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At last night's (Feb. 18th) MSNBC   Democratic Town Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada, Secretary Clinton was asked, once again , whether she would release the transcripts of her $250,000-per-hour paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, in the interest of being transparent. Clinton responded as she did during the last debate: I am happy to release anything I have whenever everybody else does the same, because everybody in this race, including Sen. Sanders, has given speeches to private groups. Everybody else does the same because every other candidate in this race has given speeches to private groups, including Sen. Sanders. Sanders's Response: Late last night, Senator Sanders sent the following tweet out on Twitter: Bernie Sanders's campaign tweet (click the image to view a larger version), posted at 10:51pm EDT on Feb. 18, 2016 reads: This is what a paid  @BernieSanders   speech looks like: https://youtu.be/AXGM3MBT4B8 . Don't worry. The $500 payout was given to...

Democratic Presidential Candidate and US Senator Bernie Sanders's (I-VT) voice was raw in conviction as he detoured from his standard stump speech and began an hour-long, impassioned oration with a radical suggestion for bringing accountability to the Flint, Michigan water crisis : If the local government cannot protect those children, if the state government cannot protect those children, then the federal government better get in and do the right thing. Shortly before his address on Monday, February 15, 2016, Sanders  met with seven individuals from Flint, Michigan who continue to be hurt by lead poisoning as a result of the water crisis in their city. During his first campaign visit to Michigan , he questioned whether we should settle for small ideas or whether we have the courage to stand up for " Yooooge " ideas. The impact of that meeting was voluble as he delivered a commanding speech  to a standing-room-only crowd of 9,400 at the Eastern Michigan Universi...

At the Democratic Presidential Primary Debate on February 11, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Secretary Clinton essentially called Bernie Sanders a single-issue candidate. Hillary Clinton says she's not a single-issue candidate. But what does she think this single issue is? (Click image for full-size) But I'm a bit confused by this message (the sixth or so message we've heard) from Clinton. Can someone please tell me what, exactly, is Sanders's single issue? Clinton didn't specify what she thought it was. And, I can't figure out which of these 63 issues (and I probably missed a few) Sanders has raised during this campaign, which I've been tracking, she was referring to: Getting Money Out of Politics? Health Care for Everyone? Raising the Minimum Wage to $15/hr? Tuition-free public college? Campaign Finance Reform? Overturning Citizens United? Real Criminal justice reform? Combating Climate Change? Education as a Right? Income inequality? R...

Ohio State Senator Nina Turner​ feels the Bern as she introduces US Senator Bernie Sanders at his Cleveland, OH campaign rally on Monday, November 16, 2015 at the Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center in Cleveland Ohio. Senator Nina Turner​ fires up the crowd, chanting, "When I say FEEL, you say BERN! FEEL! (BERN!) FEEL! (BERN!)" and telling the audience what they all know: that "enough is Enough is ENOUGH!!!" Watch Nina Turner's electrifying speech as she introduces America's next president, US Senator Bernie Sanders: https://youtu.be/vyIr_p9dgCc

If you're doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, you're not alone. While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top one percent. Bernie Sanders's plan is to make Wall Street banks and the ultra-rich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, and ensure equal pay for women. Because together, we can make a political revolution and create and economy and democracy that works for all and not just a powerful few. #feelthebern #bernie2016

Senator Bernie Sanders, a 2016 US Presidential Candidate, speaks with a reporter about the historic visit by Pope Francis to the USA in September 2015.

Bernie Sanders Interviewed by The Des Moines Register Editorial Board It should come as little surprise to people who know me that I am throwing my support behind United States Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is running on the Democratic ticket for President of the United States of America in 2016. As a Progressive Republican (f/k/a Lincoln / Hayes / Roosevelt / Eisenhower /  Rockefeller Republican ), I agree with Bernie on most of his views. More than that, Bernie is as sincere, authentic, and honest an elected official (aka politician) there ever was. In fact, not only is Sanders sincere, authentic, and honest but he has a decades-long track record that we can examine that goes back over four decades. He has been fighting for the same issues for over forty years. He has been advocating for the middle class for nearly half a century. And he has been fighting for civil and human rights for over half a century -- since he was a young student at university. ...