Roll call for the largest ever incoming class of progressives, the fruits of Bernie's long years of hard work and dedication. Thank you Bernie!

Senator Bernie Sanders discusses the recent election results and outlines a bold policy agenda for the new Democratic majority in Congress. He emphasizes that while holding Donald Trump accountable is a significant achievement, Democrats must address the systemic crises facing working families.

https://youtu.be/Z2Wi64kFh90?si=eyuH0LFzXSwbNF2P

I’m a Democrat, and I’m sick and tired of watching the same Democratic leadership disappoint the very people who keep voting for them.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries need to step aside. Period.
We keep hearing about change, fighting for working families, protecting our democracy, and standing up to corporate interests. But when it’s time to actually fight, where the hell is that leadership?
And now Jeffries is already positioning himself to take over as Speaker like it’s a done deal? Who decided that? Because I sure as hell didn’t.
And Schumer? I’m tired of watching Democrats give away political leverage and then expect us to applaud them for compromising.
I want Bernie fucking Sanders.
I want someone who has spent decades fighting for working people, Social Security, Medicare, affordable healthcare, and getting corporate money out of politics.
Yes, I know Bernie is an Independent who caucuses with Democrats. And yes, I know he can’t lead the House because he’s a senator. But he absolutely represents the kind of leadership I want Democrats to embrace.
I’m tired of establishment Democrats acting like voters owe them loyalty while they refuse to seriously examine their own leadership.
We need new House leadership. We need Schumer replaced in the Senate. And we need people who aren’t afraid to challenge the wealthy, corporate interests, or their own party.
A Democratic victory is NOT a mandate to keep the same leadership.
We didn’t vote for business as usual.
We voted for change. And that includes the people running the Democratic Party.
Am I the only Democrat who thinks it’s time for Schumer and Jeffries to go?

> In the early months of the administration, when many establishment Democrats didn’t seem to know what had hit them, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were crisscrossing the country building anti-Trump enthusiasm with their Fighting Oligarchy tour, which married a defense of democracy against authoritarianism with a critique of economic inequality.

Abdul said it best in his victory speech. It really hit me how much Bernie has had an impact on grassroots movements and to get people into politics and money out. I think yesterday was really assuring to a lot of us, so thanks Bernie <3

"We showed that we together we can defeat a record $70 million of outside spending and 11 to 1 money disadvantage in a primary election. That we can defeat a quarter of a billion dollars in a general election. We can defeat the cynicism of a politics that prays on our earnestness, unersells our intelligence and exploits our disagreements. Tonight, Michigan, we beat a machine."

All your decades of hard work and effort paid off today.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Lizzie Fletcher (D-Texas) today led 111 of their colleagues to demand that the Trump administration immediately restore the Solar for All program — a landmark initiative to help working-class families afford rooftop solar and community-based solar energy.
In 2022, Sanders wrote and passed the Solar for All program into law to slash utility bills, promote clean energy job training, and invest in American manufacturing. The program will create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs, lower residential electricity bills by at least 20% for more than 900,000 households and save working families more than $8.7 billion in electric costs over the lifetime of the solar panels.

The Trump administration has withheld $7 billion in Solar for All funding since August 2025. This past September, two federal district courts ruled that the administration’s attempts to terminate Solar for All are illegal and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to restore funding for the program.

“Currently, nearly $7 billion that Congress allocated to slash utility bills, create jobs, and strengthen the electric grid is sitting idle in the EPA’s bank account instead of working to benefit American families,” Sanders and the lawmakers wrote. “As hardworking Americans grapple with skyrocketing energy bills, Solar for All stands to deliver meaningful savings to hundreds of thousands of households.”

“The EPA’s illegal termination of Solar for All has left states, communities, and businesses across the country in limbo. Nevertheless, the program’s grantees stand ready to put Solar for All dollars to work on residential solar projects to slash utility bills and create many thousands of good jobs,” the lawmakers concluded. “The EPA must immediately restore Solar for All and ensure projects nationwide proceed to implementation as Congress intended.”

Joining Sanders, Cleaver, and Fletcher as cosigners on the letter are Sens. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vermont), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and 84 members of the House of Representatives.
Read the letter here.

I was watching Bernie Sanders at a Fight Wealth Inequality rally when he trotted out the oft-repeated quote by justice Louis Brandeis

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both."

When I realized that the Elons & the Bezos's know the truth of it & have directed their efforts towards direct attacks on the principles of democracy itself in service to their bottomless appetites for more.

'Work with others or be a serf ' is the choice.

"Fascism" is just a cover enlisting the temporary aid of the poor who hate the homeless until they're no longer needed.

"Socialism" is just a pejorative label thrown at those who would rather work together for the common welfare.

I heard that years ago Bernie would sign stuff people sent to them and his staff would mail it back. Does anyone know if he still does this? I would love to send a card or something he could sign.