All of the answers posted here were instrumental in finding the final code that works. Thank you all! The code that works with the python-twitter
library is below.
from twitter import Twitter, OAuth
# my actual keys are here
OAUTH_TOKEN = ""
OAUTH_SECRET = ""
CONSUMER_KEY = ""
CONSUMER_SECRET = ""
t = Twitter(auth=OAuth(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET,
CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET))
result = t.statuses.retweet(id=444320020122722304)
print(result)