https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/17/democratic-lawmakers-accuse-their-own-party-proposing-deep-cuts-health-centers-poor/?utm_term=.f8be47291f23

The plan backed by Pallone, while better than letting the funding expire altogether, would amount to a nearly 20 percent funding reduction over four years for the clinics, almost…

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Buttigieg is definitely not on the rise in the polls any longer. For example, see today’s Quinnipiac poll. Last poll he and Warren were tied at 7. This poll she has 16 and he has 3. Not much bang for the buck for all those Mayor Pete donors!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-vows-to-reject-donations-from-drug-and-health-insurance-industry-seeking-to-pressure-biden/2019/07/17/b67485b2-a813-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.79b3d4fa43b1

Sanders’s pledge underscores his desire to expand the debate over health care beyond the competing policy proposals and s…

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-speech-no-insurance-pharma-donation-pledge/index.html

Sen. Bernie Sanders will challenge Democratic primary candidates to reject donations from private health insurance and pharmaceutical interests during a Wednesday speech billed by his campaign as a rebuttal to intraparty…

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California up for grabs among top 4 according to this poll. Buttigieg appears to be getting left behind in recent polls. The poll says Harris is surging but actually Warren went up more.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-running-neck-and-neck-with-Biden-14101148.php

Sen. Kamala Harris is locked in a statistical…

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https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-they-just-killed-my-son-again-20190717-vmjrnmhzdncefpffyy3xeau3wq-story.html

Five years ago, my son said “I can’t breathe” 11 times as officers placed him in a banned chokehold and killed him. After patiently waiting, following the rules, hoping for accountability and closure, we now learn that the D…

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https://www.salon.com/2019/07/17/whose-country-is-broken-and-crime-infested-mr-president-spoiler-its-ours/

Stumbling and sputtering under the blindness of his own hatred and ignorance, Trump might have actually fallen into an honest and accurate assessment of the United States. He not only told the congresswomen to go back to their countries of…

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This poll is better though Bernie has lost ground since their last poll—most likely to Warren

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/cnn-2020-poll-new-hampshire/index.html

Former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sit atop the field of Democratic presidential contenders among l…

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The Garner family has suffered too much. This decision pains me. It is not just, and we will not have real justice for black Americans until there is serious reform of our racist criminal justice system. https://t.co/U3wZiXJDg1

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 16, 2019

The straw poll is up at DK if you would like to vote

From Jim Hightower

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/democrats-need-to-wake-up-and-smell-the-grassroots/

Unfortunately, an exotic flu epidemic has broken out in Washington, D.C. Dubbed the “Canadian Hot Sauce Flu,” it uniquely afflicts a particular group of Democratic officeholders and operatives.

CHS Flu renders its victims weaker tha…

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More balanced roundup of Netroots Nation. Notice how She the People has Warren’s back

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/15/20692923/progressive-activists-netroots-nation-warren-harris-sanders-biden

Warren, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Gov. Jay Inslee, and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro attended the presidential forum at Netroots, an annual ga…

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https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-american-exceptionalism/

Let’s be clear: Bernie Sanders’s heresy, what sets him apart from every Democrat running to unseat Donald Trump, is not simply that he calls himself a socialist in a country long proudly identified as capitalist. Those two labels, socialist and capitalist, are open to too…

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This is completely false. #MedicareForAll would make Medicare much better by adding:

– Dental
– Hearing
– Vision
– Long Term Care

while eliminating co-pays, premiums, and deductibleshttps://t.co/KA065kQLji https://t.co/nIMjBC8194

— SocialSecurityWorks (@SSWorks) July 15, 2019

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/16/difference-thousands-lives-sanders-releases-chart-contrasting-bidens-incremental

As Joe Biden continued his misleading attacks on single-payer during an AARP forum in Iowa on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign circulated a chart highlighting the sharp and deeply consequential…

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The ‘Squad’ is big. If you share the values and believe in working for a more equitable and just world, you are part of the ‘Squad.’ https://t.co/xk9nDyBS85

— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) July 15, 2019

They are working to silence the voices of the people who see themselves represented in me. I will stay in the ring, fighting for what is right and will never back down in the face of these attacks.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 15, 2019

#13thDistrictStrong: I will #neverbackdown and no bully, even this racist President, will waiver the work we have to do for our residents of Wayne County. Together, we will fight back, speak truth to power, and become stronger for it. #rootedincommunity #BoostAct #JusticeforAll pic.twitter.com/XkAcPA3FlL

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) July 14, 2019

I see @LindseyGrahamSC’s biggest issue w/ Trump’s racism is that it doesn’t go far enough – Graham wants to bring back 1950s McCarthyism, too.

GOP is doing this because they have no plan for our future.

We’re the ones fighting for healthcare, edu, good jobs, & they got nothing. https://t.co/pfAEATWbJl

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 15, 2019

Trump’s chief bootlicker weighs in

.@LindseyGrahamSC on Fox & Friends: "We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists … they're anti-Semitic. They're anti-America." pic.twitter.com/lsFqZi1Eu8

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 15, 2019