California must not become a weapon of empire.

Friends,

Donald Trump launched illegal airstrikes on Iran last night, and every coward in Washington is pretending we haven’t lived this nightmare before.

History has shown there’s no daylight between the two parties when it comes to war.

If Biden had ordered the strike, most Democrats would be justifying it on cable news (some, like Fetterman, already are). They've made excuses for a years-long genocide in Gaza—why stop now?

Their only consistent principle is allegiance to empire.

Republicans boast about conquest. Democrats whisper about stability. But the bombs still fall. 

One party calls it “strength,” the other calls it “responsibility”—yet both march in lockstep when it’s time to spill blood abroad. 

Because there’s power in war. There’s profit in war. There are campaign checks, stock options, consulting gigs, and defense contracts waiting at the end of every cruise missile.

There is no meaningful difference between them when the war drums beat. Just two wings of the same war hawk, circling the globe, looking for another place to burn.

We bombed Iraq to stop weapons that didn’t exist. We invaded Afghanistan and stayed for twenty years. We hit a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan to “send a message.” 

Our leaders justified all of it in the name of democracy, but it brought nothing but death.

And now, in 2025, we are watching the same propaganda machine come to life.

The same insane insistence that bombs can somehow create peace.

If you know what comes next, if you’ve lived through the lies and loss, chip in now. We may not stop Trump’s war alone, but we can stop California from helping him wage it.

Our empire has slaughtered millions across the Arab world and still dares to call itself a force for good. The only thing more violent than our foreign policy is our refusal to remember what it’s done.

So whether Trump is playing lapdog to Netanyahu’s strategy of preemptive aggression, trying to disrupt Iran’s oil production, or just puffing himself up to feel strong: this is Iraq all over again. 

Only now, the stakes are higher and the bombs bigger.

And the worst part? It’s not their kids who will die.

Not the children of Raytheon executives. Not the sons of senators or the daughters of DNC donors. Not the MAGA Islamophobes screaming for war from the halls of Congress.

It’s everyday people. Again. From Temecula to Tehran, it is our blood that will soak the soil while they polish their legacies and call it leadership.

The Green Party is the only political party in this country that has never wavered in its opposition to war and empire. 

We stood against the invasion of Iraq when both Democrats and Republicans cheered it on. We rejected the drone wars, the arms deals, the coups, and the endless funding of foreign occupations.

While the major parties fall over themselves to appease AIPAC, court defense contractors, and fuel Islamophobic violence, the Green Party defends international law, human rights, and the dignity of all people. 

We do not play war games with human lives. We choose peace, justice, and global solidarity, every time.

I’m running for governor to break the grip of the twin parties of war and Wall Street. 

Because this state has power. And I will use every tool we have to stop this machine. No ports. No logistics. No cooperation with a war of aggression against Iran.

If you believe California should be a shield against empire, not a weapon of it, chip in now.

Peace and Power,

Butch Ware