




Kshama Sawant
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@cmkshama
Socialist who won nation's highest minimum wage • Running for Congress to end all military aid to Israel • Help us defeat AIPAC-bankrolled Democrat Adam Smith






Money taken by WA Democratic House and Senate members from pro-Israel lobby groups: Rep. Adam Smith $500,000 Sen. Patty Murray $680,000 Sen. Maria Cantwell $560,000 Rep. Kim Shrier $288,000 Rep. Marilyn Strickland $283,000 Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez $240,000 Rep. Suzan Del Bene $203,000 Rep. Dan Newhouse $147,000 Rep. Rick Larsen $106,000 Rep. Emily Randall $25,000 Rep. Michael Baumgartner $10,000

Why in the hell are we merging our military with Israel?

Our antiwar socialist campaign for Congress has been out in force all across Washington state's Congressional District 9 talking to tens of thousands of voters and community members. Sign up to volunteer! Help us GET OUT THE VOTE before the August 4th primary election! kshamasawant.org/events/ This past week and weekend, our campaign could be found at ➡️Central District Block Party at Byrd Barr Place ➡️BUILD 206 Block Party ➡️Green River Farm Stand ➡️Federal Way Farmers Market ➡️SeaTac Farmer’s Market ➡️Music at Angle Lake Park ➡️Federal Way Summer Sounds at Steel Lake Park ➡️Des Moines Farmers Market ➡️Kent Cornucopia Days ➡️Kent Music at Morrill Meadows Park ➡️Auburn Farmers Market ➡️Several senior homes where supporters organized for us to come speak in their community room ➡️Doorknocking Seattle's Central District ➡️Tabling at community hubs like light rail stations and local grocery stores Join us to fight to win free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich, for a permanent arms embargo to Israel, to shut down ICE and the detention centers, to win national rent control and a national $25/hour minimum wage!








Our independent socialist campaign is less than a month away from primary election day on August 4th, and FIVE days away from ballots dropping on July 15th. We have brought our fighting, antiwar, pro-worker message from the Central District PCC to the Federal Way light rail station, from the Auburn Farmers Market to a 55+ retirement community in Des Moines that is fighting back against rent hikes, and everywhere in between. We have received support from working people nationwide, with donations from all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. We have seven times the number of donors that Adam Smith has, and eight and a half times the number of in-district donors. At the same time, our median donation is $25, whereas Smith's is $1,000. Ours is a working-class campaign, while Smith's is a campaign by and for the billionaires, the weapons industry, and AIPAC. Our campaign is by far the strongest challenge Smith has ever faced. The other Democrat in this race besides Smith is Melissa Chaudhry. She has said about herself and Adam Smith: "In many fronts, we are aligned, honestly." In front of a room full of Democratic Party officials, she proudly announced, "I will be a team player." Congress is already full of Democratic and Republican team players: they play for Team Billionaires and Team Genocide. Working people need a fighter for us. I urge everyone reading this to donate, volunteer, and share our campaign with your friends and family in Washington’s 9th congressional district and beyond. Our campaign is powered by working people and volunteers who want to see an independent socialist fighter elected to Congress to take the same fighting approach that I took using my Seattle City Council position. For a decade, I used that position to lead movements that won the highest minimum wage in the nation, the Amazon Tax that funds affordable housing, historic renters' rights including the nation's first ban on winter evictions, and more. Ours is the only consistently antiwar, pro-worker campaign in this race. Join this fight for a fundamentally different kind of society — run by and for working people, not the billionaires. Solidarity, Kshama kshamasawant.org






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.