Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress
@saikatc
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Running for Congress to represent San Francisco. No corporate or lobbyist money. Past: CoS to AOC, Dir. Tech @ Bernie, founding engineer @stripe.
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2009
Thank you, @SpeakerPelosi , for your decades of service that defined a generation of politics and for doing something truly rare in Washington: making room for the next one.
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I’ve had it with performative Democrats: the virtue signaling, the same empty talking points, and the lack of backbone. America needs fighters and winners in Congress if we’re ever going to get anywhere.
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We’re sleepwalking toward dystopia, and the other side is racing to get us there faster. We can’t afford elected officials with no fight in them, and we definitely can’t afford leaders who fight for corporations and lobbyists instead of the people. Watch the rest of my
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Democratic leadership, and any U.S. representative for that matter, should be serving the American people, not corporations or foreign interests. Since the beginning of this campaign, I’ve pledged to never take any corporate or lobbyist money, including from AIPAC. Watch the
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Enough is enough. We cannot continue to provide weapons to Israel. Congress must pass my Block the Bombs Act to take the first steps toward oversight and accountability. Congress must listen to Americans and end our government's complicity in Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign.
Scoop: Israel seeks 20-year military aid deal with U.S. with "America First" tweaks
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Co-sign. The fact that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza is not just an opinion. It's the conclusion of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, the UN, and many others.
The Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza has not ended, and it will not end until we act. I'm introducing a resolution to recognize the genocide in Gaza and call on the U.S. to take action to fulfill its obligations under the Genocide Convention with 20 of my colleagues.
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This program is already successfully housing 170,000 people and many of them have been housed for years. Trump is deciding to throw these people back on the street with no plan.
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A big thank you to Joninna and David for hosting us earlier this month. If we haven’t met, I’ll see you soon — whether at your doorstep, on a voter call, or at one of our upcoming town halls. Sign up for any of them with the link in thread!
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The Richmond community packed their rec center on Monday and now we’re coming to your neighborhood. RSVP for one of our upcoming town halls with the link in thread!
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Release the Epstein Files. Investigate EVERYONE on it. Hold them all accountable.
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Read more about my plan to root out corruption in Washington and hold tech CEOs, lobbyists, and politicians accountable — here:
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Saikat Chakrabarti wants to turn Trump’s gilded ballroom into a museum on authoritarianism
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I've got an idea: how about we turn Trump’s $300 million billionaire-sponsored ballroom into the Smithsonian Museum on Authoritarianism and Corruption? Because if we don’t teach how we got here, we’re doomed to repeat it.
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“I used to work as a programmer and so I actually have knowledge here,” he said. “That means when a tech CEO comes in front of me at a congressional hearing and they try to bullshit me, I’ll call their BS.”
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