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Why the Verizon Worker's Victory is A Big Deal

Sarah Jaffe The Progressive
Verizon workers went on strike one week before a competitive New York state primary in which a socialist is running. You had a credible national candidate for president on a nationally-televised debate calling out the CEO of a big corporation. That just does not happen very often. Given the current climate, Hillary Clinton made a big point of coming to our picket line the first day of the strike, Bill went to a picket line in Buffalo.

Vast Majority of Democrats Want Sanders to Stay in Race

Nika Knight Common Dreams
It's easy to find stories about politicians and pundits who want Bernie Sanders to drop out of the Democratic presidential race. One place that the pressure is not coming from: Democratic voters. By huge margins, they want him to stay in.

How About 100 Bernie Sanders?

Anoa Changa The Guardian
The passion around his presidential campaign can be channeled into transforming Congress. We’ll pool resources across the US to beat big money.

Millennials Lean Left, Like Sanders

Jim Norman Gallup
Gallup tracking polls of millennials in April show that Americans aged 20 to 36 favor Sanders over Trump and Clinton, and that this is true for many subgroups of millennials: women and men; whites, African Americans and Latinos, and people with every level of education.

Friday Nite Videos -- May 20, 2016

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'America Was Never Great.' Bernie Sanders: 'Let the People In.' Wilmore vs Trump Impression-off. Pirates of the Caribbean (in Vietnam). Spiralling Global Temperatures.

'America Was Never Great'

Home Depot worker Krystal Lake of Staten Island, NY, tells why she wore a custom-made hat reading 'America was never great' to work and what response she got.

Bernie Sanders: 'Let the People In'

In front of a boisterous crowd in Carson, Calif. on May 17, Bernie Sanders called on the Democratic party to "open the doors; let the people in." Sanders vowed to continue fighting rival Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination. (Sarah Parnass/Washington Post)

To Win in November, Hillary Clinton Will Need Bernie Sanders's Voters

D.D. Guttenplan The Nation
Still think the Democrats have this election locked up - and that between their 242-vote head start in the Electoral College, and Donald Trump's ongoing identity crisis, the only cloud on the horizon is whether or not the inevitable Republican meltdown is big enough to cost the GOP control of the House as well as the Senate? Well, think again. Just because the presidency looks like Hillary Clinton's to lose doesn't mean it can't be lost.

Test of Leadership as Sanders Rolls in Oregon

Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future
California Sen. Barbara Boxer says that Sanders faces a “test of leadership” in cooling out his supporters and bringing them into the party. But the real test of leadership – as it has been throughout this campaign – isn’t about Sanders; it is about Clinton. Will the Clinton campaign be smart enough to understand the importance of learning from him, embracing a bolder vision and speaking clearly to a far deeper pain?

The Political Revolution Will Continue Long After Bernie Sanders' Campaign. Here's How

Ethan Corey In These Times
Bernie Sanders' call for political revolution has inspired grassroots groups to continue his work even after the election is over. In nearly every state, autonomous grassroots organizations began campaigning for Sanders months before his campaign established any official presence on the ground. Now, those organizations are beginning to build coalitions with labor, socialist and progressive groups to set a post-election agenda for the political revolution.
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