From Bernie Headquarters in Vermont:

BURLINGTON, Vt.—In a three-state sweep on Saturday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won caucuses in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii as his campaign for the White House gained momentum.

“We are on a path toward victory,” Sanders told a Saturday evening rally in Madison, Wisconsin, as the first two states were called in his favor. He and his wife, Jane, later flew home to Vermont to await the outcome in Hawaii. “It is hard for anybody to deny that our campaign has the momentum,” he told more than 8,100 cheering supporters who filled an arena on the University of Wisconsin campus.

He won Washington with 73 percent of the vote, took Alaska by a landslide 82 percent and cruised to victory in Hawaii with 71 percent, according to the vote tallies by The Associated Press.

“Black and tans” (not to be confused with a pint that is half Guinness and half Bass)…

were a group of ex-soldiers put into service ostensibly to help protect the English police, but in reality were state sponsored terrorists who brutalized the Irish people.

The song was originally written by Dominic Behan in reference to English/Irish conflicts in Dublin in the ‘30s.

The tone of the song is mocking and challenging, calling out the Black & Tans to single combat. There are numerous references to English wars and battles.

[Verse 1]

I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
And the loving English feet they tramped all over us
And each and every night when me father’d come home tight
He’d invite the neighbors outside with this chorus

[Chorus]

Oh, come out you black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wives how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra

[Verse 2]

Come tell us how you slew
Those brave Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows
How you bravely slew each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

Come let me hear you tell
How you slammed the great Parnell
When you fought them well and truly persecuted
Where are the smears and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of sixteen were executed

[Chorus]

Ed Vulliamy, reporting in 100 years on, the Irish lay to rest the ghosts of the Easter Rising for The Guardian writes:

As the lights finally dimmed at Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre last night, the audience rose to its feet through air thick with emotion, and cheered in a way – with an intensity – with which people do not usually acclaim a play. They had been watching an appositely shattering production of The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey, the great playwright’s complex commentary on the Easter Rising that begat the Irish republic a century ago.

During the week of the Rising in 1916, the Abbey was due to stage a play by the theatre’s founder WB Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, about the mythic-political figure of Mother Ireland; but, writes historian Tim Pat Coogan, “the stage drama had to be postponed because the street theatre outside took over”. In the Irish capital this weekend, stage and street merge again, but in reverse: brutal reality in the theatre, commemorative drama past the exit.

Dublin this weekend is inevitably a one-theme town. The Proclamation of the Republic read by the Rising’s leader, Patrick Pearse, on Easter Monday 1916 is printed on kitchen aprons and chocolate bars, emblazoned across the sides of buses. Bookshops display an overwhelming range of titles while Irish-American tourists buy up T-shirts bearing the unlikely figure of James Connolly, a founding father of revolutionary socialism, to wear around shopping malls back home.

I’m we’ll be hearing from family in the Northwest today and the remembrances continue.

Bernie writes:

Our campaign was just declared the winner of two more states: Washington State with 101 delegates, and Alaska with 16 delegates. These are our fourth and fifth wins out of the last six results, and there’s still another caucus today where we expect to do very well.

We’ll be in touch with the results from Hawaii, but this is shaping up to be a tremendous day for our campaign. And with a big showdown in Wisconsin on the horizon, it’s important that we keep the momentum going.

Make another contribution to our campaign today and we can win this Democratic primary, the White House, and take our country back from the billionaire class.

When we started this campaign no one thought we would win a single state, let alone 13 out of the first 31. No one thought we could compete financially with the most prolific fundraiser in Democratic Party history, especially by relying on small-dollar contributions from working Americans.

We keep proving the political establishment and corporate media wrong. And if we continue to stand together, we are going to win.

Make another contribution to our campaign today and we are going to win this Democratic primary, the White House, and take our country back from the billionaire class.

In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders

Matt Taibbi is not pleased:

I was disappointed to hear that Rolling Stone had endorsed Hillary Clinton, but I also understood. In many ways, the endorsement by my boss and editor, Jann Wenner, read like the result of painful soul-searching, after this very magazine had a profound influence on a similar race, back in 1972.

Jann explains this eloquently in Hillary Clinton for President:

“Rolling Stone has championed the ‘youth vote’ since 1972, when 18-year-olds were first given the right to vote. The Vietnam War was a fact of daily life then, and Sen. George McGovern, the liberal anti-war activist from South Dakota, became the first vessel of young Americans, and Hunter S. Thompson wrote our first presidential-campaign coverage. We worked furiously for McGovern. We failed; Nixon was re-elected in a landslide.”

The failure of George McGovern had a major impact on a generation of Democrats, who believed they’d faced a painful reality about the limits of idealism in American politics. Jann sums it up: “Those of us there learned a very clear lesson: America chooses its presidents from the middle, not from the ideological wings.”

But it would be a shame if we disqualified every honest politician, or forever disavowed the judgment of young people, just because George McGovern lost an election four decades ago.

That would be a tragedy.

Shana Jackson comments:

Hey Guardian why don’t you do some investigative journalism via a 2 second google search and write an article on the the following conflicts of interest for Hillary Clinton where she says she will be tough against ans fight for the American people.

Health Insurance Premiums—She takes donations from Health Insurance companies
Prescription Drug Prices—She takes donations from pharmaceutical companies
Climate Change—She takes donations from fossil fuel companies
Criminal Justice Reform—She takes donations from private prisons
Gun control—She takes donations from NRA lobbyist
Peace—She takes donations from the military industrial complex
Money in politics—She has made millions from money in politics
Human Rights/ Workers Rights/ Women Rights—She is friends with, taken donations from and sold arms to oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia

…And I didn’t even mention her tough on wall street while taking millions of donations from wall street conflict of interest.

So, Hillary Clinton spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual meeting and Ralph Nader has a hard time keeping down all that she said.

(Bernie offered to speak from the road via video link, as Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich did in 2012, but AIPAC said no thanks. Here’s the speech he would have like to have given.)

Nader dissects Hillary’s speech piece by piece and concludes:

High on AIPAC’s checklist is to insist that all speakers condemn what Clinton called the “alarming boycott, divestment and sanctions movement known as BDS.” She then twice slanderously associated this modest effort (in which many Jews are active participants) to get Israel to lift some oppression from the occupied Palestinian territories, with antisemitism. However, by totally erasing any nod, any mention, any compassion toward the slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in their homes, schools and hospitals, Hillary Clinton makes a mockery of her touted Methodist upbringing and her declared concern for children everywhere.

For repeated applause at AIPAC’s convention and its associated campaign contributors, she has lost all credibility with the peoples of the Arab world. Moreover, such hostility in her words registers “the other antisemitism,” to cite the title of an address by James Zogby before an Israeli university in 1994.

With all her self-regarded experience in foreign affairs, Mrs. Clinton could pause to ponder why she is backing state terrorism against millions of Arab Palestinians trapped in two enclaves, surrounded by walls, military outposts, and suffering from deep poverty, including widespread diseases and severe anemia among Palestinian infants and children.

Unlimited is her militant animosity toward Iran, bragging about crippling sanctions that she spearheaded (which caused untold harm to the health and care of civilians), and threatening military force “for even the smallest violations of this [nuclear] agreement.” Yet for decades Israel has violated numerous U.N. resolutions to withdraw its occupation and repression of Palestinians without a murmur from Secretary of State Clinton, who as a candidate opposes a role for the U.N. Security Council (over which the U.S. has an often-used veto) in the peace process.

There were some restraints. She repeated her support for a Palestinian state but wondered whether the Palestinian Leadership was up to the negotiations. Also, she resisted going along with recognizing the shift of Israel’s capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Her very oblique reference to illegal, expanding Israeli settlements did not amount to anything more than a wink, foreshadowing no action on her part to stop the expansion of colonies in the occupied territories should she reach the White House.

Near the conclusion of her deferential remarks, she stated “If you see bigotry, oppose it. If you see violence, condemn it. If you see a bully, stand up to him.” Some courageous Israeli human rights groups, such as B’Tselem, who defend Palestinian human rights, might view her words as applicable daily to how they perform their noble work.

Bernie, the first Jewish presidential candidate to ever win a primary election, should have been heard. I do hope they take the time to read the speech.

Bernie and Hillary are in a dead heat and yet, even The Guardian continues to imply Bernie should drop out for the good of the party. Fuck the party.

Bernie emails:

The political establishment may want us to step aside before the map shifts in our favor. The corporate media may continue to write us off as they have throughout this entire campaign.

But one thing is clear: the working families of this country who are held back by a rigged economy kept in place by a corrupt system of campaign finance are still fighting to take their country back from the billionaire class:

Bloomberg National Poll—24 March 2016

Bernie Sanders: 49 percent
Hillary Clinton: 48 percent

Our surge in the polls couldn’t come at a more important time. With three caucuses on Saturday, we are poised to significantly cut into Hillary Clinton’s delegate lead, and that’s why there’s no more important time for us to ask: contribute today ahead of Saturday’s three critical caucuses. Every delegate matters, and your contribution could mean the difference between hitting our goals, or falling just short.

Up until this point, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been funded almost entirely by high-dollar donors, and this week is no different. She has a series of fundraising events asking people to bundle as much as $50,000 a piece.

But we have you, Jeff. And if we continue to stand together and fight against the billionaire class trying to buy this election, we can win.

Add another contribution now and we will cut into our opponent’s delegate lead this weekend when Alaska, Hawaii and Washington State hold their caucuses.

In solidarity,

Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016

Scott Hough, writing in ‘Saudi Arabia Uncovered:’ PBS ‘Frontline’ Examines Public Floggings, Beheadings, Violence By Religious Police for The Inquisitr, reports:

“Saudi Arabia Uncovered” follows the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, as previously reported by the Inquisitr, the imprisonment and possibly pending execution of his 17-year-old nephew Ali al-Nimr, and the plight of blogger Raif Badawi, who, for the time being, appears to be spared more floggings and a death sentence but faces upwards of 20 years in a Saudi prison.

Ali Fil Fil, Raif Badiwi, and Ali al-Nimr are featured in an upcoming PBS ‘Frontline’ documentary: ‘Saudi Arabia Uncovered’ premiering on March 29, 2016.

The PBS documentary also examines the shooting death of young videographer Ali Fil Fil as he filmed Saudi government crackdowns on minority Shia protesters in the kingdom’s eastern region, in Qatif, in solidarity with democratic Arab Spring movements, which began in 2011, as reported by Source Watch.

Ali al-Nimr was reported to have been arrested for taking part in demonstrations in response to Fil Fil’s death. Frontline presents in-depth interviews with both al-Nimr’s mother and father, as well as Raif Badawi’s wife, Ensaf Haidar, and their children.

Family members of al-Nimr and Badawi are depicted as having little contact with the men. Al-Nimr’s father can be viewed lamenting the fact that he could receive a call at any moment with the news that his son has been executed.

That We The People allow our billionaires to remain all cozy with The House of Saud because there’s money to be made in them there sands is obscene. We can’t make all kissy face with the heinous Saudi royal family and then turn around and decry the human rights violations of a beast like Radovan Karadzic.

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Bernie writes:

In the movie Oceans 11, a gang of lovable thieves successfully heist $150 million from a vault in the basement of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Fueled primarily from high-dollar donations, Hillary Clinton has raised more than that in this campaign, and is now enlisting the support of George Clooney (Danny Ocean) to pad that total at a dinner event that will cost people up to $353,400 to attend.

Now, most of us can agree that is an obscene amount of money. It’s a sum that would require an employee making the federal minimum wage to work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for more than 5 years.

This is what we’re up against in this campaign, and why it’s so impressive we’ve held our own raising $5, $10, $27 at a time from working Americans. But with three critical caucuses just a day away, we have to ask: Your contribution to our campaign will help us win three critical caucuses tomorrow, and send a message that you have had ENOUGH of billionaires buying our elections.

Here is the truth: while tens of millions of Americans are struggling to put dinner on the table, the wealthiest people in this country have never had it so good. And the great question of this campaign is will we restore a vibrant democracy in this country, or will we slide into an oligarchy in which the economic and political life is controlled by a handful of billionaires?

That is our fight, and why your contribution is so important.

In solidarity,

Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016

A gang of lovable thieves is like the opposite of Willy Horton, right?

Andy Borowitz writes:

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—Scandal rocked Bernie Sanders’s Presidential campaign on Friday as the candidate was forced to admit that he received free checking from several big banks.

In a press conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, a chastened Sanders acknowledged that, over the past two decades, he received free checking from Bank of America, Citibank, and JPMorgan Chase in exchange for maintaining a five-hundred-dollar minimum balance.

“I should have acknowledged my relationship with these banks earlier,” a subdued Sanders told reporters. “For that, I am sorry.”

The Clinton campaign immediately seized on the revelation, with one senior Clinton aide alleging that Sanders’s cozy relationship with the banks “effectively strips him of the label ‘progressive.’ ”

“Quite frankly, I don’t know of too many progressives who make five-hundred-dollar payoffs to the big banks,” the aide said. “This doesn’t pass the smell test.”

The news of Sanders’s ties to the banking industry comes just days after damaging reports that he leveraged his relationship with the American Automobile Association to obtain a discount on renting a Nissan Sentra.

In other breaking Bernie news from >The Borowitz Report: Sanders Sends Vegan Thugs to Attack Peace-Loving Nazis.

Bernie emails:

What happened [Tuesday] in Arizona should be considered a national disgrace. I got an email last night from a woman who waited five hours to vote in Arizona. Five hours.

We don’t know how many thousands of people didn’t get to cast their ballots yesterday in Arizona because they couldn’t afford to wait that long. Scenes on cable news last night showed hundreds of people in line at 11:30pm in Phoenix—more than four hours after polls closed. Voting should not be this difficult.

One reason it is so hard to vote in Arizona is because the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. There were 70 percent fewer polling places this year than in 2012 in Phoenix’s county. They wouldn’t have been allowed to cut those polling places if the Voting Rights Act was still in tact.

These cuts meant that, in a county with more than 4 million residents, there were just 60 polling places. This is unacceptable, but it’s also not an isolated incident.

We need to make it easier to vote, not more difficult. One way we can do that is by reaffirming our support for the Voting Rights Act, which, when I am president, I will fight to reinstate.

Add your name to say you support reinstating the Voting Rights Act so we can make voting easier for everybody, not more difficult.

We cannot continue to see democracy undermined in the United States of America. Enough is enough.

Make no mistake: the billionaire class does not want Americans to vote. Billions of dollars are being funneled into our elections in a form of legalized bribery, even as American voters—especially minority voters—are being discouraged from voting. It is no wonder that government no longer works for ordinary Americans.

Above all, we need to remember the price that was paid for the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act was one of the great victories of the civil rights movement. Now, as then, change comes when the people demand it—in the voting booth, and on the streets in peaceful demonstrations. We must remind ourselves of what’s been achieved in the past, and resolve to do equally great things in the future. Democracy is not a spectator sport.

It is my sincere hope that the states that vote in the coming weeks and months do better than what we saw yesterday in Arizona. Too much is at stake for our future.

No one said a political revolution would be easy. The billionaire class doesn’t want to see our movement win, and so we must do everything we can to show them that we have the power.

In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders

What the billionaire class really doesn’t want to see is We The People actually voting.

I don’t have a lot of time to watch television (hell, I don’t own a television, but I can stream on my computer) so I don’t see all the comedy shows, but I’ve been following Larry Wilmore since the first episode. I’m biased, clearly, but I think he’s the best of the bunch. I’ll occasionally watch other clips, like Samantha Bee, when others, like Mano Singham, link to them.

Below are a recent trio on Donald Drumpf.

First up, Wilmore has a regular segment covering the de-nigrofication of the White House titled The Unblackening, that focuses on the 2016 presidential race. This week he stepped up the game and interviewed a panel of African Americans (including one Muslim) on why they’re supporting Donald Trump.

Next Senator Rand Paul goes beyond and links Trump to a far darker evil than Adolf Hitler.

Finally, Marlon Wayans suggests to the panel how Trump might earn some street cred.

Yuck, yuck, yuck, but there’s simply nothing funny about a newsreader beginning the night broadcast with the a sentence that begins: Today President Trump…

Jokes about cattle burping and farting greenhouse gases notwithstanding, a study published in Geophysical Research Letters titled A large increase in U.S. methane emissions over the past decade inferred from satellite data and surface observations shows a far more dangerous source: methane leaks from fracking. The paper’s abstract warns:

The global burden of atmospheric methane has been increasing over the past decade, but the causes are not well understood. National inventory estimates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicate no significant trend in U.S. anthropogenic methane emissions from 2002 to present. Here we use satellite retrievals and surface observations of atmospheric methane to suggest that U.S. methane emissions have increased by more than 30 percent over the 2002–2014 period. The trend is largest in the central part of the country, but we cannot readily attribute it to any specific source type. This large increase in U.S. methane emissions could account for 30–60 percent of the global growth of atmospheric methane seen in the past decade.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, the largest global grassroots organizing campaign on climate change, writing in Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry for The Nation calls the leaks:

These leaks are big enough to wipe out a large share of the gains from the Obama administration’s work on climate change—all those closed coal mines and fuel-efficient cars. In fact, it’s even possible that America’s contribution to global warming increased during the Obama years. [Emphasis in original, JH] The methane story is utterly at odds with what we’ve been telling ourselves, not to mention what we’ve been telling the rest of the planet. It undercuts the promises we made at the climate talks in Paris. It’s a disaster—and one that seems set to spread.

I drive between Northeastern and Southeastern Ohio along I-77 several times a year to visit family on the Ohio River and before the local crash of the fracking industry here I was smacked silly by the unrelenting number of trucks associated with fracking driving in both directions. In my two most recent trips I saw none of those trucks. The slump in China’s economy and the resulting drop in global fuel demands driving that change is temporary. China will recover and energy demands will to up again and the frackers will reawaken like the walking dead they are.

We have an opportunity, however, to seal the crypts. McKibben concludes from the Harvard data that:

We need to stop the fracking industry in its tracks, here and abroad. Even with optimistic numbers for all the plausible leaks fixed, [Cornell scientist Robert] Howarth says, methane emissions will keep rising if we keep fracking.

This election year may also have profound consequences globally McKibben writes.

There was one oddly reassuring number in the Harvard satellite data: The massive new surge of methane from the United States constituted somewhere between 30 and 60 percent of the global growth in methane emissions this past decade. In other words, the relatively small percentage of the planet’s surface known as the United States accounts for much (if not most) of the spike in atmospheric methane around the world. Another way of saying this is: We were the first to figure out how to frack. In this new century, we’re leading the world into the natural-gas age, just as we poured far more carbon into the 20th-century atmosphere than any other nation. So, thank God, now that we know there’s a problem, we could warn the rest of the planet before it goes down the same path.

Except we’ve been doing exactly the opposite. We’ve become the planet’s salesman for natural gas—and a key player in this scheme could become the next president of the United States. When Hillary Clinton took over the State Department, she set up a special arm, the Bureau of Energy Resources, after close consultation with oil and gas executives. This bureau, with 63 employees, was soon helping sponsor conferences around the world. And much more: Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the secretary of state was essentially acting as a broker for the shale-gas industry, twisting the arms of world leaders to make sure US firms got to frack at will.

To take just one example, an article in Mother Jones [How Hillary Clinton’s State Department Sold Fracking to the World] based on the WikiLeaks cables reveals what happened when fracking came to Bulgaria. In 2011, the country signed a $68 million deal with Chevron, granting the company millions of acres in shale-gas concessions. The Bulgarian public wasn’t happy: Tens of thousands were in the streets of Sofia with banners reading Stop Fracking With Our Water. But when Clinton came for a state visit in 2012, she sided with Chevron (one of whose executives had bundled large sums for her presidential campaign in 2008). In fact, the leaked cables show that the main topic of her meetings with Bulgaria’s leaders was fracking. Clinton offered to fly in the “best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people,” and she dispatched her Eurasian energy envoy, Richard Morningstar, to lobby hard against a fracking ban in neighboring Romania. Eventually, they won those battles—and today, the State Department provides “assistance” with fracking to dozens of countries around the world, from Cambodia to Papua New Guinea.

So if the United States has had a terrible time tracking down and fixing its methane leaks, ask yourself how it’s going to go in Bulgaria. If Canada finds that sealing leaks is an “unresolved engineering challenge,” ask yourself how Cambodia’s going to make out. If the State Department has its way, then in a few years Harvard’s satellites will be measuring gushers of methane from every direction.

Feck.

Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in the race who is more liked than hated by the voters. Jon Schwarz, writing in Women Hate Donald Trump Even More Than Men Hate Hillary Clinton for The Intercept, explains:

If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the 2016 presidential candidates, gender will be part of the campaign in an unprecedented way. It goes beyond the fact that Clinton would be the first woman nominated by one of the two major parties as its presidential candidate: Polls consistently show that women really, really don’t like Trump, and men — to a lesser but still significant degree — really don’t like Clinton.

Americans overall don’t like Trump or Clinton. In polls taken over the past six weeks, Trump’s average net favorable/unfavorable rating has been minus 23 percent, and Clinton’s has been minus 12 percent.

However, beneath the surface, it’s the high level of distaste for both of them among the opposite gender that is driving those awful ratings.

So, how does this play for Bernie?

[Liza Featherstone, editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton] notes that Bernie Sanders, the only major candidate with a positive net favorability with both women and men, “is able to channel some of the aggression that men feel in general, and sometimes with good reason, about politics. … A lot of men are very disenfranchised and mad about it, and Sanders is mad about it too. And he has a personal style that doesn’t hide that. He’s pretty tough.”

Will a populace inured to voting for the lesser of two evils, choose to vote a good?

Naval Ravikant, in American Spring on Medium, writes:

Today, it’s a different world. YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook let one human broadcast to billions, without permission, without censors, without delay. Social media makes mass organization and resistance possible.

The Arab Spring is just one consequence. The American Spring of 2016 is another.

Social and alternative media dominates and disintermediates mass media. Every column brings a hundred rebuttals. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are stood like commoners next to bloggers, begging for tweets, likes, and votes. We are all journalists and editors now.

Bernie can play this game. The MoveOn crowd organizes effortlessly using the new media.

Trump can play this game. The reality show vet generates outrage and impressions, tweeting as he goes.

Meanwhile, the Internet kills the political ad. Everyone is online—skipping, blocking, or just mis-clicking.

Bernie spends a bit on ads. Trump doesn’t bother.

It’s not just publishing—the Internet lets anyone donate little bits online. Bernie taps the crowd—over a million dollars a day from small donors! Again, Trump doesn’t bother. He just self-finances.

The mass media barrier is down. The money barrier is down.

A mob is pushing Bernie. Trump is pulling one behind him.

The elites are livid. They sneer at the masses—Uneducated. Socialist. Racist. Luddite.

I wonder how Uncle Walter might have taken all this?

Via Scott Adams.

Some fortifying news from the Bernie campaign:

Something pretty wild happened when our campaign and the Clinton campaign filed FEC reports yesterday.

Yes, the overwhelming majority of money raised directly by the Clinton campaign in February came from big-dollar donations. Yes, a former hedge fund executive’s family gave millions of dollars to her super PAC. These things are to be expected by now.

But what we never expected was that our supporters, a large number of working Americans giving small amounts of money at a time, raised more than the Clinton campaign. A lot more … almost two times as much in direct contributions.

Now, the Clinton campaign has still raised more than us to date. But we are catching up. And when we do, that’s going to make it easier for us to run the margins we need to gain the delegate lead on June 7th. But that will only happen if supporters like you keep stepping up.

Add another contribution to our campaign by midnight tonight – ahead of our important primary and caucuses tomorrow night. It could make the difference.

Bernie likes to say that when people stand together, anything is possible. In this campaign, our supporters — giving small amounts of money — are taking on Wall Street, pharmaceutical interests, and people who profit from the destruction of the planet.

And we are winning. If we keep going, we can win this nomination.

Add your contribution now before Arizona, Idaho, and Utah vote or caucus tomorrow.

All my best,
Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016

I agree, this is pretty wild, but the news still takes me back to the my political roots and my core belief that revolutions are still possible and that We The People can defeat the billionaires.

The Ides of March was a turning point, just not the one that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump expected.

A rising tide of Republicans, disgusted with the Donald Trump, are increasingly frantic of how to cast their votes in the coming days, and in November. Trumpvulsion may be strong enough to turn some Mormons to Bernie Sanders.

Sam Levin, writing in Why Utah Mormons’ distaste for Trump could turn a red state reluctantly blue for The Guardian concludes:

Some Utah Mormons are… arguing LDS principles should guide voters to not only snub Trump this week—but to consider crossing the aisle.

Warner Woodworth, a BYU business school professor emeritus, argued Mormon values of equality and “communal care for others” clearly align with Bernie Sanders. “God through our scriptures says that the world lies in sin because of the great gap [in wealth].”

At the least, Woodworth, said he hoped Mormons would be disgusted enough by Trump’s tone that they would make it harder for him to secure the nomination. “The way he talks, the curse words he uses, his racism, his bragging—all of those are so antithetical to Mormon religious values about humility, peace, listening to each other and coming together.”

American politics are getting curiouser and curiouser.