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We must not allow that to happen in America.

The oligarch's nightmare is that we will not allow ourselves to be divided up by race, religion, sexual orientation or religion and will together have the courage to take them on.

But I must confess that he's done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our politics…

We must fight back against President Trump and Elon Musk.

I want to speak about what Elon Musk is doing to destroy the U.S. Agency for International Development. Here is what is happening. Mr. Musk--of course an unelected billionaire who knows really nothing and cares less about how the Federal…

we are living in an extremely dangerous time. Future generations will look back at this moment--what we do right now--and remember whether we had the courage to defend our democracy against the growing threats of oligarchy and…

Donald Trump, as we all know, won the last election in November, and he is now the 47th President of the United States. But Donald Trump did not, contrary to what he and the Vice President want people to believe, win by anything close to a…

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing…

When Trump campaigned for president, he claimed he was on the side of the working class. But that’s not what he’s delivering.

If you see these guys doing something—like wanting to give huge tax breaks to billionaires while they cut Medicare; or they want to go 'Drill, baby, drill' while we happen to be facing an existential threat of climate change; if they want…

When Trump fires the most pro-union General Counsel in the history of the NLRB and illegally removes a member of this independent board, he is not a champion of the working class.

The progressive agenda, and I say this over and over again, is the people's agenda. It is wildly popular.

Longer term, obviously, we have to do what the Democratic Party has not done—and become the party of the working class, develop a strong grassroots movement, with labor unions, with young people, with people of color—and organize and fight…

The Palestinian people have suffered unbelievably. >45,000 killed. >100,000 injured. Healthcare, educational system, housing—all destroyed.

Last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to enact a 32-hour workweek on a national scale.

I am here today to stand with our Federal workers and civil servants and to tell them that we will fight these illegal actions. The Trump administration is treating our Federal workforce as if they are the enemy. These are regular…