Bernie Sanders

United States Senator from Vermont

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Updated 2026-05-29

Vermont's longest-serving independent senator who twice ran for president and became the face of American democratic socialism. Sanders spent decades in Congress before his 2016 surge made him a household name and meme generator.

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Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Ideologically a democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement.

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