Just days before Tuesday’s election, the Green Party presidential nominee expresses her solidarity with an angry electorate looking for alternatives to the failing two-party system at this crucial point in United States history.

“My hope is to help inform and empower the American people to actually make choices, informed choices about our future,” Stein said. “That’s what democracy is supposed to be about.”

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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