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You can feel the changes with every new story.

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The sense of backlash that's in the air.

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Inflation is not under control.

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Data centers that no one wants are taxing energy grids,

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fueling an AI bubble that may not really replace you,

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but will get you laid off regardless.

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It seems like every week our mass Gestapo, ice,

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kills another innocent person.

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In all my years, I don't remember seeing this much blood

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on American pavement.

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I often say that the United States is an empire in decline.

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And home, that means we are a nation in crisis.

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But we're so much of Washington sees dangerous instability.

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I and many of you see promise.

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I see a real opportunity to change this country's trajectory

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to improve the lot of humanity.

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And I know you feel it too.

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It's rooms like these that remind me

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just how many people see right for wrong

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and want to do something about it.

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(audience applauds)

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All around the country, we're getting real fighters elected.

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Fighters who see the crisis and can describe it

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in clear and truthful terms.

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This means demanding an end to the endless wars.

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An end to profiteering off of healthcare.

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(audience applauds)

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An end to the rule by people who put the interests of capital

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over the interests of the working class.

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(audience applauds)

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It's talk like this that has Washington terrified.

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It's talk like this that has MAGA terrified.

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(audience applauds)

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These people that hate movements

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who try to control our lives

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are most afraid of popular action,

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of democracy, of the people.

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They're afraid of us because of the simple fact

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that there are more of us than there are of them.

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(audience applauds)

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And all these happen and they're always building.

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(audience applauds)

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There are more good, decent people

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with moral conviction who find it unfathomable

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that the wealthiest nation on earth chooses to spend

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its billions blowing up schools overseas

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rather than building schools in our neighborhoods.

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(audience applauds)

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Find people who can't understand why

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in the wealthiest nation on earth,

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there are hundreds of thousands of people

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who will go to sleep outside tonight

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and millions more who live paycheck to paycheck.

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(audience applauds)

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Hardworking people.

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Frustrated that an honest day of labor

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delivering packages, cleaning counters,

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or teaching children is no longer enough

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to take care of a family or own a home

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all the while the world's wealthiest man

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sits around tweeting racist screeds

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and unfunny jokes as people grow

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his net worth into the trillions.

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(audience applauds)

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I should add that none of this is an accident.

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The inequality is the design of our system.

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When you see broken downtowns in a state of disrepair

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or pot holes that never get filled

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or homeless people suffering in the streets,

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remember this is the design of our system.

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It is not the moral failings of the individual

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but a whole architecture where the ultra rich

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stick their hands in the pockets of everyone else.

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Just as every person who has no shelter

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is a policy failure, every billionaire is a policy failure.

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(audience applauds)

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But just as every billionaire is a policy failure,

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every congressperson who's refused

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to change these policies have failed you,

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have failed all of us.

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(audience applauds)

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We have placed organ interests

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above the interests of the people.

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I say no more and we say no more.

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(audience applauds)

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I've traveled all around the country.

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I've talked to countless people over dozens of protests.

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Gone to rallies, I've gotten to marches.

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I've got shot at by my own law enforcement

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that I pay with my taxes, the salary of.

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And all I ever hear from the people by my side is no more.

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And not just, thank you.

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(audience laughs)

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And not just the no more to Trumpism

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but no more to the Democrats who compromise,

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who conciliate and who betray us.

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(audience applauds)

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No more to the fascist reactionaries

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but no more to the Democrats who will collaborate

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and cooperate with the fascists who will fund ICE,

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who will fund Israel, who will help poison the planet,

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who will sniff burgers and help bosses.

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We don't need those Democrats anymore.

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(audience applauds)

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In fact, I know we have a message.

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We are coming.

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We are on-box.

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We're on-box.

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We're on-box.

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And we will become undeniable.

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(audience applauds)

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Thank you.

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(audience applauds)

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(audience cheers)