Jessica Prozinski

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama Please let’s defeat Smith

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama War is Peace. I like to read dystopian fiction, not live it

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

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 https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7. Volunteer and donate.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The Republican Party’s Doug Basler has just entered the race for Washington state’s ninth Congressional District, recently publicly declaring:

“With the entrance of the socialist candidate from Seattle, many of our local folks have approached me with the request that I run again for US Congress."

Sometimes politicians in both parties of the billionaires say the quiet part out loud. Basler has since quickly moved to delete this statement from his website. But the motivation of the establishment is still clear: to try to block our independent socialist campaign by any means necessary.

Basler and the Republican Party are clearly not running to try to defeat Democratic incumbent Adam Smith. Why would they, when Adam Smith has been such a dogged representative of the war profiteers, Zionist lobby, and the billionaire class? As one right-wing commenter remarked, “Smith sounds more like a Republican than a lot of Republicans.” For the Republican Party, this is not about defeating neoliberal warmonger Smith. No Republican has broken 30 percent of the vote against Smith in 15 years, including Basler himself, who has previously run against Smith many times.

But my revolutionary socialist campaign is enough of a threat to both the Republican and Democratic parties that they need strategies to try to stop us. My campaign is fighting to win free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich, for an end to all military aid to Israel and end all weapons and tech for imperialist war, to shut down ICE and the detention centers, and for national rent control. We have won tremendous support from working people, and have seven times as many donors as Adam Smith, with over $525,000 raised already.

It’s in this context that Basler has been recruited to the Republican ticket, and the two weaker Republican candidates who had previously entered the race have dropped out. This strategy conveniently leaves Basler, a high-profile Republican, in the race as the sole recipient of the GOP vote.

Both parties regularly collude to block working-class candidates by electoral maneuvers. In 2020, the Democratic leadership, led by Obama, worked to push several corporate Democrats out of the race in the run up to Super Tuesday while leaving Elizabeth Warren in to divide the vote with Bernie Sanders — a successful coup that put Joe Biden on top despite the total lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy.

This move to retain Basler as the lone Republican candidate is yet another reminder that both parties are determinedly united in keeping any working-class challenge out of Congress.

The billionaires are nervous because our campaign comes from the long track record of winning unheard-of working-class victories, from the nation’s highest minimum wage to the Amazon Tax to unprecedented renters’ rights. Both parties represent American imperialism and are united in their opposition to serious antiwar candidates.

This is why we need working people to get involved and strongly support our campaign. Let’s not fall for the political theater of Democratic and Republican parties posing as mortal enemies. They each want to win elections against each other. But they BOTH represent the ruling class and they are BOTH enemies of the working class. And they are in complete agreement on the priority of trying to block an independent socialist from getting into Congress.

We need to go all out to win this election. DONATE and VOLUNTEER for my campaign today at https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7.

Winning this election would be a historic step towards building a new party for the working class, and would deal a gigantic blow to Wall Street and both parties of war and genocide.

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

NEW: Guest writer and DSA organizer Patrick O'Neill discusses the immense power of working people and invites you to Cal Anderson at 12pm May 1!!!
https://t.co/6D2q5Xizos

[Matthew Meloy @matthew_meloy]

The photo in the article is of revolutionary socialist Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) who was on the Seattle City Council for ten years, from 2014 through 2023. She won unparalleled renters' rights victories, and she has fought relentlessly for rent control.

It's strange that Current Affairs would use Kshama's photo in an article supporting rent control and not even mention her name. Your readers and working people nationally would really benefit if you did an interview with her about her Congressional campaign against genocidal billionaire-backed Democrat Adam Smith.

Kshama fought for rent control free of corporate loopholes. All but one Democratic City Councilmembers voted against Kshama's legislation in 2023.

Despite the Democratic Party's opposition, Kshama used her office to organize an army of working people and won renters' rights like:
👉 A first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions
👉 A moratorium on school year evictions of children and public school workers
👉 A $10 cap on late rent fees
👉 Six months' notice for any rent increases
👉 Requiring landlords to pay three months of rent if they increase rents by 10+ percent
👉 Banning rent increases in units with housing code violations
👉 Funding for publicly-provided legal defense to prevent evictions

The movement of renters in Seattle led by Kshama's City Council office actively fought for residential AND commercial rent control to help struggling small businesses. Kshama’s office won the nation's strongest renters' bill of rights unmatched by any progressive Democrat or DSA elected. She also won the nation's highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax.

Join Kshama's independent socialist campaign for Congress. We are fighting for national rent control with a massive expansion of social housing funded by taxing the rich. https://t.co/F7LcgH8Yk9

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama We will be representing in Detroit! Stop by our table :)

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@NYCMayor Call a march to reinstall and guard the flag. Why just words? No

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama This race is of national significance and socialists in Michigan support you!

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama @JasmineForUS @anthonyzenkus What the heck is wrong with people!! Is my constant refrain. Thank you for staying TRUE

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@eyebright22 @cmkshama @Thom_Hartmann Yes. Truth.

[💚☮️ & Liberty 🗽✊🩺🌎🏘️ 💧🍉🌲🐝🐢🐸🐛 @eyebright22]

@cmkshama @Thom_Hartmann Time to take out the trash, war-monger Adam Smith. He's not acting in your best interest.

Kshama is the reason Washington has robust renter's rights and the highest minimum wage in the country.

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[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@SagadahocCounty @cmkshama @BeezusQuimby3 @Thom_Hartmann That is so sad

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@Beserker_Hippy @cmkshama @Thom_Hartmann Lack of understanding of the class nature of society :) you’re welcome

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@RichinMN @cmkshama @Thom_Hartmann Nasty

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama @Thom_Hartmann Jesus Christ if genocide is progressive, where do you go from there?? Absolutely repulsive

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@cmkshama I’m all in. This is the best plan I’ve heard to build working class power

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

@ProudSocialist Define “out of touch”

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

Kshama Sawant: Who's On Our Side https://t.co/81xpEtxhMA via @YouTube

@StephenKing do you support Kshama? Please don’t break my heart. My heroes usually do :(

[Jessica Prozinski @JessicaDammit]

Absolute epitome of speaking truth to power. If we get to our feet, we are unstoppable. Kshama Sawant: Who's On Our Side https://t.co/GAEFGk3thN via @YouTube