Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Joined February 2009
I'll be speaking at Hillside International Truth Center this Mother's Day, May 14th, both in-person and online.
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The rest of American culture isn’t stuck in the 1980s. Only our politics is—and it’s time to change that.
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“We are connected, members of a shared nation and a shared economy, where the advantages of the rich often come at the expense of the poor. But that arrangement is not inevitable or permanent. It was made by human hands and can be unmade by them. We can fashion a new society, starting with our own lives.” - Matthew Desmond @just_shelter , POVERTY, BY AMERICA
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Replying to @anshedonic
No respect there whatsoever:)
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I’m going live on TikTok at 8:00pm ET tonight — join me.
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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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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.
Replying to @MarkVinPaul
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 filesforprogress.org/memos/d…
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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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