The media pundits have written article after article desperately trying to understand why progressive candidates, despite being heavily outspent, keep defeating establishment Democrats in primaries around the country.
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candidates → write → country
Whether it is a corrupt campaign finance system, unprecedented income and wealth inequality, a broken and wildly expensive healthcare system, the enormous threats posed by AI or an immoral and destructive foreign policy, progressives are talking about the real issues facing working families.
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progressives → pose → families
And they are providing real solutions.
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they → provide → solutions
Poll after poll shows the same thing.
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Poll → show → thing
The American people know that the current economic system is rigged.
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system → know → ?
The very rich get richer, while working families struggle.
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families → get → ?
Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, the billionaire class has never ever had it so good.
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it → live → paycheck
We now have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in American history.
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We → have → history
The top 1% now own more wealth than the bottom 93% and one man, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 50% of US households.
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man → own → households
are tired of status quo politics and the same old, same old establishment policies that have failed them for years.
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that → fail → years
They want change, real change – and are supporting progressive candidates who are fighting for that change.
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who → want → change
In the richest country in the history of the world, Americans do not want to have to struggle every single day just to pay the bills.
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Americans → want → bills
Working-class people do not want to die years younger than they should because of illnesses caused by the never-ending stress they experience just to survive.
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they → work → stress
And, like past generations, they do not want their kids to have a lower standard of living than they do.
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they → want → living
Establishment politicians and the establishment media have described the agenda that progressive candidates are winning elections on as “radical”, “far left”, “extremist” or, in the words of Donald Trump, “communist” .
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candidates → describe → Trump
On major issue after major issue, the progressive agenda is reflecting exactly what a strong majority of the American people need and want.
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majority → reflect → people
Let me take this opportunity to share with you some of the major proposals that most progressives support.
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progressives → let → that
And you tell me how “extreme” they are.
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they → tell → me
Progressives believe that our current campaign finance system is corrupt and is undermining democracy.
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system → believe → democracy
It is absurd that one man, Mr Musk, can spend $290m to help elect Donald Trump as president and that billionaires in both parties can spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns through their Super Pacs.
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billionaires → spend → Pacs
We believe that we must end the disastrous US supreme court decision on Citizens United, ban Super Pacs and move to the public funding of elections.
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we → believe → elections
We believe that democracy means one person one vote, not billionaires buying elections.
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democracy → believe → elections
Progressives believe that our current healthcare system is broken, dysfunctional and wildly expensive.
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system → believe → ?
We believe that it is immoral and fiscally irresponsible for us to spend roughly twice as much per capita on healthcare as do the people of other major countries, while 85 million Americans remain uninsured or underinsured.
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Americans → believe → countries
At the same time, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
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we → pay → drugs
Progressives believe that healthcare is a human right and that we should do what all other major countries on Earth do, guarantee healthcare to all people.
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countries → believe → people
We agree with the 64% of Americans who want a Medicare for all single payer system.
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who → agree → system
Protecting American workers
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Protecting → protect → workers
Progressives believe that all Americans are entitled to a decent standard of living.
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Americans → believe → living
We regard it as outrageous that in the year 2026 millions of workers continue to earn starvation wages and that the federal minimum wage remains at a disgraceful $7.25 an hour.
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wage → regard → 7.25
We believe that the federal minimum wage should be raised to a living wage of at least $20 per hour.
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wage → believe → hour
We also believe that employers should no longer be able to deny workers their constitutional right to join unions through illegal actions.
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employers → believe → actions
Progressives support the passage of the Pro Act which will make it easier for workers to join unions and negotiate contracts that will provide them with better wages, benefits and working conditions.
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that → support → wages
Progressives believe that, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, the wealthiest people in this country must start paying their fair share of taxes.
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people → believe → taxes
At a time when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth and when one-third of our senior citizens are struggling economically, it is absurd that billionaires have an effective tax rate lower than truck drivers or nurses.
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billionaires → have → drivers
The wealthiest people in this country and large profitable corporations must start paying their fair share of taxes so that we can adequately fund the needs of working families, the children and the elderly.
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we → start → families
Regulation of AI
Progressives believe that AI and robotics, developed and pushed by the wealthiest people on Earth, are the most transformational technologies in the history of humanity and that they will impact every man, woman and child in our country.
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they → believe → country
At a time when AI is threatening to displace millions of workers, eviscerate our privacy, harm our environment, undermine our democracy and negatively impact the mental health of our children, we believe that the government must play a decisive role in making sure that these revolutionary technologies are used to benefit all Americans, and not just make the big tech oligarchs even richer.
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oligarchs → threaten → Americans
Progressives believe that Trump’s assertion that climate change is a “hoax” is not only extraordinarily ignorant, but is a real danger to the planet.
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change → believe → planet
This past year the United States and countries throughout the world have seen major heatwaves, flash floods, increased drought and horrific forest fires – and scientists tell us the worst is yet to come.
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worst → see → us
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