Claudia De la Cruz & Karina Garcia 2024
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The 2024 presidential campaign of Claudia De la Cruz & Karina Garcia. Join the fight for our future ➡️ @pslnational
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Over the course of the last year, this campaign has waged a historic socialist challenge to the two-party system. We’ve traveled the country, hearing from working people about how capitalism makes their lives unlivable, and talking about the socialist solutions to these crises.
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✖️ Puerto Rico should be a state.✔️ Puerto Rico should be immediately granted independence with full reparations for colonial exploitation.
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🚨Socialist presidential campaign launches!🚨. Vote Claudia De la Cruz for President and Karina Garcia for Vice-President!. We need to end capitalism before it ends us! Get involved & sign up for updates: . #VoteSocialist2024
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Cuba has an antiviral medication, Interferon Alfa 2B, which is effective against the covid-19 virus. The US blockade on Cuba limits their ability to produce the drug, and prevents US doctors from importing it to use here. End the blockade immediately! #NoMasBloqueo.
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You can't self-quarantine at home if you're homeless. There are millions of empty houses kept vacant by speculative investors around the country. Take them over and use them to house everyone, immediately!.
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The "tough on crime" Democrats of two weeks ago are now "police reformists" (don't laugh!).
Sen. Kamala Harris: "Reforming policing is in the best interest of all Americans."
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NOW outside the debate: Neither candidate on the stage tonight has a solution for inflation, for climate change, for the housing crisis…. And neither candidate is willing to say: FREE PALESTINE!
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POV: You allowed an estimated 15 million to be kicked off Medicaid.
POV: You believe health care should be a right, not a privilege, in America.
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The Claudia De la Cruz/Karina Garcia presidential campaign is excited to announce a pair of important agreements with the West/Abdullah and Stein/Ware campaigns aimed at maximizing the impact of progressive candidates challenging the two-party system. Read our full statement ⤵️
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When socialist Cuba houses the homeless, feeds the hungry, cures cancer, and educates the entire population, that's "authoritarian", but when the capitalist US allows millions to suffer or die simply because they're poor, that's "freedom"? Freedom for who?.
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‼️🇵🇸 Karina joins a huge crowd in Bay Ridge demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza! . We won’t turn away. We won’t stop mobilizing and shutting it down until the siege on Gaza ends.
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The Supreme Court is an inherently anti-democratic institution; the last line of defense for the ruling class. The fact that a single lifetime appointment made by Trump threatens gay marriage and abortion rights is proof that we need a whole new system.
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We join the world in standing with the people of Palestine in their just and courageous struggle against occupation. End all U.S. aid to Israel! Without U.S. support this racist, apartheid regime could not stand. Free Palestine!
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‼️BREAKING: The UN General Assembly just voted overwhelmingly for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Results were:. FOR: 153.AGAINST: 10 (incl.🇺🇸+🇮🇱). This just shows how isolated the US and Israel are—the world stands with Gaza! Let's stay in the streets for Palestine!
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@POTUS ✅ Broke a railworkers strike .✅ Allowed a minimum wage increase to fail in Congress.✅ Kicked families off SNAP benefits .✅Allows corporate-manufactured inflation to run rampant. Biden is a capitalist precisely BECAUSE he manages the economy at the expense of working families.
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This is highly illegal! . Our campaign has official write-in status in the entire State of New York, but in Saratoga County, this notice was put in privacy partitions, stating that they will not count write-in votes. This was at 60 Tanglewood Drive in the Town of Moreau, NY.
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Unless there’s a last-minute deal, the federal government is set to shut down tomorrow at midnight. Why? . Because Elon Musk woke up one day and decided he wanted to block aid to natural disaster victims and farmers. Here’s what happened 🧵
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NO business as usual! On this National Day of Mourning we reaffirm our commitment to the liberation of Palestine. 🇵🇸🇵🇸. Karina Garcia, VP of the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s 2024 Presidential campaign, joins other activists in showing solidarity for Palestine at the NYC
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✊ There is no pause in our movement. Shut it down until Palestine is free. Claudia De la Cruz, 2024 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation joined thousands in shutting down Black Friday in New York City.
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Zionist donors are using their money to force Columbia University to silence its students who are standing up to the genocide against the Palestinian people. Our message to these students is to keep going. You’re not alone, and you’re on the right side of history.
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I'm a socialist running for mayor of NYC in November. I challenge Eric Adams to a debate. No guns, no bullet proof vests. This race is a fight for housing for all, full employment for all, defunding the NYPD and funding what works in our communities.
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New York City can't afford four more years of Mayors beholden to police unions and real estate developers. I'm Cathy Rojas. I'm an NYC native, public school teacher, activist, and a socialist. I’m running for mayor to fight for a system that puts people over profit. Join me!
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🚨Important announcement: The Claudia De la Cruz and Jill Stein campaigns are urging their supporters to vote for each other’s tickets in several key states and send the strongest possible message that people are fed up with the war machine, genocide against Palestinians, and the
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A temporary pause is not enough! We need to keep fighting and demanding:.❗️a permanent ceasefire .❗️end the siege on Gaza.❗️lift the blockade on Gaza .❗️end all U.S. aid to Israel .❗️free all Palestinian political prisoners .❗️end the Israeli occupation of Palestine
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@CNBC Meanwhile over 95,000 people have died because we "can't afford" mass testing, PPE, and medical equipment. The need for socialism has never been more clear!.
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Socialist presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz just cast her ballot!. Thanks to the tireless efforts of thousands of volunteers across the country, the vast majority of people have the opportunity to vote socialist today. Today we’re going to the polls, and then tomorrow
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Today activists #ShutItDown4Palestine and Claudia explains why NewsCorp has blood on its hands. That’s why we demand to stop funding Israel, stop funding genocide!
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“Socialism is not even radical. It just seems radical because we’ve lived in a society that normalizes misery. It’s not radical to believe that humanity deserves housing, a full plate of food, healthcare and recreation.”. — Socialist presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz
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While the votes continue to be counted, we are proud to say that we already have gained more votes than any openly socialist NYC mayoral candidate since 1953!.
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Karina joins the #Blockout2024 challenge 🗣️. We don’t care about celebrity culture. We don’t care about what they’re wearing. We don’t care what about they’re tweeting…we care about what’s happening in the world!
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The U.S. military is the world’s biggest institutional danger to the environment. #debates
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"The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth".- Che Guevara. #NotDying4WallStreet.
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Which class is looting from which?.
American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic
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Trump has been voted out. Good riddance. But the fight is not over. Remember, Joe Biden promised the billionaires that under his administration, "nothing would fundamentally change.".
PSL STATEMENT on the defeat of Donald Trump. More than 70 million people voted to oust Donald Trump. This was not a vote for Joe Biden, a truly uninspiring candidate who became the nominee when the Democratic Party ruling class establishment united to stop Bernie Sanders in March
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The Democrats are, once again, looking to scapegoat poor & working class communities – Black men, Latino men, those who didn't vote at all – for their failure to beat Trump. The reality is, it is the spinelessness & mediocrity of the Democratic Party that has brought us here.
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The results of the election demonstrate just how the Democrats have failed at fighting for and defending the people. Only the people will save the people, and that's why we invite you to join us in the fight to build an independent political organization by and for the working
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We are in the midst of an uprising against racism. The people are demanding an end to police terror and mass incarceration. Meanwhile my opponent Joe Biden, author of the crime bill that fuels mass incarceration, chooses "top cop" Kamala Harris as his VP. Stay in the streets.
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OUR CAMPAIGN PLATFORM:. - End all U.S. aid to Israel.- Lock up politicians guilty of genocide, starting with Joe Biden.- Close all +800 US military bases. 🔗
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🇵🇸RIGHT NOW — a massive crowd has started rallying at Union Square in NYC to say HANDS OFF RAFAH!
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@KamalaHarris Don't forget the clients that have donated to your campaign the most!. Mike Bloomberg (Racist NYC Mayor) $19 Million.Reid Hoffman (Linkedin CEO) $10 Million.Fred Eychaner (Chicago Media mogul) $7 Million.Stephen Mandel (Hedge fund manager) $5.4 million.
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What Aaron Bushnell did was an ultimate sacrifice, an act of martyrdom by a U.S. service member who was outraged by the U.S. support for Israel's war on Gaza, which has been ablaze for months. All active duty soldiers must refuse these wars of domination and genocide!
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Today our Vice Presidential candidate Karina Garcia voted socialist in New York City! . Be like Karina and vote for a program that puts working class people and power first 🫡
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‼️🇵🇸RIGHT NOW: Claudia and Karina marching through Washington D.C. for Gaza!. #March4Gaza #LetGazaLive #freePalestine
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The polls have just closed in Georgia – one of the key swing states where Democratic Party lawyers sued to kick us off the ballot even though Vote Socialist volunteers collected more than double the required number of petition signatures. When the ruling came down, the ballots.
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Vote Socialist volunteers in Georgia pack up desperately-needed water to drive to Asheville, NC in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. As this capitalist government abandons working people, we will show solidarity while fighting for a new system where people’s needs come first!
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🔴People have come all over the country to DC to show Biden that WE are the red line!. 🇵🇸The last 8 months revealed the terroristic nature of US empire and Israel. We'll fight until we achieve total liberation of Palestine—and for everyone in the Global South! #ThePeoplesRedLine
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Socialist Presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz marches with a massive crowd in Chicago in protest of the Democratic National Convention to demand legal abortion and an end to the genocide in Gaza
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Every election the Democrats silence opposition by warning about the rise of fascism with the election of Trump or other right-wing figures. But we see with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, even the so-called “lesser evil” like Joe Biden can be capable of funding and prolonging
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“The only reason Israel has agreed to a four day pause is because they’re losing!”. Claudia De la Cruz joins thousands on the People’s Day for Palestine in New York. The pause won’t pause the movement for Palestinian liberation!
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So let us get this straight: the US has the absolute right to support Israel, but no one (including Yemen) has the right to support Palestine?. Full military support to a state conducting a genocide is legitimate but limited military actions (which killed no one) in support of a.
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🎤🔥“This encampment is the classroom! THIS is the struggle!”. Today, Claudia stopped by Columbia to show her support to student organizers!. 🇵🇸Students are currently on day 3 of occupation. They’ve faced fierce backlash from both police and campus administration for exercising
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It was the Bolshevik Revolution that proved the workers and oppressed peoples could rule. This is why the struggle for socialism is so urgent today! Viva Nov. 7, 1917! Viva Lenin!.
The Russian revolution on this day in 1917 marked the beginning of a new period in human history. It was the first time that the oppressed were able to come to power – to take power and hold onto power. It truly had a transforming effect on the world. #OnThisDay
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Why do we stand with Palestine? It’s simple. We stand with the Palestinian struggle because it is a struggle for humanity. It is a struggle against death and destruction. It is a struggle against racism and apartheid. We need our resources to pay for reparations to the
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🗣️An Election Night message from your socialist candidates Claudia and Karina:. "We need to understand the importance of political organization, of building collective force. That is the only way we have gotten anything!". The collective effort of thousands of people across the
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Our campaign doesn’t revolve around Election Day. It revolves around months of outreach like this. Only a socialist program can meet the scale of the crisis. (1/2)
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🇵🇸Claudia De la Cruz explains why she is at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. today to #March4Gaza! . #letgazalive #freepalestine
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Trump is the symptom. Capitalism is the disease. Socialism is the cure. Join us in the fight for our future ➡️
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We do not fight the rise of the far-right with the center. We fight it with a unified, working class movement of the left. We do not defeat capitalism with liberalism. We defeat it with socialism.
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🚨Important announcement: Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West Presidential campaigns announce an agreement to cooperate in multiple states!. The Claudia/Karina campaign is calling on its supporters to vote for West and Abdullah in Alaska, which in turn is calling on its supporters
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Marxists believe in guaranteeing a life with dignity to all workers in a society based on equality and peace. Kamala Harris is not a Marxist.
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Today I join many millions of people around the world in celebrating the 94th birthday of Fidel Castro - lifelong revolutionary and historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, and one of my greatest personal heroes. Viva Fidel!
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"I am not going to teach my child to defend and protect a democracy that does not have the backbone, that does not have a spine to stand against genocide.". Socialist presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz joined thousands in NYC today to say that this election cycle and
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Who loves Fidel Castro? The many millions who see Cuba as proof that socialism works, and who have benefited from Cuba's internationalist solidarity. He's an inspiration to revolutionaries world wide. Also - he's my personal hero. Here's us during one of my visits to Cuba
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“We’re socialists! Nine out of every ten of our Facebook memories is just us at a march.” 😅
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The hard work of the thousands of people who powered this campaign has produced a historic result for the socialist movement — the highest vote total since 1936! Over 166,000 people cast their ballots for the Vote Socialist campaign, using their vote to send a message that the
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Tim Walz: a fake progressive sent to rescue the sinking Democratic Party. After Biden's meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly "progressive" pick for Kamala Harris' running mate. ⬇️But what's Walz's real record?
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In socialist Vietnam, rapid tests are accessible to everyone. Vietnam has had 24 covid-19 deaths and 962 total cases. In the capitalist U.S., they're available only to the wealthy. 172,961 have died and there have been over 5.5 million cases. Which system do you prefer?.
While most of the U.S. waits 7 to 14 days for coronavirus test results, at some parties hosted by the wealthy in the Hamptons, expensive rapid tests that take less than 30 minutes are the price of admission
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End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. The +$1 trillion that the U.S. taxpayers spend every year on war should instead be spent to address the dire crises facing working people. We need a world order based on cooperation and peace, not domination and war. #ClaudiaKarina2024
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Claudia was at the front line when police brutally attacked the march protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress earlier today . In what kind of so-called democracy do police pepper spray peaceful protesters exercising their free speech rights in defense of a visiting
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In the context of occupation and the war imposed on the Palestinian people by the Israeli colonial project and U.S. imperialists, narratives and language have been historically used as instruments of war. Claudia explains how the U.S and Israel are losing the information war,
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In 1970, 200,000 USPS workers (including my dad!) went on strike - the largest wildcat strike in US history. Nixon swore he would break it, sent the nat'l guard to deliver mail. But the strikers stayed strong and won!. Inspiration for essential workers in this crisis #SaveUSPS.
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"We have not been heard. We have not been considered. And. we will engage in our political right not to engage with the two-party system that continuously insists on paying for and bombing babies across the Middle East.". Socialist presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz was
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Defund the capitalist class.
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🚨FINAL BALLOT ACCESS MAP for the Vote Socialist campaign!🚨. Thanks to the hard work of thousands of volunteers, the vast majority of people in this country can vote socialist this November! . Visit 🔗to learn more about the movement we are building and
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The people around the world did not pause for seven days, and we will not pause or stop our solidarity now. As the genocidal attacks of the colonial state of Israel resume, we stand firmly with the Palestinian people and demand:. ❗️permanent ceasefire.❗️stop to all U.S aid to
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Standing tall with Palestine on this morning shutting down Wall Street and major transit arteries around NYC! . No business as usual! #ShutItDown4Palestine
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🇵🇸"There is only one solution! Intifada, revolution!". Yesterday, Claudia and Karina joined 300,000 others in Washington DC for the BIGGEST pro-Palestine march in US history to send a powerful message to the Biden administration:. Lift the siege of Gaza!.End ALL US aid to Israel!
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We will remember Joe Biden as no friend of working people. Instead, we will remember his loyalty to the same oligarchy and billionaires he warned us about in his farewell speech. We say good riddance, Genocide Joe – and proclaim the struggle for a socialist horizon continues.
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In all the talk about votes, let's remember the undocumented, who can't vote, have no rights despite their vital role in the working class. I met Sergio, farmworker without work for weeks, prohibited from unemployment benefits, walking on Hwy 99 picking up cans for hours.
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A war criminal who never paid for his crimes is gone.
Millions around the globe are rejoicing at the fact that the world is finally rid of one of the worst monsters to ever live — war criminal Henry Kissinger. From Vietnam to Indonesia to Chile — Kissinger was responsible for some of the most infamous atrocities of US empire.
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🇵🇸A month ago, Biden said the invasion of Rafah was a red line. Now, his red line is nowhere to be seen. 🔴Join us in Washington, D.C. this Saturday, June 8 where we'll surround the White House and let Biden know that WE are the red line! Don't forget to wear red!
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🚨BREAKING: Claudia De la Cruz wins @peaceandfreedom primary in California!. Thank you to everyone who voted! The votes are still being counted but the Claudia-Karina “Vote Socialist” campaign has a clear and irreversible lead. We are also excited to announce that a significant
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The Biden administration is threatening to unleash a regional war, with this retaliation against Yemen’s solidarity with the Palestinians. Anti-war activists are out tonight at the White House to protest this major escalation. WE SAY: HANDS OFF YEMEN!.
US carries out airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, a sign of the growing international alarm over the threat to critical waterways
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We are horrified to learn of the racist shooting of Palestinians Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali, and Kenan Abdulhamid in Burlington, Vermont. We stand with their families in calling for an immediate hate crime investigation and against the racist acts of the shooter.
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The Democratic Party wants us to believe that Tim Walz is some incredible, progressive leader — and *this time*, they are really serious about making the changes we need. Socialist Vice President candidate Karina Garcia breaks down why we must break the cycle and stop allowing
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Claudia & Karina in Boston joining thousands of protesters to #ShutItDown4Palestine on Land Day!
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The moral bankruptcy of capitalism is that Bloomberg is allowed to hoard $61.9 BILLION while Flint has been denied just $0.2 billion to fix the water for over 6 years.
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Millions of people are drowning in debt, living paycheck to paycheck. Yet what is the top priority of the Biden administration?. To get another $24 billion to Ukraine, after they've already spent $100 billion to further war. VP Candidate Karina Garcia on US aid to Ukraine:
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And we’re socialists. All income and assets over $10 million must be subject to a 100% tax. But we don't just want to tax the rich, we want them out of power completely! . Wealth should not go to endless war, but back into our communities as schools, hospitals, and jobs.
I’m a capitalist. If you can make a billion dollars, go get it. Just pay a little more in taxes. It’s time billionaires pay a 25% minimum tax.
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Disgusted by what you saw on the debate tonight? You’re not alone. Join our movement to fight for a new system!. While we were unfairly excluded from this sham of a debate, the Vote Socialist campaign is gaining momentum all across the country. Claudia went to the CNN
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Call this Israeli attack inside a West Bank hospital what it is: terrorism! . The United States must immediately end all aid to the fascist and terrorist state of Israel. On day one we would cut off all support that Tel Aviv receives!.
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🚨BREAKING — Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 Presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris. But let’s be clear — no matter who the Democrats run, they’ll represent the same ruling class political agenda that has left the working class in the dust. And Harris is a full
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Polling stations are opening across the country – today is the day to send a message to the billionaire class that the people want a new system! . Go to the polls today to vote socialist, but most importantly join the struggle for socialism!.
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“ONE SOLUTION — REVOLUTION!”. Claudia joins thousands marching in Manhattan to say NO to U.S. imperialism and NO to Israel’s genocide — hands off the Middle East!
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🇵🇸The movement for Palestinian liberation is rapidly growing by the day. We unequivocally stand with the Palestinian resistance and their struggle against Israeli colonization, apartheid, and land theft!. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
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@Reuters Meanwhile, millions of people are facing severe food insecurity and grocery store shelves are empty. This is the logic of capitalism on full display. We need a socialist system that distributes food and other necessities on the basis of human need, not for profit!.
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We need your help to be part of a major third party debate! The top six will qualify for Free and Equal’s debate featuring candidates running outside the two-party duopoly . Vote here by Feb. 1, and spread the word!.
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“The days of Israel’s racist, apartheid Jim Crow system are numbered, because we’ve seen the unbreakable resistance of the Palestinian people.”. We will always stand with Palestine. We will always fight for Palestine.
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Shut down every ICE detention facility. Full amnesty for every immigrant. Reunite the families. Abolish ICE.
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