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Sharon Zhang: Zohran Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory in NYC, Triumphing Over Billionaire Onslaught

Mamdani’s win is a historic victory for the left over a powerful, moneyed coalition of forces that aimed to defeat him.

November 5, 2025 · 9 Comments

Norman Solomon: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

Corporate-friendly approaches by the Democratic Party set the stage for Trump’s faux “populism” as an imagined solution to the discontent that the corporatism of the Democrats had helped usher in.

October 24, 2025 · 2 Comments

Video: Bernie Sanders says “Take Over the Democratic Party!”

“The oligarchs, they’re not just content with owning America, they also want to destroy our democracy and move us toward an authoritarian form of society,” Sanders said.

August 18, 2025 · 5 Comments

Marianne Dhenin: Voters Demand a Bolder and More Progressive Democratic Party

Around the U.S., progressive candidates are preparing to run for office and push for a liberal opposition that lives up to its ideals.

May 29, 2025 · 6 Comments

Olivia Rosane: Following Record-Breaking LA Rally, Sanders Tours Republican Districts

‘The American people…do not want huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the country paid for by massive cuts to Medicaid and other programs that working families rely on.’

April 15, 2025 · 6 Comments

Baron Wormser: Bernie

Only one politician has come forward with a coherent response that he has taken to the people concerning what is occurring in the second administration of Donald Trump.

March 2, 2025 · 6 Comments

Julia Conley: Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders’ First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy

“The energy around what Bernie is doing is insane….”

February 27, 2025 · 8 Comments

Matt Duss: Democrats have become the party of war. Americans are tired of it

In defending the militarist status quo, Democrats ceded the anti-war lane to Republicans. As they enter the political wilderness, it’s time to reckon with what they got so wrong.

January 13, 2025 · 10 Comments

Bernie Sanders: Will Defeating the Oligarchs Be Easy? Of Course Not

If there was ever a moment when progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time. Despair is not an option.

January 1, 2025 · 6 Comments

Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders respond to the 2024 election

We will continue to fight for each other.

November 8, 2024 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Ceasefire Delegates Insist Palestinian Children Can’t Eat Words

‘Never again’ means ‘never again, for anyone, anywhere, ever.’

August 22, 2024 · 8 Comments

Video: Bernie Sanders Rips Colleagues for Attacking Student Protesters Instead of Netanyahu

‘It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in almost seven months Netanyahu’s extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children.’

May 3, 2024 · 10 Comments

Brett Wilkins: US Lawmakers Call on Biden to End US Taxpayer Support of Israeli Human Rights Violations

“Each year, the U.S. funnels billions of tax dollars to the Israeli government, funding obscene human rights violations,” said Rep. Cori Bush, who signed the letter. “We must stop funding Israeli apartheid.”

April 17, 2023 · 5 Comments

Mandy Smithberger, William D. Hartung: How to Cut $1 Trillion from the Pentagon

A CBO report requested by Bernie Sanders lays out three options for a modest Pentagon trim over the next decade. Can we pull it off?

November 16, 2021 · 2 Comments

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