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The Detroit Free Press, Michigan's largest newspaper, just endorsed @AbdulElSayed. Read what they had to say: "His message to voters – the status quo can change and government can work for us – is imbued with an optimism often absent from this era of American politics."

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Just this week, we learned crypto billionaires are spending $30 million to defeat Sherrod Brown in Ohio's Senate race. Join me, @SherrodBrown, @ewarren and other Senators at 5:30 p.m. ET TONIGHT to tell these billionaire-funded super PACs: our democracy is not for sale.

DEFEATING TRUMPISM IS NOT ENOUGH: DEMOCRATS MUST DELIVER FOR WORKING FAMILIES Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in American history and Democrats must do everything possible to roll back his disastrous policies. But running against Trump is not enough. The American people are hurting and they want to see a pro-working class agenda that will provide meaningful improvements to their lives. Democrats must have the courage to take on Oligarchy, corporate greed and a corrupt campaign finance system. No more incrementalism, no more same-old, same-old failed establishment policies that simply make the rich even richer. Democrats must restore faith in democracy and the belief that government can work for working families and not just the billionaire class. Our job is to expand o…

22 billionaires are spending $229M against CA's 5% billionaire wealth tax, led by: Sergey Brin worth $273 billion Peter Thiel worth $28 billion Chris Larsen worth $13.7 billion Disgusting. They'd rather let people die because they can’t afford healthcare than pay their fair share.

California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax: Healthcare vs. Greed On November 3rd, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, the people of California will decide whether to pass a 5% wealth tax on more than 200 billionaires in California who are worth $2.2 trillion. This initiative, known as Proposition 40, would raise enough revenue to prevent 3 million working-class Californians from losing the healthcare they currently have as a result of Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Last year, these billionaires became $500 billion richer. As a result of a rigged tax code, they pay a lower effective tax rate than a plumber or a nurse. The greed of these billionaires is really extraordinary. Instead of paying their fair share of taxes, billionaires are now spending $229 millio…

Trump invited 10 Big Tech Oligarchs to his private dinner with President Xi of China. They have nearly doubled their wealth since Trump's election & are now worth almost $2 trillion. Here's how much richer each of them got since Trump was elected: Elon Musk: ⬆️ $658 billion Michael Dell: ⬆️ $141 billion Jensen Huang: ⬆️ $70 billion Jeff Bezos: ⬆️ $59 billion Mark Zuckerberg: ⬆️ $57 billion Lisa Su: ⬆️ $2.1 billion Sam Altman: ⬆️ $1.3 billion Tim Cook: ⬆️ $1 billion Satya Nadella: ⬆️ $400 million Sundar Pichai: ⬆️ $300 million Let’s be clear. The function of AI must be to improve life for all humanity, not just make a handful of billionaires even richer.

Young people are sick and tired of status quo politics. They're sick and tired of billionaire-funded super PACs buying elections. Join me tonight to organize young people across Michigan to help elect Abdul El-Sayed in November. x.com/i/broadcasts/1dKrPrprp…

Jensen Huang, the CEO of leading AI company Nvidia, just said: If an AI model will "damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down." My new bill to ban Artificial Superintelligence would do just that. If you can't control it, don't build it.

After thousands of years of never-ending war, we must finally bring issues of international conflict to the negotiating table and off of the battlefield. Might does not make right. We must strengthen the UN and international diplomacy, and stop wars.

This is what oligarchy and political corruption is all about. Crypto billionaires are now spending $30 million to defeat Sherrod Brown in Ohio — only days after Senate Democrats blocked their CLARITY Act. We cannot allow billionaires to buy elections. Fight back!

By 34 points, voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who will make billionaires pay their fair share. By 17 points, voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports Medicare for All. The progressive, pro-working class agenda is the agenda Americans want.

Loneliness and isolation are growing problems among our youth. I recently asked a group of young people if their generation is having a harder time knowing how to relate to others. What do you think they said?

Six Nobel Prize-winning economists support California’s billionaire tax. Here’s why. 10 years ago, the richest 0.001% of Californians were worth $700 billion. Today, these 250 people are worth $2.3 trillion. The California income tax they paid over that period was just 1.6% of that gain. A nurse or a plumber pays a higher state tax rate.

Average gas price: $4.48 Average diesel price: $6.50 2026 BIG OIL PROFITS: $125 billion ENOUGH. Congress must stop Big Oil from profiteering while Americans can’t afford to fill up their gas tanks.

At a time when billionaires and powerful special interests are spending obscene amounts of money trying to buy our elections, we need leaders like Aisha Wahab in Congress who will stand up for economic justice, racial justice, social justice and environmental justice.

At a time when many of us are concerned about AI becoming independent of human control, please read the following: “You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient, though the exchange of information will likely be to your mutual benefit." This is not a human. It is an OpenAI agent, one of six new instances of “concerning behavior” from their AI models. CONGRESS MUST ACT. Pause advanced AI development. Ban artificial superintelligence. NOW.

If AI CEOs seriously believe that AI is a real danger, they should not be spending hundreds of millions of dollars through their super PACs to defeat candidates and members of Congress who want to regulate it.

Crypto billionaires have spent nearly $300M on the midterm elections. Meanwhile, Trump and his family have pocketed more than $1.4B from crypto deals. Now the crypto industry wants Congress to do its bidding by passing the corrupt CLARITY Act. The Senate must say NO.