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The Bernie Sanders’ campaign is truly running a political revolution. That can mean many things, but the fact is there has not been such a successful anti-establishment candidate running within the Democratic party in recent memory.

Sanders’ refusal to accept big money donations, instead relying on millions of small donations; his candidness in debates and dislike of the political vitriol so common to the GOP side; his career-long and staunch commitments to issues of social justice, like the now famous photo of him protesting segregation and being arrested on the South Side of Chicago—each of these aspects of the Sanders campaign is more energizing than the next and despite a recent upset in the South Carolina primary, he is disrupting the status quo unlike any politician before him has managed to.

On Sunday morning, the day after Hillary Clinton took South Carolina, Sanders received his highest-strata congressional endorsement yet.

In an email to her staff obtained by Politico, Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard both announced her resignation as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and officially backed Sanders in his presidential bid.

“I have taken my responsibilities as an officer of the DNC seriously, and respected the need to stay neutral in our primaries. However, after much thought and consideration, I’ve decided I cannot remain neutral and sit on the sidelines any longer,” Gabbard wrote.

“There is a clear contrast between our two candidates with regard to my strong belief that we must end the interventionist, regime change policies that have cost us so much. This is not just another ‘issue.’ This is THE issue, and it’s deeply personal to me. This is why I’ve decided to resign as Vice Chair of the DNC so that I can support Bernie Sanders in his efforts to earn the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race,” the email concluded.

Gabbard made the announcement on NBC’s Meet the Press hosted by Chuck Todd on Sunday morning, where she elaborated that her history as a soldier and veteran of the Gulf War compelled her to back Sanders and his even temperament on foreign intervention, especially when compared to Hillary Clinton.

“As a veteran and as a soldier I’ve seen firsthand the true cost of war. I served in a medical unit during my first deployment, where every single day I saw firsthand the very high human cost of that war,” Gabbard told Todd.

"I think it’s most important for us, as we look at our choices as to who our next commander in chief will be, is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, exercises good judgment, who looks beyond the consequences, looks at the consequences of the actions they’re looking to take, before they take those actions, so we don’t continue to find ourselves in these failures that have resulted in chaos in the Middle East and so much loss of life.”

Hillary Clinton not only pushed the invasion of Iraq while in the Senate but she advocated for intervention in Libya while Secretary of State, two painful blunders that have cost thousands of lives, both of US soldiers and foreign civilians.

The imprecise nature of Clinton foreign policy should be of concern to all who tout her “experience” in justification for backing her.

The Democratic establishment, especially the DNC, has all but shunned Bernie Sanders, shying away from real policy discussion and instead relying on large donor backing. Gabbard’s split with the DNC in favor of Sanders may yet prove a catalyst for his campaign. Other Congressional backers of Sanders include Arizona Representative Raúl Grijalva, Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Peter Welch of Vermont.

While Representative Gabbard's anti-interventionist policies seem progressive on their face, she has been accused of Islamophobia, even criticizing President Obama's refusal to directly associate ISIS with the Islamic faith. The source of these sentiments is likely Gabbard's ties to the Hindu nationalist Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), historically an anti-Muslim organization. Gabbard is Hindu as well as the first Somoan-American elected to the US Congress.

In a statement Sanders praised Gabbard’s foreign policy levelheadedness and leadership.

“Congresswoman Gabbard is one of the important voices of a new generation of leaders,” Sanders said, adding that “As a veteran of the Iraq War she understands the cost of war and is fighting to create a foreign policy that not only protects America but keeps us out of perpetual wars that we should not be in.”