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

What they’re trying to do is to divide us up. ‘Oh, you’re a Muslim. You’re undocumented. You’re black. You’re gay. Let’s divide everybody up so that rich can become richer.’ Our job is to bring people together.

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

As the Senate's only former public defender, I know how important federal support is to live up to our constitutional guarantee of the right to counsel.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Aug 8, 2025

Donald Trump has made it his personal mission to limit transparency and accountability, and the State Department’s upcoming human rights report — or what remains of it — will certainly reflect that.

theintercept.com
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 8, 2025

At a time when working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs and the planet is literally burning, sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s absolutely insane.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 8, 2025

Solar for All means lower utility bills, many thousands of good-paying jobs, and real action to address the existential threat of climate change.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 8, 2025

Trump wants to illegally kill this program to protect the obscene profits of his friends in the oil and gas industry. That is outrageous.

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

Solar for All means lower utility bills, many thousands of good-paying jobs and real action to address the existential threat of climate change,″ Sanders said in a statement.

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

Look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden, and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people!

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 1, 2025

what that means is, I think the American people are going to find it hard to believe the information that comes out of the government, because Trump will always want it to be great news, and when that happens, it’s hard for us to deal with…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 31, 2025

I am horrified and outraged by the assassination of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian teacher, community leader, father, and peace activist in the West Bank town of Umm Al- Khair. Awdah was a nonviolent activist, respected advocate for his…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 31, 2025

It is an effort to destroy a people…American taxpayer dollars being used to starve children, bomb schools, kill civilians, and support the cruelty of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his criminal ministers.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 31, 2025

As a result, we are deeply concerned that you may have failed to alert your personnel — or investors — of the immense legal risks they face for conducting what amounts to military operations on behalf of the Israeli government on land…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 31, 2025

We are deeply concerned that you may have failed to alert your personnel — or investors — of the immense legal risks they face.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 30, 2025

the mass starvation in Gaza must end. The forced displacement of 2 million Palestinians in Gaza must end. We all condemn Hamas. We support a Jewish independent democratic state. We want a cease-fire, and we want the hostages home. But a…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 30, 2025

let me begin by stating what the debate we are going to have this evening is about and what it is not about. It is not about whether anyone in this Senate disagrees that Hamas is a terrorist organization which began this war with a brutal…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 30, 2025

these tariffs are terrible. No. 1, let's be clear, they are a tax. So every tariff is going to be paid for by every consumer in this country, and it is going to be an expense for every business in this country. That is No. 1. No. 2, these…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jul 30, 2025

As your new ACIP makes recommendations based on pseudoscience, fewer and fewer Americans will have access to fewer and fewer vaccines.

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