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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 12, 2025

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…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Feb 11, 2025

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 11, 2025

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…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Feb 10, 2025

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 9, 2025

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

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

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

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

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 7, 2025

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 6, 2025

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

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 6, 2025

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

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Feb 5, 2025

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…

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