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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 21, 2026

Maine has been hit especially hard by the run up in fuel prices since the beginning of the Iran War and the most obvious example is home heating oil.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 21, 2026

Too many Americans fought and died for democracy. Trump’s authoritarianism will not prevail. Go vote. We WILL win this election whether Trump likes it or not.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 20, 2026

Today’s call with President Zelenskyy and a bipartisan group of members of both the Senate and the House was welcome, informative, and couldn’t have been more important.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 19, 2026

What this campaign is about is looking [Elon] Musk and his friends in the eye, and saying your day has come and it’s over.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 17, 2026

We have to take Trump on, but we have to do more... You have to implement an agenda that works for the working class of this country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 15, 2026

What Will knows is, unlike Donald Trump, we have got to have strong guardrails on AI and make sure that AI works for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 15, 2026

What this campaign is all about is whether we will continue to have a rubber stamp House of Representatives that does everything that Trump wants them to do, or whether we have a Congress which holds him, his behavior and his policies…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 13, 2026

Deterrence works only if it’s credible, and the actions of the administration over the past two years — in spite of all the bluster about lethality and testosterone — have severely compromised that credibility, and with it, the safety and…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 13, 2026

The grave danger we now face is that the current administration has undermined both prongs of deterrence strategy in different theaters — a lack of will in Ukraine and a lack of capacity in Iran.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 13, 2026

The problem of escalating instability, unfortunately, is not confined to Europe’s eastern frontier. The danger of war between America’s autocratic adversaries and our democratic allies is rising around the world for one simple, troubling…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 13, 2026

“Ours is bottom-on-up politics, grassroots politics, knock on doors. That’s how we win elections.”

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 11, 2026

At the end of the day, this deal from the White House is an attempt to boost their short-term political prospects at the true cost of the American people.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 11, 2026

Adding insult to injury, today’s deal is a slap in the face to every member of Congress who voted for the Lindsay Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act just last month.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 11, 2026

This so-called deal with Russia will do little for America and much for Vladimir Putin as he seeks to sustain his murderous campaign on Ukraine.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 11, 2026

Instead of pursuing solutions that are consistent with America’s values, President Trump has decided to ease energy sanctions on Russia.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 11, 2026

Americans nationwide are struggling with the cost-of-living – from prices at the pump to the cost of essentials at the grocery story – mostly due to Trump’s unconstitutional war in Iran and his devastating tariffs on our long-standing…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 10, 2026

You made a commitment to Congress to ‘preserve’ Head Start, yet this proposed rule is the latest attempt by the Administration to deteriorate and ultimately eliminate the program by gutting the core standards and services that have…

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