Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was interrupted by far-Left anti-Israel protesters while defending an anti-Israel Senate candidate on Monday.
During an event for the National Press Club, a protester shouted about Israel while Sanders was defending Senate hopeful Graham Platner, who has a Nazi-linked tattoo and has been accused of abusing former girlfriends.
&#8220;Israel doesn&#8217;t need defensive systems! They&#8217;re a genocidal apartheid state!&#8221; a male protester shouted at Sanders. &#8220;And let me remind you, 59 years ago, Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed 34 Americans!&#8221; The man was escorted out of the venue.
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At another point during the interview, a woman wearing a hijab stood up and shouted, &#8220;Israel needs to be stopped!&#8221;
&#8220;How dare you continue to support Israel when they keep killing Palestinians,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s a genocide! Shame on you, Bernie, for not speaking up!&#8221; The woman was also escorted from the room.
Platner, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine, has previously claimed that he didn&#8217;t understand the significance of his tattoo, which was a symbol used by Nazi Germany’s SS. However, recent accounts reported in the New York Times seem to contradict that narrative.
&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna do everything I can to make sure that Graham Platner is the next senator from the state of Maine,&#8221; Sanders said at the event before the disruption.
After one protester was escorted out, Sanders turned his attention to Republicans to explain his support for Platner. &#8220;Republican super PACs have already lined up some $99 million just on TV ads to defeat him. Why is that? Do you think they&#8217;re worried about his views or what his relationships to women has been? I don&#8217;t think so. What they&#8217;re worried about is that he&#8217;s going to be a strong voice against oligarchy.&#8221;
The senator also connected Platner&#8217;s past controversies to having PTSD. &#8220;He&#8217;s [now] gotten his life together,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what is true or not true. &#8230; There are people in the United States Senate right now who are not saints.&#8221;
Sanders similarly dismissed Platner&#8217;s troubling background earlier this month, saying, “Is he a saint? I guess not. I don’t know too many saints here.”
Platner is expected to cruise to victory in Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primary for Maine&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat after Democratic Governor Janet Mills suspended her campaign at the end of April. Mills remains on the ballot, however, having never formally withdrawn, and has reminded voters that her name will still appear in the primary. The winner of the Democratic primary will challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the November general election.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-platner-staffer-calls-bs-on-dems-excuse-for-nazi-tattoo-troubling-behavior">Ex-Platner Staffer Calls BS On Dem’s Excuse For Nazi Tattoo, Troubling Behavior</a>

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Eating Their Own: Bernie’s Defense Of Nazi Tattoo Guy Still Isn’t Enough For Anti-Israel Radicals

Eating Their Own: Bernie's Defense Of Nazi Tattoo Guy Still Isn't Enough For Anti-Israel Radicals

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Leftist influencers appear to be bracing for another Graham Platner scandal, preemptively warning their fan bases not to buy into the next shoe to drop.
Platner is the embattled Democratic Senate candidate seeking to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). His campaign has been rocked by a series of personal scandals in recent weeks.
Out of the blue, left-wing political commentator Kyle Kulinski on Thursday claimed “The New York Times is about to run an anti-Platner smear&#8221; from a &#8220;right-wing operative.&#8221;
Keith Edwards, another left-wing commentator and strategist, said the Times story would be about <a href="https://x.com/keithedwards/status/2062557351928828070?s=20">Platner sexually assaulting a woman.</a>
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They’re about to say Platner SA’d a woman <a href="https://t.co/Gb2eUehJQd">https://t.co/Gb2eUehJQd</a>
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) <a href="https://x.com/keithedwards/status/2062557351928828070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
“It&#8217;s in the story. WaPo racing to get it out as well. I&#8217;m hearing it&#8217;s more than one woman,” he said. 
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It&#8217;s in the story. WaPo racing to get it out as well. I&#8217;m hearing it&#8217;s more than one woman.
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) <a href="https://x.com/keithedwards/status/2062591865073869125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
With questions and rumors swirling, conservative influencers pounced. 
“So the Democrats are going to defend Graham Platner during his sexual assault allegations while simultaneously accusing Susan Collins of committing a cardinal sin by voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, whom they opposed because of sexual assault allegations,” <a href="https://x.com/CarolineWren/status/2062588889240375502?s=20">GOP fundraiser Caroline Wren said on social media.</a> “This should be fun.” 
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So the Democrats are going to defend Graham Platner during his sexual assault allegations while simultaneously accusing Susan Collins of committing a cardinal sin by voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, whom they opposed because of sexual assault allegations….
This should be fun. <a href="https://t.co/Tv97NyvalH">https://t.co/Tv97NyvalH</a>
— Caroline Wren (@CarolineWren) <a href="https://x.com/CarolineWren/status/2062588889240375502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
The Bernie Sanders-backed leftist is working overtime to salvage his campaign after damaging revelations about his personal conduct. The Maine Senate Democratic candidate recently made a trip to Washington to rally establishment support as a wave of opposition research uncovers personal misconduct and raises questions about his suitability to serve in the U.S. Senate.
“I&#8217;m not confident of anything,” Sen. Sanders (I-VT) said when <a href="https://x.com/frankthorp/status/2062553965577838771?s=20">asked about potential new Platner revelations.</a> “I didn&#8217;t get any assurances, alright, we got other things to worry about right now. We&#8217;re worried about massive income and wealth inequality and a corrupt campaign finance system. Why don’t you write about that?”
Over the weekend, The Daily Wire exclusively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-graham-platner-has-active-profile-on-predators-paradise-messaging-app">reported</a> that Platner created an account on the Kik platform, which the National Center on Sexual Exploitation has described as a “predator’s paradise.” The revelation followed another weekend disclosure that his wife, Amy Gertner, previously flagged that her oyster-farmer husband had exchanged sexually explicit texts with as many as a dozen women.
The one-two punch appeared to cross a red line for at least one Democratic senator. 
&#8220;Well, he lied to everybody. He said that there wasn&#8217;t any after his Nazi tattoo situation, and now there&#8217;s more and more other things, so he already lied about that,” <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2062573608350744741?s=20">Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said.</a> 
“So I assume, you know, it&#8217;s like they say, for every ranch you see in Texas, there&#8217;s 50 that you haven&#8217;t seen. So I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s plenty, a lot of more ranches in P Hustle&#8217;s life.&#8221;
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NEW: Senator John Fetterman slams fellow Democrat and embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner following a string of damaging personal controversies.
&#8220;Well, he lied to everybody. He said that there wasn&#8217;t any after his Nazi tattoo situation, and now there&#8217;s more and more… <a href="https://t.co/bacJZN8fl8">pic.twitter.com/bacJZN8fl8</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2062573608350744741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></blockquote>

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On Monday, hard-left Vermont senator Bernie Sanders offered a suggestion that would cripple America, declaring he would introduce the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would “give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America through a one-time 50% tax, not on profits, but on stock.”
“The creative work of millions and hundreds of millions of people has been stolen by the wealthiest people in the world,” Sanders ranted. “The time has come to reclaim what was stolen from us.”
He launched into his typical class-warfare argument: “No longer would the future of AI be dictated by a handful of big tech oligarchs while the rest of the world sits back and watches them do what they want. Secondly, it would guarantee that the trillions potentially created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us, not simply to make the richest people on Earth even richer.”
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“The future of AI must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley,” he raged. “It must not be dictated by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and profits. It must be decided by workers, parents, teachers, artists, scientists, communities, and the American people.”
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I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.
This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people. <a href="https://t.co/y3ERWOsRfs">pic.twitter.com/y3ERWOsRfs</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2061631422188626083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Here are the reasons Sanders is completely wrong, and even dangerous:
First, a one-time 50% tax on stock — not profits — would hit these companies just as they reach the public markets. Anthropic has already filed for an IPO, with OpenAI expected to follow this fall. Faced with the government claiming half their equity, investors would walk away from those offerings, collapsing the very valuations that would generate Sanders&#8217;s &#8220;trillions.&#8221;
Second, companies would reincorporate outside the U.S. to avoid classification as a &#8220;large AI company.”
Third, Investors who might fund the next AI company would redirect to other markets.
Sanders claims AI was built on &#8220;stolen&#8221; collective intelligence. This kind of argument could be used to nationalize any information-based industry.
Here is where Sanders’ position is dangerous:
China&#8217;s government spends funds to support its AI companies, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Huawei. But because American AI companies are supported by private capital, this enables the AI companies to move much faster than their foreign competition.
And the military and intelligence applications of AI — drone autonomy, signals intelligence, logistics, cybersecurity — depend on the speed of the private sector to support them.
The core of capitalism is people taking risks. Punishing the innovators and risk-takers is essentially anti-American.
The AI giants in America are racing against China. If Sanders gets his way, his government fund would own a smaller stake in AI companies that either left for greener pastures or were outraced by competitors who didn’t have such shackles placed upon them.

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Bernie Sanders Wants To Cripple America’s AI Advantage

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Kevin O’Leary recently raised a stink when he <a href="https://x.com/CryptoMikli/status/2056365855508693008">suggested</a> that young people save money rather than spend it on dining out. More specifically, he said, “Can’t stand it when I see kids who are making 70 grand a year spending $28 for lunch. I mean, that’s just stupid. Think about that in the context of that being put into an index and making 8-10% a year for the next 50 years.”
Predictably, the internet was not pleased. Replies variously blamed boomers for making things up, boomers for driving up the cost of lunch, and boomers for destroying the economy through inflation. Which, okay, whatever. The cause isn’t really germane to his point, which is that reality exists, and the reality of spending a bunch of money on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsp2bC0Db8o">slop bowls</a> makes it hard to save and build wealth.
It also overlooks the fact that it’s really easy to cook simple meals and pack them in a lunchbox. Failing that, a used Walmart bag or even just a Tupperware dish will suffice. Seriously, you don’t need to eat a mediocre $15 burrito bowl every day to survive, particularly when you could, you know, make your own burrito bowl for much cheaper.
People eating out every day are not living it up, ordering a steak and a few martinis. They’re grabbing good enough food and eating at their desks, depositing a disgusting amount of crumbs in their keyboards as they pretend to pay attention to meetings. Mr. Wonderful is right to call them out. He’s trying to help. He’s making a very valid point about spending.
Let’s round down and extrapolate some numbers to prove his point. Perhaps $28 is a little high. One can eat inside Cava and tip for around $20. Let’s go on the low end and assume that someone works 47 weeks per year after vacation and holidays. That’s 235 days per year, which means spending would be $4,700 annually.
With just one year of brown bagging it, that would produce a return of $376. As such, bring on the avocado toast! But, actually, the thing about investing is that it isn’t gambling. You have to set it and forget it. By the end of year 50, that $4,700 would be around $221,000, and that’s only investing once. If you invested that $100 a week for 47 weeks per year for 50 years into an index earning 8%, by the end of year 50, you’d have something in the neighborhood of $2.8 million. You know what you can afford a lot of with $2.8 million?
Granted, you would still have to spend on food, so let’s look at how much it would cost per week to make your own slop bowls. You’ll want some protein. As of this exact moment, boneless, skinless chicken thighs in my area are going for $3.72/pound. Three pounds will cover five days, so we’re sitting at roughly $12 after tax. Throw in a 32-ounce bag of rice, and you’re up to $14. Add a few avocados at $0.60 each, and you’re up to $16. A few cans of black beans will add around $4. So, for roughly the price of one meal in Cava, you’ve got a week’s worth of bowls. It’s pretty Spartan, though, bordering on subsistence living.
So, let’s kick it up a notch, because this isn’t hard. Ovens exist. Skillets exist. Air fryers and Instant Pots exist. The internet exists. AI can be used for more than ridiculous memes and videos designed to fool boomers. I asked ChatGPT, for example, to put together a monthly meal prep plan based on Cava, Chipotle, and Sweet Green, including all ingredients and recipes. The costs jump up to $50 a week, but look at <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0e0648-63f0-83ea-83b7-51b0c67ba08c">how easily this can be done</a> and how much you can save to put in that index fund.
Of course, there are also peanut butter sandwiches and Ruffles, a meal I often took to my first corporate job. Tuna fish with fresh lemon, an avocado with salt, lemon, and hot sauce, and fresh cucumber slices with salt and lemon juice is another meal I’ve eaten many times while sitting at a desk. A grilled chicken breast can be substituted for the tuna. Crackers are optional for both.
Nice meals out are nice. They’re a treat for times when you’re craving something that doesn’t make sense to make because there are too many inputs, like an Italian sub. Or they’re for a celebration. Or because first dates usually don’t want to come to your house. Eating out isn’t a requirement for living; eating is.
So, instead of getting mad at O’Leary for reminding you that you’re not an oligarch, stack that paper and work on becoming one. Did Bernie Sanders stop at complaining about millionaires and billionaires? No, he kept working until he was a millionaire so he could save words and focus on billionaires. If Bernie can do it, including <a href="https://www.cornucopia.org/2016/02/foods-presidential-candidates-love-the-most-scrambled-eggs-mexican-food-and-more/">bragging</a> that he’s “pretty good on the grill,” so can you. Now get out there and start shopping, just make sure you <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whole-foods-has-its-own-jail-for-shoplifters-just-ask-the-sushi-thief">pay for everything</a>.
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Rich Cromwell is a writer living in Northwest Arkansas. He produces the Cookin&#8217; Up a Story podcast, which you can listen to <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cookin-up-a-story/id1624969096">here</a>. You can also follow him on X: @rcromwell4.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has called on high-ranking Democratic Party leaders to crack down on billionaire and corporate-backed spending in primary races despite endorsing candidates affiliated with billionaire-aligned funding networks.
In a recent letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Democratic socialist and several Democratic senators called on the party to require all primary candidates “to pledge opposition” to such funding. 
Left-wing Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tina Smith (D-MN), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) also signed on.
The demand reflects Sanders’ longtime critique of dark money and his broader focus on reducing the influence of what he describes as “the oligarchy.” 
Political action committees do play an outsized role in American politics, thanks to a <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/558/08-205/index.pdf">landmark 2010 Supreme Court ruling</a> allowing super PACs and corporations to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money. 
“If the Democrats are going to be honest and consistent in terms of their concerns about money and politics, they’ve got to clean up, in my view, their own house immediately,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/bernie-sanders-super-pacs-democrats-primaries.html">Sanders told the New York Times.</a> “That means getting super PACs out of Democratic primaries, congressional as well as presidential.”
Sanders’ purity push clashes with his own endorsements, as he has recently backed candidates tied to political networks that receive significant funding from wealthy donors.
Two of those candidates, <a href="https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1960828546898698364">Bob Brooks </a>in Pennsylvania’s 7th District and <a href="https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2008240587900592331">Sam Forstag</a> in Montana’s 1st District, are supported by The Bench, a left-wing group devoted to “recruiting and supporting the next generation of Democratic leaders.” 
“Getting these campaigns off the ground is hard, especially in districts where Democrats don’t usually compete. That’s where The Bench comes in. We help strong candidates launch with the tools they need to succeed—from communications and digital strategy to fundraising and staffing—so they can focus on what matters most: talking with voters and winning tough races,” <a href="https://www.thebench.org/about/">the group states. </a>
An investigation by <a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-new-democratic-machine-and-the-billionaires-behind-it/">The Lever, an investigative news outlet,</a> dove into the financial network behind The Bench and a related group, Majority Democrats, describing the two super PACS as part of a “new Democratic machine” fueled in part by billionaire donors. 
The Lever reported that the new fundraising machines are “both tied to a single venture capitalist-turned-secretive Democratic adviser.” 
“Under this umbrella, the influence network is dispersing millions through a sophisticated nesting doll of political action committees (PACs), nonprofits, consultancies, and LLCs, while sharing the same big-money donors, political consultants, and often the same policy proposals,” the report said. 
Both The Bench and Majority Democrats appear “to be intervening in campaigns’ day-to-day operations to an unprecedented degree,” according to The Lever. Both super PACs have raised $8 million this year, mostly from tycoons like hedge-fund manager Stephen Mandel and Nvidia board member Tench Coxe, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaires-dark-money-fuel-questions-ahead-of-2026-midterms/?ref=levernews.com">CBS reported this month.</a>
The Bench is also backing candidates in battleground districts facing crowded primaries, including <a href="https://www.thebench.org/candidates/marlene-galan-woods/">Arizona’s 1st</a>, <a href="https://www.thebench.org/candidates/shannon-bird/">Colorado’s 8th</a>, <a href="https://www.thebench.org/candidates/matt-maasdam/">Michigan’s 7th</a>, <a href="https://www.thebench.org/candidates/denise-powell/">Nebraska’s 2nd</a>, <a href="https://www.thebench.org/candidates/cait-conley/">New York’s 17th</a>, and <a href="https://www.thebench.org/candidates/johnny-garcia/">Texas’s 35th.</a>
The Daily Wire reached out to Sen. Sanders&#8217; office for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.
DNC Chair Martin, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/bernie-sanders-super-pacs-democrats-primaries.html">according to the New York Times,</a> “couldn’t agree more” with Sanders&#8217; demands but said the entire party would have to step up and make commitments to rid dark money from primaries.  
“Real, permanent, pervasive change will require all of our partners — across the legislative branch and the entire Democratic ecosystem — to join together in this work,” he said.

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Far-left senator Bernie Sanders is working with individuals closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party in his crusade against artificial intelligence.
Sanders on Wednesday evening will sit down with Chinese nationals Xue Lan, a professor at the CCP-funded Tsinghua University, and Zeng Yi, the dean of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance. The event is slated to examine the &#8220;existential threat&#8221; posed by AI and the need for international cooperation to regulate it.
The Tsinghua University is China’s top engineering school and works hand in hand with the Chinese government and military. The university has been linked to the CCP&#8217;s <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/cbf22f3c-a1f9-11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce36e4?syn-25a6b1a6=1">cyber-espionage campaigns</a> targeting the United States — the university owns companies and projects tied to Beijing’s priorities to achieve technological breakthroughs.
In 2018, Chinese cyber actors targeted Alaskan networks and organizations at the center of trade negotiations with the Alaska state government. The surveillance attacks occurred before, during, and after the negotiations between China and the governor. The United States is a top study abroad destination for the highly skilled student engineers whose top employers after university <a href="https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-116-chinas-best-and-brightest">are</a> Nvidia’s Chinese rival Huawei, the State Grid Corporation of China, and China’s Aerospace, Science, and Technology Corporation. 
Yi, of the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, is an advocate of scaling back AI, warning of environmental concerns that “fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable.&#8221; He argues AI is driving mass surveillance and discrimination.
The campaign from Sanders and his Chinese allies to scale back AI comes as President Donald Trump pushes to make sure the United States stays at the front of the AI race. Trump launched his “American AI Action Plan” in July 2025, which made a commitment to AI development, absent onerous regulation and infrastructure inhibitions. Sanders’ event advocates for the opposite.
The event has been criticized by prominent voices in the American tech industry, such as Marc Andreessen, who called the involvement of China &#8220;concerning.&#8221; There have been warnings from the tech industry that the American left will be China’s only hope to leapfrog America. 
Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of the defense giant Palantir, said China is desperate to catch up with the United States in the AI fight.
“The United States has opened a significant civilizational lead versus China when it comes to the defense and economic situation around Artificial Intelligence,” Lonsdale said, warning that China is &#8220;desperate to use the left” to set America back. 
He said it’s difficult to tell whether the left is on China&#8217;s side or just naive. 
“CCP leadership encourages regressive socialist views in the United States of America, in [a] desperate attempt to slow adversaries’ economic and military advantage.” 
Sanders leads the Left’s campaign against AI, proposing an AI moratorium in December. He also frequently voices concern over the technology turning on humans. 
“If AI becomes smarter than human beings, we could lose control over this revolutionary technology and AI could turn against the human race with cataclysmic consequences,” he said. 
Trump’s AI czar David Sacks argues the opposite. “As I’ve said many times before, the biggest risk of AI isn’t James Cameron’s The Terminator, it’s George Orwell’s 1984,” he wrote in an X <a href="https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2048811495224390105">post</a>.
Sacks says the AI safety crowd will inevitably “bring about the Orwellian future they claim to oppose” because “their solutions always favor more government centralization and control.” 
He also argues it&#8217;s crucial that the United States reign over China on AI superiority, or the rest of the world will embed China’s technology into their ecosystems. Sacks claims China’s models enforce ideological bias, censorship, and historical revisionism.

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Billionaire and California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer just won the endorsement of Our Revolution, a political action group backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which routinely voices opposition to the existence of billionaires.
The group addressed the irony of the endorsement head on, acknowledging Steyer’s billionaire status in a press release, adding that ”it matters what he is doing with that power: pushing for taxes on the wealthy, expanding universal programs, and dismantling corporate influence in our politics.”
“Tom Steyer understands that California’s affordability crisis is not inevitable — it’s the result of a political system shaped by concentrated wealth and corporate power at the expense of working people,” Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese said in a statement.
“At a moment when too many defend the status quo, Tom has taken a different path — challenging the very system that benefits people like him,” he added. An X post from the organization pointed out that this is the first time they have endorsed a billionaire for public office.
Steyer said that he’s “honored” to get the endorsement and said that “as Governor, [he’ll] work tirelessly to realize our shared vision of a California that works for working people.”
The group’s <a href="https://ourrevolution.com/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> openly touts efforts to “Defund Oligarchy” and its goal to “eliminate in the influence of corporations, billionaires and consultants in our political process.”
Steyer, a climate activist who built his wealth from creating the hedge fund Farallon Capital, has a net worth of $2.4 billion, according to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/thomas-steyer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>. He has spent tens of millions dominating the airwaves in the Golden State, and he took similar actions when he unsuccessfully sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
However, the endorsement comes as some data indicated he is the top polling Democrat in the upcoming top-two primary race on June 2, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/governor/general/2026/california/open_primary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolling</a>.
Eric Swalwell (D-CA) dropped out of the governor’s race and resigned from Congress after several sexual misconduct allegations, which shook up the contest since he had previously been considered the Democrats’ best shot.
The field of Democrats still remains wide open, however, with Steyer up going up against former Rep. Katie Porter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, among others.
Former California State Controller Betty Yee dropped out of the race on Monday, as she was polling poorly. Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to endorse a successor.
Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco are still having a strong showing in polling data, however, indicating the slight possibility of a Republican lockout in the primary. The top two candidates in California&#8217;s &#8220;jungle primary,&#8221; regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.

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WASHINGTON—If you&#8217;re looking for Bernie Sanders, you won&#8217;t find him here.
Vermont&#8217;s socialist senator was <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/03/27/sen-bernie-sanders-catches-first-class-flight-after-funding-bill-fails/?adid=social-tw">spotted</a> in first class on a 2:49 p.m. flight out of Reagan National Airport Friday afternoon — minutes after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed to reject the partial Department of Homeland Security funding bill Sanders and his colleagues in the upper chamber had passed around 2:00 a.m.
About an hour after Sanders&#8217;s flight took off, President Donald Trump entered the fray on Johnson&#8217;s side, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-kills-senate-bill-to-re-open-dhs-without-ice-funding?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Kills+Senate+Bill+To+Re-Open+DHS+Without+ICE+Funding">saying</a> the Senate bill — which carved ICE and Border Patrol out of DHS funding — &#8220;wasn&#8217;t appropriate.&#8221; Emboldened by the president, the House late Friday night rejected the Senate&#8217;s bill, instead passing a separate measure that would fund the entire Department of Homeland Security for 60 days.
What happens next is unclear, as Sanders wasn&#8217;t the only senator to skip town after the final vote. The Senate adjourned Friday for a two-week recess, and has no plans to reconvene before its planned April 13 return. As of Saturday morning, the partial shutdown of DHS has become the longest funding lapse in American history, surpassing 2025&#8217;s record-breaking government shutdown.
Sanders&#8217;s first-class escape makes him the latest lawmaker to be dinged for aerial hypocrisy amid the ongoing shutdown. As Americans waited up to four hours in TSA lines, members of Congress were often able to skip the lines entirely, making use of a perk exclusive to lawmakers. Delta Air Lines earned praise for suspending its special &#8220;congressional desk,&#8221; but as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-delta-stop-vip-treatment-for-congress-its-complicated?author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Did+Delta+Stop+VIP+Treatment+For+Congress%3F+It%E2%80%99s+Complicated.">reported</a>, lawmakers were still able to skip the security lines.
About 20 minutes before his flight departed, <a href="https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/2037594741273989383?s=20">Sanders took to X</a> to slam Elon Musk and &#8220;the wealthiest people in the world&#8221; for their views on AI. The senator is often criticized for railing against the wealthy, considering he himself is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-nails-socialist-bernie-youre-a-millionaire-with-3-houses">millionaire</a> who owns three homes.
On Saturday, Sanders will attend a &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rally in St. Paul, Minnesota — an event organized to protest Trump, an elected official.

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The communist dictatorship in Cuba has never been closer to collapse. Thankfully, the cadre of leftist American activists and influencers that descended on Havana this week will not be able to save it. While the island endured its second total electrical grid collapse in a matter of days, the regime welcomed a delegation of limousine socialists from the United States. They quickly pulled out their phones, merging grotesque voyeuristic <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/world-news/champagne-socialists-in-cuba-stage-concert-stay-in-5-star-hotel-as-country-plunges-into-nationwide-blackout/">slum tourism</a> with propagandistic livestreams from their five-star, regime-owned hotel. As their diesel generators hummed, the rest of the country starved in the dark.
The good news? This is late-stage communism. Cuba’s 67-year-old experiment with Marxist ideology could finally end if the Trump administration avoids the traps of negotiation and holds the line on its successful oil embargo. It would be a historic accomplishment for Trump 2.0, and petroleum is the key.
Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. This is happening in real time in present-day Cuba: The government has run out of other people’s oil. It scraped by for decades on Venezuelan crude shipments, using Venezuela&#8217;s oil imports to generate electricity, which is the least efficient task imaginable. This imported crude is in addition to the 25,000 barrels of oil per day that the regime pumps for itself.
The ouster of Nicolás Maduro and President Trump’s total oil embargo have set a countdown clock for the regime. The punishment will continue; the power outages will get worse. What’s more, they presage a breakdown in the paltry benefits the regime still offers.
Decades ago, Bernie Sanders <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ad-v0qpB3A&amp;t=22s">infamously claimed</a> that bread lines were “a good thing” because they meant that the poor were not starving. Eventually, he argued, people received bread. The 2026 energy shortage in Cuba has given that interpretation a new, grim twist. Limited gasoline for transportation and power for baking means that there will be less bread for the bread lines.
As President Trump recently noted, “They have no energy. They have no money. They’re in deep trouble.” Trump is correct.
Deputy Cuban Foreign Minister Fernández de Cossío declared that the oil blockade “cannot be sustained forever.” The regime is obviously betting that the White House will eventually cave and let foreign tankers arrive in Cuban ports. This should not happen, since it will extend the lifespan of this regime once more.
Conditions on the ground are ripe for public unrest not seen since Cuba’s nationwide protests in July 2021. Unlike the previous unrest due to blackouts, however, the regime no longer has a Venezuelan patron to bail them out. Their current strategy is to play for time.
Here’s what we do next:
The administration must hold the line on the current oil embargo. The Cuban regime has learned how to manipulate public opinion by claiming that an end to the U.S. embargo will end the poverty of the Cuban people. In reality, it is the regime’s communist economic policies that have made them poor. It is why the <a href="https://x.com/TheCCShowcast/status/2035796964529365458?s=20">cavalcade of socialist influencers has backfired</a> on the government.
By showcasing the desperate poverty of the Cuban people and retreating to their hotel rooms to broadcast their support for the regime from a swanky 42-story high-rise, the woke circus of the “Stop the Siege” campaign inadvertently showed the disconnect between the luxury of communist elites and the people they imprison.
Next, the administration should not accept the “Venezuelan model” for Cuba. Simply replacing a few leaders at the top will not cure the island’s woes.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio seems to understand this, recently declaring that Cuba’s current leaders “can’t fix it,” namely, the economy. This is accurate. It is also why asking for a change in management at the top will not work.
Cuba needs a fundamental restructuring, similar to Central Europe after 1989.
As we learned from successful post-communist countries in Europe, gradual reforms lead to corruption and take too long to yield the desired results. Conversely, rapid changes shock the system into embracing free-market mechanisms that have not existed for decades. Poland and the Czech Republic are the shining examples of this rapid teardown and rebuilding.
Lastly, President Trump can and should do more to use the bully pulpit of his presidency to encourage the Cuban people. Ultimately, they cannot be “given” freedom; they must use the regime&#8217;s weakness to seize their own national destiny. Trump has the loudest megaphone in the world; he should use it to remind everyday Cubans that America is waiting to make the island rich through trade, investment, and most importantly, energy.
Because none of this can happen while the current regime remains in power, the White House should fully embrace a straightforward idea: “Viva Cuba libre.”
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Peter Doran is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as a Foreign Affairs Fellow for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and later served with the Cuba Development Initiative at the OAS.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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According to the New York Times, a former newspaper, American forces are in deep trouble in Iran as the wily Iranians continue to attack our bombs with their leaders. According to the Times Middle East Bureau Chief, Omar Jihad Mohammed Jihad Jihad Mohammed, wave after wave of American bomb and missile attacks have been repelled by an Iron Dome of Iranian leaders, so that the weapons explode harmlessly against their bodies, destroying nothing but the Iranian Army, Air Force, Navy, missiles, drones, radar and, of course, the Iranian leaders, who are more than willing to sacrifice their lives to protect those Iranian people they haven’t yet murdered themselves.
In an exclusive interview at an undisclosed location, the New York Times’s Middle East reporter Omar Jihad Mohammed Fatwa Mohammed interviewed Iran’s Chief of Police Fatwa Mohammed Jihad Omar Mamdani, who said, “We have the Americans exactly where we want them since…” and while he was unable to finish his sentence because he was assassinated by Israeli Defense Forces, he was immediately replaced by his younger subordinate Allahu Akbar Mohammed Tucker Jihad Jihad Mohammed, who said, “As my predecessor was about to explain…” but he was unable to finish his sentence because he was assassinated by Israeli Defense Forces.
According to either Iranian officials or CNN reporters — it’s difficult to tell the difference — Iran continues to stymie American attacks so that the only thing keeping the American war effort alive is the fact that the French have refused to join the fight, so there’s no one who’ll surrender for us.
And now, the Iranians have achieved a “stunning moral victory,” according to CNN Chief Middle East Correspondent Vladimir Mohammed Jihad Death-to-America Carlson Mohammed Fatwa. In a move reflecting the enduring strength of the Iranian regime, the nation has replaced the fifteen levels of leadership who were wiped out by American and Israeli attacks by appointing as their new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, a one-legged homosexual who’s in a coma.
President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Mohammed Jinping Fatwa Bernie Sanders Jihad celebrated the appointment of Khamenei, saying, “This is a tremendous leap forward for Iranian Diversity Equity and Inclusion. By selecting an unconscious handicapped gay man to ruthlessly oppress their people, Iran has installed an Ayatollah who looks exactly like the sort of person for whom Hollywood has been making movies. We hope this will encourage more people to become one-legged comatose homosexuals so we can begin to fill up our theaters. Otherwise, there’ll be no one there to see it when Nicole Kidman finally manages to move her face again.”
American branches of the organization Queers for Palestine also celebrated the appointment of the gay Ayatollah, with queer house parties across the nation at which they honored Islamic tradition by climbing up to the rooftops and hurling themselves to their deaths. As Queer for Palestine leader Anatole Preposterous announced to his fellow queers, “Iran has struck a blow against the homophobic splat,” although I’m not sure if that was the last word in the sentence or just the sound he made when he hit the pavement.
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The organization Feminists for Palestine was also pleased by the Ayatollah’s appointment. FFP President Sally Ann Preposterous (no relation), said, “Although we’re disappointed Iran has not yet elevated a woman to leadership, as feminists, we feel that a homosexual in a coma will at least represent people who hate women without thinking, which is what feminism is all about.”
As for the new Ayatollah, though he has not yet been able to issue a statement of his own, the regime has released some of the old messages he posted on the website Sleeping-Gay-Amputees-dot-Com, which include such remarks as, “Must have good sense of humor,” and “If you like my picture, swipe right.”
Meanwhile, according to PBS Middle East Reporter Mohammed Mamdani Jihad Tucker Tucker Fatwa Jihad, Global financial markets continue to reel at the plucky Iranian attacks on the Strait of Hormuz. PBS interviewed surviving Iranian Naval Commander Mohammed Jihad Fuentes Fatwa Carlson, who said, “We will continue to attack shipping here until…,” but he was unable to finish his sentence because he was assassinated by Israeli Defense Forces.
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Americans may not be in love with everything President Trump is doing, but they really hate the radicalism of Democrats.
According to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cnns-harry-enten-reports-an-all-time-high-percentage-of-americans-think-the-dems-are-too-liberal/">CNN</a>, among voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal, the percentage rose from 42% in 1996 to 48% in 2013 to 58% in 2025.
Democrats continue to swivel to the Left. It&#8217;s truly insane. After Donald Trump shellacked Joe Biden, their decision was, “Perhaps we should move further to the Left.”
Bernie Sanders, a career useless person and a leech on the ass of American society for all of his eight decades, has somehow become the ideological thought leader of an entire major party in the United States.
This is totally psychotic. Totally crazy. The man has produced nothing of value. He has the political mentality of a seven-year-old. Everything he says is along the lines of the fortune cookie idiocy only found in small children.
Yet, somehow, this has gained all sorts of credibility inside the Democratic Party base.
According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/bernie-sanders-mejia-left-primaries-new-jersey">Axios</a>:
<blockquote>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is feeling emboldened by progressives&#8217; shock victory in a New Jersey special House primary last week — and sizing up his next targets. The senator has endorsed over a dozen progressive House and Senate candidates who are aiming to reshape the Democratic Party. 
Asked in a phone interview where else he thinks the left can win upset victories, Sanders pointed to a &#8220;Fighting Oligarchy&#8221; rally he is doing on Friday with Nida Allam, who is challenging Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.). &#8220;That might be another area where progressives can win a strong victory,&#8221; he said. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller challenging Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), also has &#8220;a strong chance to win,&#8221; Sanders said.</blockquote>
All of this is following the victory of leftist Analilia Mejia to succeed now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill in a special New Jersey primary election last week. “Mejia will have to win an April general election to get seated and then another primary in June to keep the seat for another two years, but New Jersey&#8217;s Democratic establishment is now beginning to coalesce around her,” Axios stated. 
Of course, Democrats have decided to coalesce around her because this is the way it works. Apparently, neither party has the stomach to simply say to its most extreme actors, “No, you don&#8217;t get to hang out with us.”
Sanders told Axios that she ran on a strong, progressive agenda and will stand up to “oligarchs” while comparing her to Zohran Mamdani.
Sanders has also endorsed leftist House candidates in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Utah and Montana. He is also backing radical Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Graham Platner in Maine, the man who had the SS logo carved into his chest and then had to pretend that&#8217;s not what it was. He also endorsed radical leftist Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, as well as Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson.
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The Democratic Party is swiveling out to the Bernie Sanders Left.
Let us never forget that Bernie Sanders’ ideas have failed everywhere they&#8217;ve ever been tried. They are garbage ideas, trash ideas.
His latest trash idea is that he wants a moratorium on data center construction.
Okay, cool. Let&#8217;s just destroy economic growth in the country. Sounds great.
His chosen proteges have already destroyed tens of thousands of jobs across the country. You&#8217;ll recall AOC — bartender turned congresswoman turned media sensation because of her “fresh-facedness” — who, when Amazon was thinking of relocating to her district, killed it, thus shoving tens of thousands of jobs out of her own district, a major win for her constituents.
And now Sanders wants to destroy data center construction. On MS NOW, he said, “We have not a clue. We are totally unprepared for what is coming. We&#8217;ve got to slow this thing down.”
What is he talking about? Slowing down AI, because redistributing misery is better than redistributing prosperity.
Sanders says that AI is bad because it alienates workers from their labor.
The real issue, of course, is that businesses might do well on the stock market and, in general, that’s what he wants to oppose.
If Democrats want to choose the “Let&#8217;s destroy the economy wing” of the party, good luck to you.

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