Hillary Rodham Clinton is skipping a gathering of politically active progressives next month that would have put her on the same stage with her Democratic challengers -- and likely set up unwelcome comparisons with liberal heroine Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose strongly progressive campaign platform and straight-ahead style is drawing large crowds, will attend the conference in Phoenix. So will former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who has tried to capitalize on any far-left disaffection by campaigning as a progressive champion and calling Clinton late to the cause.

Sanders and O’Malley will participate in a candidate forum that Clinton was also invited to attend, Netroots spokeswoman Mary Rickles said. Sanders captured 15 percent support in the same WSJ/NBC poll, and O'Malley 2 percent. That suggests Sanders is heir to much of the progressive fervor for Warren, who disappointed some on the left by declining to challenge Clinton for the 2016 nomination.

Warren will also attend the conference. Her fire-breathing attacks on Wall Street made her one of the stars of last year’s Netroot Nations, and she draws large and enthusiastic crowds wherever she speaks. Although she has made no move to reconsider her decision to stay out of the race, Warren still poses a hazard for Clinton. The zeal of Warren's supporters points up the perception, still prevalent on the left, that Clinton is a privileged intimate of the very wealthy.
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Please join Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and local leaders for a town meeting in Madison

TIME: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
HOST: Bernie Sanders
LOCATION:
Veterans Memorial Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center (Madison, WI)
1919 Alliant Energy Center Way
Madison, WI 53713

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement on Wednesday endorsing legislation introduced in the Senate to restore the Voting Rights Act:

“The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act was a shameful step backward. The critical civil rights law which protected voters in places with a history of discrimination is as necessary today as it was in the era of Jim Crow laws. We should do everything possible to guarantee the right to vote, not make it harder for people to cast ballots. That’s why I strongly support the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015.”

Bernie Sanders on Jesse Jackson, the Rainbow Coalition, and the Democratic Party -- April 20, 1988

Attending his first Vermont Democratic Party caucus, Sanders speaks in support of Jesse Jackson’s bid for president. Burlington’s Progressive Coalition has already endorsed Jackson. After casting his caucus vote, the mayor is slapped by an angry resident.

The Ed Show interviewed some Sanders supporters in Denver.