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NBC's Morgan Radford sat down with candidates running in the 2018 Midterms with a clear message: socialism. Conservative Republicans and establishment Democrats have railed against it, but can it work? Watch. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the…

Your issues, your opinions, your beliefs. Thank you for standing with them and us. But what gives me hope are those 18,000 young people who have stepped up and engaged in the political process. pic.twitter.com/FyUaBodmcx — Kaniela Ing (@KanielaIng) August 8, 2018 My reaction wasn’t to focus on the fact that Ing is one of the Democratic Socialist candidates running this year. Instead, it was Ing’s Native-Hawaiian perspective that brought me hope. In doing so, he challenged the notion that we “live to work” and that we have no choice but to “grind, grind, grind.” I’ve often thought that one of the ways we’ve short-changed young people is that we haven’t talked enough about the spiritual and moral values that undergird both our lives and politics. But discussions about religious differences don’t tend to focus on questions like: What elevates human dignity? What is it that makes life valuable and worthwhile? As the Run for Something video suggests, Ing is just one of many young people who have the potential to change the way we not only think about politicians, but the way we talk about politics. That gives this old lady a lot of hope.

'The Five' co-host talks about the rise of Ocasio-Cortez and his new book. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in…

Former president's list of candidates he's endorsing for the 2018 midterms does not include socialist headliner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…

Republican congressman from Florida responds to controversy over his 'this girl' remark, claims New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is playing identity politics. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

Since he campaigned here in his losing bid for the presidency two years ago, Bernie Sanders’s brand of politics has surged in the Pittsburgh area. It tells me that when candidates run on a progressive agenda, when they mount strong grassroots campaigns involving in this case hundreds of people, there's no way they're going to lose," Mr. Sanders told the Post-Gazette in an interview Thursday. When the Vermont senator and Democratic Socialist visits Pittsburgh this Sunday to attend a teachers’ union conference and rally with lieutenant governor candidate John Fetterman, he’ll likely ride in on a wave of momentum from the area’s leftward shift in politics, but come equipped with a message of urgency: that in the age of Donald Trump, candidates must fight even harder for the Democratic Socialist ideals of health care for all, raising the minimum wage and reforming the criminal justice system. Tom Wolf against the Republican ticket of Scott Wagner and Jeff Bartos. He said the Braddock Mayor is aware of the difficulties facing the average worker, including that real wages are declining despite low unemployment. "I think John is cognizant of all that, and is a candidate for lieutenant governor who is going to do his best not only to fight for working families, but to bring them into the political process through grassroots organizing," Mr. Sanders said, "and that is exactly what we need all over the country." The recent successes of DSA-backed state House candidates Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato serve as validation, Mr. Sanders said, that the “political revolution,” as he calls it, is picking up steam across the country. He said he was told they would both be attending this Sunday’s rally. Republicans, on the other hand, have sought to link Democratic candidates to the Democratic Socialist message, saying that the platform is unrealistic, unaffordable and disconnected from real working class Americans. Mr. Sanders said he will start his remarks by thanking teachers for making sacrifices and standing up for education, but also promote the ideas of making Pre-K universal and college more affordable.

Has Democratic socialism ever worked? DSA honorary chair Cornel West weighs in on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The…

Tucker: You'd think our so-called intellectual leaders would be working to moderate the extreme rhetoric, and guide it in a more responsible direction. Instead, they're are adding to the cycle of extremism, as they freak out over Justice Kennedy's retirement…