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Chris Murphy

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Chris Scott Murphy is a United States Senator from Connecticut, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Murphy has been a prominent advocate for various progressive issues, including gun control, healthcare reform, and climate change action. He has played a significant role in national discussions surrounding these topics, often emphasizing the need for legislative changes to address pressing societal challenges.

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Mar 2, 2025

We have become the party of the status quo, when we’re not. We’re actually the party of change, the party of transferring power from powerful people to people who have no power.

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Mar 2, 2025

If I have one critique of the 2020 election campaign, it’s that the tent pole of that campaign was democracy, saving democracy, not breaking up concentrated economic power. And in retrospect, I think that was a mistake.

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Mar 2, 2025

I think that the traditional sort of political rules still apply. If we have people out on the streets protesting, if we’re overwhelming Republican town halls, if we’re lighting up the phone lines here, political gravity still exists.

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Mar 2, 2025

That economic message, the message that speaks to a lot of things that Bernie Sanders talks about, is a unifying message in this country.

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Mar 2, 2025

Maybe part of the reason that some of my stuff and messaging is breaking through right now is because I don’t have that ambition.

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Mar 2, 2025

This moment is different, that this threat is unique — and to me, you know, we don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.

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Mar 2, 2025

authenticity is the only thing that matters in politics — that folks will actually let you make a lot of mistakes as long as they feel like they’re hearing you genuinely.

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Mar 2, 2025

When somebody is trying to grab power, when somebody is trying to destroy democracy, they benefit from people who are static, who refuse to be nimble.

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Mar 2, 2025

Being president is just not in my brain at all right now.

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Mar 2, 2025

Being president is 'just not in my brain at all right now,' ... 'sounds like a pretty hard, miserable job.'

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Mar 1, 2025

I think every Democrat needs to make up their own mind. I think that State of the Union speech is going to be a farce. I think it’s gonna be a MAGA pep rally.

cnn.com
Mar 1, 2025

I think the State of the Union speech is going to be a farce. I think it’s gonna be a MAGA pep rally.

cnn.com
Mar 1, 2025

We have to fight every single day, every single day.

cnn.com
Feb 27, 2025

This meeting was an utter embarrassment for America.

commondreams.org
Feb 27, 2025

The meeting was an utter embarrassment for America.

commondreams.org
Feb 26, 2025

The administration is brazenly attempting to blow through Congress and the courts by announcing the completion of their sham ‘review’ of foreign aid and the immediate termination of thousands of aid programs all over the world.

truthout.org
Feb 26, 2025

The administration was attempting to blow through Congress and the courts by announcing the completion of their sham ‘review’ of foreign aid.

nbcnews.com
Feb 25, 2025

Maybe not the best time to fire hundreds of FAA workers, tell the remaining workers you want to 'put them in trauma,' and let Musk in to cannabalize the FAA for profit.

newsweek.com
Feb 24, 2025

Trump has chosen grifters to lead the FBI.

newsweek.com
Feb 24, 2025

the U.S. attorney for D.C. is not 'President Trump's lawyer' and its job is not to 'protect his leadership'

commondreams.org
Feb 24, 2025

Guess how much they plan on giving the super rich as a tax cut? $2 TRILLION. People are going to die including kids.

newsweek.com
Feb 24, 2025

This week the House is voting on Trump's billionaire and corporate tax cut, and they've decided to pay for it by gutting Medicaid - the program that insures 24% of all Americans.

newsweek.com
Feb 24, 2025

The U.S. attorney for D.C. is not 'President Trump's lawyer' and its job is not to 'protect his leadership' nor prosecute people who 'refuse to put America first.'

commondreams.org
Feb 23, 2025

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this.

newsweek.com

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