While virtually everyone else in their profession is either MIA or making life actively worse, 35-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and 83-year-old Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have been touring the country speaking to crowds of increasingly inspiring size. This weekend's Fighting Oligarchy (catchy name!) rally in Los Angeles, CA had their biggest turnout yet with 36,000 attendees disgusted with the authoritarian direction of the 2025 Trump administration and its catastrophic effects on the economy for most (re: non-Billionaire) Americans.

Helping out were performances by visionary music talent that spanned generations: the inexhaustible Neil Young and Joan Baez, ska-punk legend Jeff Rosenstock, singer-songwriters Maggie Rogers and Indigo de Souza, and indie royalty Dave Longstreth performing both solo and with Dirty Projectors.

But Sanders' weekend didn't end there, as he flew to Indio, CA just in time to introduce bedroom-pop singer Clairo on the Coachella stage. Berniechella was kicked off by Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), the youngest Congressperson, who brought out the onetime presidential hopeful himself for some inspiring words. Here's his introduction to Clairo's set in full:

"Look, I’m not gonna be long, but this is what I wanna say: This country faces some very difficult challenges. And the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation. Now you can turn away and you can ignore what goes on but if you do that, you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up, to fight for justice. To fight for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice."

"Now, we got a president of the United States who’s — [Crowd boos] — I agree! He thinks that climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong. And you and I, you and I have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet. All over this country, not in California, not in Vermont where I’m from, but in Florida where Maxwell is from, and many other states, politicians are trying to take away a woman’s right to control her own body. We need you to stand up and fight for women’s rights. We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class but not for working families. We need you to help us to create an economy that works well for everybody, not just the 1%. We have a health care system that is broken. We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. We need you to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies and understand that health care is a human right."

"Now, I’m here to introduce Clairo. Not just because they are a great band, not only because Clairo at the age of 13 posted videos on the internet as a singer-songwriter. I’m here because Clairo has used her prominence to fight for women’s rights, to try to end the terrible brutal war in Gaza where thousands of women and children are being killed. So I want to thank Clairo not only for being in a great band, but for the great work she is doing."

Watch footage of Sanders' appearance below.