Featured Moderates

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [Facebook, Twitter, Website]
• Andrew Gillum [Facebook]
• Angela Merkel [Facebook]
• Amy Klobuchar [Facebook, Twitter]
• Amy McGrath [Facebook, Twitter, YouTube]
• Bernie Sanders [Issues, OurRevoluion, Taking on Trump]
• Beto O’Rourke [Twitter]
• Cindy Nixon [IMDb, Twitter, Wikipedia]
• Elizabeth Warren [Facebook, Twitter, Wiki]
• Eric Holder [Law, NY Times, Twitter, Wikipedia]
• Justin Trudeau [Facebook, Instagram, Twitter]
• King Abdullah II of Jordan [Twitter]
• Sheldon Whitehouse [Twitter]
• Stacey Abrams [Twitter]
• Theresa May [Facebook, Twitter]
• Tulsi Gabbard [Facebook, Twitter]

Primary News Sources

For our primary news sources we try to rely on moderate centrist sources.

• Aljazeera [Facebook, Live Video, Twitter, YouTube]
• Associated Press
• BBC
• New York Times
• NPR
• PBS Newshour [Facebook, Pericope.tv]
• Reuters
• Spiegel
• The Guardian [Twitter, Twitter – US]
• Washington Post

Media Voices on the Left

• Amy Goodman [Democracy Now, Twitter]
• Anderson Cooper [CNN – AC360, Facebook, Twitter]
• Bill Maher [Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – Real Time]
• Dave Rubin [Twitter, YouTube]
• John Oliver [Facebook, IAMJohnOliver.com, IMDB, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube]
• Keith Olbermann [GQ – Closer Series, Huffington Post, Twitter, YouTube – The Resistance]
• Lawrence O’Donnell [MSNBC – The Last Word, Twitter]
• Rachel Maddow [Facebook, Twitter, YouTube]
• Seth Meyers [IMDB, NBC, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube]
• Stephen Colbert [CBS, IMDB, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube]
• Trevor Noah [Facebook, Instagram, TrevorNoah.com, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube]

Nicholas Johnson

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“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government.” – Edward G. Ryan

“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” – Justice William O. Douglas

“Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must…undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” – Teddy Roosevelt

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” – Ulysses S. Grant

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – President James Madison

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” – Louis D. Brandeis

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.” – Harry S Truman, 1961

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln