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• Calling Nominating Bloomberg a 'Huge Risk,' Warren and Sanders Eviscerate Billionaire on Debate Stage

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  Published on 20th Feb 2020
• Sanders Hits Bloomberg With 'Grotesque' Statistic: Billionaire Owns More Wealth Than Bottom 125 Million Americans Combined; "That's wrong. That's immoral. That should not be the case when we got half a million people sleeping out on the street."

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  Published on 20th Feb 2020
• Sanders Alone On Debate Stage to Say Candidate With the Most Votes Should Get Nomination at Convention

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  Published on 20th Feb 2020
• McConnell, McCarthy, and Graham Condemned for 'Pathetic' Statement Defending AG Barr as 'Man of Highest Integrity'

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  Published on 19th Feb 2020
• Sanders Says Trump Clemency for 'Wall Street Crooks' and 'Corrupt' Officials Lays Bare Broken Justice System; "Meanwhile thousands of poor and working-class kids sit in jail for nonviolent drug convictions. This is what a broken and racist criminal justice system looks like."

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  Published on 19th Feb 2020
• Bloomberg (Still) Wants to Cut Social Security

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  Published on 18th Feb 2020
• 'Our Institutions Are Sounding Alarms': Federal Judges Call Emergency Meeting Over Trump Interference With DOJ - "This is mind-blowing. I've never heard of anything like it. We are in full on crisis mode."

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  Published on 18th Feb 2020
• 'You Are Not Going to Buy This Election,' Sanders Tells Bloomberg at Rally of 17,000 in Washington

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  Published on 18th Feb 2020
• The Escalating Class War Against Bernie Sanders - In American politics, hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned.

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  Published on 17th Feb 2020
• 'When the 99% Stand Together, We Can Transform Society': More Than 11,000 Rally for Sanders in Colorado - "This is a campaign by the working class, of the working class, and for the working class," Sanders told the crowd in Denver.

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  Published on 17th Feb 2020
• Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Unnecessary Deaths Every Year

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  Published on 16th Feb 2020
• After Trump Shoots Susan Collins In the Middle of 5th Avenue, She Says She's "Troubled" But Still Supports Him

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  Published on 14th Feb 2020
• Sanders Says GOP Budget Chair Won't Hold Hearing on Trump Plan Because It Would Expose President as 'Fraud That He Is'

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  Published on 13th Feb 2020
• Sanders Argues Medicare for All Is Vital for Union Workers: 'They're Losing Wage Increases Because Cost of Healthcare Is Soaring'; "If you talk to union negotiators, they will tell you they spend half of their time arguing against cutbacks for the healthcare that they have."

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  Published on 13th Feb 2020
• Thugs R Us: Roger Stone Prosecutors All Quit After DOJ Meddles in Sentencing To Appease Mad King, and There's More

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  Published on 12th Feb 2020
• 'This Is Corruption': Trump and Barr Accused of Blatant Abuse of Power as DOJ Intervenes to Reduce Roger Stone Sentence

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  Published on 12th Feb 2020
• 'Language of Monarchy': Trump Asserts He Has 'Absolute Right' to Tell Justice Department What to Do - "Trump spends his days threatening the Justice Department in order to keep his criminal buddies out of prison, while Bill Barr grotesquely pillages the rule of law."

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  Published on 12th Feb 2020
• If Bloomberg Wants to Buy an Election, He Should Run as a Republican Against Trump—Not Sabotage Democrats

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  Published on 11th Feb 2020
• Sanders Crushes Trump by 18 Points Among Independent Voters in New National General Election Poll. "Bernie Sanders is undeniably the strongest candidate against Donald Trump," tweeted journalist Walker Bragman.

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  Published on 11th Feb 2020
• 'Indefensible': MSNBC's Chuck Todd Under Fire for Reciting Quote Comparing Sanders Supporters to Nazis

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  Published on 11th Feb 2020
• Bernie Sanders Takes Lead Nationally as Biden Nosedives Post-Iowa: Quinnipiac Poll. "This poll reflects a fundamentally different race than pre-Iowa, one in which Bernie Sanders is the clear front-runner."

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  Published on 11th Feb 2020
• Rejecting 'Profoundly Disturbing' Logic That Criminalizes Empathy, Judge Reverses Convictions of Border Humanitarians

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  Published on 10th Feb 2020
• West Virginia Legislation Would Make Civil Disobedience Against Gas Pipelines a Felony

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  Published on 10th Feb 2020
• Trump Budget to Propose 'Savage' Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security While Hiking Pentagon and Wall Funds; "This budget is Trump's pledge that as long as he stays in office, slashing Social Security, Medicaid, and whatever's left of SNAP will remain a White House priority."

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  Published on 10th Feb 2020
• With Two Days to Go Until Primary, New Polling Finds N.H. Voters See Sanders as Most Electable Against Trump

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  Published on 10th Feb 2020
• Why the Buttigieg Campaign Tried to Have Me Arrested for Handing Out These Medicare for All Fliers

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  Published on 10th Feb 2020
• New Iowa Results: With 97% of Precincts Reported, Sanders Extends Popular Vote Lead Over Buttigieg to More Than 2,500 - "We are on the path to victory," said Misty Rebik, Iowa state director for the Sanders campaign.

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  Published on 6th Feb 2020
• 'America in a State of Denial About the Level of Poverty in This Country,' Says Ocasio-Cortez

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  Published on 6th Feb 2020
• 270+ 'Reject the Cover-Up' Protests Planned Across US as Senate GOP Prepares to Acquit Trump - "The Senate has failed to hold Trump accountable, so the American people will."

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  Published on 5th Feb 2020
• 'None of This Is Normal': AOC Joins Pressley, Other Dems in Boycotting Trump's State of the Union | "I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump's lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution."

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  Published on 5th Feb 2020
• Sanders Rips Trump for Lacking 'Courage' to Confront Fossil Fuel Industry After President Bragged About Oil Boom; "President Trump is turning his back on the children of America and on future generations, and dooming them to live in a planet increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable."

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  Published on 5th Feb 2020
• An Open Letter to the DNC From an American Centrist - I respectfully encourage the DNC to abandon its corporate allegiance, re-configure its membership and shift into alignment with the will of the people.

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  Published on 4th Feb 2020
• #TomPerezResign: DNC Chair Under Fire for Iowa Disaster, Favoritism for Billionaire Oligarch Bloomberg - "The Dem establishment has been screaming that our movement is sowing divisiveness and is going to ruin party unity but they're nailing that to the wall all by themselves."

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  Published on 4th Feb 2020
• Trump Reportedly Compiling Nixonian 'Enemies List' as He Seeks Revenge for Impeachment. "McConnell hasn't even held the final vote to launch the post-checks and balances era, and already the would-be authoritarian is escalating his abuses of power."

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  Published on 4th Feb 2020
• Amid Iowa Results Debacle, Sanders Campaign Signals Possible Victory by Releasing Portion of Its Internal Caucus Data

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  Published on 4th Feb 2020
• After Epic 'Nightmare' in Iowa, Democratic App Built by Secretive Firm Shadow Inc. Comes Under Scrutiny - "This outfit is inexcusably secretive."

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  Published on 4th Feb 2020
• In the Name of Medicare for All, This Family Doctor Will Vote for Bernie Sanders

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  Published on 3rd Feb 2020
• Sen. Joni Ernst Warns GOP Could Weaponize Impeachment 'Immediately' If Democrat Wins in 2020; "For all that talk about 'overturning the will of the voter," Senate GOP seems pretty okay with impeaching a future president... as long as that president is a Democrat."

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  Published on 3rd Feb 2020
• Because Bernie Showed 'There is a New Way Now,' Younger Democrats Backing Sanders, Says Michael Moore | "There have been approximately 15 million 17-year-olds in the past four years that have turned 18. And they are massively behind change."

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  Published on 3rd Feb 2020
• It Should Be Easy to Defeat Trump, But Corporate Democrats Look Ready and Willing to Blow It; Trump should be the most defeatable president in history.

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  Published on 2nd Feb 2020
• 'Not Me, Us': In Iowa Home Stretch, Sanders Focuses on Movement That Brought Him Here

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  Published on 2nd Feb 2020
• "I Can't Believe the Amount of People Here": As Over 3,000 Rally for Sanders, Influential Iowa Survey Shelved

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  Published on 2nd Feb 2020
• GOP Accused of 'Greatest Cover-Up Since Watergate' as Senate Set to End First Witness-Less Impeachment Trial in US History

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  Published on 31st Jan 2020
• Fake Moderate Susan Collins Gets 'Zero Points' Whatsoever for Vote on Witnesses: Critics | "Just as we've known she would, Collins announced her support for witnesses only when the votes were fixed to block witnesses and rig the trial to cover-up the corruption of Donald Trump."

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  Published on 31st Jan 2020
• Sanders Team Weighing Executive Orders to Legalize Marijuana, Stop Trump Border Wall, Declare Climate Emergency, and More

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  Published on 30th Jan 2020
• 'We Want Witnesses': Protest at US Capitol Demands Fair Impeachment Trial and End to GOP Cover-Up

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  Published on 29th Jan 2020
• Denouncing Trump Plan as 'Unacceptable,' Sanders Declares It Is Time to 'End the Israeli Occupation'

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  Published on 29th Jan 2020
• Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk – Industry-friendly regulators are letting chemical companies flood the country with toxins. It should be a scandal.

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  Published on 28th Jan 2020
• 'Blow Up the Phones': Demands That #BoltonMustTestify Surge After New Revelations About Ukrainian Aid Freeze. "We are citizens of the United States of America, and we must indeed unite together to stop this GOP cover-up."

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  Published on 28th Jan 2020
• Young People Are Set to Make History With Bernie Sanders—If They Show The youth movement is on the ground in New Hampshire showing the nation how it's done.

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  Published on 27th Jan 2020
• Leading By 9 in New Iowa Poll, Sanders Says His Campaign Is 'Worst Nightmare' of Trump and Billionaire Class

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  Published on 27th Jan 2020
• 'If Truth Doesn't Matter, We're Lost': Watch Rep. Adam Schiff's 9-Minute Closing Argument on Why Senate Must Remove Trump

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  Published on 26th Jan 2020
• 'More Lies,' Says Sanders as Trump Vows to 'Save' Social Security Just One Day After Threatening Cuts; "As a candidate, Trump said he'd protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now he has an obligation to tell the American people: 'I was lying. It was all just a campaign ruse.'"

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  Published on 24th Jan 2020
• South Carolina Democrat Who Endorsed Biden Said She's Switching to Sanders Because He Fights 'For the Least, the Fallen, the Left Behind': In a tweet thanking Dalhi Myers for her endorsement, Sanders wrote, "Together, we will defeat the most dangerous president in modern history."

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  Published on 23rd Jan 2020
• 'Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen': Trump Guts Safeguards for US Streams and Wetlands

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  Published on 23rd Jan 2020
• 'Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,' Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare

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  Published on 22nd Jan 2020
• If Worker Pay Had Kept Pace With Productivity Gains Since 1968, Today's Minimum Wage Would Be $24 an Hour

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  Published on 22nd Jan 2020
• 'Inexcusable': Hillary Clinton, Who Lost to Trump in 2016, Won't Commit to Helping Bernie Sanders Win in 2020

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  Published on 22nd Jan 2020
• Bernie Sanders' People-Powered Campaign Is on Fire

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  Published on 21st Jan 2020
• 'Sit This One Out': FBI Slammed for Social Media Shoutout to Martin Luther King Jr.: "FBI, translated: Of all the people we have wiretapped, blackmailed, and tried to drive to their deaths through suicide, there are none we think more highly of than Dr. King."

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  Published on 21st Jan 2020
• Because "I Can Feel Bernie Beating Trump,' Pramila Jayapal Endorses Sanders for President

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  Published on 20th Jan 2020
• Bernie Sanders Has Been Getting It Right for 40 Years. Now, Says His Movement: 'We Are Going to Win' "We've never ever in our lifetimes had a true champion of social, economic, and climate justice this close to the White House."

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  Published on 20th Jan 2020
• A 2020 Reminder: 55% of US Women Between 18 and 54 Would Rather Live Under Socialism Than Capitalism

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  Published on 19th Jan 2020
• Schumer Praised for Joining Sanders in Voting Against Trump Trade Deal That Ignores Climate Crisis

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  Published on 17th Jan 2020
• 'CNN Is Truly a Terrible Influence on This Country': Democratic Debate Moderators Pilloried for Centrist Talking Points and Anti-Sanders Bias

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  Published on 15th Jan 2020
• Climate Groups Thank Sanders for Being Only Candidate at Debate to Stand Against Trump-Led Trade Deal

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  Published on 15th Jan 2020
• CNN Moderators, Alarmed by Cost of Medicare for All, Ignore Price Tag of Endless War

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  Published on 15th Jan 2020
• Did Giuliani Goons Plot Against US Ambassador? 'Incredibly Disturbing' House Impeachment Docs Raise Serious New Questions

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  Published on 15th Jan 2020
• 'Unconscionable': As Puerto Rico Suffers Earthquake Aftermath, AOC, Sanders, and Velazquez Demand Trump End Illegal Hold on Relief Funds

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  Published on 14th Jan 2020
• Surging Ten Points, Sanders Takes Lead Over Biden, Warren in California Tracking Poll - Since Sen. Kamala Harris dropped out last month, "Sanders appears to have gained almost all of [her] former supporters in California."

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  Published on 14th Jan 2020
• Not Buying Trump Narrative, Majority of Americans Believe Soleimani Assassination Made US Less Safe: Poll: The survey also found that 52% the U.S. public believes the Trump administration's behavior toward Iran has been "reckless."

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  Published on 9th Jan 2020
• After Biden Offers 'No Comment' Response to Middle East Escalation, Critics Suggest: How About 'No War With Iran'. “If your candidate right now is saying anything other than 'the US cannot go to war with Iran and should de-escalate immediately,' they shouldn't be your candidate."

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  Published on 8th Jan 2020
• 'Trump Said He Wouldn't Cut Social Security. He Lied': Sanders Vows to Reverse President's Attack on Disability Benefits - "No, Mr. President: We will not let you cut Social Security. We will fight to expand it."

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  Published on 8th Jan 2020
• Economists 'Surprised Americans Aren't Revolting' Over $8,000 Tax They Pay Each Year Due to For-Profit Healthcare System. The payments made to the U.S. healthcare system are "like a tribute to a foreign power, but we're doing it to ourselves."

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  Published on 8th Jan 2020
• #NoWarWithIran: US Peace Advocates Say 'Time for De-Escalation Is Now'

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  Published on 8th Jan 2020
• Advocates Argue 'It Is Ludicrous, and Frankly Offensive,' to Let Impeached Trump Continue Right-Wing Takeover of Courts. "We cannot allow a president who demanded foreign interference in our elections and obstructed Congress to pack our courts with lifetime appointees."

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  Published on 8th Jan 2020
• Study Shows Medicare for All Could Save US $600 Billion Annually on Paperwork and Other 'Useless Bureaucracy'

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  Published on 7th Jan 2020
• 'This Is Alarming': Iranian-Americans Reportedly Detained, Asked About Political Views at US Border

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  Published on 6th Jan 2020
• Ocasio-Cortez Says Trump Is a 'Monster' for 'Threatening to Target and Kill Innocent Families, Women, and Children' in Iran

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  Published on 5th Jan 2020
• Iraqi Parliament Votes to Expel All American Troops and Submit UN Complaint Against US for Violation of Sovereignty. "What happened was a political assassination. Iraq cannot accept this."

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  Published on 5th Jan 2020
• Bernie Sanders Condemns Trump for Putting US on Path to 'Another Disastrous War in the Middle East'

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  Published on 3rd Jan 2020
• Video of Trump Warning 'Our President Will Start a War With Iran Because He Has Absolutely No Ability to Negotiate' Resurfaces: "The only way he figures that he's going to get reelected—and as sure as you're sitting there—is to start a war with Iran," Trump said of Obama in 2011.

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  Published on 3rd Jan 2020
• Sanders Announces 'Staggering' $34.5 Million Fourth-Quarter Haul, With Average Donation of Just $18.53 - "Bernie Sanders is closing the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign," said campaign manager Faiz Shakir.

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  Published on 2nd Jan 2020
• Touting 5 Million Individual Contributions, Sanders Campaign Celebrates Fundraising Milestone

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  Published on 2nd Jan 2020
• Federal Judge Blocks NC's Voter ID Law, Citing State's 'Sordid History' of Racist Voter Suppression | Judge Loretta Biggs said the law's provision preventing voters from showing public assistance ID cards to vote was "particularly suspect."

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  Published on 1st Jan 2020
• Tear Gas Fired, Gunshots Ring Out as Thousands of Iraqis Surround US Embassy to Condemn Trump Airstrikes: “This may be the beginning of the end for the U.S. occupation."

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  Published on 31st Dec 2019
• 'Destruction of Checks and Balances': WH Lawyers Reportedly Argued Trump Could Override Congress to Withhold Ukraine Aid

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  Published on 30th Dec 2019
• World's 500 Richest People Gained $1.2 Trillion in Wealth in 2019: Analysis | "In the U.S., the richest 0.1% control a bigger share of the pie than at any time since 1929."

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  Published on 27th Dec 2019
• Poll Showing Record Support for Trump's Ouster Indicates GOP 'Policy of Complete Obstruction’ Not Selling With Voters

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  Published on 26th Dec 2019
• In Christmas Night Twitter Eruption, Trump Questions Why House Is 'Allowed to Impeach the President'

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  Published on 26th Dec 2019
• 'People Should Take Him Very Seriously' Sanders Polling Surge Reportedly Forcing Democratic Establishment to Admit He Can Win - "He has a very good shot of winning Iowa, a very good shot of winning New Hampshire and other than Joe Biden, the best shot of winning Nevada" said one former Obama adviser

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  Published on 26th Dec 2019
• 'Just About Cruelty': Sanders and Tlaib Rip Trump 'Holiday Menu' of Gifts for the Rich and Nutrition Cuts for the Poor

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  Published on 25th Dec 2019
• Obama Insider Confirms Former President Ready to Back Whoever Wins 2020 Nomination—Even Bernie Sanders | "Whoever emerges from the primary process, I will work my tail off to make sure that they are the next president."

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  Published on 24th Dec 2019
• 'Pretty Brazen Stuff': Email Shows Top Buttigieg Fundraiser Offering Campaign Influence in Exchange for Donations

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  Published on 23rd Dec 2019
• Trump Is Third Impeached President, But Tulsi Gabbard Now First Lawmaker in US History to Vote 'Present' on Key Question

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  Published on 19th Dec 2019
• Sanders and Warren Demand McConnell Hold Full and Fair Impeachment Trial for 'Most Corrupt President in Our History'

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  Published on 19th Dec 2019
• Hundreds of Thousands Take to Streets in All 50 States With a Simple Message for Congress: 'Time to Impeach and Remove Trump'; "This is what democracy looks like."

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  Published on 18th Dec 2019
• Sanders Calls Out 'Deficit Hawks' in Both Parties Who Support $738 Billion Pentagon Budget But Claim US Can't Afford Medicare for All

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  Published on 17th Dec 2019
• 'History Is Watching Us': 600+ Rallies Planned Nationwide on Trump Impeachment Eve

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  Published on 17th Dec 2019
• 'Stop This Illegal Purge': Outrage as Georgia GOP Removes More Than 300,000 Voters From Rolls; Warning of 2020 impact, one critic said Georgia could remain a red state solely "due to the GOP purposefully denying people the right to vote."

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  Published on 17th Dec 2019
• 'To Protect Our Democracy,' Tuesday Night Rallies Planned In All 50 States to Demand Congress Votes to Impeach Trump: “Americans from California to West Virginia are ready to hold their representatives accountable and declare that no one—not even the president—is above the law."

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  Published on 15th Dec 2019