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Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib endorse Bernie Sanders for President. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are three quarters of a group of relatively new and incredibly popular Congresswomen known as "The Squad", and they dominated the news cycles during Tuesday's Democratic Primary debate when it was announced that they would all be endorsing Bernie Sanders' 2020 Presidential bid. Ayanna Pressley, the fourth member of "The Squad" has said that  she is not endorsing any Democratic candidate  just yet. The news broke when CNN anchor Erin Burnett asked Sanders a question about his recent health issues - this was after the debate moderators hadn't called on Sanders for an answer to several questions, such as gun control and the opioid crisis - to which Sanders responded "I'm healthy, I'm feeling great, but I would like to respond to that question." He then proceeded to give ...

Should you decide to torture yourself and delve into political social media, you will be met with two warring liberal factions - Loyal Democrats and Progressives. Much of the debate between the two factions surrounds Bernie Sanders, with 8% of registered Democrats claiming to actively dislike the Vermont Senator. This 8% are extremely vocal on social media and you are able to find them sharing their disagreement with Bernie Sanders in replies to anything he posts, even if his post isn't anything that these people disagree with, it all apparently goes back to how evil Bernie Sanders is. With the current sexual assault allegations surrounding prominent American political figures such as Al Franken, Donald Trump, John Conyers and Roy Moore, every single allegation has to be taken seriously and investigated thoroughly as powerful men shouldn't be able to get away ruining a woman's life in order to assert their self-perceived dominance. The current frenzy of allegations ha...

Justice Democrats is a progressive political action committee that was founded in January 2017, the group was co-founded by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks and Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk, along with former leadership officials of Bernie Sanders' 2016 Presidential campaign. Justice Democrats political ideology is easily summed up within a few bullet points: Implementation of a living wage and tying it to inflation/$15/hr. Free and Fair Elections/getting corporate money out of politics. Enabling all Americans to have access to healthcare via a Single-Payer system. Ensuring all Americans have Universal Education as a right. Ending current US wars/end of being the "World's Policemen" Ending the War On Drugs/high rates of minorities in prison for drug offences. Creating a New New Deal. Creating a Clean Energy Revolution. Abolishing the Death Penalty. Implementing Ranked Choice Voting for elections. + many others. The priorities of the Justice Democrats a...