和党现任参议员苏珊·柯林斯；詹姆斯·塔拉里科，他在得克萨斯州近40年来首次翻转了该席位；以及吉娜·伊诺霍萨，她击败了连任10年的共和党得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特。
In fact, candidates who signed onto a promise to push a suite of pro-labor policies organized by labor leaders in swing states were among the Democrats’ biggest winners on Tuesday night. Signatories to the “Contract with Working America” included Troy Jackson, who toppled three-decade incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine; James Talarico, who flipped the Texas seat for the first time in almost 40 years; and Gina Hinojosa, who ousted 10-year incumbent Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
杰克逊在周二晚间于缅因州发表的胜选演讲中提到了这一承诺，并感谢了为他拉票的工会成员。
Jackson pointed to the pledge during his victory speech in Maine on Tuesday night and thanked the union members who canvassed for him.
“兄弟姐妹们，在劳动节那天，我站在你们面前，向缅因州的劳动者做出了承诺，”杰克逊在波特兰的选举之夜庆祝会上对着欢呼声说道。“我将信守这一承诺。因为我今晚是一名工会成员。当我走进参议院会议厅时，我依然会是一名工会成员。”
“On Labor Day, brothers and sisters, I stood before you and I made a pledge to working Mainers,” Jackson said to cheers at his election night party in Portland. “And I’m going to keep that promise. Because I am a union member tonight. I’ll be a union member when I walk into that Senate chamber.”
“在当前的经济体制下，资金只会向上流动并集中在顶层，挤压底层民众，”缅因州劳联产联主席辛西娅·菲尼说。她的组织协助制定了杰克逊签署的劳工纲领，她表示他们“完全预期我们将需要继续围绕这些对投票给他的人以及许多没有投票给他的人都至关重要的议题进行组织动员。”
“The way things are set up in our economy right now, the money is just moving up and concentrating at the top, and squeezing the people at the bottom,” said Maine AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney. Her organization helped develop the labor platform Jackson signed onto, and she said they “fully anticipate that we’re going to need to continue to organize around these issues that matter to the folks who voted for him, and a lot of folks who didn’t vote for him.”
提到伊诺霍萨，伊利诺伊州民主党众议员德莉亚·拉米雷斯指出，拉美裔选民“在得克萨斯州赢得了一个州长席位”，以及一名联邦参议员席位。拉米雷斯曾提出一项废除国土安全部的法案，她辩称，她的党派不应忽视对暴力移民执法的愤怒。
Referring to Hinojosa, Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., noted that Latino voters “delivered a gubernatorial seat in Texas,” as well as a U.S. senator. Ramirez, who has introduced a bill to abolish the Department of Homeland Security, argued that her party should not lose sight of outrage over violent immigration enforcement.
“如果我们民主党人在移民问题上、在涉及移民与海关执法局（ICE）、海关与边境保卫局（CBP）和国土安全部（DHS）的司法问题上，再次未能把握住这一时刻，那我们真该感到羞耻，”拉米雷斯对《拦截报》表示。
“Shame on us Democrats if we again do not meet the moment when it comes to immigration and when it comes to justice as it pertains to ICE and CBP and DHS,” Ramirez told The Intercept.
华盛顿州民主党众议员普拉米拉·贾亚帕尔指出，定义本轮选举周期的议题，往往最早是由进步派倡导的。
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., pointed out that the issues that defined this cycle were often first championed by progressives.
“我们是最早反对伊朗战争的人。我们是最早揭露多层面腐败的人。我们是最早推动约束移民与海关执法局（ICE）和海关与边境保卫局（CBP）的人，这种转变真正推动了全国范围内在本次选举中至关重要的拉美裔选民，”贾亚帕尔说。“希望这能终结那种观点，即你不能作为一个进步派，凭借你的理念在全国任何选区获胜。”
“We were the first to fight back against the war in Iran. We were the first to call out corruption on so many levels. We were the first to push to rein in ICE and CBP, a shift that really drove a lot of Latino voters across the country that mattered in this election,” said Jayapal. “Hopefully, this puts to rest the idea that you can’t be a progressive and win with your ideas in any district in the country.”
如果历史可以作为参考，这不会发生。随着周二晚间胜利接连传来，极有可能成为下一任众议院议长的杰弗里斯，对投票标志着对共和党做事方式的剧烈谴责这一观点泼了冷水，称结果是“爱国的”，而非“党派的”。
If history is any guide, it won’t. As the wins rolled in on Tuesday night, Jeffries, the next likely speaker of the House, threw cold water on the idea that the vote marked a seismic rebuke of the Republican Party’s way of doing things, saying the results were “patriotic,” not “partisan.”
周三，杰弗里斯表示，选民选择民主党人“是因为他们希望看到方向的剧烈改变”。
On Wednesday, Jeffries said voters had chosen Democrats “because they want to see a dramatic change in direction.”
“我同意，而且我要更进一步，”卡萨尔说。“美国人民提出了大胆变革的要求。”
“I agree, and I’ll go one step further,” Casar said. “The American people delivered a demand for bold change.”