November 7, 2026
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(The following was originally published by Jess Spear on her campaign website.)
By Jess Spear, Socialist Alternative candidate challenging the WA State House Speaker
A political earthquake shook the ground beneath the Democratic and Republican Party establishment last Tuesday when Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was stunningly defeated by an unknown economics professor, Dave Brat.…
From Ballot Access News:
The petition for Evan Falchuk, the nominee of the United Independent Party for Governor, has enough signatures in Massachusetts. See this story.…
(The following was originally published on the Socialist Worker website.)
The election of Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant to the Seattle City Council represented a qualitative step forward in the building of an independent left alternative to the two-party political establishment.…
Obama Does Not Have the Authority to go to War Without Congressional Authorization
The same people who got the U.S. into the mistaken Iraq War are now urging President Obama to use military force in Iraq again.…
Posted on the CP Wisconsin website on June 12th, 2014:
Posted on by Riley Hood
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind:
it is an abomination.”…
The following video is for Petition 54 in Oregon, the “Unified Primary.” (Petition 55, the “Open Primary” is also underway.)
According to this video:
“We are going to make the vote equal for the first time in American history by getting rid of the two things that make us unequal; the closed primary, which now silences more than half of us, and the vote-splitting spoiler effect that diminishes our voice for each additional candidate we like and compels us to choose only the lesser of the two evils.…
What do you do with a mentally ill 16-year-old transgender child who’s spent her entire life being abused and molested under the authority of the state?…
From Ballot Access News:
Filing has closed in New Jersey. The U.S. Senate November ballot will have five nominees, those of the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Democratic-Republican Parties and an independent candidate who ballot slogan is “Economic Growth.”…
By Ken Krall
Rhinelander resident Jerry Shidell has made the statewide ballot this fall as the Libertarian Party candidate for state Treasurer. He gathered the required 2000 signatures to get on the ballot.…