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Energy & Oil     Ajamu Baraka: Real motivation to attack Iraq was control of Iraq's oil.     Tom Steyer: Fought gutting state greenhouse gas reduction law.

Foreign Policy     Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.     Ayanna Pressley: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.     Bernie Sanders: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.     Chris Van Hollen: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.     Elizabeth Warren: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.     Patrick Leahy: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.     Pramilla Jayapal: Signed letter opposing Israeli annexation of territories.

Free Trade     Ajamu Baraka: TPA & TPP: first of series of pernicious trade agreements.     Ajamu Baraka: Trans-Pacific Partnership, like NAFTA, loses jobs in the US.

Homeland Security     Ajamu Baraka: Congress' AUMF wages global war into infinity.     Deval Patrick: Signed bill for $177 million in state taxes for local bases.

Immigration     Ajamu Baraka: Mobilize public opinion to accept refugee flows from Syria.     Ajamu Baraka: Don't capitulate to the forces of nativism & white supremacy.     Ajamu Baraka: Comprehensive reform will still deny range of human rights.

Jobs     Andrew Yang: OpEd: Yang wrong that automation causing massive job loss.

Principles & Values     Howie Hawkins: Picked actual progressive woman of color as running mate.     Kamala Harris: OpEd: Checks gender and race boxes, but not a progressive.     Stacey Abrams: Joined corporate wing of Democrats, rather than Bernie wing.

Social Security     Jill Stein: Save Social Security and Medicare from assault by the right.

War & Peace     Ajamu Baraka: US position of continued war in Syria ignores Assad election.     Ajamu Baraka: No one ever held accountable for US attack on Iraq.     Lincoln Chafee: Iraq war wasn't about WMDs, but changing Middle East.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Ajamu Baraka Green Party nominee for Vice-President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Democrat U.S. Rep New York-14 Andrew Yang New York Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor Ayanna Pressley Democrat U.S. Rep Massachusetts-7 Bernie Sanders Independent Senator (VT) amd former Presidential candidate Chris Van Hollen Democratic Jr Senator Maryland Deval Patrick Massachusetts Democratic Governor Elizabeth Warren Massachusetts Senator Howie Hawkins New York Green Party Presidential Challenger Jill Stein Green Challenger Kamala Harris California Democratic nominee;Vice President; former California Senator Lincoln Chafee Rhode Island Independent Rhode Island Governor Patrick Leahy Former Democratic Senator Vermont Pramilla Jayapal Stacey Abrams Georgia Democratic nominee for Georgia Governor Tom Steyer California Democratic Challenger