Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Some Tweets from Bernie Sanders


  •  Pinned Tweet
    When I met John, a veteran, a few months ago, he had $139,000 in medical debt. Thankfully today he is doing much better. We must eliminate all medical debt—and when our veterans come home, they must receive the best quality health care this country can provide them.
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    We need you here in Iowa...not in January, right now! We’re aiming to knock 35,000+ doors this weekend and we need your help. Can you drive here this weekend? Take a bus? Book a train ticket? Go to and find an office nearest you.
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    This is a big deal. Thank you for endorsing for President! Together we will fight for an advanced, multiracial society that centers the working class. Thrilled to be in this together 🌹
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    I wrote about the power of Bernie Sander’s improbable run to be president for the NYT.
  • I first met John a few months ago, in what was not a good circumstance for him. I’m glad he is doing much better today. We are going to take care of the people who have served this country.
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    Opinion | Don’t Think ⁦⁩ Can Win? You Don’t Understand His Campaign - ⁦⁩ ⁦ ⁩ You did that Professor! 👊🏾🖤👊🏾
  • Future historians will say it was the young people like the leaders of who built the movement we desperately needed to pass a Green New Deal and save our planet.
  • I don’t want us to just go back to where we were before Trump. I want us to ask some hard questions that we as a nation rarely do: How is health care not a right in the richest country in the world? Why do one in six of our children go hungry? Why are 500,000+ people homeless?
  • Donald Trump thinks he can win re-election by dividing us up. He is dead wrong. We are the strongest campaign to beat Trump because we are bringing people together with a multiracial, working-class movement.
  • Young people are ready for a political revolution.
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    Today I’m celebrating my 18th birthday by registering to vote and doing EVERYTHING I can to elect as the next president of the United States! We need all hands on deck for , so join me by downloading the app 👇🏻
  • Have you ever received a huge medical bill despite having private health insurance?
  • Why do you think the rich and powerful make such enormous political contributions? They may be greedy — but they are not stupid. We do not have and we do not want the funding of the billionaire class.
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    It’s because immigrant youth fight for justice, black workers demand fair pay, women stand in their power, that I know we can build the country of our dreams. Today 500,000 of us at are joining millions to build this country alongside Tio
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  • The outrageous abuse taking place at Glenwood and Woodward Resource Centers under Gov. Reynolds’ administration must end now. We must end the institutional bias that forces people with disabilities out of their communities, and instead guarantee home and community-based services.
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    John Weigel was at a Sanders town hall in September and told the crowd he was contemplating suicide after being saddled with medical debt to treat Huntington’s disease. Today, he and reunited:
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    Like Uncle says, despair is not an option. You have to believe something is possible before you can achieve it. Hopelessness and despair will get us nowhere. We know that we can avert the climate crisis and shape a better future. We won't give up either.
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    The honor is ours Senator. Our people deserve a movement candidate that will be unapologetic about their commitment to our freedom. Can’t wait to join you in the streets to secure this primary victory & defeat Trumpism in 2020.
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    Proud to report is endorsing . Our network of grassroots social movement orgs - 600K families - has united behind a bold vision for racial/economic/climate justice, to work with Sen. Sanders to win the WH & social transformation.
  • I’m proud to be endorsed by . Together we’re going to build a movement for racial, social and economic justice made up of working class Americans that will bring millions of people together and transforms our country so it works for all of us.
  • The American people have been ripped off by pharmaceutical companies for too long. Some politicians are willing to allow that. I'm not going to take it anymore. We're going to end pharma's greed and cap out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $200 a year.
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    Hello Reno 🙌✊🔥 Great to hang out with you and
  • We're going to win this election not because we have billionaire donors. We don't. We're going to win this election because we have something more powerful than big money: the people on our side. Live now from Reno:
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    You might recall talking in a previous pod episode about this emotional moment when a vet at a Sanders rally in Nevada talked about feeling like he could commit suicide because of his high medical bills. The story has an update. 👇