If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are set to appear in a town hall tonight. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins will host the event, which comes as the government …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Is Backing Maine's Oysterman Senate Candidate to 'Send a Message'
PORTLAND, Maine — Bernie Sanders drew 6,500 people to southern Maine on Labor Day Monday to discuss building a grassroots movement to fight the oligarchy, and to introduce them to Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran running for Senate with the Vermont independent’s early support. At the “Fighting …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Endorses Populist Oyster Farmer Running Against Susan Collins
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday endorsed political outsider Graham Platner, the populist oyster farmer running to oust Maine’s Republican Sen. Susan Collins. While national Democrats have been eyeing Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) for the Senate race, Platner arrived as an unexpected progressive contender, pitching himself to those frustrated …
Read More »Dem Socialists Convene in Chicago to Chart Future After Mamdani's Win
It’s been a banner year for the Democratic Socialists of America. The two most prominent democratic socialists in the country — Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are currently two of the country’s most popular politicians and, come next January, there is a very good chance that the largest city …
Read More »Yes, America Is an Oligarchy
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has recently been fretting about the increasing use of the term “oligarchy” by her fellow Democrats. Slotkin apparently feels that “oligarchy” has no resonance beyond America’s coasts. Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders has been drawing record crowds beyond those coasts to his anti-oligarchy rallies. Americans, Sanders has …
Read More »Trump Signs Bill to Kick Millions Off Health Care Into Law
The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” —Donald Trump and the GOP’s sprawling legislative packagethat will cut taxes on the rich, supercharge the administration’s immigration raids and arrests, and gut green-energy initiatives while kicking millions of Americans off their health care and other social services — is now law. The president signed …
Read More »'The Gilded Age' Star Morgan Spector Explains Why It Takes a Socialist to Play a Robber Baron
I n Season Three of The Gilded Age, George Russell prepares to risk it all. The fictional late-19th-century tycoon, played by Morgan Spector, has his sights set on conquering westward trade and travel with a transcontinental railroad project. It’s a monumental endeavor that requires all manner of smoky backroom dealmaking, …
Read More »Bernie Sanders: Americans Know What 'Oligarchy' Means, They Aren't 'Dumb'
Sen. Bernie Sanders has faith that the American people understand what “oligarchy” means, defending his use of the term from fellow Democrats Sen. Elise Slotkin and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who have argued that it doesn’t resonate with voters. “I think the American people are not quite as dumb as …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Packed an Arena in … Utah
The busiest politician in America over the weekend was not President Donald Trump, or any of his cronies, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who spoke before crowds of tens of thousands in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and at this year’s Coachella music festival as part of his Fighting Oligarchy …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Urges People to Fight for Justice Before Introducing Clairo's Coachella Set
Clairo had an unexpected guest for fans on Saturday night at Coachella: Just before her set began, Bernie Sanders came out for a moment of political activism in the desert. The Vermont Senator, who was in California for an anti-oligarchy rally earlier in the day, encouraged the crowd to fight …
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