Our campaign was by far the strongest ever by an openly Marxist candidate for the U.S. Congress.

We’ve so far won a historic 16.9 percent of the vote in a five-way race, in Washington’s sprawling Ninth Congressional District, which spans suburban areas with a significant proportion of Republican voters in addition to large parts of the major urban areas of Seattle and Bellevue.  

We ran on electrifying demands like free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich, ending all military aid to Israel and a permanent arms embargo on Israel, and national rent control. All of these are extremely popular among the working class in this district and nationally. 

We achieved this result despite the many obstacles we faced.

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This week, the House Ways and Means Committee, in conjunction with Trump officials, have subpoenaed The Peoples Forum, BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research for financial records, internal communications, and organizational records. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), CODEPINK, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the Venceremos Brigade, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace are also … Read more →

I am proud to endorse my fellow independent candidates Andre Easton, and Justin Filip, who are also running for Congress this year. 

Like my campaign, both candidates are clearly opposing the apartheid state of Israel, campaigning to end the genocide in Gaza, and calling for an end to all military aid to Israel. Both are calling for universal public healthcare and taxes on the rich. 

Most importantly, they are running independent of the two most powerful parties of global capitalism: the warmongering billionaire-backed Democratic and Republican parties.

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Today is Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of the Civil War and the smashing of slavery, one of the most brutally oppressive systems the world has ever known. American capitalism was built on the exploitation of enslaved Black people and the genocide of indigenous peoples. The horrors of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and the ongoing exploitation of Black working people have provided unimaginable wealth for a tiny elite, while impoverishing generations of Black Americans and their communities.

The end of slavery was not won by the voices of “moderation,” who at the time argued for a kinder, gentler form of slavery and for a process of gradual change, and who derided abolitionists as divisive and uncouth people. This victory did not belong to those who attached themselves to the two parties of American capitalism, at that time the Whig Party and the Democratic Party, both of which defended the system of slavery. It did not belong to the Uncle Toms of the day. Instead, it belonged to the Black, brown and white troops who courageously fought and defeated the slave-owning class on the battlefields. And yes, it was a multi-racial struggle that succeeded in crushing the white slaveholders.

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I stand in solidarity with the at least 300 detainees who are on a courageous labor and hunger strike at the notorious immigrant detention center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey! I also stand with the anti-ICE protestors in solidarity with the detainees and who are facing off against the full weight of ICE, the NJ state police, and the Democratic Party politicians who run the state. Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill sent in cops in riot gear and on horseback who teargassed the protesters.

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Solidarity With Everyone Mourning the Loss of Juniper Blessing

I stand in solidarity with the family and friends of University of Washington student Juniper Blessing. Condolences to all those mourning the loss of Juniper, who was brutally murdered recently in Seattle, while simply doing laundry. While the killer’s motivations remain unclear,  this horrific act of violence is still another reminder of the dangerous reality facing LGBTQ+ people everywhere, even in a supposed sanctuary city like Seattle. It needs to serve as a call to action to renewedly fight for justice for all our trans and queer siblings.

We need to build mass movements of working people to fight back against the right-wing, anti-trans attacks, and to defeat the anti-trans bills being advanced around the country.

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Yesterday a Super PAC called “Movement for Kshama” announced that they are gathering signatures “to get Kshama on the ballot.”

By law, Super PACS are not allowed to coordinate with elections campaigns, nor are they allowed to make in-kind contributions. For this reason, the gathering of ballot signatures by a Super PAC, and the submission of any of those signatures, creates a serious legal risk for our campaign.

This irresponsible decision by the leaders of this Super PAC forces us to clarify some things publicly: the Kshama for Congress campaign did not ask this Super PAC to gather ballot signatures; our campaign has not coordinated with them regarding this or any other activity; our campaign will not accept contributions from this or any other Super PAC.

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