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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 1, 2026

Medical care in immigration detention is dangerously inadequate. Immigration detention facility staff routinely deny or defer necessary medical treatment, providing only minimal care until emergency care is required.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 1, 2026

The Trump Administration is intentionally subjecting longtime law-abiding residents of our communities and children who have grown up in our communities to neglectful and dangerous detention conditions.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 1, 2026

Poor medical care was the most urgent concern raised by both families and adult women. They described a range of unaddressed health issues and voiced that, because they were not receiving adequate care, those medical conditions are…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 1, 2026

Children and their parents described a top-down culture of cruelty among Dilley staff, including guards deliberately disrupting children’s sleep at night, purposely entering rooms without knocking, and taunting children who are often…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 1, 2026

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s call for nationalizing the top AI labs rests partly on that concern.

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Andy Levin
@andylevin· MI· Aug 1, 2026

We must win this seat in November. Abdul’s the better choice.

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Andy Levin
@andylevin· MI· Aug 1, 2026

I think he’s gonna do his own thing, and it will be entertaining to watch this.

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Andy Levin
@andylevin· MI· Aug 1, 2026

Abdul can attract voters across the political spectrum who hate the system.

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Andy Levin
@andylevin· MI· Aug 1, 2026

We need three things, really, in candidates this year: authenticity, boldness about policy proposals, and truth-telling.

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Andy Levin
@andylevin· MI· Aug 1, 2026

I think this year, people are so fed up with politics as usual.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 1, 2026

This kind of personal targeting of judges is unacceptable – from Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives.

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Joe Scarborough
@joescarborough· FL· Aug 1, 2026

The entire hearing was framed with ‘I’m going to put the guy who’s testifying here behind bars.’

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Joe Scarborough
@joescarborough· FL· Aug 1, 2026

Guys swearing — ‘blah, blah, what the F!’ — and then you had other people, you know, ‘What’s the color of your tie? What’s the color of the carpet?’

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Aug 1, 2026

The reckoning that we’re seeing in some of these primaries is that what is different between Trump 1 and Trump 2 is that I think your median Democratic voter desperately wants to do everything to get Trump out of power.

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Cori Bush
@coribush· Democratic · MO· Aug 1, 2026

Wesley Bell is a former Republican campaign manager who is bought and paid for by AIPAC. On August 4th, we’re going back to DC, and we’ll do it with no corporate cash or AIPAC-funded trips.

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Cori Bush
@coribush· Democratic · MO· Aug 1, 2026

When the disaster caused $1.6 billion in damages and took several lives, Wesley responded by hopping on a flight to Israel funded by Trump’s donors less than 90 days later.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Aug 1, 2026

We recovered more than $72 million in improper Medicaid payments over the past year and prevented hundreds of behavior analysts from participating in Medicaid because of documented fraud concerns.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Aug 1, 2026

This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there's no plan to win a war with Iran.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Aug 1, 2026

Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too.

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Haley Stevens
@haleystevens· Democratic · MI· Aug 1, 2026

I'm just beating MAGA four times in my Congressional races, and I'm passing laws and I'm doing damn good work.

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Mick Mulvaney
@mickmulvaney· Republican · SC· Jul 31, 2026

So that will be fascinating to see how it shakes out at the Supreme Court.

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