Progressive Party

The Progressive Party of America is a political party within the United States of America, the successor to the Green Party. 
== History ==
The Green Party was founded in 1984 in the state of Maine by a group of several political activists. The party was considered a minor third-party for the first thirty-two years of its existence, never electing a candidate to federal office, and only once exceeding one percent of the vote in a Presidential election, in the 2000 election in which the party's candidate's two-point seven percent of the vote was controversial due to the narrow margin of victory for Owen K. Shrub in the state of Florida in that year's election. 
In 2016, party head Ellen Walton, Mayor of Seattle, polled significantly above the typical Green average in that year's Presidential election, primarily attributed to the controversial WAC bill's passage and signing by then-President Winston, and a greater use of campaign funds, along with Walton's participation in a debate with then-presumptive nominee Calvin Reed of the Republican Party. 
At the 2016 Green National Convention, Ellen Walton would announce that the Green Party would become the Progressive Party of America. The period shortly before and after the announcement would see a number of Democratic politicians, including several Senators and Governors, defect to the Green/Progressive party. 
Walton would receive 32.7% of the popular vote for President in the 2016 election, along with winning the states of Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. The popular vote level was the highest ever for a third-party campaign in the United States.
The Progressive Party currently controls the third-largest delegations in the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and has the third-largest number of Governors in the United States.
== Ideology ==
The Progressive Party is considered a left-wing party. The party platform includes support for abortion rights, gun control policies, term limits, campaign finance reform, renewable energy, conservationism and environmentalism, same-sex marriage and LGBT+ rights, universal healthcare, an increased minimum wage, a diplomacy-focused foreign policy, and government-funded higher education.