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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.
It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to…
Right-wing extremism is not just an American phenomenon. It's worldwide.
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy and freedom of speech from an administration that denies the 2020 election results.
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
Better health coverage? If Canadians became US citizens they would lose their free health care.
Donald Trump is dead set on destroying public education in this country.
In America, we must not allow our educational system to become a two-tier system.
Today, Mr. Musk is worth $402 billion. (Mark) Zuckerberg is worth $252 billion. (Jeff) Bezos is worth $249 billion. With combined wealth of over $900 billion, these three people, three people, are more wealthy than the bottom half of…
The oligarch's nightmare is that we will not allow ourselves to be divided up by race, religion, sexual orientation or religion and will together have the courage to take them on.
The problems this country faces right now are extremely serious. The economy is rigged. Our campaign finance system is corrupt, and we are struggling to control climate change...
They don't want ordinary people—that's you—and democracy getting in their way.
In my opinion, what Musk and those around him are aggressively striving for is not novel. It is not complicated, and it is not new. It is what ruling classes throughout history have always wanted and have always believed is theirs by…
But I must confess that he's done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our politics…
Whatever we can do is what we must do. Needless to say, I intend to do my part, both inside the Beltway and traveling throughout the country to stand up for working families and to take on the oligarchy.
I think it is an appropriate time to ask the question that the media and most politicians don't seem to be asking: What do he and other multi-billionaires really want? What is their end game?
We need to focus on the most fundamental harms—and ignore the freak show that Trump is putting on.
Our job is not to destroy public education, it is to significantly improve it!
It is dangerously unacceptable that an unelected Musk and his unqualified acolytes have access to sensitive CMS systems.
That is a very troubling response because the studies are there. Your job is to have looked at those studies as an applicant for this job.
This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.
Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power.
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