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Just incase anyone missed it, here is Nina Turner talking at that same event:

Money Pours In for Sanders’s New Medicare for All Digital Campaign

The senator is asking supporters to sign on to the proposal as “citizen co-sponsors” via a digital ad campaign. In an article by the Guardian, Sanders’s team described the operation as an effort to dispel myths about government-run healthcare, which is offered to the general populations of almost every western country and number of developing nations.

“Bottom line is: if other countries around the world are providing quality care to all their people, we can do the same,” Sanders told NPR on Tuesday. “The American people are familiar with Medicare. By and large it’s quite a popular program. But it starts now when you are 65 years of age…It should be available for every single person in this country.”

A longtime proponent of Medicare for All, Sanders has laid out his plan for the system on his website, noting that it would be paid for with taxes on capital gains, dividends and estates of the wealthiest Americans, as well as with savings that would be gained by eliminating healthcare tax expenditures.

“We outspend all other countries on the planet and our medical spending continues to grow faster than the rate of inflation,” Sanders’s website says. “Creating a single, public insurance system will go a long way towards getting healthcare spending under control.”

Ahead of the ad campaign, Sanders sent an email to his supporters asking for ideas regarding how to implement a Medicare for All plan, counter right-wing attacks on government-run healthcare, and bring all Americans into the fight for healthcare access. Within 24 hours, Sanders had raised $65,000 and received 19,000 responses.

The positive response follows months of signs that Americans and their lawmakers are embracing Medicare for All. The Pew Research Center found in June that 33 percent of citizens supported government-funded healthcare for all Americans, up five points since January and 12 points since 2014. Fifty-two percent of Democrats supported the plan.

In the Wake of the GOP’s Healthcare Failure, Bernie Sanders Will Push Medicare For All

Some Dems Now Running on Single Payer Healthcare…Do They Have a Shot?

A medicare for all bill, HR676, was introduced in Congress back in January, and despite getting over forty co-sponsors in the House, the legislation has hardly made a ripple in terms of serious national attention.
Bernie Sanders will be unveiling similar legislation in the Senate in the near future, but it’s unclear just how much headway that will make either.

I’ve been saying for months now that Democrats need to make a single payer healthcare system part of their platform now. Obviously, with Republicans controlling the House, Senate and White House, such legislation isn’t going to pass anytime soon. But that’s no reason not to fight for it anyway, and be unequivocal about moving towards a single payer system as soon as possible.

A few Democratic candidates running in the 2018 midterm elections are doing just that.

Randy Bryce, an ironworker in Wisconsin attempting to unseat Paul Ryan, has been vocal early on about his support for a medicare for all health care system. His first campaign video went viral and it was was all about health care.

The you have Amy Vilela, a candidate who’s primarying a Democrat in Nevada because he didn’t sign onto medicare for all. Vilela actually tragically lost her 22-year-old daughter a few years ago, alleging that hospital staff didn’t treat her daughter’s blood clot because she didn’t have insurance.

Seems like an organized outfit ready to serve Vermont…

Sanders challenger splits with campaign manager, says U.S. Senate campaign is not over

he man seeking Bernie Sanders’ U.S. Senate seat says his former campaign manager played a “dirty trick” by announcing the end of the campaign Tuesday in a Twitter post.

“I let my campaign manager go, and I think it was just his little way of trying to stick it to me for that,” said Jon Svitavsky of Bridport, a 2018 Democratic candidate for the seat currently held by Sen. Sanders, I-Vt. Svitavsky said he is still in the race and seeking a new campaign manager.

The former campaign manager, David Moore of North Carolina, acknowledged in an interview that his group, Organizing for Democrats, had managed the Svitavsky campaign Twitter account.

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Moore and Svitavsky offered starkly different accounts of the feud that led to their separation.

Svitavsky said he disagreed with Moore’s “nasty” attacks against Sanders on the campaign Twitter account.

“I just want to be of high integrity, I don’t want to just be an attack dog,” Svitavsky said, adding later, “His behavior had become really unacceptable to me.”

Nissan workers in Mississippi begin voting on union

It’s now up to workers at Nissan’s Mississippi assembly plant to decide if they will be represented by the United Auto Workers union.

Voting began inside the plant at 2 a.m. Thursday in the election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. Ballots can be cast until 7 p.m. Friday.

On one side are workers who say the 3,700 Nissan Motor Co. assembly and maintenance workers need a union to give them a voice in their workplace, to protect against arbitrary treatment, and to bargain for better benefits and pay.

Opposing them are other Nissan employees who reject the idea of a union speaking for them. They warn that the UAW would be an economic albatross burdening an employer who pays them well.

Outside analysts assume the union is an underdog, since the UAW has never fully organized a foreign-owned auto plant in the southern United States. But no one knows for sure.

Democratic candidates for governor to debate Aug. 12 in Flint

Four Democratic candidates for governor of Michigan are headed here for a debate Aug. 12 at the University of Michigan-Flint.

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Candidates who are set to participate are Bill Cobbs, former global vice president of Xerox; Abdul El-Sayed, former director of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion; Shri Thanedar, Indian-born entrepreneur and author of “American Dream;” and Gretchen Whitmer, former minority leader of the Michigan Senate.

Democrats’ new ‘Better Deal’ comes up short for people of color

Recently, Nina Turner, the president of the progressive organization Our Revolution, and #AllofUs, called out the new platform for its lack of racial justice policies. Turner’s groups were among those that released the People’s Platform, a suite of congressional bills that address a range of issues including Medicare for all, criminal justice, immigrant rights, and taxing Wall Street. In addition, they delivered 100,000 signatures of support for the People’s Platform to the Democratic National Committee.

The People’s Platform speaks directly to the needs of the base of the party. By articulating policies that congressional Democrats should enact if they win a House majority in 2018, the People’s Platform creates a positive, inclusive, and practical vision for the future. This initiative reveals what is possible for the party. Democrats need to answer the question of how race and identity fit into their platform if they want to bring voters of color back to the fold for next year’s elections.

NARAL Pro-Choice endorses Randy Bryce for Ryan’s House seat

Bryce, a Democrat campaigning for the congressional seat held by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., received the backing of a leading pro-choice advocacy group because of his strong commitment to stand up for women and families.

The statement from NARAL said Bryce’s made clear that protecting and expanding women’s access to reproductive health care including abortion is a top priority for him.

As a veteran, iron worker, father and cancer survivor, few people have a better understanding of the issues hardworking Americans​ face today than Randy Bryce, the statement said.

“For too long Speaker Ryan has cared more about his donors in Washington D.C. than he has the women and families of southeast Wisconsin,” said NARAL president Ilyse Hogue. “Now, arm in arm with Donald Trump, he carries out cruel and careless attempts to destroy our healthcare and still has no plan to make our lives better. But Randy has a plan to counter the GOP’s out-of-touch fringe agenda. The momentum Randy is building with his progressive and pro-choice message is proof that people are ready for new leadership.”

She continued, “NARAL is proud to endorse Randy Bryce and we look forward to working together to take back the House and stand up for the reproductive freedom of all Americans.”