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Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.

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Aug 14, 2025

Trump and Musk have also absurdly and quite intentionally lied to the American people, by suggesting that millions and millions of people who are between the ages of 140 and 360 years of age are receiving Social Security.

truthout.org
Aug 14, 2025

If you lift that cap, we can substantially increase benefits, which is what we’ve got to do, and extend the life of Social Security for many, many decades.

truthout.org
Aug 14, 2025

A billionaire pays the same amount into the Social Security Trust Fund as somebody who makes $176,000 a year.

truthout.org
Aug 14, 2025

Despite its popularity and despite its success, Trump and [Elon] Musk and others have been working overtime to try to dismantle Social Security and importantly, undermine the confidence that the American people have in it.

truthout.org
Aug 12, 2025

Billionaire-funded super PACs like AIPAC and Crypto shouldn't be able to undermine democracy and determine Democratic candidates.

commondreams.org
Aug 12, 2025

Congrats to the DNC for starting the process to ban Big Money from presidential primaries.

commondreams.org
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.

nypost.com
Aug 8, 2025

Biden was wrong about his support for Israel's war in Gaza.

commondreams.org
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.

theblaze.com
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.

theblaze.com
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.

theblaze.com
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.

nypost.com
Aug 6, 2025

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

reason.com
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…

nbcnews.com
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.

reason.com
Jul 30, 2025

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

truthout.org
Jul 30, 2025

Unfortunately, since he was confirmed, Secretary Kennedy has doubled down on his disinformation campaign and war on science. This will lead to preventable illness and death.

truthout.org
Jul 30, 2025

Secretary Kennedy has spread lies about safe and effective vaccines for decades.

truthout.org
Jul 30, 2025

The time is long overdue for Congress to use the leverage we have—tens of billions in arms and military aid—to demand that Israel end these atrocities.

commondreams.org
Jul 30, 2025

We cannot continue to spend taxpayer money on a government which has killed some 60,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 143,000—most of whom are women, children, and the elderly.

commondreams.org
Jul 30, 2025

U.S. taxpayers have spent tens of billions of dollars in support of the racist, extremist Netanyahu government. Enough is enough.

commondreams.org
Jul 26, 2025

Israel is now run by right-wing extremists who are in Gaza starving children and shooting people lining up for food, and now in the West Bank, we’ve seen vigilantism.

theintercept.com
Jul 25, 2025

American taxpayer dollars are being used to starve children, bomb civilians, and support the cruelty of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his criminal ministers.

commondreams.org
Jul 25, 2025

If we can guarantee a defined benefit pension plan for members of Congress, we can and we must provide that same level of retirement security to every worker in America.

truthout.org
Jul 25, 2025

Donald Trump has sold out the young people of America and future generations.

commondreams.org

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