The first day of Coachella was full of theatrics and surprises, thanks to a show-stopping headlining set from Lady Gaga and guest appearances from people like Brian May (who joined Benson Boone onstage). The second day had a lot to live up to, but luckily, tons of artists on the …
Read More »'Revolution With Joy': Bernie and AOC Draw Massive Crowd in Los Angeles
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) appeared to draw his largest crowd ever as part of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Los Angeles near City Hall on Saturday. About 36,000 people gathered for the rally, according to his team. Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Neil Young performed leading up to Sanders’ speech, and …
Read More »Democrats Are (Slowly) Learning How to Fight Trump
Cameron Allen is close to the Democratic Party’s ideal voter. A millennial lawyer from Kentucky, Allen was part of the wave of energized younger Democrats who sent Andy Beshear to the governor’s office in 2018 and mobilized behind Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. Allen detests Donald Trump and opposes the Republican …
Read More »AOC and Bernie Slam Trump Admin's 'Disdain' for Working People at Packed Rallies
The Democratic Party is a mess. Donald Trump is systematically dismantling the United States government in order to consolidate power around himself, and last week Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) abdicated what little congressional power Democrats have left by supporting the Republican resolution to fund the government. The president …
Read More »Laura Jane Grace Reacts to Right-Wing Backlash to Her Song 'Your God': 'I'm Not Being Profane to Be Profane'
The death threats were the first clue. On March 7, Laura Jane Grace played her new song, “Your God (God’s Dick),” at a Bernie Sanders “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” event in Wisconsin. A bawdy, and, yes, profane, sing-along, the track was meant to be a protest against …
Read More »Bernie Sanders on Battling a Government 'Of, By, and For' the Billionaires
OMAHA, NEBRASKA — It’s a frigid Friday night in Omaha, and Bernie Sanders has come to this riverside Nebraska city to sound a battlecry for democracy — and rally Americans to fight the rising threats of authoritarianism and billionaire rule. The thin ice floes careening down the Missouri River offer …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Warns U.S. Is Becoming an Oligarchy
Sen. Bernie Sanders is ringing the alarm that the United States is “rapidly” becoming an oligarchy run by billionaires out to enrich themselves. “We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, have so much wealth and …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Agrees With Elon Musk on Slashing the Pentagon's Budget
They may not agree on much, but when it comes to Pentagon spending, Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire Elon Musk are aligned. Sanders, who usually makes enemies of billionaires like Musk, posted on X Sunday, “Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its …
Read More »Sanders: 'The Working Class Is Angry, and They Have Reason to Be'
Sen. Bernie Sanders is standing ten toes down on his assessment that the Democratic Party lost the presidential election because the working class feels abandoned. The Vermont senator, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, released a statement after the election stating, “It should come as no great surprise that …
Read More »Mark Cuban, Mark Hamill Crash Bernie Sanders Twitch Stream to Trash Trump
Sen. Bernie Sanders joined mega-popular Twitch streamers Pokimane and Valkyrae on the live video platform Tuesday night to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 election entered its final two weeks. The Vermont congressman kicked off the event by calling this election “the most consequential election in our …
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