By Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
“Sanders…announced Wednesday the launch of his ‘Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here’ campaign.
…The new campaign will target areas won by President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election that elected a Republican to the U.S. House in 2024. Events will focus on issues facing working-class people, according to a news release, and will ‘outline how Americans can fight back against President Trump and Elon Musk.’
In the release, Sanders called for political action as Trump and Musk take actions that are ‘quickly moving the country toward authoritarianism, oligarchy, and kleptocracy.’
‘Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power,’ Sanders said in a statement. ‘Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and most of our people are struggling to pay for health care, childcare, and housing. This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.'” Read the rest here.