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Peggy Flanagan is an organizer. She led the fight to increase Minnesota’s minimum wage and pass family and medical leave. So it’s no wonder her campaign has knocked on 2.2 million doors, and in her words “we’re just getting started.” Great to be on the trail with her.

Volunteers in Minnesota told me the smallest crowds this year are bigger than the largest crowds in 2024. People here love Peggy Flanagan - a mom, a community organizer, a fighter for working people getting crushed by corporate power. I was so excited to campaign with her!

I went with Abdul El-Sayed yesterday to the Trump-Epstein Reading Room in Detroit, a traveling exhibit which displays all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. I’m so grateful for the hard work to make this exhibit happen.

Great to spend the day with Abdul El-Sayed. Corporations and billionaires are flooding the airwaves here because they know Abdul is going to hold them to account and Mike Rogers will just give them whatever they want.

A lot of energy in Michigan right now. All these people were here to door knock for Abdul at 11am on a Wednesday! So glad to be with him on the trail today.

It’s 4:30am. I’m on my way to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed. Waking up to news that GOP is doubling down on their disgusting attacks on Amy Acton in Ohio. They have no answer for costs, the war, corruption. So they are going to run the most vile closing campaign in our history.

Early voting has started in Connecticut and I voted today at my polling place in Hartford! It’s time for all of us to make our voice heard. To support our favorite candidates and to send a message about Donald Trump’s war and his corruption.

At thousands of No Kings events yesterday - including this one in Middletown, Connecticut - the people of this country made clear that in 16 days we are taking this country back from the would be autocrats and oligarchs. In America, the people still rule.

Justin J. Pearson is exactly the kind of leader we need in Congress.

I stopped into Justin Pearson's campaign headquarters in Memphis to thank both him and his volunteers. He is one of our great modern civil rights leaders and he is going to win!

Angie and I believe in big ideas: a $25 minimum wage, health care for everyone, and zero tolerance for corruption. These aren’t radical ideas. They’re mainstream, and she’s the fighter we need in the Senate to take on corporate power and lower costs for young people.

ICE is still conducting raids and targeting people who are here in Connecticut lawfully. It’s really important everyone knows their rights.

I just got back from the Middle East. What I saw made clear that Trump and Hegseth aren’t telling the American people the full story about the cost and damage of this war. Here are my four biggest takeaways.

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

Today I saw in person the damage done to the U.S. embassy in Riyadh. If the attack had happened during the day, it would have been a mass casualty event. More evidence of how unprepared Trump was for this war and how unprotected he left thousands of Americans in this region.

I just finished a two hour meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Let me tell you about it.

Something I’ve heard about during my trip to the Gulf? War profiteering. Often by U.S. companies. Let me tell you what I learned. And why a Democratic Congress should do something about it

I just arrived in the Middle East. I’m the first Democrat to be in the region since the war began. I’m here to view war damage, talk to our partners about the impact of the war, and meet with those who are working to end the conflict.

The cost of the disastrous, incompetently run Iran War is enormous. You see it most clearly in gas prices, but the rising price of diesel - nearly twice what it was before the war - is increasing the cost of everything. Hear me out on the biggest hidden cost of the war.

Trump is stealing your money to pay for creepy, dark and sinister campaign ads. This is the most corrupt, self dealing President in the history of the country. And there’s not a close second.

I went to the floor yesterday to ask the Senate to pass a simple bill - no ICE arrests at school bus stops. Let’s end this evil practice of purposely traumatizing kids. Republicans blocked the bill. And for insane reasons. Watch.

After ICE showed up at school bus stops in Danbury, I introduced a bill to ban the practice - a totally unnecessary tactic designed specifically to traumatize little kids. I'm going to force a debate on this bill in the Senate this week. Will Republicans defend this evil?

As Trump rolls out the literal red carpet for Xi, remember this: Under Obama, the U.S. and China were working together to weaken Iran. Under Trump, Iran and China are working together to weaken the U.S.. The epitome of Trump’s foreign policy incompetence.

I'm introducing innovative new legisation. A fee on social media companies' ads, to create a new fund to help communities build more spaces, like community centers, parks, and libraries, where people can gather in person. Less online ads. More in real life experience.

In the summer, I raise money to run a free citywide rec level basketball league in Hartford. The rise of expensive pay to play travel sports is a threat to these experiences, especially in low income cities. Watch this to see what we are losing as rec level sports are devalued.

Oluchi Okananwa, the star guard for the University of Maryland basketball team, and I take your questions about the Protect College Sports Act and how it sets back players’ rights by decades.

The Trump family has major business interests in the Balkans. So I asked two nominees to be ambassadors to the region if they would use their embassy to push Trump family deals. Watch this for their answers. Just chilling.

We need more leaders like Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate. Abdul understands that we need to take on corporate power, lower costs for working families, and make government work for people again. I’m all in.

I want to talk to you about the growing amount of alarming news about AI. The bottom line: we are cooked, as an economy and a culture, if we leave it to the industry to protect us. They won’t. They can’t.

The Russians secretly paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s private island wedding reception. Yes, you heard that right. I went to the Senate floor last night to talk about the corrupt Trump-Russia alliance - so that we never start feeling like this is normal.