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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 14, 2025

Graham Platner is a great working class candidate for Senate in Maine who will defeat Susan Collins.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 14, 2025

It's disappointing that some Democratic leaders are urging Governor Mills to run. We need to focus on winning that seat & not waste millions on an unnecessary & divisive primary.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 14, 2025

They’re way out of touch with where ordinary people are.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 14, 2025

They don’t even understand it, John. It’s not their world.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 14, 2025

I mention Gaza in virtually every speech. And without exception, whether you’re doing it in Viroqua, Wisconsin; Los Angeles, California; Newport, Vermont—wherever you’re doing it—it is almost always a standing response.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 14, 2025

If your question is, 'Is it conceivable that good people can take over the Democratic Party and make it a working-class party?'—that’s a possibility.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Oct 14, 2025

When Donald Trump shuts down the federal government, the Maryland and Virginia delegation come together and step up.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Oct 14, 2025

While I recognize that President Milei and his government have demonstrated resolve in tackling Argentina’s endemic economic challenges, the American people expect and deserve answers about the use of such a staggering amount of their tax…

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· Oct 14, 2025

I think he's the key. He needs to get engaged on it.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Oct 13, 2025

To my Democratic friends: I am not going to vote to extend these subsidies.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Oct 13, 2025

I’m willing to vote to open the government up tomorrow.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Oct 13, 2025

Let’s have a rational discussion, but not with the government shut down.

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Roger Marshall
@rogermarshall· Republican · KS· Oct 13, 2025

the progressive event will feature “agitators,” whom he doubts will remain peaceful.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Oct 13, 2025

People are getting their premium increases right now, and it’s one more thing on top of the cost of food and electricity and rent and child care and all the other expenses that people are incurring.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 13, 2025

Today is a wonderful day. Finally, finally finally, the last living hostages brutally held by Hamas are home, an immense and overwhelming sigh of relief.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 13, 2025

Let’s be blunt: nobody’s forcing Trump and Vought to do this. ... They’re callously choosing to hurt people — the workers who protect our country, inspect our food, respond when disasters strike. This is deliberate chaos.

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