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**Sanders Takes #Oligarchy Fight to #Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in #WestVirginia**
<i>"Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?" #BernieSanders asked the crowd in Wheeling. "Somebody got it wrong."</i>
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 09, 2025
> ...some in the crowd sported red bandanas around their necks—a nod to the state's long history of labor organizing and the thousands of coal mine workers who formed a multiracial coalition in 1921 and marched wearing bandanas for the right to join a union with fair pay and safety protections."Fifteen million Americans, including 50,000 right here in West Virginia, are going to lose their healthcare," #Sanders said of the Medicaid cuts...Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's #Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram benefits, according to estimates.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-dates
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