{"id":2612571,"date":"2026-06-09T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-groups-launch-anti-schumer-billboard-campaign-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:07:41","slug":"progressive-groups-launch-anti-schumer-billboard-campaign-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-groups-launch-anti-schumer-billboard-campaign-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive groups launch anti-Schumer billboard campaign in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-groups-launch-anti-schumer-billboard-campaign-in-washington%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2612571&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A coalition of progressive groups has launched a two-day campaign in Washington, D.C., using a mobile electric billboard to pressure Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to resign. The groups-RootsAction, World BEYOND War, Just Foreign Policy, Veterans For Peace, and Peace Action-say Schumer is not aligned with the Democratic base, criticizing his stance and leadership on issues such as denouncing Israel, opposing arms sales to Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-wire-americans-stranded-in-afghanistan-the-state-of-al-qaeda-nyc-businesses-sue-over-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Morning Wire: Americans Stranded In Afghanistan, The State Of Al Qaeda, NYC Businesses Sue Over Vaccine Mandate\">ending \u201cforever wars<\/a>,\u201d and pushing progressive economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>Thay also plan to mobilize large numbers of constituent emails urging Democratic senators to call on Schumer to \u201cstep aside,\u201d citing complaints about his positions on Israel, Iran, immigration enforcement (ICE), and other issues. The campaign is described as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-latest-dem-to-eschew-schumer-leadership-endorsement\/\" title=\"Kim latest Dem to eschew ... ... endorsement\">growing internal tensions<\/a> within the Democratic Party over its direction, with Schumer still supported by several long-time Democratic senators, while others have begun signaling distance as progressive pressure increases. The article also notes that upcoming and possible midterm races may shape whether leadership challenges to schumer grow further, depending on whether more anti-establishment candidates win seats.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coalition of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/progressives\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1115\">progressive<\/a> organizations launched a campaign on Tuesday in<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\"> Washington<\/a> to pressure Senate Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) into resigning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RootsAction, World BEYOND War, Just Foreign Policy, Veterans For Peace, and Peace Action revealed they are circling a mobile electric billboard around the Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday to intensify scrutiny of Schumer. They expressed outrage that the Senate minority leader has not fully embraced certain progressive views, including denouncing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"219\">Israel<\/a>, signaling the growing backlash Schumer faces from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-tuesday-congressional-races-set-stage-for-competitive-2024-general-election\/\" title=\"Super Tuesday shapes competitive 2024 general election with congressional races\">anti-establishment factions<\/a> in his party.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a 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\u201cChuck Schumer: Step Aside as Minority Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSenator Schumer has consistently shown that he is out of step with the wants and needs of the Democratic base,\u201d RootsAction political director Sam Rosenthal, who has helped lead <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Roots_Action\/status\/2042659643869069678\">other anti-Schumer campaigns<\/a>, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWorse than that, he has actively impeded progress on some of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pressing issues \u2014 ending arms sales<\/a> to Israel, defunding our forever wars, and implementing progressive economic policies that benefit the working class,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe party simply cannot move forward with him at the head of the Senate caucus and he needs to step away from leadership for the benefit of the party\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the billboard campaign, the coalition said it is organizing \u201clarge numbers\u201d of constituent emails to Democratic senators complaining about Schumer\u2019s leadership on issues ranging from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a> war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The anti-Schumer mobile billboard is making its way around Washington this week. (Photo provided by RootsAction.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>He has made clear on Iran, ICE, and other issues that he prefers to keep catastrophes going in order to pose as an \u2018opponent\u2019 of them,\u201d the emails read. \u201cThe problem with this strategy is that we, your constituents, see through it, and it disgusts us. As your constituent, I strongly urge you to have the political courage to call for Schumer to step aside as minority leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign comes amid<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3880851\/ro-khanna-moulton-schumer-senate-democrats-cave-on-shutdown\/\"> increasing tensions<\/a> among Democrats over the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4505725\/chuck-schumer-prized-2026-recruits-wont-commit-keeping-him-senate-leader\/\">direction of their party<\/a>. Schumer retains core backing from long-standing members of his caucus,\u00a0including Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), Gary Peters (D-MI), and John Hickenlooper (D-CO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But others, including Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/democratic-senator-chris-murphy-avoids-committing-support-for-chuck-schumers-leadership\">Chris Murphy<\/a> (D\u2013CT), have begun to put some distance between themselves and Schumer, as the progressive pressure intensifies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4432160\/bitter-senate-primaries-offer-democrats-midterms-roadmap\/\"><strong>BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF DEMOCRATS SEEN THROUGH PRISM OF BITTER SENATE PRIMARIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The type of Democratic candidates who win the midterm elections this November could determine Schumer\u2019s future. Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic nominee looking to unseat Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Graham Platner, who is likely to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), have expressed support for ousting the Senate minority leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are already some Democrats in the Senate that are gunning for him,\u201d Democratic strategist Brad Bannon <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4590296\/iowa-democratic-primary-tests-anti-schumer-message-senate\/\">previously told<\/a> the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cIf a sizable number of anti-establishment candidates end up being added to the roster of Democratic senators, there will be a fight over the party leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives launch campaign to pressure Schumer to resign; billboard tours Capitol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2612572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011411-e1781038295141.jpeg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14436,81089,3629,4411,33224],"class_list":["post-2612571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-activism","tag-billboard-campaign","tag-progressive","tag-schumer","tag-washington-dc"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1000011411-e1781038295141.jpeg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612575,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612571\/revisions\/2612575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}