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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· Aug 19, 2026

The president’s comments are just uncalled for.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

Let’s leave it all on the field, have no regrets, and win a decisive victory this fall.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

Because here in Georgia, early voting opens in eight weeks.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

This needs to be all of our highest priority and our focus. Get involved. Pitch in money. Sign up to knock doors. Sign up to make phone calls. If you’re feeling angst and outrage at what’s happening to our country, take action.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

So with all due respect — and I appreciate and respect and understand why there’s interest and punditry in a presidential election several years away ― I don’t know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and…

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

Jen, let me reiterate. I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly, zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

And just like the West Wing is full of sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear and enable him, so is the United States Congress,

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

We’re in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives. Our naval logistics are frayed. The global energy system is in crisis,

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

We do not need to spend $1.5tn a year on the Pentagon fighting endless wars and propping up dictatorships around the world.

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

Progressives believe that we must forcefully take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry.

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

We believe that the federal minimum wage should be raised to a living wage of at least $20 per hour.

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

Progressives believe that healthcare is a human right and that we should do what all other major countries on Earth do, guarantee healthcare to all people.

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

We believe that democracy means one person one vote, not billionaires buying elections.

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

The American people know that the current economic system is rigged.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the amir of Qatar.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 19, 2026

I don’t think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging, crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man, who embodies American…

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Aug 19, 2026

Trump is rewarding a regime that sends weapons and troops to fight for Russia and has a long history of cooperation with Iran. Undermining our allies while making concessions to our adversaries is not a show of strength—it only emboldens…

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Aug 19, 2026

Our alliance with South Korea is critical to U.S. security and announcing a decision to unilaterally scale back joint exercises, over social media, all while touting a ‘very good relationship’ with Kim, is a gross miscalculation.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Aug 19, 2026

Reducing the drills does nothing more than free up thousands of North Korea's troops to support Putin's systematic kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of innocent Ukrainian citizens.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 19, 2026

If they believe they can deprive us of our sovereignty, we will teach them the full meaning of American resolve.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 19, 2026

Today, it threatens every aspect of our political and legal system.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 19, 2026

The ICC is a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate.

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