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Trump's horrific escalation against Iran this weekend is a continuation of the bipartisan policy of U.S. imperialism, including years of vicious sanctions that have ravaged the standard of living for working-class Iranians. Like with his strike on Venezuela, Democratic politicians like my opponent Adam Smith are tut-tutting Trump for not seeking proper "Congressional authorization," all while utterly failing to oppose what is quickly unfolding into a dangerous regional war in the Middle East: youtu.be/qZiL9UIO56Y?si=W6rX…
The reality is that both parties want a war to weaken Iran. Democrats like Adam Smith fully backed the war on Iraq, just as they have fully armed and funded the Israeli state's genocide in Gaza.
We need an international, working class antiwar movement, with organized mass civil disobedience and rank-and-file union members organizing towards a general strike to shut down the U.S. war machine. Unfortunately, most of the labor leadership is deeply tied to the same Democratic party which is responsible for these bloody wars. The left and labor movement need independent, class struggle leadership.
Watch the full episode on Worker Strike Back's YouTube broadcast, On Strike, and get involved with my Congressional campaign to end the wars, shut down ICE, and end all U.S. military aid to Israel!
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This morning, the Israeli state revoked my travel authorization. They've banned me from visiting the illegally occupied West Bank.
It’s clear that Israel does not want someone with a track record of fighting for Palestinian liberation to be in the West Bank exposing the horrific crimes being carried out every day by violent Israeli settlers with the full support of the Israeli military.
Watch the @OnStrikeShow episode to find out more.
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SEATTLE 🐠
K S H A M A S A W A N T
must be elected 🗳️ At All Costs
Rallying with @cmkshama at Pratt Park in Seattle
This is the most important race in the country, no question about it
FYI Seattle has the highest minimum wage in the country because of Kshama’s willingness to use her office to fight for the people
kshamasawant.org
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ICYMI: Amazon workers started their public testimony for Seattle's data center moratorium with a reminder that their bosses cannot retaliate against them. The next day, the company pulled 3 workers into “really threatening” interrogations.
theburnerseattle.com/post/am…
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Solidarity with Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand, all of whom are tech workers at Amazon and members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, @AMZNforClimate.
These courageous workers spoke at Seattle City Hall during our recent speakout about the urgent need to stop the AI data center juggernaut.
Now, the Amazon bosses are "investigating" the workers and are threatening "disciplinary action, up to and including termination" against them. This is shameful but predictable. The billionaire and multimillionaire bosses will retaliate against workers fighting back. The only way to defend ourselves is to build powerful movements to go on the offensive and win working-class victories.
My Congressional campaign strongly supports the legal complaint the workers have filed with the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, alleging that Amazon executives have engaged in prohibited employment discrimination. All working people and union members should stand in solidarity with the workers to defend their jobs.
The fight to stop the AI data centers, the mass tech layoffs, war and genocide, climate catastrophe, and worker exploitation has a common denominator: we need independent movements with leaders who have the backbone to take on the billionaire class and their political spokespeople.
Join my campaign at kshamasawant.org.
My campaign is fighting to stop the AI data centers and mass layoffs, to win a public-sector living-wage jobs guarantee, to end all military aid to Israel and end all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war, to win free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich, and to shut down ICE and the detention centers.
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Yesterday, I spoke out against data centers and AI layoffs at the Seattle City Council.
Under mass pressure, the City Council passed a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. This is a victory for working people, but one year is far from enough.
My independent socialist campaign for Congress is the only one in this election fighting for an end to hyperscale data centers, for democratic public ownership of all existing data centers, and for a public-sector living wage jobs guarantee, funded by taxing the rich, to counter the AI-related mass layoffs.
#datacenter #socialist #independent #ai #freepalestine
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AI is now a central component of genocide & war, ICE terror, the surveillance state, mass layoffs, & climate crisis because AI is the new frontier for super-profits for the super-rich.
They will absolutely not stop the AI juggernaut unless threatened by a powerful nationwide movement with leaders who have a backbone to go up against billionaires and the proven strategy to win for working people.
Yesterday, I spoke out against data centers and AI layoffs at the Seattle City Council.
Under mass pressure, the City Council passed a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. This is a victory for working people, but one year is far from enough.
My independent socialist campaign for Congress is the only one in this election fighting for an end to hyperscale data centers, for democratic public ownership of all existing data centers, and for a public-sector living wage jobs guarantee, funded by taxing the rich, to counter the AI-related mass layoffs.
#datacenter #socialist #independent #ai #freepalestine
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🔥Live Now🔥
With Kshama Sawant
youtube.com/watch?v=i3LYWgaU…
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Fecking elect her.
And when they come for her, defend her - for they will most assuredly come for you and your beloved family next!
I'm running as an independent revolutionary socialist because we desperately need a working-class FIGHTER in Congress.
My main opponent, Democrat Adam Smith, just introduced a bill to fund OVER A TRILLION NEW DOLLARS for imperialist war. Concretely, that's a trillion more dollars for the billionaires to profit from killing thousands of more people in the Middle East.
The bill also includes a Section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.”
If this goes through, it will fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries such that Israel weapons funding would not even need any separate votes in Congress. Smith has introduced this bill in the context of the holocaust of the 21st century in Gaza and of the brutal wars on Lebanon and Iran.
Of course, Congressional votes are far from a guarantee against war for the simple reason that the Democratic and Republican parties are both warmongering representatives of U.S. capitalism. It was not long ago that 173 House Democrats, including 56 members of the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus, voted for over $26B for the genocide in Gaza and to ban United Nations food assistance from Gaza.
Nonetheless, we should recognize that even at this stage, this bill presents a serious danger to working people in America, in the Middle East, and internationally.
The bill is horrific in ever sense. A trillion more dollars for war means more deaths of ordinary people and more profits for the global super-wealthy. On top of that, fusing the U.S. and Israeli military budgets would lead to far less transparency when already there is exceedingly little at present.
Even if this particular bill fails, there are at least THREE other similar bills in the pipeline. The capitalist class and both its parties are ruthlessly determined to do this.
Why?
Because they can see that American mass consciousness has dramatically shifted against Israel in particular, and against imperialist war in general. The Democrats and Republicans want to quickly get this done so so they can try to better hide their genocidal actions going forward.
I am using my campaign to fight against genocidal Democratic Congressman Adam Smith.
I am the only candidate in this race who is calling for an end to all military aid to the Israeli state, an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war, and to stop data centers and AI-related mass layoffs.
I am the only candidate in this race fighting for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich and a living-wage jobs guarantee. I am the only candidate in this race with a track record of defeating the billionaires and multimillionaires and winning historic victories for working people.
Join our campaign at kshamasawant.org. Volunteer and donate.
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Join my campaign on Sunday, June 7th, at 4 pm for our town hall to Stop the Data Centers and AI Layoffs!
RSVP: kshamasawant.org/events/412/
Where 👉 Sullivan Center
14350 Tukwila International Blvd
Tukwila, WA, 98168
I am the only candidate in this race fighting to stop the damaging data center projects that are being forced on communities, and fighting for a living-wage jobs guarantee to counter the mass AI-related layoffs.
Winning any of these kinds of demands will require a strategy and bold leadership to defeat Big Tech billionaires and their Democratic and Republican political servants.
I am the only candidate in this race with a proven track record of leading movements to defeat the billionaires and win major victories for working people. I used my Seattle City Council position to build movements that won the highest minimum wage in the nation, the Amazon Tax, landmark renters' rights, and much more during my decade in office.
Come out to my campaign's Town Hall to discuss the urgent need to fight back against the hyperscale data centers being proposed across the country. These facilities are extremely damaging to the environment, and use massive quantities of water and energy, which drives up utility costs for working people. At our event, you'll hear about how members of my organization, Workers Strike Back, participated in a movement in Illinois that defeated a proposal for a 321-acre hyperscale data center!
RSVP for in person or livestream: kshamasawant.org/events/412
Where 👉 Sullivan Center, 14350 Tukwila International Blvd Tukwila, WA, 98168
#independent #socialist #datacenters #layoffs #ai #bigtech
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I stand in solidarity with the family and friends of UW 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 specific 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.
We need to build mass movements of working people to fight back against the right-wing, anti-trans attacks being advanced around the country.
Working people also need to set our sights beyond defending against attacks. We need to fight for major victories for LGBTQ+ people. Working people are being squeezed on every front trying to afford housing, healthcare, and food. Trans people face violence and discrimination in work and housing that make all those issues even worse.
This is why my independent revolutionary socialist campaign for Congress is demanding:
👉Stop the advance of anti-trans bills, and go on the offensive to fight for full LGBTQ+ rights
👉Free healthcare for all, including full access to all gender affirming and reproductive care and LGBTQ+ counseling services, funded by taxing the rich
👉Living-wage jobs guarantee and the right for all workers to unionize
👉National rent control to stop the price-gouging by corporate landlords, which forces LGBTQ+ and all working people out of their communities
👉Create millions of affordable homes, including free emergency housing for trans and queer people fleeing abuse, funded by taxing the billionaires
👉End all military aid to Israel and cut the trillion-dollar war budget to fund housing, education, and other social services
The fight for LGBTQ+ people goes hand in hand with the fight to win historic change for all working people. Discrimination, oppression, and violence are endemic to capitalism because in order to squeeze billions of people for profit, the billionaires and multimillionaires need to keep the working class divided in many ways. We need to get united as the working class against the attempts of the right wing and billionaire class to divide us in order to keep exploiting us.
I am endorsing the No Hate in Washington State campaign, which is calling for a NO vote on two proposed appalling anti-trans ballot measures that threaten the rights of all children.
If passed, IL26-001 would deny basic protections for child abuse victims and IL26-628 would subject girls to invasive genital exams to play sports.
kshamasawant.org/fight-for-t…
It is absolutely crucial that working people and the labor movement ensure these measures are defeated by Washington State voters.
The working class needs to stand in solidarity against every form of oppression as well as economic exploitation under the capitalist system.
My organization, Workers Strike Back, has also endorsed the campaign.
Both Workers Strike Back and my revolutionary socialist campaign for the U.S. Congress will be doing everything we can to support the No Hate campaign.
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Our campaign is proud to be endorsed by rank-and-file workers like grocery worker and UFCW 3000 member Oscar Haney (personal capacity)! Join thousands of others like Oscar who have signed up to volunteer or donate to our campaign!
“Kshama has an unparalleled track record of fighting alongside the rank-and-file of the labor movement. She relentlessly defended members of my union, UFCW 3000, against attacks on COVID Hazard Pay. Both the grocery store executives and the Democrats on the City Council tried repeatedly to end Hazard Pay, while Councilmember Sawant was fighting to make it permanent in the context of historic inflation. Kshama Sawant has been the most consistently pro-union elected representative in the country.
Electing Kshama to Congress would be a massive win for workers across the country. She has shown how to take on the bosses and the billionaires and defeat them.”
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The nation's most well-known political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, has endorsed our revolutionary socialist campaign from prison:
"When was the last time you heard a politician make a promise to you? When did they keep it?
"Politicians of Democratic and/or Republican stripe are beholden to capital. The bigger and vital the issue, the higher they are beholden! We know this. We've lived this. Right?
"Kshama doesn't come from that rat-pack! She's running on the Revolutionary Workers party's socialist program.
"Given her proud political background and experience as a three-term elected socialist to Seattle's City Council, she more than deserves to be elected as the nation's first revolutionary socialist in Congress.
"Kshama Sawant for Congress!"
Mumia Abu-Jamal, revolutionary and former Black Panther, has been imprisoned for 44 years on false charges brought by the capitalist state against him as part of the overall wave of repressive and murderous attacks on the Black Panthers.
Amnesty International described the handling of Mumia’s case as, “in violation of minimum international standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death penalty.” Mumia has battled the courts for years and written numerous books about the mass incarceration system, racism, U.S. imperialism, and his experience as a Black Panther.
Mumia has always maintained his complete innocence in the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. Mumia’s attorneys have said repeatedly that evidence shows his trial was scandalously rife with judicial bias and police and prosecutorial misconduct, “like withholding of evidence, bribing or coercing witnesses to lie.”
My campaign demands FREE MUMIA!
I’m calling to end mass incarceration, shut down private prisons, stop forced and exploitative prison labor, end racist policing, and put police departments under the control of democratically-elected community boards with full power over department policy, hiring, and firing.
JOIN MUMIA IN BUILDING THE CAMPAIGN TO ELECT THE FIRST-EVER REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST TO CONGRESS!
Donate and volunteer today!
kshamasawant.org
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My main opponent. Democrat Adam Smith, has been a warmongering politician for nearly three decades. He voted for the Iraq War in 2002, a multi-year war that took the lives of a million Iraqi people. He also supported bipartisan military assaults on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. He voted for tens of billions of dollars for the genocide in Gaza.
The shameful reality is that Smith is is not the only warmongering Democrat — 173 House Democrats have voted to fund the Gaza genocide, including many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Electing more Democrats preparing to be team players who maintain the status quo is not going to help build an antiwar movement that can end the genocide, the war on Iran, and the U.S.-funded Israeli assault on Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq.
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The Fight for Puerto Rican Independence!
Sat, May 16, at 6 pm PT
In person or over livestream
RSVP: kshamasawant.org/events/413/
👉The right of Puerto Rican people to self-determination,
👉Cancel the debt - make Wall Street pay,
👉Abolish tax haven laws for the rich,
👉Free healthcare for all, including in Puerto Rico, funded by taxing the rich.
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If you can, please donate generously to Kshama Sawant's (@cmkshama) Independent Socialist run for the 9th US Congressional District in Washington State. We need her in Washington DC fighting for the working class.
FUND HEALTHCARE, NOT WAR!
Our revolutionary socialist antiwar campaign for Congress raised $6,000 from working people within the first 24 hours since we announced that we're on the ballot for the August primary.
Build the momentum! Help us raise $75,000 this May!
Donate here: kshamasawant.org/donate/
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Kshama Sawant joins Salaxley TV to discuss her campaign for U.S. Congress. Her bold proposal:
🗣️ “What we need is to socialize the top 500 corporations in the USA, to make life better.
Watch the full interview to hear her case for worker control, rent control, and a socialist alternative to the two-party system.
youtu.be/ZevkGMGUVss?si=tdJX…
#KshamaSawant #SocializeTop500 #SalaxleyTV #Congress2026 #SocialistAlternative #BreakUpMonopolies #WorkingClassPower
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In this powerful interview with Salaxley TV, socialist activist and candidate for Congress Kshama Sawant doesn’t hold back. She explains why breaking up corporate power and democratizing the largest 500 companies is essential for working people.
“What we need is to socialize the top 500 corporations"
@cmkshama #salaxleytv
#KshamaSawant #SocializeTop500 #SalaxleyTV #Congress2026 #SocialistAlternative #CorporationsOutOfPolitics #EconomicDemocracy Kshama Sawant Councilmember Kshama Sawant
@followers @highlight Salaxley Tv
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Thank you to everyone who came out to our April Volunteer Day! We tabled throughout south Seattle talking to working people about how our campaign is fighting to tax the rich to fund free healthcare and against the endless wars of the Democratic and Republican parties.
My opponent, pro-war pro-genocide Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, is funded by pro-Trump billionaires and has received over $1.3 million from AIPAC and other pro-genocide Zionist groups during his career.
Our next Volunteer Day is on Saturday, May 2nd at 11:00am. Join us for the final push to collect signatures to get on the ballot, and then come out on Monday, May 4th for a press conference to turn them in and launch the next phase of our campaign! Sign up for these and other events on our website: kshamasawant.org/events/
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I am running as an independent antiwar socialist for the U.S. Congress against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith.
Join my campaign at our VOLUNTEER DAY!
TOMORROW, SATURDAY
April 18th at 11 AM in Seattle
At the east entrance to the Judkins Park light rail station:
RSVP: kshamasawant.org/events/357/
Join us to talk to hundreds of working people about what it will take to elect the first-ever revolutionary socialist to US Congress!
I was on the Seattle City Council for a decade. Because I used my office to build fighting movements and NOT to build my own career, working people and I won historic victories such as the nation's highest minimum wage and unparalleled renter protections like a $10 cap on late rent fees and a winter eviction moratorium. We defeated Jeff Bezos and other billionaires to win the Amazon Tax to fund affordable housing.
I won four elections, including defeating a attempted recall against my by Trump-supporting corporate landlords.
Winning this election to Congress will require working people to get involved in our campaign. My opponent, Adam Smith, is backed by war profiteers like billionaire Alexander Karp, the Zionist lobby, and the health insurance industry. Corporate cash will be pouring for Adam Smith, and we need a working-class volunteer army to fight back.