This is why we’re Green.

Friends,

This month gave us more reminders than we ever needed about why we’re building our movement for justice OUTSIDE the Democratic Party.

Democratic leaders in California refused to properly defend immigrant communities from warrantless ICE raids, then turned around and sicced the police on peaceful protestors who dared to demand answers. 

They unleashed officers who incited violence, fired so-called “non-lethals” into crowds, and treated constituents like enemy combatants.

When Senator Alex Padilla was tackled and handcuffed by federal DHS agents, the only response from party leadership was a milquetoast letter from Chuck Schumer sent two weeks too late.

Then came the news that Kamala Harris is quietly preparing to run for governor. The same Kamala who doubled down on genocide in Gaza. Who has been silent while ICE operates with impunity across Los Angeles. The same Kamala who built her political brand on truancy prosecutions and foreclosure-era indifference.

And just last week, when Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani ran and won a people-powered campaign that redrew the electoral map of New York City without taking a dime from Wall Street, Democrats didn’t celebrate a new coalition builder.

No, they smeared him. They panicked. From Kirsten Gillibrand to Eric Swalwell to half the New York delegation, high-profile Democrats rushed to the airwaves with rhetoric so vile, so soaked in Islamophobia, it sounded like it was ripped straight from a far-right message board.

That’s one hell of a month. 

The truth is, the Democratic Party doesn’t fear Trump. It fears change. And it will never willingly share power with working people.

That’s why we’re running with the Green Party. Because we believe in tenant rights, public power, dignity for immigrants, and an economy that serves the people, not the corrupted donor class.

But the forces we’re up against are well financed and we know establishment Democrats will spend big to protect their broken machine. 

If we want to prove that a new movement is possible, we need to hit our end-of-quarter goal. We’ve got until midnight, and every dollar helps.

If you believe in building real power outside the broken two-party system, chip in today.

In Peace and Power,

Butch Ware