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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Oct 19, 2021

Our sacred right to vote is in jeopardy. Led by the divisive voice of a twice-impeached, failed, former President, 17 States across this Nation have enacted 28 laws to make it harder for Americans to vote. Tomorrow, the Senate has the…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 19, 2021

You have to go big transformational progressive agenda. And his argument Sanders makes privately to the President and others is that, in his view, authoritarianism is on the march in the United States, and that if the Democrats don’t…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 18, 2021

We`re talking. We`re talking. We`ll make some progress.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2021

We`re talking. We will make some progress.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2021

And so I wonder if there is some way for even a Bernie Sanders, who is literally arguing let`s help people who are poor, when Joe Manchin is from the second poorest state in the entire United States, this is a state full of poor people…

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Oct 14, 2021

What this is doing is motivating Democrats and independent and moderate Republicans to go to the polls to vote against every single Republican.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Oct 14, 2021

The test is, do they have any integrity or backbone left? And the answer so far has been largely, no, they don’t.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Oct 14, 2021

people are going to go out there and they’re going to vote on Trump. And people didn’t like Trump in 2020, and they’re not going to like him any better now.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Oct 14, 2021

The core key of this race is going to be moderate voters. But it`s also going to be young voters. Young voters intensely dislike Donald Trump.

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Oct 14, 2021

Statute requires HUD, when allocating grant money like CDBG or HOME Program funds to communities, to ensure those communities have manufactured housing considered as part of their affordable housing plans.

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Oct 14, 2021

This eliminates a potential rich source of affordable homeownership for many parts of the country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 13, 2021

I honestly don't know much about it. What I've been focusing on right now, Anderson, is the need to pass the most consequential piece of legislation in the modern history of this country, and demand that the wealthiest people in this…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 13, 2021

But what I do think is simply unfair, is that two members of the Senate think that they have a right to obstruct what the overwhelming majority of the American people want, what the President wants.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 11, 2021

We have the strong support, the overwhelming support of the American people; $3.5 trillion is already a major compromise. And the time is now long overdue for Senators Manchin and Senator Sinema to tell us exactly where they are spending…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Oct 6, 2021

These lies, the assertion he made that he won the election and it was stolen was picked up by social media.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 6, 2021

But the time is long overdue for him to tell us, with specificity, not generalities -- we’re beyond generalities -- with specificity, what he wants and what he does not want, and to explain that to the people of West Virginia and America.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 6, 2021

This is a pivotal moment in American history, it seems to me, really. And I`m going to continue to fight as I have for working families and do my best to prevent this country from moving in an authoritarian direction.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 6, 2021

It is whether or not we retain a democracy in which government works for all and not just the very wealthy and the powerful.

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