We Went To The 'Fighting Oligarchy' Rally

我们参加了“斗士寡头”集会

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2025-04-14

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Congress is out of session this week. Democrats are keeping busy with planned town hall events in red and blue districts nationwide. But a certain progressive duo is taking a different approach. Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders will continue his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the next few days to speak out against the Trump administration. The two were just in Los Angeles over the weekend. We stopped by to talk to folks in the crowd about what they want to see from Democrats over the next four years. And in headlines: The Trump administration walked back its statement declaring electronic imports exempt from the president’s tariffs, a judge ruled that the Trump administration can deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, and Pennsylvania authorities arrested a man for suspected arson after a fire blew through Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence.
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  • It's Monday, April 14th, I'm Jane Costa and this is What A Day,

  • the show that doesn't know if there are or aren't tariffs on electronics coming from China.

  • As far as I'm concerned, they are Schrodinger's tariffs.

  • They are there and they are also not there, which is a great way to build an economic policy in my book.

  • On today's show, the Social Security Administration lists immigrants as dead to push them out of the country.

  • And police are investigating an arson at the home of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

  • But let's start with this past weekend.

  • Congress is out of session this week, despite everything going on in Washington,

  • nothing can get in the way of spring break, baby.

  • Time to get absolutely crazy in Iowa's second district.

  • Many Democrats will be holding town hall events, particularly in GOP districts.

  • One example, as Politico reported on Thursday,

  • Democrats will hold a town hall in the North Carolina district of National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson,

  • the representative who told Republicans to stop holding in-person town hall events back in early March.

  • But as we've mentioned on the show before,

  • Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Carchez are doing something a little different.

  • On their Fighting Oligarchy tour, the pair is barnstorming America to bring together local Democrats,

  • union representatives, and others to stand in opposition to the Trump administration.

  • In Los Angeles on Saturday, the two brought together more than 34,000 people in Gloria Molina Grand Park.

  • I went with what-a-day producer, Johanna Case, to find out what inspired so many people to attend.