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The politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. It's important to take a lesson from the days of Richard Nixon, when people stood up under a very oppressive president with a very oppressive Supreme Court.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.
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