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“Today, millions and millions and millions of American families are also struggling to survive in a system that has been rigged by the wealthy and the well-connected.”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“A couple allegedly spent $120,000 that was mistakenly deposited into their bank account.”

— Susanna Heller, A couple allegedly spent $120,000 that was mistakenly deposited into their bank account

“We all know the Trump Administration is the most corrupt in living memory. But even after Trump is gone, it won’t be enough to do a better job of running a broken system. We need to take power in Washington away from the wealthy and well-connected and put it back in the hands of the people where it…”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“Overwhelming majorities of Americans want action. Huge crowds march on Washington demanding change. Letters. Phone calls. Protests. But nothing happens. Nothing. Why? Because if you don’t have money and you don’t have connections, Washington doesn’t want to hear from you.”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“Over the years, America’s middle class had been deliberately hollowed out.”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“This is the fight of our lives. The fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone.”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“Since the early 1970s — adjusted for inflation — wages in America have barely budged. But the cost of housing has shot up nearly two-thirds.”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“I believe in an America of opportunity!”

— Elizabeth Warren, Read

“Today, we are all rightly repulsed by the sight of neo-Nazis and Klansmen openly marching in Charlottesville, VA, and we are horrified by houses of worship being shot up by right-wing terrorists. But on February 20, 1939, over 20,000 Nazis held a mass rally—not in Berlin, not in Rome, but in Madison…”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“We must recognize that in the 21st century, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights.”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“Today, America and the world are once again moving towards authoritarianism — and the same right-wing forces of oligarchy, corporatism, nationalism, racism and xenophobia are on the march, pushing us to make the apocalyptically wrong choice that Europe made in the last century.”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“These leaders meld corporatist economics with xenophobia and authoritarianism. They redirect popular anger about inequality and declining economic conditions into violent rage against minorities — whether they are immigrants, racial minorities, religious minorities or the LGBT community. And to supp…”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“While the rich get richer they live longer lives. While poor and working families struggle economically and often lack adequate health care, their life expectancy is declining for the first time in modern American history.”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“After decades of policies that have encouraged and subsidized unbridled corporate greed, we now have an economy that is fundamentally broken and grotesquely unfair.”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“Today, nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty and tonight, 500,000 people will be sleeping out on the streets. About half of the country lives paycheck to paycheck as tens of millions of our people are an accident, a divorce, a sickness or a layoff away from economic devastation.”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“In the year 2019 the United States and the rest of the world face two very different political paths. On one hand, there is a growing movement towards oligarchy and authoritarianism in which a small number of incredibly wealthy and powerful billionaires own and control a significant part of the econ…”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“When we talk about oligarchy, let us be clear about what we mean. Right now, in the United States of America, three families control more wealth than the bottom half of our country, some 160 million Americans. The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 92% and 49% of all new income generated today g…”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“This president, his open racism is also an invitation to violence.”

— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke Interview Transcripts: Beto Makes Series of Media Appearances Slamming Trump

“If there was ever a moment when we needed to stand up and fight against the forces of oligarchy and authoritarianism, this is that time.”

— Bernie Sanders, Read

“If we don’t call this out, if we don’t do something, our silence becomes our complicity, not just in the hatred and the racism from the president, but in the violence that we saw here in El Paso just a couple of days ago.”

— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke Interview Transcripts: Beto Makes Series of Media Appearances Slamming Trump