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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 9, 2026

People, many people, experts, including myself, consider what's going on there as a genocide.

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Aug 9, 2026

We have people sleeping out in the streets. People can't afford health care.

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Aug 9, 2026

We need a candidate like Abdul who has the guts to stand up for working class families.

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Aug 9, 2026

I hope very much that Peggy wins.

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Aug 9, 2026

I think what we're seeing in Minnesota, Margaret, in Michigan, and all across this country is that people understand that we're living with an economy that is rigged.

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Aug 9, 2026

What you had is AIPAC spending 30 million dollars in the Democratic primary trying to defeat Abdul.

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Aug 9, 2026

It is insane that the Democrats would allow somebody to come in, an entity to come in, that will then, if they lose, go into the other party.

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Aug 9, 2026

We have so many problems at home. We have people sleeping out in the streets. People can't afford health care.

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Aug 9, 2026

Margaret, in my view, Abdul's victory was one of the most extraordinary victories in modern political history.

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Aug 8, 2026

Today, a judge ordered Meta to pay a $567 million fine for the damage it has done to our kids. Good start.

commondreams.org
Aug 8, 2026

We cannot allow Meta to put its short-term profits above the emotional well-being of our kids.

commondreams.org
Aug 8, 2026

When a husband, wife, and kids, during the course of an entire year, are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value.

commondreams.org
Aug 8, 2026

What’s radical is that millions of Americans are not only working longer hours for lower wages, but that they do not receive a single paid vacation day.

commondreams.org
Aug 7, 2026

Instead of expanding access to early childhood education, he is moving to dismantle Head Start and the standards that keep its 700,000 kids safe. How cruel.

commondreams.org
Aug 7, 2026

What the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act does is say that yes, we can create decent and affordable public housing for more than 1.5 million Americans that is based on energy efficiency and sustainable sources of power. And that when…

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Aug 7, 2026

It’s not a radical idea to require companies in America to provide at least two weeks of paid vacation to their workers. What’s radical is that millions of Americans are not only working longer hours for lower wages, but that they do not…

commondreams.org
Aug 7, 2026

This proposed rule would fundamentally alter Head Start and break the promise that America has made good on for decades to offer the children born furthest from opportunity with the best our country has to offer in early childhood…

commondreams.org
Aug 7, 2026

It must not be dictated by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and their profit.

reason.com
Aug 7, 2026

We hear a lot of talk about family values in America, but let’s be clear: When a husband, wife, and kids, during the course of an entire year, are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. That is an attack…

commondreams.org
Aug 6, 2026

If Mr. Carville doesn’t want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Piker, that El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party.

huffpost.com
Aug 6, 2026

But nobody I know believes in ‘defunding the police’.

theguardian.com
Aug 6, 2026

What I hope everybody appreciates is that what happened in Michigan yesterday is literally unprecedented in modern American history.

rollcall.com
Aug 6, 2026

What Abdul did last night is pull off, in a sense, the biggest upset in the history of modern politics.

washingtonexaminer.com
Aug 6, 2026

What you know as well as I do is that the right wing, that’s their job, right? They will take what one person said and put, you know, $80bn of TV ads on it and make the claim every Democrat supports that.

theguardian.com
Aug 6, 2026

They’ve got nothing to say. We’re going to win.

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