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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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Apr 17, 2025

We urge you to reinstate the LIHEAP staffers that were laid off.

cnn.com
Apr 16, 2025

This week, the American people turned out in enormous numbers. And their message was clear. They do not want oligarchy. They do not want authoritarianism. They are tired of massive income and wealth inequality and the greed of the…

commondreams.org
Apr 15, 2025

We need you to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies and understand that healthcare is a human right.

thenation.com
Apr 15, 2025

We need you to fight for justice, to fight for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.

thenation.com
Apr 15, 2025

We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class, but not for working families.

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Apr 15, 2025

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

thenation.com
Apr 15, 2025

I’m here because Clairo has used her prominence to fight for women’s rights, to try to end the terrible, brutal war in Gaza, where thousands of women and children are being killed.

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Apr 15, 2025

That is what this struggle is about! One hundred fifty years later, it’s the same struggle.… We believe in a government of the people, by the people, for the people—not a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for…

thenation.com
Apr 15, 2025

Your presence here today is making Donald Trump and Elon Musk very nervous.

thenation.com
Apr 15, 2025

He thinks that climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong. And you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.

thenation.com
Apr 15, 2025

This country faces some very difficult challenges. And the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

thenation.com
Apr 14, 2025

But from the bottom of my heart—and I've been to every state in this country; I don't care whether you're Republican, Democrat, or Independent—the people of this country do not want oligarchy, they do not want authoritarianism, and they…

commondreams.org
Apr 14, 2025

They own Congress, they own the White House, but they don't own us!

commondreams.org
Apr 14, 2025

Musk and his friends see you as nothing more than workers to be disposed of.

commondreams.org
Apr 14, 2025

When Donald Trump looks out at this crowd—and they pay attention to this stuff, and Elon Musk does—you are scaring the hell out of them.

commondreams.org
Apr 14, 2025

I invite the president to come to LA. Tell the people here why you think it's a great idea to cut Medicaid and nutrition and healthcare, so you can give tax breaks to billionaires.

commondreams.org
Apr 14, 2025

We don't accept this blue state, red state nonsense. We are one people.

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Apr 14, 2025

Because they know what you know and what I know, is that they are the 1%, we are the 99%.

commondreams.org
Apr 13, 2025

the administration is moving us rapidly toward an authoritarian form of society — and Mr. Trump, we ain’t going there.

nbcnews.com
Apr 13, 2025

When Donald Trump looks out at this crowd—and they pay attention to this stuff, Elon Musk does—you are scaring the hell out of them.

commondreams.org
Apr 13, 2025

We are living in the most dangerous moments in the modern history of this country.

commondreams.org
Apr 13, 2025

We're here in so-called 'conservative' Utah, and tomorrow we're gonna be in Idaho. Because we believe that in every state of this country, people are prepared to stand up and fight.

commondreams.org
Apr 13, 2025

Because they know what we know: They are the 1% and we are the 99%.

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