Kshama Sawant

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 7/27/26: Kshama Sawant: My Independent Socialist Campaign Will Defeat Adam Smith! · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

We campaigned.

We doorknocked for him.

And I spoke at both of his rallies in the Seattle area, both in 2016 and 2020.

And yes, all of the message of the political revolution, that really resonated with working people, because working people are sick and tired.

So yes, that's the conscience of the working class.

But the main feature of today, of our times,

is the chasm between the consciousness that has risen and the desire for fight back and the leadership that's on offer.

And so all the picture that you painted, in my view, is not actually indicative of what's actually happening.

I'll tell you what's actually happening.

Even despite the progressive, Democratic Progressive Caucus, whatever, more and more progressive people being elected, AOC and other squad members being elected, what have we seen since that whole time?

We have seen the

The breaking of the railroad workers' strike, where only one Democrat in the House, Rashida Tlaib, voted against that.

Every single other Democrat, like AOC, voted to break the railroad workers' strike.

During that same time that we are supposed to be celebrating all of these elections, we are seeing the genocide being launched and being funded.

We are seeing ICE terror.

We are seeing zero fight back against Trump.

And that is part of the big part of the anger against the Democratic Party.

is that they're not fighting against Trump.

That's also a big part of the support for my campaign against Adam Smith, which is not only that Adam Smith himself has been an instigator, he created, you know, he voted to create ICE, he's voted to fund ICE repeatedly to the tune of $115 billion, but also because they're angry at the Democratic Party as a whole for not fighting against all of these ills.

So, you know, in the same period that all of this consciousness has risen,

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