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If Democrats Won't Fight, Better Candidates Must Run as Independents, Bernie Sanders Says

There's hope.

Democratic Party leaders are facing outrage from their own constituents about their lack of backbone in confronting the frighteningly rapid Republican demolition of the US government and democratic institutions led by wannabe dictator Donald Trump and his Nazi-saluting oligarch ally Elon Musk. "We need to say 'hell no,'" an attendee at a suburban Maryland town hall this week told "genteel" Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey, in an exchange reported by NBC News. "When it comes to fighting these fights, we need you to be a little bit less polite, a little bit more hell no, instead of a little bit no." But the dissatisfied crowd broke into applause when Ivey became the first Democratic member of Congress to call for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from leadership over his surrender to Republicans on a government funding plan that would devastate Medicaid and other vital programs.

Leaders on the left are trying to come to the rescue. Vermont's independent democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Squad Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been touring narrowly Republican-held districts across the country in an effort to show Democrats how to say "hell no" and fight. "This isn't just about Republicans. We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us, too," AOC told a "fired-up crowd" at the Craig Ranch Amphitheater in Las Vegas, Nevada. "But what that means is that we as a community must choose and vote for Democrats and elected officials who know how to stand for the working class." The crowd repeatedly broke out into chants of "primary Chuck!"

The Sanders and AOC rally in Tempe, Arizona, was similarly electric. These "Fighting Oligarchy" tour events are expected to draw 51,000 people this week. They speak at Denver, Colorado's Civic Center Park today in what could be their biggest event of the tour yet. Since the beginning of February, Politico reports, Sanders has raised $7 million from 200,000 donors – and, at 83, he doesn't even plan to run for president again.

Some Democrats recognize AOC, 35, as the future of the party – but many still see her as "just too far left." To those stuck-in-the-past MAGA enablers, Sanders has a message: we don't need you.

Taking time out from his tour for an interview with the New York Times, Sanders says lefty candidates should run as independents if the Democratic Party continues to spurn them and their clearly popular and effective message. "There's a lot of great leadership all over this country at the grass-roots level," he says. "We've got to bring that forward. And if we do that, we can defeat Trumpism and we can transform the political situation in America."

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Trump Henchman Indicts Husband of Former Squad Rep. Cori Bush for Alleged Wire Fraud

Donald Trump's pick to lead the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Edward Martin Jr., has been a slavish lackey for the MAGA agenda, threatening critics of Elon Musk's DOGE, demoting prosecutors who investigated Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 coup attempt, and referring to himself as one of "President Trumps' [sic] lawyers." Before his promotion to DC hatchet man, Martin was the former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party. Yesterday he announced criminal charges against the husband of a longtime political enemy, former Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush. Cortney Merritts, Bush's husband, faces two counts of wire fraud for alleged false statements in applying for a pandemic loan aid totaling $20,832. A Justice Department investigation into Merritts and, presumably, Bush, began under the Biden administration, although St. Louis Public Radio reports that the charges against Merritts "are not connected to that investigation, the status of which is not clear." Lawyers for Merritts say he intends to plead not guilty and that they "look forward to litigating this case in federal court."

Trumpocalypse: Pentagon to Brief Unelected Oligarch Elon Musk Today on Top-Secret China War Plans

• With Order Abolishing Education Department, GOP Aims to Destroy K-12 and Higher Ed at the Same Time New York Civil Liberties Union executive director Donna Lieberman calls a coercive Trump demand that Columbia University embrace his policies or lose $400 million in federal funding "a thinly veiled effort by an out-of-control federal government to seize control of significant university functions and turn Columbia into a mouthpiece of the Trump Administration." via the Washington Post, Politico, Inside Higher Ed, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Trump Lawyers Claim 1798 Law Allows Federal Agents to Enter Homes Without a Warrant "This is the grossest human rights violation I have seen," says Lindsay Toczylowski, an attorney who represents a Venezuelan asylum seeker deported from the US to prison camps in El Salvador, where they face outrageous abuse and are unable to contact their lawyers. via the New York Times, NBC News, and the Associated Press.
• Musk, House Republicans Rally Around Wannabe Dictator's Call to Impeach Judges as Trump Attacks Chief Justice Roberts The Nazi-saluting oligarch's "political group America PAC has started offering $100 to registered Wisconsin voters who sign its petition against 'activist judges who impose their own views' — ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court race where another Musk-linked group is spending heavily to boost the Republican candidate." via HuffPost, the Washington Post, Politico, and NBC News.
• Federal Judges Block DOGE Access to Social Security Data, Deportation of Georgetown Postdoc, and Move Toward Contempt Charges Over Deportations to El Salvador If Trump starts ignoring court rulings he doesn't like, "that would be the shocking end to our 250-year experiment" in constitutional democracy, warns former federal judge Shira Scheindlin. via the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC News, and Politico.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• UN Warns Melting Glaciers Threaten Food and Water Supply of 2 Billion People As a silver lining, scientists discovered dozens of fascinating new species including "giant sea spiders, octopuses, ice fish, corals and sponges" under the sea where a gigantic iceberg broke off from the Antarctic ice sheet in January. via the Guardian and the Washington Post.
• Netanyahu Purges Another Rival from His Cabinet, the Head of Intel Agency Shin Bet Meanwhile, "Israel's renewed military offensive in the Gaza Strip threatens to be even deadlier and more destructive than the last, as it pursues wider aims with far fewer constraints." via the New York Times and the Associated Press.
• Trump Judge Publishes Bizarre Video Dissent to 9th Circuit Gun Control Ruling US Appeals Court Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was deemed "not qualified" by the American Bar Association upon his 2019 nomination, released an 18-minute YouTube video showing off his gun collection, which his 9th Circuit colleague, Judge Marsha Berzon, called "wildly improper." via the Washington Post and the AP.
• Swasticar Update: Tesla Recalls Nearly Every Cybertruck Over Dangerous Manufacturing Defect Attorney General Pam Bondi, meanwhile, denounced an international wave of vandalism targeting Tesla dealerships as a "wave of domestic terrorism," while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged Fox News viewers to "buy Tesla" stock, claiming, "it'll never be this cheap again." via the New York Times, HuffPost, the Washington Post, and NBC News.

SOME NUMBER

13

That's how many places the United States has dropped in the rankings of the annual World Happiness Report, from 11th place in the report's first year, 2012, to 24th in the latest edition. "The report also makes the case that declining happiness and social trust in the United States and parts of Europe has driven a series of 'anti-system' political victories, such as the election of President Trump, and a rise in political polarization," the New York Times reports. "According to the study, the share of American people who trust others has declined by almost half since the 1970s, dropping to 30 percent from 50 percent."

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Republican's 'Musk Has No Power' BS Roasted By Town Hall

Grassley got off easy compared to Wyoming GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman.

Trump Explains Why He Hates the White House Rose Garden

What could be more American than paving over the greenery?

PARTING WORDS

"I'm interpreting the law any way I want, the way Trump would interpret laws as he sees fit. It's called trickle down politics, which is what we're doing."

-- Robert Ehrlich, founder of the Pirate's Booty snack company and self-proclaimed mayor of the Village of Sea Cliff, New York, speaking to the Long Island Herald about his attempted takeover of the local government. Before losing a Tuesday election to incumbent mayor Elena Villafane, 1,064-62, Ehrlich stormed Village Hall and "presented a statement falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space, and declaring that the entire Village staff was fired effective immediately but could reapply for their jobs." The village administrator "told him to leave and called the police."

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