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[Eleanor Steinhagen @ElleSteinhagen]

🎯 If "the left" - including left media - were guided by what is best for the working class, the question of whether to support independent socialist @cmkshama, with her long track record of unparalleled wins for workers, would be an emphatic YES, no further discussion needed.

[🔻Opa @Oma_Opa_Love_U]

I so hope the people of Washington elect independent @cmkshama Kshama Sawant to congress.
We need at least one independent voice to loudly call out the status quo and war crimes and stand up for workers. She is a true independent leftist in a way that Bernie could never be.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The fact that prominent Democrats are eulogizing one of the most monstrous and bigoted mass murderers in the U.S. Congress tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party.

The Democratic and Republican parties are the two most powerful parties of global capitalism. Defeating Trump and the right wing will take militant mass movements with leaders who are clear that both these parties serve the warmongering billionaires and multimillionaires and that working people need a party of our own.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most loathsome warmongering anti-worker bigots in the halls of the U.S. Congress.

Graham was as vicious a proponent of imperialist war as they come. For decades, he was a hardened supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and its apartheid state. He effectively called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people, likened Palestinians to Nazi Germany, and urged that Israel “flatten” Gaza and the West Bank. He called for “regime change” in Iran and was an undying advocate of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He described American funding for the bloody inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”

Graham was virulently opposed to social democracy and socialism anywhere, and especially hated the planned economy in Cuba and social democratic reforms in Venezuela. He celebrated a possible return to capitalism in Cuba by saying “their days are numbered.” He called Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia “the drug caliphate.”

As working and poor people lost the ground from under their feet in the Covid pandemic, Graham used his position to speak out repeatedly against the bare minimum stimulus. Graham claimed that the relief package would encourage working people to be “lazy” and unemployed. It apparently gnawed at his insides that the Covid relief bill would pay the equivalent of over $24/hour in South Carolina versus the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, as the world's richest people doubled their fortunes and the incomes of billions of working people plummeted and over 160 million more people were forced into poverty.

Graham strenuously opposed abortion rights, introduced numerous anti-abortion bills, and voted for every bill he could to cut social assistance for working-class and poor families.

He was a staunch opponent of trans and queer rights. He voted for the horrendous Defense of Marriage Act (scandalously voted for by a majority of Democrats and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton), and called himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage.” He voted against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and co-sponsored the bill against trans women in sports.

So in summary, good fucking riddance to Lindsey Graham. Never forget the misery he helped create for hundreds of millions of people. Shame on Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden, who are eulogizing Lindsey Graham.

We need to build militant mass movements of the working class and build our own party to defeat the right wing, the billionaires, and both their parties.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Defeat AIPAC and the Zionists! Elect the socialist who beat the billionaires!

Vote for my campaign for Congress by August 4th.

Join thousands of working and young people nationwide who have donated or signed up to volunteer at https://t.co/gwAUd5Syg7!

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

“We were not there to help administer the capitalist state,” Kshama Sawant told Scroll, reflecting on her time as a city council member in Seattle.

https://t.co/esCy7tQndW

“Our task was to go and disrupt politics as usual and it is precisely that approach that allowed us to win what I think are unparalleled victories in our times.”

Prajwal Bhat reports

[Purity test enforcer 🇵🇸 @extra_beef_]

BJG just had this DSA guy on her podcast and he had a meltdown and walked off lmao. She wasn’t being confrontational at all.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

AIPAC and war profiteering corporations bankroll my main opponent, Adam Smith.

AIPAC was Smith's biggest campaign funder in 2024.

I'm calling for an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel, an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war, and an end to the brutal occupation. I’m fighting to slash the war budget and instead fund housing, education, social services, and infrastructure.

VOTE BY AUGUST 4th.

https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

@cenkuygur @RoKhanna I think Adam Smith flipped because @cmkshama is challenging him for his seat.

[John Smith @PuffyPufferson]

Why aren't you crediting Kshama Sawant, Cenk? You know damn well who she is. WTF?

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

It's glaringly obvious that @RepAdamSmith backed down because he's afraid of my antiwar socialist campaign & worried that his head could be the next to roll.

But rather than admit this, @cenkuygur praises genocidal AIPAC-bankrolled Adam Smith.

This is classic gatekeeper shit.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

BREAKING NEWS! My antiwar socialist campaign for Congress is proud to be endorsed by The Stranger newspaper!

The Stranger newspaper was described by The New York Times last December as "a progressive kingmaker." It has a readership of an estimated 400,000 people and is the most important endorsement in the Seattle area.

My campaign is fighting for an end to all military aid to Israel and for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. My main opponent is 29-year incumbent Adam Smith, a darling of AIPAC and the war profiteers.

There are only FIVE WEEKS left to go before the August 4th primary election!!

Help us deliver a blow to AIPAC and the pro-genocide Zionist lobby and elect the first-ever revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress. Donate and sign up to volunteer now! https://t.co/QZDWPA44EE

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Our campaign is proud to be endorsed by Chris Hedges!

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, author, and host of the online broadcast The Chris Hedges Report.

In his endorsement, Hedges says:

"I’ve admired and supported the revolutionary socialist Kshama Sawant since she was first elected in 2013 to the Seattle City Council. Her fierce commitment to the working class, her steadfast defiance of the billionaires who destroyed our democracy, and her anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist credentials have long made her a special target.

"The billionaire class has pumped millions of dollars into campaigns to defeat her and orchestrated a recall vote in 2021, which she fought and won.

"Her current campaign for Congress is part of our grassroots struggle to wrest power from the hands of the global ruling class. It is a campaign for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. It is a campaign to raise the minimum wage to at least $25 an hour. It is a campaign to block landlords from extorting massive rents and evicting families. It is a campaign to drive politicians like Adam Smith, a tool of big business who is funded by and subservient to the Israel lobby, from Congress.

"In an age when we stand on the cusp of fascism, we cannot rely on the Democratic Party, whose betrayal of the working class and subservience to the rich gave us Trump.

"We need a political earthquake. We need a revolution. But it won’t happen until we stand with revolutionaries like Kshama."

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Revolutionary socialist Congressional candidate Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) explains why in order to defeat capitalist exploitation of workers and imperialism, we need leaders who are willing to challenge both the Democratic and Republican parties.

My full interview with Kshama is available at The Chris Hedges YouTube channel (link below).

[TaniaSaidWhat @TaniaSaidWhat]

My litmus test for democratic socialists is whether they endorse and support @cmkshama’s congressional campaign in Seattle.

[Joanna Berry @JoannaRuthBerry]

This is a great interview by @ChrisLynnHedges of @cmkshama about fighting the American corporate duopoly.

https://t.co/JMSKdNlzjm

[DavidSaysStuff_ @davidsaysstuff_]

So Rep. Adam Smith (@RepAdamSmith) is trying to BOTH-SIDES #AIPAC by pretending there's a #Hamas lobby spending millions on #American elections is one of the dumbest defenses of corruption I've ever heard 👉 I endorse Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) @TrackAIPAC

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Up, up with the workers!
Down, down with the bosses!

My Congressional campaign & I marched this morning with Seattle Embassy Suites hotel workers ON STRIKE!

The workers, members of @UniteHereLocal8, demand year-round healthcare, fair raises, and pre-pandemic staffing levels.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Our Congressional campaign is proud to be endorsed by Peter Campbell, who is a Teamster and a rank-and-file member of the Transit Riders Union.

Join Peter and thousands of others who have donated or signed up to volunteer with the only consistently pro-worker, antiwar campaign in this race!

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I joined the workers at The Walrus and the Carpenter restaurant in Ballard in North Seattle yesterday at their STRIKE PICKET!

The workers are unionized in the United Creatures of the Sea (UCS). They are the cooks, servers, and bartenders of the restaurant. They are the workers who produce the profits for the owners, including Renee Erickson, who is one of the most prominent Seattle restaurant owners and owns a mini-empire of restaurants.

The workers have said that they have suffered reduced hours, lost income, diminished benefits and ongoing instability, and they are demanding that the bosses give their union a contract with fair wages and benefits.

It was by workers getting organized and fighting back that we won the $15 an hour minimum wage, led by the 15 NOW movement I launched when I was the revolutionary socialist on the Seattle City Council.

When we were fighting for 15, we had a parade of wealthy business owners claiming that they couldn't pay their workers what could be even remotely described as fair wages. Working people and my office fought back and they exposed these business owners for what they were, bosses profiting from the labor of their employees.

We need nationwide movements of working people against workplace exploitation, war and genocide, ICE terror, the data centers and IA layoffs, and the climate crisis. All of this requires a fight against the billionaires and the multimillionaires. That’s why I am running for Congress. Join us at https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7.