Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is hitting the road again after a brief pause in his nationwide “Fighting Oligarchy” tour that has drawn thousands of supporters against President Trump’s policies.
“If there was ever a time in American history when we need to come together, now is that time,” Sanders said in a video posted online Thursday, adding that his goal is to “defeat oligarchy, authoritarianism and horrific attacks against low income and working class Americans throughout our country.”
Sanders teased that a “new series of rallies” would be announced soon in “rural conservative areas — exactly the areas that we have got to turn around further.”
His campaign website already features RSVP links for upcoming stops in McAllen, Texas, on June 20; Shreveport, La., and Tulsa, Okla., on June 21; and Amarillo, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas, on June 22.
According to the event notices, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) is scheduled to take part in each of Sanders’s upcoming Texas rallies, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who unsuccessfully ran for Texas governor in 2022, is slated to join Sanders for the June 22 events.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is a native of Shreveport, but Sanders’s event is scheduled to take place at an auditorium outside of Johnson’s deeply conservative district.
Sanders launched his anti-oligarchy, pro-progressive campaign in February alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
“We are building a political movement which is taking on the billionaire class, taking on the right-wing extremist Republican Party, and taking on a corporate-dominated Democratic Party whose leadership is wedded to maintaining the status quo,” he said in the video posted Thursday.
Sanders’s campaign arm didn’t immediately respond to The Hill’s request for more information about his tour plans.
Rep. Elisa Slotikin (D-Mich.) suggested in April that Democrats should stop using the word “oligarchy” to attack Trump and his allies, because it doesn’t resonate beyond lefty coastal audiences. She suggested instead that Democrats should say the party opposes “kings.”
Protests organized under the name “No Kings” are slated to take place throughout the country this weekend to highlight Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Sanders, meanwhile, stood by his “oligarchy” warnings.
“Let us be clear, we are living under an oligarchic form of society which has created more income and wealth inequality than at any time in our history,” he said in Thursday’s video. “That oligarchic form of society created a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires to make unlimited amounts of campaign contributions.”
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