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Fight Oligarchy!
Bernie’s latest book, Fight Oligarchy!, delivers a clear-eyed diagnosis of the political reality we’re living in—the US has become an oligarchic society, where a small group of the ultra-wealthy exercises tremendous political and economic power.
As the wealthiest Americans enjoy $1 trillion in tax breaks, millions of our people struggle to afford the basics just to stay alive: food, healthcare, and housing.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Fight Oligarchy! is a call for a political revolution. In it, Bernie is unsparing in his criticism of elected leaders for catering to wealthy interests, and he makes clear that true power lies with all of us—the people.
Drawing on examples of how communities are already organizing, Bernie shows that solidarity and collective action can confront oligarchic power and build a better future.
Following the 2025 No Kings protests, which saw 7 million Americans mobilize in October against autocracy, Fight Oligarchy! helps clarify what it will take for resistance to become lasting, participatory democratic power.
MODERATOR
Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. Under her leadership, which started in 2020, MCF launched the prestigious Freedom Scholar award and has granted more than $281 million in funding to dozens of organizations doing the hard work of shifting power to those people who have long been excluded from having it. Prior to MCF, Dr. Rojas was the cofounder and CEO of the Workers Lab, an innovation lab that partners with workers to develop new ideas that help them succeed and flourish.
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Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and author of several bestselling books, including Fight Oligarchy! In 2006, he was elected to the US Senate after 16 years as Vermont’s sole congressman in the House of Representatives. Bernie is now serving his fourth term in the US Senate, where he has fought tirelessly for working families, focusing on the shrinking middle class and growing gap between the rich and everyone else.
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