We’ve profile 20 leading American progressives (see list [below]), from a range of backgrounds, who have been at the forefront of efforts to defend not just liberal, but left-wing, social-democratic ideals. Some of them are well-known names; most of them have little to do directly with the Democratic Party; all of them are defiantly and unashamedly partisan.
As Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos blog, once said: “I am a progressive. I make no apologies.”
The list
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Van Jones
Paul Krugman
David Graeber
Elizabeth Warren
Rachel Maddow
Matt Damon
Congressman Keith Ellison
Sonia Sotomayor
Noam Chomsky
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Markos Moulitsas
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley
Cecile Richards
Danny Glover
Angela Davis
Glenn Greenwald
Tim Robbins
Michael Moore
Bernie Sanders
Always Question Authority 
Hehe…The target list I have looks almost the same.