Nevada caucus. Amy senator Bernie Sanders scores a decisive victory saturday in the Nevada Democratic president ial caucuses, riding a wave of support from latinx voters who strengthened his status as front runner. Well get response from Erika Andiola with raices action and New York University professor Cristina Beltran. Then senator sanders has rocked ideological revolution that leaves out most dememocrats. Not to mention most americans. A socialist or plutocrat. Im a democrat. Amy we will host a debate on Bernie Sanders and democratic socialism with two economist, nobel prizewinning economist New York Times oped columnist paul krugman and Richard Wolff, social economist. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Bernie sanders won the nevada caucuses by a landslide, earning just over 47 of the vote with 88 of precincts reporting. He more than doubled joe bidens vote count, who came in second at 21 . Pete buttigieg came in third with close to 14 and senator Elizabeth Warren placed fourth with 10 of the vote. Entrance polls showed sanders picking up the most votes across many demographic categories, in particular among latinx voters, where he received over 50 of the vote. Senator sanders addressed his supporters at a victory speech in san antonio, texas, saturday night. Nevada, we have just put together a multigenerational, Multiracial Coalition which is going to not only win in nevada, it is going to sweep this country. Amy earlier on saturday, sanders had visiteded the memorl [no audio] South Carolina head of the state primary saturday. Two billionaires will appear on stage former new york mayor Mike Bloomberg and tom steyer, whose rising numbers in the state of South Carolina polls s appear to be eroding joe bidens support. Meanwhile, calls are mounting for msnbc host Chris Matthews to resign following his remarks comparing senator sanderss nevada victory to nazi germanys takeover of france. I am reading last night about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and churchill calls and says, it is over. And says s come how can it be . You have the greatest army in europe, how can it be over . He says it is over. Cannot bedamn he is damn right on this one. Amy Bernie Sanders communications director, mike casca, responded to matthews comment on twitter saying never thought part of my job would be pleading with a National News network to stop likening the campaign of a jewish president ial candidate whose family was wiped out by the nazis to the third reich. But here we are. In china, president xi jinping described the coronavirus outbreak as the largest Public Health emergency since the founding of communist china as the government delayed the meeting of the National Peoples congress for the first time in worldwide, the number r of infections is nearing 80,000, with over 2600 deaths. South korea has issued the highest level of alert as six people have now died from the disease, with over 800 people infected. In italy, 150 cacases have now been confirmed, including three deaths. 10 itali towns areow on lockdownnd the vice carnal was cut short. In iran, eight deaths have been reported, prompting border closures with afghghanistan and turkey. Back in the ununited states, the Trump Administration has backed off plans to house patients from the diamond princess cruise ship at a base in alabama after local officials threatened to sue over the planned move. Presidenent trump arrived inin a today, where he appeared at a massive rally with indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in gujarat. A reported 100,000 people packed a massive cricket stadium where trump touted a 3. 5 billion u. S. India defense deal, as he delivered a speech under the banner of namaste trump. Some rallygoers reportedly started leaving the event because trumps remarks were not being translated stop trump also claimed, india is a country that proudly embraces freedom, liberty, individual rights despite the brutal government crackdown on muslim indians as it enacts its controversial new citizenship law and the ongoing repression in kashmir. In afghanistan, the u. S. Military and the taliban have begun a weeklong partial truce, ahead of the expected announcement of a longanticipated peace deal. The u. N. Said in a report released saturday that over 10,000 civilians were killed or injured from the ongoing conflict in 2019 and over 100,000 civivilians have been killed or ininjured over the pat decade. In iran, conservative candidates affiliated with the revolutionary guguards picked up the majority of parliamentary seatats in an election that saw the lowest voterer turnout since the 1979 revolution. Over 7000 possible candidates were disqualified ahead of the elections the first since e u. S. Resumed harsh sanctions against iran. In gaza, palestinian man was killed promptiting and outcry after a a video showed an israei bulldodozer scraping up his bod. The e incidentnt was followed by rorocket fire from gaza and israeli airstrikes. Elsewhere in the occupied palestinian territories, Israeli Police shot dead a man in East Jerusalem on saturday. The police say he was attempting a stabbing. Meanwhile, senator Bernie Sanders has said he will not attend the annual aipac conference again this year thats the American Israel Public Affairs committee. He tweeted the israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform aipac provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic palestinian rights. For that reason i will not attend their conference. In canada, teck resoururces hahs withdrawn its apapplication n fr the 15. 5. 5 billion Alberta Oil Sands fronerer mine daysys befoe e e governmentntf primime minisr jujustin trudeau was to announce whetether it wouldld allow the prproject to go o ahead. Itit would have e been the l lat everer open pit mimine and w expecteded to pump aroround 2600 barrels ofof oil p per day, producing 4. 1 megagatons of emissisions each yeaear. Indidigenous and environmental grgroups have bebeen sounding ge alalarm over the prosesed mine. Last week, a a group o of nobel Prize Winners called on trudeau to stotop the teck frontier min. Indigegenous climatete action, h led the Grassroots Campaign agaiainst the project celebrbrad the announcement, writing our communities need a just transition, not more fossil fuel resource extraction. We need to be in charge of our own futures, lands, and Job Opportunities that work to solve the climate crisis, address inequality, and respect our rights and sovereignty as indigenous peoples. Back in the united states, president trumps new personnel chief, john mcentee, is reportedly directing agency heads to identify antitrump staffers. Trump has tasked his former body man to purge the bad people and deep state. Trump also reportedly referred to antitrump employees as snakes. 29yearold john mcentee was fired in 2018 by thenchief of staff general john kelly because he was under investigation by Homeland Security for financial crimes. But he was recently rehired to head the personnel office. Meanwhile, axios is reporting the Trump Administration has been gathering lists of disloyal government officials that they plan to kick out and replace with trump loyalists. A network of trump allies, including ginni thomas, the wife of Supreme CourtJustice Clarence thomas, was reportedly charged with creating the lists. One of those targeted is u. S. Former u. S. Attorney jessie liu, whom trump withdrew for consideration for a top treasury role earlier this month. Jesse lius memo reportedly mentions her signing the sentencing filing requesting jail time for michael flynn, as well and holding a leadership role in a womens Lawyers Group that is prochoice and antialito. The Supreme Court voted 54 friday to allow trumps socalled public charge rule to go ahead, by lifting a lower Court Injunction on the rule in illinois. The measure seeks to severelyy limit the number of lowincome immigrants by denying green cardrds and visas to anyonone wo may seek benefits, like medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers. The Supreme Court similarly a nationwide injunction on the rule last month. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a scathing dissent, writing claiming one emergency after another, the government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited Court Resources in each. And with each successive application its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow. The court has been all too quick to grant the governments reflexive requests. But make no mistake such a shift in the courts own behavior comes at a cost. In more immigration news, buzzfeed reports a 34yearold mexican man has died while in the custody of ice, thats immigratioion and customs enforcement, at a hospital in ohio. His death marks the seventh death of an immigrant while in ice custody during the 2020 fiscal year. And in new york city, thousasans of people from the Dominican Community took to the streets of Washington Heights saturday to protest the suspension of local elections in the Dominican Republic earlier this month. Antigovernment protests have been ongoing since last week, after the dominican central electoral board blocked municipal elections, alleging there was a Technical Glitch in the electronic voting machines. Voters say its part of an attempt by the Ruling Political Party to hold on to power. These are voices from saturdays protests in Washington Heights. Im a professional who had to migrate from my country in search of a Better Future for my daughter. My daughter partially his generation needs us to truly wake up and clean up our country for them. I believe the elections brought a conclusion to a series of events. This was the last straw for a country that endured too much corruption. Amy the last voice was laura gomez of orange is the new black. Dominican republic officials are reportedly investigating the alleged ballot machine glitches, and have rescheduled the municipal elections for march 15. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senator Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory saturday in the democratic president ial caucuses in nevada, riding a wave of support from young voters, union members, and latinx voters who strengthened his status as front runner. In the third state to vote in the democratic primary, former Vice President joe biden finished in secondplace, with mayor Pete Buttigieg of south bend, indiana, in third and senator Elizabeth Warren trailing in fourth place. Senator sanders addressed thousands of supporters at a Campaign Event in san antonio, texas, saturday after he was declared the winner in nevada. We are going to win across the country because thehe amerin people are sick and tired of a president who lies all of the time. [cheers] tired of ack and corrupt administration. [cheers] they are sick and tired of a president who is undermining american democracy. [cheers] law. Hinks he is above the amy entrance polls show senator sanders picking up the most votes across many demographic categories command particular among latinx voters where he received over half the vote. His win shows the potential for to reshape the next stage of the democratic president ial race. In the next four weeks, six more of the 12 states with a large latinx population will vote in democratic primaries. On super tuesday, texas, california, and colorado go to the polls. Arizona, florida, and illinois will vote on march 17. For more, we are joined by two guests. In phoenix, arizona, Erika Andiola is chief advocacy officer for raices action, the advocacy arm for the refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services. And here in new york, Cristina Beltran is an associate professor and director of graduate studies at New York Universitys department of social and cultural analysis. Author of the book the trouble with unity latino politics and the creation of identity. We welcome you both to democracy now Cristina Beltran, lets begin with you. Talk about the level of organizing that went on in nevada and the significance of this win with Bernie Sanders, the Corporate Media saying he doesnt have the suppoport of communities of color,r, winning more than half of the latinx vote. It was a stupendous victory for the Sanders Campaign. Im political scientist by training and study latino politics and we have been talking about the issue of the whether Democratic Party treats latino voters in terms of mobilizing latinx populations in a very strong it away where they sort of talking talk about wanting this electric but never put forward the resources or time. They typically draw people into do stuff at a quick level. One of the things that are so amazing is this is one of those experiments like, what if you axley did the things that organizers and political scientist to think about mobilization, who actually did what people have been talking about, which means they went into grassroots organizations, did not just hire Democratic Party votes. They went into different groups like take the road, make the road. They actually drew out those activists to tap into the Political Energy of these communitys and put in the resources i think Something Like every democratic registered latino was texted or emailed. They knocked on thousands of doors. That kind of mobilization i think was so critical. Also the youth element. Young latino voters were able to talk to their families and parents. I think that is critical to creating this multigenerational turnout where you had voters who were also really talking to their families and having a collective conversation, the. Ind of soccer events they did this on a broadbased level that took seriously the organizing energy, not just seeing them as inn an instrumental way, but activists and organizers themselves. Amy lets talk about the idea of investing in organizers that the dnc has had so much trouble with. We will have chuck rocha on the show to mark on the Mexican American main organizer of the Bernie Campaign in nevada. But this idea of investing in organizers almost will have parents the proud if their kid says, what are you going to be when you grow up . And organizer. But what that means to organize on the ground . I think that means understanding the variety of issues, in a lived way. I think it is also understanding often i think one of the biggest problems for latinx communities, they described as monolithic, described as if they are all one thing, described you hear these characterizations they get targeted for just around the question of immigration when it is important to think about it as a solidarity issue because voters have citizenship. You have to talk about that as a solidarity question around mixed status families. I think organizing people really does involve people on the ground who have a deeper sense of the issues that affect these communitieies, people whwho hava deep sensese of those questions. I think a lot of it is about recognizing that there is a deep history of labor organizing in these communities. The Labor Movement historically in this community. We dont talk enough about a long history of latino and latinx labor organizing from people in the unions in the 1930s all the way to cesar chavez to auto workers theres a long history of deep and having activists who understand and know that history and can mobilize it is deeply powerful. People need to see feel like they are seen in all of their diversity and difference and all of their practices. I think the Sanders Campaign understood that and i did not try to micromanage it. They actually let organizers think on the ground with what they thought made sense in terms of how t to reach out to communities. But trusting organizers and mobilizing organizers. It takes money and resources to turn nonvoters into voters. Give a big chunk of latinx communities that have been voting but there is a young population. It is a population t