Add Ed Perlmutter (Rep. Elect) CO-08 to your list. Here's a list of his positions. You can see he's a progressive who will make a powerful congressman:

Ending the War in Iraq
Issues

I opposed the decision by George W. Bush to invade Iraq because I felt at the time that the Bush Administration was rushing into a war without proper planning, without necessary international support and without finishing the job against Al Qeada in Afghanistan. I felt so strongly about the failure and blunders of the Bush Administration that I co-chaired the John Kerry Presidential Campaign Colorado in 2004. I firmly believe that if John Kerry were president our policies would be vastly different than they are today.
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Protecting the Environment

We have an opportunity in the 2006 election to elect a new Congress that will work to conserve our natural resources and protect the environment. The Bush Administration, backed by a rubber-stamp Republican Congress has spent the last six years devising ways of eliminating environmental regulations, opening up more public lands to oil and gas development, weakening the Endangered Species Act, and placing corporate interests ahead of the public interest.
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Energy and Conservation

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY:  One of my favorite columnists is Thomas Friedman.  He has been more eloquent than anyone I know in describing the energy crisis and the connection between energy security and terrorism.  He is right when he says that America is funding "both sides of the war on terrorism."  We are subsidizing Islamic extremists and the countries they inhabit through our debilitating dependence on foreign oil.  At the same time we are spending billions, even in the face of historic deficits, to secure our homeland, equip our troops and booster intelligence services to fight the terrorists.  We have an energy policy that will keep us addicted to oil regimes that are the most unstable in the world, and where America has few friends.  Nigeria, Venezuela, Russia, the dangerous regime in Iran and the other unstable Middle East countries are positioned to maintain an economic stranglehold on our country, unless we act now to dramatically change course.

Tributes to that scoundrel Tom Friedman aside, (and clearly Perlmutter doesn't agree with Friedman on Iraq) this is a pretty progressive agenda.

P.S. C0-08 is a typo. It's CO-07, Colorado doesn't have 8 seats yet. (I wish we could edit these posts)!

Chris,

After sorting through all the post-election analysis, I'm starting to think that the netroots can be most effective by focusing our resources on primary elections.  This is not to say that there isn't a role for us in general elections, but that the nature of primaries may provide the best opportunity to shift things in a progressive direction.

The Democratic party hierarchy invests itself more heavily in the general election.  It spends big money and puts its institutional weight behind candidates.  But a primary election is more of an open field, where we can get behind a relatively unknown insurgent candidate (Tester is a good example) and help put him/her over the top.  Primary challenges (Lamont being the exception) just don't generate the kind of media attention that a general election does, so they represent an opportunity for progressives to sneak up on the establishment and pull off some upsets.

You're forgetting that Michael Moore wears a hat!

Chris--

What makes you think Burner will win WA-08? All the evidence I see shows her going down in slim defeat.

Also, I'm not sure what makes being from a Blue state a qualification for defying the 'conservative'  label.

It annoys me whenever anyone uses the word "freshman". Can we come up with a different word for incoming/first-term reps? 3 of whom on your lists are in fact female?

John Hall is from NY-19

An analysis of races under the radar because of no change in party representation might well bolster the argument. Steve Cohen is replacing Harold Ford in the House, for example, a decided move to the left.

Are Burner's chances really looking that good? I thought the latest word from the interwebs was that she would need an unlikely percentage of the provisional/absentee ballots to overcome Reichert's lead. Does someone have more accurate info?

Clearly, the Dem House pickups were not achieved with a bunch of Blue Dogs. (The talking point is dead and buried in the lefty sphere, if not in the MSM.)

But even if the mods (Blue Dogs/NDC/unaffiliated) made no additions to their numbers, that would still leave at least a quarter of Dem reps in the mod camp.

And if they're facing an influx of lefty freshman as well as getting a pittance of patronage in terms of committee chairs, that will surely make them more, rather than less, inclined to fight for their turf.

other Dems who picked up open, safe Dem seats, like Yvette Clark, Betty Sutton, and Kathy Castor?

It seems like a bit of a leap to call WA-08 for Burner just yet...

Please add newly elected Rep. Mazie Hirono to your list of those aligned with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Progressive Democrats of America and the CPC worked for her election and she has publicly pledged to join the CPC.

She won her seat by a comfortable margin, replacing the Blue Dog Democrat, Ed Case, who was (thankfully) defeated in his effort to replace the fairly progressive Senator Daniel Akaka.

Hawaii's congressional delegation has certainly come out of this election cycle much more liberal.

And we would like to thank the Americans for repudiating the Bush-Cheney agenda. We now hope that he will be impeached and American, and international law, will be re-affirmed.

There were 3 main concerns of voters this election: Terrorism, Iraq and corruption. Demos split the vote evenly with the GOP when we look at voters most concerned about terrorism. People most concerned about Iraq and corruption went big time for the Democrats. Much of the Republican base, also digusted with Bush for various reasons including his repudiation of any sort of restraint on government power and spending, stayed home.

Democrats did not win because most people want even more government than Bush has given them, or because they are chomping at the bit for national health insurance, publically financed elections , government paid for day care or various other progressive causes.

According to CNN's exit polling, only 20% of Americans call themselves liberals. Amost half call themselves "moderates."  So don't get your hopes too high for a sharp leftward turn.

What are you basing Gabrielle Giffords joining the CPC on? That they gave her money? I think they spent it on the wrong candidate? She ran as a moderate in a slightly republican district saying she woulf be more like the moderate repulican who retired then her very conservative republican opponent.
Aso on her political resume on her website among several enviro awards
League of Conservation Voters, 100% Rating 2005
Sierra Club, Most Valuable Player at the Arizona Legislature 2005

and Arizona Coalition to Prevent Homelessness, Legislator of the Year 2003

there was also this
Democratic Leadership Council

National "100 to Watch"

State Legislative Advisory Board 2001-present.
I'd like her to join but it seems unlikly.

Also where did you hear Bruce Braley, not that I think it's unreasonable but hall and McNerney seem obvious activist types while Bruce isn't. But I could see it, that would be nice also I think Dave Loebsack and  Carol Shea-Porter are likly cpc candidates.

(Likelyhood of joining CPC, on a scale of 1-10)

1. Kathy Castor - 75.06 (3)
2.Hank Johnson - 90.45 (8)
3.Mazie Hirono - 74.31 (5)
4.Phil Hare - 88.59- (10)
5.John Sarbanes - 83.54 (7)
6.Keith Ellison - 89.71 (10)
7.Albio Sires - 91.93 (Menendez's rating in the Senate) (5)
8.Yvette Clarke - 93.76 (9)
9.Charlie Wilson - 79.69 (1)
10.Betty Sutton - 89.38  (7)
11.Steve Cohen - 77.83 (9)
12.Peter Welch - 92.70 (10)

Notes

1. Unlikely, just because Jim Davis was such a Blue Dog.
   
2. He's going to face a primary challenge from McKinney, why not try to neutralize her?
   
3. Might try to neutralize a possible primary challenge by moving to the left. She was kind of DLC Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate from what I remember though.
   
4. He was Evans' CoS, and Evans was a member.
   
5. Paul Sarbanes was one of the most liberal in the Senate, so it's quite likely his son will be as well in the House.
   
6.  Incredibly progressive and liberal. He'll be Bernie's replacement in the House.
   
7. Machine politician, so I'd have to say half and half. Menendez wasn't a member.
   
8. Yvette Clark is very progressive on everything but Israel. Kind of like Tom Lantos. Comes from an astonishingly liberal district.
   
9. Socially conservative, comes from a moderate district.
   
10. She looks pretty liberal, and she's replacing Sherrod Brown.
    
11. He was called the most liberal white person in the Tennessee legislature, and he's trying to join the Black Caucus. Plus the Fords hate him, so he can't be that bad.
    
12. He's replacing Bernie Sanders, and he's very liberal already. Guaranteed member.

The media just cannot concieve of a world without a permanent conservative majority.  So, they confuse the populists with conservatives.  It makes them feel better and that things will be all safe and secure and just like normal.  hehehehe.  aren't they in for a rude awakening?????

Chris - You deserve a ton of credit for this win.  So does Dean and all the other bloggers and their net roots.  I read Pach's post on Schumer and what they told Reid.  I hope you speak out for all of us loud and clear. The fact that these are NOT their candidates OR particularly conservative needs to be drilled into the brains of the walking dead Democrats like Hillary, Bill, Obama, Rahm, Schumer and all of the DLC/K Street owned crowd up there.  I am sick of their corruption.  If they want to clean it up, do Clean Elections and let them get their hands out of every corporate lobbyists pockets.  I am sick of their disrespect and disregard for Dean, bloggers and us.  IF I had anywhere else to go, I would tell the whole party to shove it; but just like the fundies, we're stuck.   So they better get use to us because the net roots isn't done running amok, and we won't just go away and shut up no matter how they demonize us. I don't trust them, never will.  I've got Dean's back.  They better watch theirs because we are watching them like a hawk.