It’s worth stressing here how much progressive organizing had to do with this defeat. President Obama personally appeared in Congress at the last minute Friday morning to appeal to Democrats one more time, on the heels of crashing the congressional baseball game the night before. But Pelosi and Democrats remained unswayed, and in her speech, Pelosi instead credited the work of activists holding members to a “hot stove” back home.

But fast track isn’t quite dead yet. Boehner moved on to the fast-track and customs bills anyway, both of which “passed,” though fast track only got two votes more than it needed. The package still won’t advance without trade-adjustment assistance—but Boehner scheduled a revote for Tuesday.

This will be the final showdown. Democrats would need to triple the yes votes on the bill for it to pass, which seems unlikely, given that Pelosi explicitly embraced the idea of “slowing down” fast track. The administration and its allies will cynically beat them up for blocking assistance to workers displaced by trade deals, despite the clear strategic preference by Democrats to stop fast track. But if progressives hold strong, then fast track is over for now. (The other option would be for over a hundred more House Republicans to flip and back trade assistance, but that seems unlikely in the extreme, especially since the powerful Heritage Foundation is scoring this as a key vote.)