Graham Platner for Senate

We do not need ICE. It is an agency that has been turned into a weapon to terrorize American communities and murder American citizens. Scrap it and start over.

No one should be taxed into poverty. And no billionaire should dodge their taxes.

Fox News: “Susan Collins votes with the president 95% of the time. She saved Brett Kavanaugh with that speech on the Senate floor.” I’m Graham Platner and I approve this message.

For decades, the powerful have taken. They took so much, they began to think we didn't even exist at all. But they don't know Maine. We are taking back what is ours. Our new ad ⬇️

Solidarity with the nurses striking in Houlton, fighting for safe staffing levels. Understaffing kills patients every day. In the Senate I’ll support national safe staffing legislation, which is long, long overdue.

There’s nothing more Orwellian than voting to send 18-year-olds to die in another forever war – and then blaming them for it. Real leadership is admitting when you were wrong, not doubling down for decades.

Thank you to the people of Phippsburg (population: 2,230) for showing up.

We're all being robbed. We're all angry. It's time we focused that anger where it belongs.

Another week of failure in Iran. Another week of precious American resources being squandered halfway around the world, benefiting no one but Benjamin Netanyahu and Big Oil.

Thank you to Fox News for sharing our message, which doesn't seem to strike Mainers as particularly "radical."

Thank you Bernie Sanders. We are building a political revolution in Maine.

We will not just fight the oligarchy, we will defeat the oligarchy. Together.

Susan Collins thinks we should spend the ballroom money on ICE instead. You can't make this stuff up.

Private equity is taking our homes. It's taking our hospitals. It's taking beloved local businesses and stripping them for parts. And now private equity is running the Red Sox into the ground. Our new ad ⬇️

They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.

There is no level of corporate PAC spending that can stop this movement. They can (and will) spend hundreds of millions. They can't beat this.

As I've said, there's a compelling case for the impeachment and removal of (at least) two Supreme Court justices. The most blatantly corrupt Court in modern history.

We just spent fifty billion in two months on the war in Iran and I haven’t heard a single question of where it came from. But the moment you say Americans deserve to see housing costs come down, or energy costs, or healthcare, suddenly there's no money to be had.

Every single time we hit a girls' school with a Tomahawk missile, a Raytheon executive makes a profit.

We destroyed Iraq. We destroyed Afghanistan. And the people behind all that destruction, all that killing, the people who sent me to war are still in power. Still sending young Americans to die thousands of miles from home.

Meeting all of you has been the privilege of a lifetime.

We're going to haul ICE in front of a Senate subcommittee, and we're going to make them take their masks off.

You shouldn’t have to fight and kill in an unjust war to have decent healthcare in this country.

Take on the health insurance CEOs, take on Big Oil, they call you "radical." Support illegal and insane foreign wars, and hand billions of dollars to billionaires and huge corporations? They call you "Susan Collins."

We have an activist, illegitimate, far-right Supreme Court, and there's a compelling case for the impeachment and removal of at least two justices.

Early voting starts today. Bring your loved ones.

Despite the determined efforts of the Republican Party to end early voting in this country, we still have it. And starting today, we can use it.

At a moment when the cost of heating oil was already devastating Mainers, we launched a costly war in Iran that made the problem much, much worse.

Nobody works hard enough to justify being a billionaire.

Susan Collins offered an explanation for voting for the $70 billion ICE funding bill. To call it gibberish is probably too kind.

Thirty years ago Susan Collins pledged to retire after two terms, saying "12 years is enough." Twelve years of Susan Collins is, indeed, much more than enough. I have never agreed with the Senator more.

I will stand with labor. Always.

Susan Collins has been in power for 30 years, and in those 30 years, life has gotten harder. We have watched hospitals shutter. We have watched schools close. We have watched housing become unaffordable across the state. She simply has not earned six more years.

It doesn’t matter who you voted for if your hospital closed or you can’t afford a home. This movement is for all of us.

Thank you all for believing.

We are the richest nation in the history of the world. There are children in Maine who go to bed hungry. There are elderly Mainers who go cold through the winter. This is a choice we've made as a society. It's the wrong choice.

Our new ad, featuring an animated version of Maine almost as beautiful as the real thing.

What do the CEO of Palantir, the CEO of Blackstone, and ten other billionaires have in common? First, they don't live in Maine. Second, they're funding a Republican super PAC, spending two million dollars to pollute our airwaves with attack ads.

Lubec, Maine. Population: 1,237.

Imagine what we could accomplish in this country, imagine the new businesses we would build, if we didn't have to worry about health insurance. Imagine how much less anxiety and suffering. Medicare for All is an economic obligation, and a moral one.

I’m not just running against Susan Collins. I’m running against the entire DC establishment.

York County: where Susan Collins won big in 2020, despite Biden winning by 13. Susan Collins is never winning York County again.

Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. And yet he’s deeply deeply unhappy, a man torn to pieces by his own insecurities. These are the kind of people running this country.

We can't treat this Supreme Court as a functional constitutional body acting in good faith. It's a corrupt, far-right, partisan court, and we have to treat it as such. (And both Alito and Thomas should be impeached.)

Medicare for All would lead to an explosion of small businesses in this country. It's long past time to free small businesses from the crushing burden of healthcare.

None of this would have been possible without my incredible wife. Thank you, Amy Jane.

On this 4/20, even with legalization in sight, there are still tens of thousands of people in prison for nonviolent cannabis “crimes.” Legalization isn’t enough. Everyone caught up in prohibition deserves freedom and a clean record.

Thank you to those so eager to support the campaign that they rush the stage and try to (illegally) hand me cash.

Unlike some, I don't find this to be a hard question.

Trump gave two huge tax cuts to billionaires. Like Bush before him. And Reagan before him. The billionaire class is out of control, and a reasonable tax on fortunes over $1 billion is long overdue.

Unlike the governor, I believe that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.

The filibuster has been used for a very long time as a weapon against the American worker. Scrap it.

New ad: How our campaign played a key role in passing Representative Valli Geiger's landmark rape kit bill in Maine. This is about more than a Senate seat. It always has been.

The problem in America isn't immigrants and it isn't trans kids. It's the billionaires and multi-national corporations soaking up this country's resources and leaving the rest of us with nothing.

Working multiple jobs is not enough anymore. It's not enough to put a roof over your head, put food on the table and put your kids through college. I refuse to believe that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos deserve their billions and my neighbors don't deserve the life their parents had.

If you want to represent the people of Maine, you should be willing to talk to the people of Maine.

Susan Collins is corrupt. She has lost our trust and in November she'll lose her seat.

Another night. Another full house. This time in Orono. Our back of the napkin math says I've talked to 30,000 Maine voters in person. Meeting all of you has been the privilege of a lifetime.