Bernard Sanders
Independent · VT · U.S. Senate
Bio
Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the 21st-century American progressive movement.
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I Didn’t Realize How Much AI Chatbots Were Stealing My Work—Until NowIn 2012, as a 33-year-old staff writer at The American Prospect in D.C., I had the opportunity to travel around the country, looking for stories that would show how real people were connected to the decisions made by politicians inside the Beltway. On a trip …
The New Republic · Today
'I'll Be a Vote for Medicare for All': Troy Jackson Makes His Case After Platner ExitTroy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger from northern Maine who previously served as the state's Senate president, is making the case that he has the best shot at unseating Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November following Graham Platner's exit from the rac…
Common Dreams · Yesterday
US midterms: Democrat exits key Senate race after rape claimDemocrat Graham Platner, an oysterman running for the US Senate in Maine, suspended his campaign after he was accused of sexual assault. The announcement throws a closely watched 2026 midterms race into uncertainty. Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner …
DW (English) · Yesterday
Graham Platner Was a Train Wreck—but Playing It Safe Is Not the AnswerThe Graham Platner campaign has collapsed in spectacular fashion, with the upstart candidate suspending his run for Maine senator in a video he released Wednesday night. A woman Platner had dated accusing him of sexual assault effectively ended a candidacy th…
The New Republic · Yesterday
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