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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Bernie Sanders plans rally at Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will be in the Midstate later this week. The Vermont independent and former presidential candidate will be at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex Friday. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. and the program, entitled 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here,' starts at 6 p.m. Sanders will be joined by U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-17). Free parking will be available on site, and flags, among other items, are prohibited. For more information, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bernie Sanders Makes Surprise Appearance at Coachella 2025 to Introduce Clairo
Sen. Bernie Sanders made an unexpected appearance at Coachella 2025. The 83-year-old Vermont independent took the stage at the Indio, California, festival on Saturday (April 12) to introduce Clairo and deliver a politically charged message. More from Billboard Charli xcx, Travis Scott, Green Day & More: Best Moments From Coachella 2025 Day 2 Marc Nathan, Longtime Promotion and A&R Exec, Dies at 70 Billie Joe Armstrong Joins The Go-Go's for 'Head Over Heels' at Coachella 2025 'This country faces some very difficult challenges, and the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation,' Sanders told the crowd, according to Time. 'Now you can turn away and ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do so at your own peril. We need you to stand up and fight for justice, to fight for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.' At one point, after referencing the 'President of the United States,' the audience responded with boos. 'I agree,' he replied. The longtime politician went on to criticize President Donald Trump's stance on climate change. '[Trump] thinks that climate change is a hoax. He's dangerously wrong,' the senator said. 'And you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.' Sanders also addressed wealth inequality and corporate power. 'We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class, but not for working families,' he said, calling for action against insurance and pharmaceutical companies. 'Healthcare is a human right,' he added. The senator praised Clairo for using her platform to advocate for critical issues. 'I'm here because Clairo has used her prominence to fight for women's rights, to try to end the terrible, brutal war in Gaza, where thousands of women and children are being killed,' he said. Later that evening, Sanders reflected on his appearance through X, posting a photo from the stage. 'Thank you, Coachella. I enjoyed introducing the great @clairo tonight,' he wrote. 'These are tough times. The younger generation has to help lead in the fight to combat climate change, protect women's rights, and build an economy that works for all, not just the few.' Earlier in the day, Sanders appeared at Los Angeles's Gloria Molina Grand Park as part of his ongoing 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here' tour alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The event also featured including Neil Young, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers. The Sanders-AOC tour has drawn thousands at rallies across Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. At a March 7 stop in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Sanders invited musician Laura Jane Grace to the stage to perform a provocative new song titled 'Your God (God's D—),' which sparked controversy online for its profane lyrics and religious themes. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit Bakersfield as part of ‘Fighting Oligarchy' tour
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are scheduled to make an appearance in Bakersfield as part of their 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour. The event is scheduled for April 15 at the Dignity Health Arena in downtown Bakersfield. Senate Democrat questions what Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez have 'actually done' The event is being called 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Bakersfield.' Ocasio-Cortez is listed as a special guest on an RSVP site for the event. Similar events have brought Sanders and other speakers across the country as Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez rail against President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their policies. A similar event is scheduled for Los Angeles on April 12. Sanders and AOC have also held events in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. The tour is about 'having real discussions across America on how we move forward to take on the oligarchs and corporate interests who have so much power and influence in this country,' according to Sanders' tour site. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Vox
31-03-2025
- Politics
- Vox
Is this the Democrats' Tea Party moment?
is a senior politics reporter at Vox, where he covers the Democratic Party. He joined Vox in 2022 after reporting on national and international politics for the Atlantic's politics, global, and ideas teams, including the role of Latino voters in the 2020 election. Participants cheer as Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here' rally at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado on March 21, 2025. Jason Connolly / AFP via Getty Images Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz summed up the state of his party well recently, 'The Democratic Party is unified — they're unified in being pissed off at the Democrats.' Just 44 percent of Democrats are satisfied with the job Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is doing. About 54 percent are satisfied with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. And the party's overall favorability is tanking. That rage isn't going away any time soon. The base looked ready to riot in March after Senate Democrats, led by Schumer, prevented a government shutdown by voting with Republicans to pass a stopgap funding bill. Many in the base saw the showdown as a red line — a wasted opportunity for their congressional representatives to obstruct Republicans and Trump, showing their constituents that they would finally fight back. The last time a party base was this mad at its leadership, it was 2009, and movement Republicans were furious at party leaders for losing to former President Barack Obama, bailing out Wall Street, and failing to stop the Affordable Care Act. And what started out as base rage grew into a full-on interparty revolution — the Tea Party reorganized the Republican Party on its own terms. But are Democrats about to face their own Tea Party moment? Is the rage that the base is feeling right now going to lead the party down the same path that Republicans went on during the Obama era? What the Tea Party rise looked like While early Tea Party activists and leaders argue that they had a sharply defined set of primarily libertarian, conservative beliefs about the role and size of government, their defining characteristic was anger: at the Obama administration, and the Republican Party's inability to stop Democrats, and at Obama, personally. Their original unifying theme was an acronym — 'Taxed Enough Already,' a conservative call for less government spending, lower taxation, and strict interpretations of the Constitution. It was a loose network of local activists and groups who showed up to town halls, held protests locally and in DC, and eventually saw upstart individual candidates challenge moderate and establishment Republicans in both safe seats and swing seats. They saw two discernible spikes in power and momentum: first in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm elections, when anti-incumbent dissatisfaction boosted congressional Republicans to win 63 House seats and make gains in the Senate. The second was in the 2014 midterms, when Republicans gained even more seats in the House and won back the Senate. In that time, the Tea Party went from GOP fringe to a rival power center that continually vexed its more establishment leadership. The movement was both ideological — as detailed above — and tactical. Tea Party candidates wanted Republicans to take extreme measures to obstruct Obama's agenda, and they launched primary challenges to a slew of incumbent Republicans who refused to go along. Notably, the movement was defined by how decentralized it was at its start — though some national organizations later formed to try to organize and wield populist furor, it was mostly a grassroots movement. That energy sustained itself over more than five years and was strong enough to oust one of the Republican Party's top leaders in 2014, when college professor Dave Brat beat GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor. The race was an upset, and is still largely considered the most emblematic Tea Party victory of the period. 'The populist energy we had back then had a very clear logic to it. It was Madisonian, Adam Smith, decentralization, federalism, taxed enough already, and border security,' Brat told me recently. 'When I ran, I was kind of a pre-Trump in a way, right? I ran on those things, and it's all out there on paper. It was a content-driven race. It wasn't like I was out for power.' Through it all, there was at least some common thread holding the movement together: populist anger. How the Tea Party movement mirrors today's Democrats What makes 2025 feel like 2009 and 2014 is the level of intra-party anger and the unifying of the party around a shorthand slogan: 'Do Something.' The polling data, for example, does reveal some parallels between 2009, 2014, and today. Self-identified Democrats now view their party about as negatively as Republicans did from 2009 to 2015, the years of the Tea Party's dominance, according to polling analysis by the election data site Split Ticket. As that site's co-founder Lakshya Jain said in a recent post, 'the Democratic approval data is unlike any in recent history — and it isn't a case of bitter, disaffected partisans reacting to a loss in the last election.' Jain notes that this year is different from the last two times Democrat and Republican bases had to reckon with presidential losses. In 2017, for example, Democrats didn't turn away from their leaders: approval ratings of congressional Democrats rose from 2017 to 2019, as the base approved of their party's resistance to Trump and empowered a blue wave in the midterms. In 2021, meanwhile, the Republican base remained largely favorable toward congressional Republicans after Trump's loss. The numbers suggest this year might be the start of something different from Democrats. That anger is showing up online, in the press, and in-person in places like deep-blue California, Massachusetts, and Maryland, where pissed-off constituents are squaring off with elected Democrats — venting to their representatives about how frustrated they are by their leadership's weak resistance to Trump and Musk. That mirrors some of the town halls and rallies that defined the populist Tea Party insurgency in 2009 and 2010, and which carried over into the second Obama term. Angry Democrats have and are continuing to mobilize. Anti-establishment figures like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been speaking to this frustration during rallies in five states this month. The party's establishment stand-in, Senate Minority Leader Schumer, meanwhile was confronted for his decision to stop a shutdown in interviews and eventually canceled a book tour over concern about how Democratic audiences would react. Other Democratic politicians have begun to turn their ire on fellow Democrats in Congress. Walz, on his own town hall tour, is sharply criticizing the current congressional Democratic strategy of essentially letting Trump and Republicans damage themselves and get more unpopular. What makes this moment different from the Tea Party Still, 2025 is a very different moment of rage. Today's Democratic base anger isn't primarily ideological — there's no policy, agenda, candidate, or unifying principle that is rallying Democrats against their party leaders like it did for conservative Republicans. The closest is anger at Schumer, specifically. And while anti-establishment, anti-incumbent feeling does define this discontent, it's mostly around the loose idea of resisting harder, of fighting back against Trump and 'doing something.' For example, another recent Data for Progress polling reveals two particular kinds of anger. The first is aimed at Schumer specifically for being an ineffective leader for Senate Democrats. An outright majority of Democrats think Senate Democrats to choose a new leader. And two-thirds say they should be led by someone 'who fights harder against Trump and the Republican agenda.' The second point of anger is age and gerontocracy. Nearly 70 percent of Democrats think the party should 'encourage elderly leaders to retire and pass the torch to the younger generation.' And more than 80 percent think it is 'very' or 'somewhat' important for Democrats to field 'younger candidates that represent a new generation of leadership.' So while there's no uniformity right now in who the Democrats' lead internal critics are — between Sanders, Walz, AOC, and others, no clear ideological or demographic trait binds them — what does is their call for a kind of generational change. This doesn't necessarily mirror the GOP Tea Party period's start, and if anything, is more reminiscent of the 2018 blue-wave energy — which also didn't necessarily elect a more moderate or progressive Democratic bench. What 2018 did result in was a much more diverse and female Congress, and a version of that kind of change could replicate itself next year if younger candidates end up trying to challenge older incumbents for not being more vocal and effective in their resistance to Trump. The generational revolution ahead At least at the state and local level, this kind of younger energy is emerging. Amanda Litman, the co-founder of the progressive Run for Something candidate recruitment group, told me that since the shutdown quandary, younger people have been the leading kind of prospective candidate looking to run. 'The people who have reached out to me personally about running for Congress, and I hear from in particular young people who know that we work with young people and first-time candidates … it has been people who want to primary older Democratic incumbents. There's people who want to jump into possibly open races, people who want to run against vulnerable Republicans, it is all of the above.' Litman told me that the Tea Party comparison, while easy to make, might be missing that the party could be in for a generational turnover, as opposed to some kind of ideological or policy change — candidates running with the knowledge that 'the Republican Party of the early 2000s through 2015 is dead' and 'came of age politically since Trump rose to power.' 'You're going to see a totally different type of person running as a Democrat,' Litman said. 'You're going to see people who have made their careers as content creators or influencers running for Congress, non-conventional candidates jumping in, and we're going to see a generational push,' she said. '[It will include] people who've actually run their own Instagram accounts, which is such a small thing, but it's actually indicative of the entire generational shift in power.'
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Progressives visiting swing districts in coming days
(NewsNation) — Angry constituents at town hall events for Republican lawmakers have made headlines recently, as conservative voters chide their representatives for some of the actions being taken by the Department of Government Efficiency. Recently, liberal voters have also been criticizing their Democratic lawmakers as well — in this case, for not doing enough to fight Republican President Donald Trump's agenda. Now, in the next couple of days, progressive lawmakers are going to swing districts in Arizona and Colorado. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to join Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, on his 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here' tour. AG Pam Bondi announces charges against three alleged Tesla arsonists Democrats say this is to fill the void, as House Republican leadership has told members of their party to stop doing in-person town hall events. Another reason is to get a chance to put their message in front of Republicans. 'We cannot afford to be in an 'every person for themselves' kind of moment,' Ocasio-Cortez said. 'We need to work together and as a team in order to usher our country through this very dark time.' Sanders says the way to win is not in Washington, D.C. Trump signs order aimed at eliminating Department of Education 'We're going to win it when millions of people, Republicans, Democrats, independents, stand up and say, 'You know what? This is not the kind of government we want,'' Sanders said. NewsNation spoke to several moderate Democrats who say they're OK with the progressives in their party spreading their message like this. Moderates and progressives aren't always on the same page, though, and some of that boiled over last week with Senate Democrats voting in different ways on a GOP government funding measure. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
