This year's Take Back America conference was a landmark event. With a real sense that progressive ideology is on the ascendancy, close to 2,000 progressive leaders and grassroots activists prepared to implement strategies designed to bring about a dramatic, long-term change in the political landscape.

See the video of Norman Lear's Lifetime Leadership Award acceptance speech [1]. Also, see the video of Norman Lear's plenary presentation at Take Back America 2008 [2].

» Our conference home page [3] and our multimedia section [4] has videos of the key sessions and personalities at the conference, and our bloggers captured the most important insights.

» Read media coverage [5] of the Take Back America conference.