Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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It will take a wildly outside-the-box truthteller to beat a wildly outside-the-box liar.
Gee I wonder who that might be.🤔
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My father took me to Vietnam in the 1960s to show me the ravages of war. I took away a powerful lesson — that human beings are the same everywhere.
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Full speech details: mw.nationbuilder.com/eventid…
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Republicans as well as Democrats agree that the American people deserve basic economic rights.
My speech on May 18th will highlight my proposal for a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights.
The people want an Economic Bill of Rights. New polling from @DataProgress shows a large majority of voters — including a majority of Republicans — support economic rights. There's broad support for these ideas in the abstract & when details are provided
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The crumbling of our democracy is a joke to some people.
NEW: Trump told CNN chief Chris Licht backstage before the town hall that he would boost their ratings — to which Licht nodded and said he should “have fun” per ppl familiar. Behind the scenes look @guardian theguardian.com/media/2023/m…
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The situation at the Southern border is a problem, to be sure. But the word crisis more aptly applies to the challenges faced by the thousands of people now trying to make it into the United States. It is they who are in crisis. The vast majority have experienced the most difficult circumstances imaginable, have traveled here on harrowing journeys, and are now trying desperately to make to a place where they can simply live decent lives.
It will take time to reckon with this situation, in large part because of Congress’s ineptitude and inaction over the last two decades. Greater resources must be put in the service of creating legal, safe entry for the influx of immigrants now seeking asylum. But America must also recognize how our policies in Latin America over several decades - from sanctions to other destabilizing actions - have contributed to the economic and social hardships of millions of people throughout Latin America.
This is a time of reckoning in America, in which every problem that confronts us now is challenging us to look in the mirror. Where has our country, with both domestic and international policies, created or at the very least helped to create the very conditions we now decry?
As far as refugees are concerned, we are doing it again now. With our failure to ramp down fossil fuel extraction, we’re exacerbating a situation that could lead to a time when hundreds of millions climate refugees will be roaming the world in search of a place to live. It might well be true that we ain't seen nothing yet.
This is not a time to close our hearts; it's time to open them. "You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." - Leviticus 19:34.
Just sayin'.
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We should not be the world’s largest arms dealer.
Biden is selling weapons to the majority of the world’s autocracies interc.pt/3O2C8vk by @stephensemler
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We can only beat Trump by offering a genuine economic and political alternative. Otherwise voters — particularly young people — will stay home in droves.
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The entire Piers Morgan interview youtube.com/live/_16m5rnMmhE…
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We can find the money to subsidize multibillion industries, but we can't find the money to save a rural college.
This is so sad....
Iowa Boy @chuckoburger delivers a deeply reported and moving piece on last gasps of closing Iowa Wesleyan in Mount Pleasant. Amazing how state could find $20M in incentives for Apple for 50 jobs in Waukee but not $12M to save Wesleyan, boost rural SE Iowa open.substack.com/pub/chucko…
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