Progressive Party of the United States (The Misfire)

The Progressive Party is one of the four major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its historical rivals the Conservative Party, the Centrist Party, and the Libertarian Party. The party is named after progressivism, the ideology that comprises of the values of the party. The Progressive Party was founded as a third-party in 1912 by Theodore Roosevelt, who walked out of the 1912 Republican National Convention after losing the nomination to William Howard Taft. Roosevelt won the 1912 election on the Progressive Party ticket, and his party soon became one of the nation's dominant political parties. The party became dominant following the collapse of the Fifth Party System in 1968, and has produced many presidents, senators, and representatives throughout its history.

The Progressive Party's current ideology is American progressivism, which contrasts with the centrist ideology of the Centrist Party, the conservative ideology of the Conservative Party, and the left-wing libertarian ideology of the Libertarian Party. The party's platform supports welfare, social programs, labor unions, free college tuition, universal healthcare, and consumer and environmental protection. The Progressive Party is socially progressive,