Jill Stein
American politician and physician
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| 2024 | Stein was interviewed by Mehdi Hasan about her views on world leaders, initially avoiding directly calling Putin a war criminal. Three days after the interview, her Twitter account posted a statement describing Putin as a war criminal. |
| 2024 | Jill Stein ran as the Green Party presidential candidate in the United States presidential election, receiving 730,939 votes (0.5% of the total vote) |
| 2024 | During the Israel-Hamas war, Stein accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians and criticized both Democratic and Republican parties for providing military aid to Israel while de-funding the UNRWA. |
| 2024 | Stein ran for president for the third time with running mate Butch Ware, campaigning on an anti-war stance, universal healthcare, free public education, an eco-socialist 'real Green New Deal', and strong worker rights. |
| September 2024 | Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly criticized Stein's campaign strategy, arguing that she only appears during election cycles without sustained political engagement. |
| January 20 2024 | Stein spoke at a rally in New York organized by The People's Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement, and A.N.S.W.E.R. as part of the We Fight Back Inauguration Day Protests, delivering a speech criticizing the 'American Empire' and supporting the pro-Palestine student protest movement. |
| November 9 2023 | Jill Stein announced her third bid for the U.S. presidential election, positioning herself as a candidate challenging the two-party political system and advocating for a pro-worker, anti-war, and climate emergency agenda. |
| March 2019 | Stein's spokesman David Cobb confirmed she had 'fully cooperated' with the Senate inquiry |
| December 2018 | Senate Intelligence Committee reports revealed Russian-linked Internet Research Agency promoted Stein's candidacy on social media, targeting African-American voters |
| July 2018 | Stein was interviewed by The Washington Post, where she expressed concerns about pharmaceutical industry influence on vaccine approval processes and suggested the need for a more trustworthy review board. |
| July 31 2018 | Stein had spent nearly $100,000 of recount money on legal representation related to the Senate election interference probe |
| May 2018 | The Daily Beast reports that approximately $1 million of the original $7.3 million recount fundraising remains unspent, with uncertainty about its precise allocation. |
| December 18 2017 | The Washington Post reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating Stein's presidential campaign for potential Russian collusion |
| August 2017 | Stein pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief related to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and was placed on probation for six months. |
| 2016 | Argued that transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2030 would lead to significant healthcare savings, citing potential prevention of 200,000 premature deaths and reduced illness rates. |
| 2016 | Stein called for 'nationalizing' and 'democratizing' the Federal Reserve by placing it under a Federal Monetary Authority in the Treasury Department and ending its independent status. |
| 2016 | Stein advocated for increasing NASA funding, proposing to redirect money from military budget to 'explore space instead of destroying planet Earth'. |
| 2016 | Stein advocated for the United States to stop providing military aid to Israel, asserting that Israel was committing war crimes and human rights violations. |
| 2016 | Jill Stein accepts the Green Party presidential nomination and publicly calls for ending the war on whistleblowers, advocating for the release of notable political prisoners including Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and others. |
| 2016 | During her presidential campaign, Stein publicly states she would appoint Edward Snowden to her Cabinet if elected, highlighting her strong support for whistleblowers. |
| 2016 | During her presidential campaign, Stein proposed a 0.5% financial transactions tax on stocks, bonds, and derivatives, and advocated for increasing the estate tax to at least 55% on inheritances over $3 million. |
| 2016 | Stein delivered a critical speech at a rally, condemning the United States' 'expanding wars' and highlighting that the country was bombing seven countries at the time. |
| December 12 2016 | U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond rejects Stein's request for a Pennsylvania recount. |
| December 9 2016 | Stein loses her appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court in a 3-2 decision. |
| December 7 2016 | Judge Goldsmith halts the Michigan recount, and Stein files an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court. |
| December 5 2016 | U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith orders Michigan election officials to hand-recount 4.8 million ballots, but the Michigan Court of Appeals rules that Stein lacks standing as a candidate. |
| December 3 2016 | Stein drops the Pennsylvania recount case, citing insurmountable barriers in the state's court system and seeking federal court intervention. |
| December 2 2016 | Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette files a lawsuit to stop Stein's recount. A U.S. District Judge in Wisconsin allows the recount to continue until a December 9 hearing. |
| November 2016 | On the eve of election day, Stein's national polling numbers had dropped to 1.9%. |
| November 2016 | Following Fidel Castro's death, Stein tweeted a statement describing Castro as 'a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire'. |
| November 2016 | Stein's vote total in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania was significant enough to potentially impact the margin between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in these crucial battleground states. |
| November 25 2016 | With 90 minutes remaining before the deadline, Stein files a recount petition for Wisconsin's presidential election results, signaling intentions to file similar recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania. |
| November 24 2016 | Stein launches a crowdfunding campaign for presidential election recount, raising over $2.5 million in less than 24 hours and $6.7 million in nearly a week. |
| November 16 2016 | Initiated and fundraised for vote recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, challenging the presidential election results and highlighting potential voting irregularities. |
| November 8 2016 | Participated in the United States presidential election, receiving approximately 1.5 million votes nationwide, which represented the strongest performance for a Green Party presidential candidate up to that point. |
| October 2016 | Stein characterized the Russia-Ukraine conflict as 'the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, on steroids', claiming Russia was being 'surrounded' by NATO assets. |
| September 2016 | Stein joined protesters in North Dakota in support of the Great Sioux Nation's opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. |
| September 2016 | During a September 2016 interview, Stein discussed her nuanced stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting the geographical fragmentation of Palestine while not definitively committing to a one-state or two-state solution. |
| September 7 2016 | A North Dakota judge issued an arrest warrant for Stein for spray-painting a bulldozer during a Dakota Access Pipeline protest, charging her with misdemeanor criminal trespass and criminal mischief. |
| August 2016 | Stein released the first two pages of her 2015 tax return on her campaign website. |
| August 1 2016 | After Nina Turner declined, Stein chose human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. |
| July 2016 | Jill Stein commented on GMOs, with Slate's Jordan Weissmann criticizing her stance as contradicting scientific consensus about GM food safety. |
| July 2016 | Stein selected Ajamu Baraka as her vice presidential running mate at the Green Party National Convention, forming a ticket committed to challenging corporate influence in politics. |
| June 2016 | Jill Stein reached her highest polling average of 4.8% nationally in four-candidate polls in late June during her Presidential campaign. |
| June 2016 | Stein publicly supported Brexit, initially posting a celebratory statement on her website praising the UK's vote to leave the European Union as a victory for self-determination, which she later modified to appear more nuanced. |
| June 22 2016 | Stein formally announced her presidential candidacy during a live interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! |
| June 19 2016 | On Juneteenth, Jill Stein publicly called for reparations for slavery, highlighting her stance on addressing structural racism in the United States. |
| 2015 | Stein criticized official employment numbers, arguing that unemployment figures were designed to hide the true unemployment rate, which she estimated was around 12-13%. |
| July 2015 | Jill Stein gave an interview criticizing NATO's policy towards Russia, advocating for a 'neutral Ukraine' and arguing that the US 'helped foment a coup' against a democratically-elected government. |
| February 2015 | Jill Stein announced her decision to form an exploratory committee to run for president in 2016 during the RT program 'Redacted Tonight' |
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