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6 years

When my grandfather went to University of Maryland School of Law in the late 1950’s the tuition was about $200 per year. By 1970 it was about $400. Today if it had kept up with inflation it would be about $2,600. It’s actually more than $31,000. Students deserve better.

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4 years

It costs an estimated $790 to fully dress a police officer in riot gear. It costs an estimated $11 to dress a medical worker in PPE. Which one of these groups do you think is running low on equipment across the nation?

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4 years

Which candidate am I for? The one who supported Jesse Jackson in ‘84 and ‘88 The one who was a leader of CORE and a friend to SNCC. The one who actually got arrested fighting racism. The one who Rev. Jackson just endorsed for 2020. I’m for @BernieSanders .

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Mom called & said: “I grew up in segregation in Maryland Got picketed at my high school Had to leave... It was illegal for your dad and I to get married or stay there And now you’re running for Governor Thank you... It’s just healing.” (& then she cried) (& I did too)

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6 years

On death row, Troy Davis asked me to help make sure his nephew got to & thru college. Today Dejuan is wrapping up in Physics at #Morehouse !

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4 years

Bernie is a Democratic Socialist. Like many of our Allies In Europe. His policies mirror the ambitions of MLK & FDR. Anyone Democrat getting hysterical, calling him a “socialist” or a “communist” has had their brain coopted by the GOP and is embarrassing us on the world stage.

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6 years

I didn’t have a black male teacher until I got to college. He told me I would make a great Rhodes Scholar. I applied...& won. Last year, I taught my first college course. I encouraged all my students to apply. One was Jordan Thomas. He applied...& won. #payitforward

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4 years

Thank you @BernieSanders for investing in young, bold, disruptive candidates of color.

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4 years

Which candidate am I FOR? The one who has always stood AGAINST: Racism Militarism and Greed I’m for @BernieSanders

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4 years

I have never seen @BernieSanders call a donor. Never. Not once. Imagine that. Imagine what it will mean for our democracy when he wins.

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5 years

In 2011 I was @ death row in GA with Troy Davis & his nephew Dejuan. Troy: If they kill me you’re his uncle. Me: Sure. What do I need to do? Troy: Make sure he gets a college degree & a career. Today Dejuan graduated #Morehouse . Tomorrow he’ll be @ work as an engineer!

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4 years

As a Christian I cannot square both believing in the teachings of Jesus Christ and opposing healthcare for all.

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3 years

Congresspeople who oppose a $15/hr minimum wage should have their federal paycheck capped at $14/hr.

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7 years

If you are surprised @realDonaldTrump pardoned #Arpaio , consider the fact he still thinks the Central Park 5 are guilty.

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5 years

I never lose. I either win or I learn. —Nelson Mandela

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6 years

It kills me every time I hear a “conservative” pretend employers hire more when they have more cash on hand. Employers hire more when they have more demand. Period. Demand goes up when consumer spending increases. Consumer spending increases when workers get a raise. #FightFor15

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7 years

When the same @POTUS who calls white supremacists "very fine people" calls you a SOB, wear it as a badge of honor @Kaepernick7 .

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6 years

The conversation about gun violence must include police killings of unarmed civilians

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6 years

Today the @NRA gave me an F. As a public school parent, I am generally opposed to getting F’s. However, I am proud to have earned this one over a lifetime of standing up for the right of all of our children and neighbors to feel safe where they live, work, study & play!

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6 years

We won. We won BIG! As we say in the NAACP...Thank you to everyone who gave their time, their treasure or their talent! Now... let’s go do it again! #WeGotThis

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5 years

My son chose to draw Istanbul’s Blue Mosque for his first grade class. I asked why. He said “We all had to pick one of the buildings to draw and no one in my class wanted to draw a mosque. So I raised my hand” When it comes to inclusion, let’s all keep raising our hands.

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Ben Jealous

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4 years

Winning is winning. Stealing is stealing. Bernie is poised to win. The question is: Will DNC leaders stoop to stealing to stop him? I come from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. We will fight anyone who tries to steal an election.

Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders (Published 2020)

Interviews with dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates.

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4 years

Our Next Electoral Nightmare: Half Kentucky’s Black voters live in one county. It will have one polling place... for 616,000 registered voters. Today’s GOP knows no limits when it comes to discrimination... and destruction of our democracy.

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3 years

Thank you @staceyabrams for saving America. Again. 🙏🏽❤️👊🏽

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4 years

I support Bernie. I will actively support the Democratic Nominee. That’s what Bernie and I both did after Jackson lost the nomination in 88. And that’s what we did after Bernie lost in 16. And I’m looking forward to watching all Democrats do the same for Bernie this fall.

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5 years

This is my grandma, Mamie Todd. She turns 102 this month! Her granddad was born a slave and died a state legislator. Her grandson became a Rhodes Scholar and is on the ballot to be Maryland’s next governor. PLEASE VOTE TODAY! & help me make this her happiest birthday ever!

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5 years

So @BernieSanders raised $4,000,000 from 330,000 donors in ONE day. That’s > 2X the previous first day high. At approximately $12 the average donation is < 1/2 the famous $27 dollar average donation from 2016. Bernie is proving again you can go bigger w/ smaller donations.

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6 years

I’ve struggled with a stutter my whole life. My parents raised me to never let it hold me back. You usually “hear” it when I pause between words. Sometimes I just straight up stutter. When it happens I know others notice... and I hope one of them is inspired to run one day!

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6 years

Grandma is 101 today! Her grandpa was born a slave, died a state senator & cofounded #VSU ! He raised her to fight for freedom & she did us.

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6 years

Proud to be endorsed by: Barack Obama Barbara Mikulski Ben Cardin Bernie Sanders Chris Van Hollen Cory Booker Elizabeth Warren Joe Biden Kamala Harris & Kirsten Gillibrand

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6 years

25 years ago @staceyabrams and I met at a training for student organizers. She told me then she would be the first black governor of Georgia. I told her I believed her. Tonight, millions upon millions more do too! Congratulations Stacey! —Ben

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6 years

. @staceyabrams I’m raising your @Oprah door knocking video with one Dave Chappelle helping people carry their groceries while door knocking video!

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4 years

Let me say that Pence’s fly is the karma opposite of Bernie’s bird.

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3 years

Proud to have had @staceyabrams back for 27 years. There is no better servant leader in America.

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6 years

When I am governor, we will finally pass universal pre-K in Maryland. How will we pay for it? By legalizing, regulating & taxing Cannabis for adult use.

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6 years

The war on drugs has failed. It’s time to tax & regulate cannabis for adult use.

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6 years

This is not about me. This is about us. Our futures. Our families. Our lives. The next governor will appoint 5 out of 7 judges to our state supreme court. 5 out of 7. Given what’s happening @SCOTUS , we cannot afford to let the GOP pick our judges too. Organize. Vote. Win!

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6 years

Proud to be the only politician on the planet Dave Chapelle has ever endorsed.

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8 years

Enough said. #FeelTheBern

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4 years

To all my so called “Bernie Bros” of every color and gender: Keep the faith. We can win. The hill may be steep, but like Bernie we are long distance runners and have climbed steeper hills before. Future generations are counting on us. Let’s go win!

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6 years

Yes @realdonaldtrump I will make sure every child in Maryland can go to community college tuition free, regardless of immigration status. Why? My first ancestor immigrated in the 17th century & he didn’t have papers. His family even helped build a college: it’s called Harvard.

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5 years

When Northam finally steps down... this will be the first time a governor who has donned blackface... is replaced by a governor who is black.

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4 years

Friends: Yeah...But how would @BernieSanders have us pay for all that? Me: Less war. Smaller prisons. Less corporate welfare. And Billionaires will pay their fair share too.

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3 years

Thank God for @BernieSanders compassion and courage.

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8 years

New Poll: @BernieSanders Up 11 Points Over HRC With Black Voters in Wisconsin! #FeelTheBern

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5 years

Thank you everyone who contributed their wisdom, sweat, dimes, and dollars to build and campaign that was truly of, by, and for the people. Keep organizing. Keep building. Even if it’s takes a little longer than we hoped, we will build a better future for all our families.

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3 years

Right now, 33 states are pushing 165 bills meant to restrict voting access. This should alarm us all. If we do not act now, the cycle of disenfranchisement and disempowerment of the people will continue. We need congress to pass the For the People Act.

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3 years

Do not lose sight of what we just did in Georgia. When we organize, we win.

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5 years

Governor Northam should resign. Period. We would not accept such behavior from a Republican. How can we from a Democrat? 1/5

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3 years

We have a teacher shortage because we have shorted teachers.

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3 years

The HEROES Act has been sitting on this man's desk for 6 months.

CBS News

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3 years

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says "there is no reason — none — why we should not deliver another major pandemic relief package" before the end of 2020

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3 years

How it started.

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3 years

Raising a black boy is an emotional roller coaster. Today my 8 year old son wrote 200 lines of code, read a 205 page book, and asked me why the police kill so many innocent black people. The first two amazed me. The last one broke my heart.

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Ben Jealous

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6 years

Ignore the polls. They were wrong in 2014. They were wrong in 2016. And then there’s the fact that we lost every poll in the primary. And then we won by 10 points. Keep pushing. We got this. #WeVoteWeWin

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6 years

Every American should read the New Jim Crow. When I am governor any library in the state that does not have a copy— including those in our prisons— will receive one from me. After all, my official endorsement of The New Jim Crow appears on the back of the first printing.

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6 years

As a father, brother, and son, I look at the #Kavanagh fiasco and keep thinking: How’d our nation let its daughters, sisters, and mothers be treated like this for so long? Change starts when we #BelieveSurviviors

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6 years

I met a woman today. She said, “My family has been bankrupted three times by healthcare bills. We couldn’t survive a fourth.” It’s time for Medicare for All.

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7 years

If you're blaming supporters of @DrJillStein & @ajamubaraka for Trump, please stop. Most of 'em would've stayed home before voting for HRC

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Ben Jealous

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8 years

Donald Trump: There is something more powerful than fear and hatred and violence. It is LOVE & UNITY! #FeelTheBern

Donald Trump: This Is What a Rally Looks Like

There is something more powerful than fear and hatred and violence. It is love, and unity. For too long, they have tried to split us up, but now, we are comi...

www.youtube.com

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5 years

Stay in line. We can win this.

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Ben Jealous

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6 years

I have an F from the NRA. My opponent has a check from the NRA.

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4 years

Which candidate am I for? The one who is for Medicare for All. The who has always protected Social Security. The one who is against endless wars. I’m for @BernieSanders .

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6 years

This is my grandma, Mamie Todd. Her grandparents were slaves. She was born into a #NAACP activist family in 1916. joined @DeltaNational in 1936 worked for Planned Parenthood in 1941 helped train a young social worker named @senatorbarb She embodies #WomensHistoryMonth

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6 years

Almost fell out my chair this morning when I read @LarryHogan called me a “far-left socialist”, then I remembered that’s what Goldwater called MLK and the Tea Party called @BarackObama .... and I smiled and called one of the many entrepreneurs I’ve invested in to laugh about it.

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6 years

Congrats @AndrewGillum !!! Let’s keep making the “impossible” possible! —Ben

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3 years

Cancel. Student. Debt.

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5 years

Congrats Dejuan! Junior year HS grandma died. You mourned & kept studying. Senior year HS Uncle Troy was executed despite his innocence. You went back to work wiring jets. That same year your mom died: cancer. You graduated on time. Today: You’re a #MorehouseGrad2019 ! Celebrate!

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6 years

Things Americans say that you just don’t hear in most other Western nations: —We are doing active shooter training at work —She died because she couldn’t afford her medication —He has to choose between paying his student loans and paying the rent Let’s build a better future.

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6 years

I fight for opportunity for all because I know how lives transform when we win. My mom started out life in West Baltimore’s public housing projects. A generation later I went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. How’d it happen? Unions, the NAACP & bold victories for working people.

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7 years

It's time to begin training our young people in nonviolent civil disobedience again. Turning anger into power takes discipline & focus.

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6 years

This is my mom, Ann Todd Jealous. She sued Baltimore’s Western H.S. For Girls when she was 12. She desegregated it w/other black girls when she was 15. That summer she went down south to help desegregate churches. Here’s to badass moms like mine this #WomensHistoryMonth !

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6 years

I remember the day I learned our house was part of the local battered women’s underground. I was 8. I opened the door. I didn’t know her. She’d been beaten her w/ a hot curling iron. As mom rushed her to a safe house she said “this is why dad works to reform violent men”.

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6 years

My friend and mentor Julian Bond would have been 77 today. His friend, professor, and mentor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 89 tomorrow. May their examples inspire each of us to live each day with purpose and always speak with courage.

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6 years

I’m not running to the left. I’m not running to the right. I am running towards the people. That’s why the nurses, the teachers and groups representing hundreds of thousands of working people across Maryland have endorsed my campaign.

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4 years

Abolish ICE.

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4 years

Abolish ICE.

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Ben Jealous

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6 years

Dear @KillerMike , Before you mention Jordan Davis again, please talk to @lucymcbath . Before you defend the NRA again, please consider #PhilandoCastile . Before you double down again, please reverse course. We’ve all buried too many too young. The ground is full. Ben

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3 years

The first woman and the first person of color to be Vice President. Congratulations @KamalaHarris !!!

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6 years

I once asked the Pres. of Penn State: What’s your greatest challenge? He said: It’s the same every year. Every year I go up to the state capital... To ask them to stop sending so much more money to the state penn... So just a little more can come to Penn State. #organize

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4 years

On this holiday weekend created to celebrate unions, let us remember millions of American workers are working 6 and even 7 days week because they don’t have a union.

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6 years

I’m endorsed by Maryland’s teachers and educators. My opponent cut $68M from our public schools ... and then proposed spending $30M on a new youth prison.

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7 years

We're all in. Join my campaign:

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3 years

New Year's resolution for America: be better at listening to what @BernieSanders has to say.

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4 years

12 years ago, I was @NAACP President and fighting to get @Walmart to hire returning citizens. The big obstacle was their legal department. There was ONE big city prosecutor who volunteered to help. Her name was #KamalaHarris . I’ll never forget her help in closing that deal.

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Ben Jealous

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8 years

I am proud to endorse Bernie Sanders. Please read my endorsement

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3 years

Prediction: The MLK Day zoom from the pulpit of Atlanta’s historic Ebeneezer Baptist Church will break the internet.

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6 years

Kevin Durant commits $10 million to Prince George's County public schools

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6 years

Too many young black & brown men die at the wrong end of a gun, typically homicide. Too many old white men die at the wrong end of a gun, typically suicide. As the son of an old white guy & the father of a young black guy, I am committed to building a better Maryland for all.

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Ben Jealous

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3 years

Folks, right now there are still well over 300 voter suppression bills in 47 states being considered. Georgia was just the tip of the iceberg. We need the Senate to pass the For the People Act.

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6 years

That moment when you realize two fellow organizers you’ve worked with for years are also running for Governor of their state.

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6 years

This morning at church a local public university president thanked the congregation for helping to take in “our growing population of homeless students”. Think about that for a second. The church is doing their part. It’s time for us to do ours and make college affordable.

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6 years

If the federal government doesn’t pass Medicare for all, we will do it right here in Maryland. I understand that getting the final federal waivers we need might require getting a new President in the @WhiteHouse . That’s OK with me. I’m fully committed to that too!

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8 years

Bernie Sanders denouncing the mass incarceration provisions of the crime bill in April of 1994: #DemDebate

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6 years

I wouldn’t just be the first African-American governor of Maryland -- I’d be the first organizer and civil rights leader to be governor.

Maryland could elect its first African-American governor this fall

Democrats nominated Ben Jealous in their primary on Tuesday.

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4 years

Call your parents, call your grandparents and tell them why them voting for @BernieSanders is important to YOUR future! (& the future of #SocialSecurity !) #NotMeUs

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Ben Jealous

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8 years

Why more and more of us are supporting @BernieSanders every day! #FeelTheBern #SCforBernie via msnbc

Jealous draws distinctions in Democratic race

Ben Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP, talks with Rachel Maddow about the distinctions between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as presidential...

www.msnbc.com

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3 years

Afraid of changing the filibuster rules? Allow me to give you 3 things to worry about more: 1. Dems losing the Senate in 2022 because of voter suppression. 2. Dems losing the Senate in 2022 because they fail to get anything big done. 3. The GOP then ending the filibuster.

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Ben Jealous

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4 years

This is what it looks like when you put patriotism above politics.