An online community known as the New Progressive Alliance (NPA) is looking for a primary challenger to President Obama.

“President Obama has to be accountable to his base. The progressive party got him elected,” said a Brooklyn native who once supported Pres. Obama and volunteered as a deputy field organizer during Pres. Obama’s presidential campaign in North Carolina and South Carolina.

The NPA expects a nominee to fully support the organization’s comprehensive progressive platform ratified in August. Platform tenets include full employment at a living wage, environmental sustainability, social welfare and fair trade.

And while the NPA is trying to make headway, one of its members is also rallying for a similar cause.

Dr. Cornel West has teamed with consumer advocate Ralph Nader to bring progressive ideals to the forefront with a challenger to face Pres. Obama. West and Nader are leading a group of liberals and academics, seeking candidates to debate Pres. Obama on key issues.

Though Dr. West is on the steering committee of the NPA, the alliance’s facilitator Anthony Noel does not view his collaboration with Nader as any sort of threat.