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Strong communities start at the ballot box - where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.
It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.
We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians but to push companies to do right by their workers.
I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.
We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.
The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.
A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.
If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.
I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.
If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.
I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.
Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.
In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.
Any Democrat worth their salt that doesn't unequivocally say Medicare-for-all is the way to go? To me, there's something wrong with them.
Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.
If someone were lying on the road dying would it matter to you who came to save you? If it was a Democrat or a Republican, would it matter?
Everybody in the working class is important, whether you're black or white and that's what I want them to feel and know from Our Revolution.
Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.
More than my political affiliation, I consider myself a hellraising humanitarian. Hell raising in the sense that I don't just go along to get along.
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women's health care, you have to vote.
In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.
It is un-American, it is unjust to target any group of folks whether they are African-American, Hispanic, poor or elderly when it comes to access to the vote.
The more Democrats try to abandon the values and policies embodied in our platform, the more we will continue to lose. We can't win by running on incrementalism.
Our country is the richest in the history of the world. We should be working to expand and improve successful programs like Medicare, and offer more to our citizens.
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.
My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change.
It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.
We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.
I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'
The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.
Working class men and women deserve a champion. They're tired of people just telling them what they want to hear to get elected and they don't necessarily follow through.
My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
It hasn't been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these problems - at least at the state level - electing an African-American.
The men in our lives, including members of the General Assembly, generously devote time to fundamental female reproductive issues. The least we can do is return the favor.
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
We need people to fight back. So many people are depressed, and they've become preoccupied with the negatives of this [Donald Trump] presidency. That can cripple people mentally.
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.
Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.
We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that's an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.
Never did I think I would live to see the day Jim Crow was resurrected, making repeat appearances in the South. And he has packed his bags, and he has moved North. Something is wrong.
Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.
Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.