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Trump’s ICE is spreading terror in cities across the nation. Trump has attacked Somali working people and community members, calling them “garbage.” Join me for a Community Meeting with the Somali Community TOMORROW, Sun 1/18 @ 7pm PT at the Mall of Africa Restaurant in SeaTac. RSVP now: kshamasawant.org/events/226/ On top of the attacks by ICE, Somali childcare workers are now facing racist and xenophobic harassment. Somali daycare workers and small businesses in Washington state are facing regular incidents of threatening and intimidating behavior from the right wing, racist slurs, and bigotry. Emails or phone calls to Democratic Party politicians will not stop these attacks. Trump was elected in the first place, and then re-elected, because of anger at the Democratic Party’s betrayals of the working class. Many Democrats voted in favor of Republican President George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Act, which created ICE and launched a new era of brutal surveillance and targeting of immigrant working and poor people and left-wing activists. Democratic President Obama still holds the title of Deporter-in-Chief. He was elected as a “peace” president, and he ended up bombing SEVEN nations: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, AND SOMALIA. Democratic politicians have refused to fight back during Trump’s second term. Even in the wake of the murder of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis, and despite the fact that ICE has plummeted in nationwide approval ratings, top Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have refused to push to reduce funds for ICE. Just this past December, Democrats including my congressional opponent, genocidal Democrat Adam Smith voted for over $900 billion of new money for weapons and war. The truth is that both Democrats and Republicans represent the billionaires. They are parties of Wall Street and war. During my decade on the Seattle City Council, I fought alongside Somali working people to win the nation’s highest minimum wage and unprecedented renters’ rights, including blocking an attack on public housing by the Obama administration and stopping a 400% increase in rent for 4,600 tenants. We need to build independent movements of working and oppressed people and immigrant community members. Stand with the Somali community! Join us TOMORROW, Sunday @ 7 pm PT, in person at the Mall of Africa Restaurant (21027 International Blvd) in SeaTac, or watch over livestream!

Our opponent, pro-genocide Democratic Congressmember Adam Smith, is being bankrolled by all sorts of deeply dystopian right-wing reactionary billionaires. Alexander Karp, right-wing billionaire and CEO of war profiteer Palantir corporation, has already maxed out his donation to Smith. Now, Joe Lonsdale has given Smith $1,000. Lonsdale is another right-wing billionaire, a protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel. Lonsdale, Thiel, and Karp are founders of Palantir, which is integral to the Israeli genocidal machinery. Lonsdale donated a million dollars to Trump’s presidential campaign and was a major fundraiser for the pro-Trump America Super PAC. He started the Cicero Institute, a right-wing think tank that is pushing for brutally criminalizing homeless people. He has been described as a friend and "political confidant" of Elon Musk. Can you donate to our independent socialist anti-genocide campaign to help us defeat Adam Smith and his genocidal friends like Lonsdale? kshamasawant.org

I strongly support the demands Mamdani has raised. I want working-class New Yorkers to be able to win big victories. The question is what it'll take for an elected representative NOT to betray promises to working people. I was a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle for ten years. Working people and my office won all four of our elections and groundbreaking historic victories like the nation's first major-city $15/hour minimum wage in 2014. Seattle's minimum wage is now the nation's highest at $20.76/hour. Our Fight for 15 spread nationally and has won in many cities and states. We also won Seattle's Amazon Tax, which raises hundreds of millions of dollars annually for affordable social housing, and an unprecedented renters' bill of rights. We won because I used my office to build bold, fighting movements that exposed the Democrats as a big-business party behind empty progressive rhetoric, putting pressure on them, and forcing them to concede to our demands by making them fear for their own political careers. We won because I used my office as an organizing hub for working-class struggle. This is almost unheard of in the current period, unfortunately. In contrast, both AOC and Sanders have failed to win ANYTHING they promised working people. Why? Because they've refused to use their office to build mass movements around any of the demands, whether a $15/hour minimum wage, Medicare for All, or a Green New Deal. They've refused to expose either the Democratic Party as a party of billionaires or any individual Democratic politicians for selling out working people. Instead, both AOC & Sanders have completely capitulated to the Democratic Party and have given them cover as they've funded a genocide & offered zero fightback to Trump's horrendous attacks on working people. We need a new party for the working class, and we need independent campaigns like our current campaign for the U.S. Congress against warmongering anti-worker Democrat Adam Smith. Our campaign is calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza, an end to all U.S. military funding to Israel, an end to deportations, and shutting down all detention centers. We're also campaigning for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich and national rent control. Please get active at Kshamasawant.org

Today, I announced my working-class, antiwar, anti-genocide campaign for the U.S. Congress to defeat warmongering Democratic Congressman Adam Smith. Our demands: 👉 END the genocide Gaza — No Military Aid, No Occupation! 👉 Free Healthcare for All — Tax the Rich! 👉 We Need Rent Control — Make Corporate Landlords Pay! Join our fight: kshamasawant.org/donate We need to build the strongest antiwar, anti-genocide campaign in the country to fight and DEFEAT the rich, the warmongers, and both their parties. During my ten years as the socialist on Seattle City Council, we won historic victories: the first $15/hour minimum wage in any major city, the Amazon Tax, and historic renters’ rights. My office went to war for working people, not corporate interests. Let's get organized to defeat warmongering Democratic Congressman Adam Smith and elect the socialist money can’t buy to the U.S. Congress.