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A complaint filed against SenatorBernie Sanders by a Hillary Clinton super PAC during the 2016 Democratic primary campaign was dismissed by the Federal Election Commission (FEC)last month. Filed last April, the commissions decision, published Fridayby Politico, was putinto the public record onlyin recent days.

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The complaint alleged that Sanders, an independent, and his campaign treasurer, Susan Jackson, accepted excessive contributions. Under Title 52 of federal campaign finance rules, no individual can make a contribution to a candidate in excess of $2,700.

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The FECsdecision was addressed to Brad Woodhouse, founder of the American Democracy Legal Fund and president of the pro-Clinton super PAC Correct the Record. Both the ADLF and the super PAC were founded by prominent Clinton supporter and Media Matters founder David Brock.

On April 20, 2017, the Federal Election Commission reviewed the allegations in your complaint received on April 8, 2016, and on the basis of the information provided in your complaint, and information provided by Bernie 2016 and Susan Jackson in her official capacity as treasurer, the Commission voted to dismiss the allegation that the Committee violated 52 U.S.C. 30116(f), read the letter detailing the dismissal of the complaint.

Bernie Sanders speaks to Hillary Clinton as they discuss issues during the Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, on February 4, 2016. Mike Segar/Reuters

The complaint, along with two others, was reported at the time by MSNBC. Afterward, Sanderss campaign angrily dismissed the allegations.

Just one day after the Clinton campaign said we needed to change our tone, the leaders of their coordinated super PAC, which is funded by millions from Wall Street, filed baseless and frivolous complaints with the FEC, Sanders Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver said at the end of March 2016. Tells you all you need to know.

Clinton went on to defeat Sanders in what became an increasingly intense and rancorous battle to be the Democratic nominee. But after Clintons defeat to Donald Trump in the election, Brock has changed his tone, claiming that he wants to join Sanderss continuing progressive-politics battle and apologizing for some of his actions during the campaign.

Im with you in the fight ahead, Brock wrote in January in anopen letterto Sanders, posted on Medium.

He added: At times during the Democratic primary, I was criticized for being too aggressive in my support for Secretary Clintonand rightly so. Looking back, I recognize that there were a few moments when my drive to put Hillary in the White House led me to take too stiff a jab. I own up to that, I regret it, and I apologize to you and your supporters for it.

Despite the primarys conclusionalmost a year ago,ill feelingremains. A lawsuit accusing the Democratic National Committee of fraud, deceptive conduct and negligent misrepresentation over its alleged favoring of Clinton over Sanders is ongoing.

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Hollywood director Spike Lee told the Hollywood Reporter Hillary Clinton thought she was entitled to the presidency and didnt work for it. Lee mentioned a book, "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," and one of the co-authors, Jonathan Allen, believes Lee is spot on.

It was absolutely something she believed going into the stretch that she should have been doing better against Donald Trump and she believed on Election Day that she was going to win, Allen said on the FOX Business Networks Varney & Co.

Allen says Clinton was so confidentthat she went over her victory speech early on election night, but never practiced her concession until much later.

The book's authors argue Clinton focused too much on raising money in places like Martha's Vineyard, instead of doing the legwork of traveling the country and speaking to voters.

Amie Parnes, my co-author and I report in our book about how she spent some time at Sag Harbor with Jimmy Buffett and Paul McCartney when she was raising money in August," Allen said. "Sort of making fun of her for not being on the campaign trail, when [Trump] was, she was out raising money, he was out there talking to voters. I think in part in parcel what Spike Lee was talking about.

He also said there were consequences to giving Clinton a reality check.

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She surrounds herself with people who have difficulty telling her shes doing something wrong, he said citing an example from his book were she goes off on her favorite aide. They are doing a debate prep session and shes just lost the Michigan primary and hes correcting her and saying look you might want to try this a different way, thats not quite working and she lashes out at him and says you know what, why dont you try it, and she makes him for 30 minutes play her in the debate prep.

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Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonClinton: I dont die despite the rights best efforts Clinton: Comey firing is an effort to derail and bury Russia probe RNC slams Clinton speech as example of 'why she lost' MORE has established a new organization called Onward Together that will provide support to groups, causes and candidates to oppose President Trump and the far-right agency of Republicans in Congress. Clinton's new organization is registered as a 501(c)(4) under the Internal Revenue Service rules, which allows it to receive donations and use the money to support progressive groups and candidates in the 2018 and 2020 elections and beyond.

Onward Together could set the stage for a Clinton presidential campaign in 2020, as pro-Clinton groups established before the 2016 campaign ultimately morphed into her formal campaign. Or, it could become a potent force supporting another nominee by mobilizing a significant number of former Clinton aides, staff, donors and political operatives to raise a war chest and create an organizational powerhouse that goes after Trump and Republicans in Congress, beginning with the 2018 midterms.

Clinton's major new group is a positive development, for the same reasons that I have strongly supported Our Revolution, the Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's 12:30 Report Five takeaways from the Montana special election Hillary Clinton targets troubled Trump, divided GOP with new PAC MORE-affiliated group that is doing so much to promote progressive values, causes and candidates.

The 2018 campaign has already begun. Trump and Republicans in Congress are pushing hard for a horrifically unpopular healthcare bill that would be a disaster for millions of Americans and lead to 23 million citizens losing their insurance plans. They are imposing cruel pain on the poor by seeking aggressive cuts to important and popular programs Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, SNAP while they push hard for big tax cuts benefiting the wealthiest Americans.

Clinton and Sanders' respective organizations Onward Together and Our Revolution have growing memberships to mobilize resources, promote citizen involvement and civic action and inspire and support new progressive candidates.

Hillary Clinton should smile at the thought that the many individuals and organizations that her group is going to support will inspire citizens to attend town meetings of Republicans in Congress and ask the tough and embarrassing questions about their cruel and damaging proposals! It is exciting and refreshing to watch the resistance to Trump rising from citizens who fervently believe in a higher standard of government and politics in Washington and state capitals.

As Republican scandals proliferate and citizens learn about the damage and dangers of far-right proposals, the opposition grows, the resistance rises, the people mobilize and change is coming.

The Republicans wanted a one-party Washington where they control the presidency, the House and the Senate. Now they have it and must take the responsibility for it. All Democratic candidates represent the party of change and all Republican candidates represent the party of the Donald TrumpDonald TrumpMajor golf tournament opens at Trump National Golf Club in Va. Pence to Navy grads: Trump 'will always have your back' Do we want healthcare or health insurance? MORE Republican status quo.

Hillary Clinton has created Onward Together which brings powerful reinforcements to the resistance.

Brent Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), then-chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He can be read on The Hills Contributors blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.

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Some news organizations have beefed up their ranks with conservative voices since the 2016 presidential election, a response Hillary Clinton said is misguided.

The cable networks seem to me to be folding into a posture of, Oh, we want to try to get some of those people on the right, so maybe we better be more, quote, evenhanded, Clinton said in an interview with New York magazinepublished Friday.

Author Rebecca Traister described how Clintons brow furrows upon mention of climate changes skepticsBret Stephens and George Willrecently joining The New York Times and MSNBC, respectively.

Whywouldyoudothat? Sixty-six million people voted for me, plus, you know, the crazy third-party people, said Clinton, who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. So theres a lot of people who would actually appreciate stronger arguments on behalf of the most existential challenges facing our country and the world, climate change being one of them! Its clearly a commercial decision. But I dont think it will work. I mean, theyre laughing on the right at these puny efforts to try to appease people on the right.

Clinton also jabbed at The New York Times for recently launching a feature encouraging people toSay Something Niceabout President Donald Trump:I never saw them do that for me.

Looking back on the 2016 race, Clinton said she underestimated the impact of WikiLeaks publishing unflattering emails from members of the Democratic Party. The U.S. intelligence community has since concluded that Russian hackers stole the messages.

Emails dripped out daily in October in a fashion that wasinnocuous, boring, inconsequential, Clinton said yet people played like it was some breathless flash. She said conservative media outlets amplified the contents of the emails, but added that the mainstream pressplayed its own role in giving the documents outsize attention.

Look, we have an advocacy press on the right that has done a really good job for the last 25 years, Clinton said.They have a mission. They use the rights given to them under the First Amendment to advocate a set of policies that are in their interests, their commercial, corporate, religious interests. Because the advocacy media occupies the right, and the center needs to be focused on providing as accurate information as possible. Not both-sides-ism and not false equivalency.

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