Working Families Party

Of course, President Trump blew everybody out with a 14-point win in November.

And look, the Working Family Party and DSA, there's the president with the staff.

The media? Let's say he'd go.

If he's going to do a gaggle, do they have a boom out there? Can we cut to that? Okay.

They've done such a good job, and they're so motivated to try at high propensity.

Brian Harrison, where are they actually when we look at the math in their lower propensity voters? Where do we stand right now with this kind of ground game with the Working Family Party and the DSA? Because it's not the Democratic Party.

This is all DSA, Working Family Party, that same apparatus that's been so effective throughout the rest of the country, sir.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, look, as soon as I get off the air here with you, Steve, I'm headed right back to the polls here in a relatively pretty Republican part of the state of Texas where I've been every day.

I think it was by two, two and a half points back in 18.

Of course, President Trump blew everybody out with a 14-point win in November.

And look, the Working Family Party and DSA, there's the president with the staff.

Hello and welcome to the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting from the Sanctuary for Independent Media on the unceded homelands of the Mohican people in Troy, New York.

I'm Sina Bazila-Hickey, and today on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First Mark Dunlea talks with local Working Families Party representative about the candidates running on their ticket, which the party claims is not their choice and instead is a sock puppet candidate.

Then we have Film Suggestions for the Season by Wisdom Johnson of Troy Albany Black Film Club.

Later on, Andrea Cunliffe covers elections and why every vote matters.

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For our first story, Working Families Party announced that there is a, quote, sock puppet candidate, end quote, whom they don't recommend voter support.

To better understand what this means and what happened, Mark Dunlea has this story.

We're talking with Andy Kaier, who is the secretary of the Capital District chapter of the Working Families Party.

And there's been a fair amount of media attention paid recently to a so-called sock puppet Working Families Party candidate up in the Carrie Warner Assembly District.

But we thought we'd also brought Andy on to talk about Working Families Party races in general.

So, Andy, what is all this noise about this so-called sock puppet? with Thomas Kinney? Yeah,

we first learned about this candidate earlier this year.

when they filed petitions to be on our ballot line.

And this is a candidate that no one in our party was familiar with, had not done any sort of progressive organizing work, had really not been affiliated with the Working Families Party at all, did not seek our endorsement.

And as we learned a little bit more about this candidate, Thomas Kenney, and his campaign, we realized how closely he aligned himself with the sort of conservative MAGA Republican values.

What do I mean by that? Let me explain.

So in New York City, I have the privilege of knowing that nine times out of 10, the candidates who are endorsed by the party that I vote with, the Working Families Party, this is a party that I'm technically a member of.

And I say technically because I don't be out in them streets doing that work.

I have a lot of other civic work that I do.

So I don't necessarily do party-based work, but I support the Working Families I send money to the Working Families Party.

I believe in the Working Families Party.

It is a black-led, largely people of color-driven organization.

Shout out to Maurice Mitchell, who is the national director.

He was then released.

Action News also reached out to the California Working Families Party who endorsed Singh.

They told us they continue to support his candidacy.

Well, turning now to breaking news out of Beverly Hills, the FBI has raided a mansion tied to an investigation into former U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell.

he still has to answer some very serious questions about the arrest.

Despite the allegations, the District 1 candidate maintains the backing of the California Working Families Party, the organization saying in part, quote, we continue to support his candidacy and look forward to his leadership on lowering costs and investing in our families on the Fresno City Council.

Anna Terea, ABC30 Action News.

In Merced County, images shared with Action News show the aftermath of a bus crash.

Obviously, the dynamics are different.

This might be a sign of where the insurgencies are moving because the DSA is far, far more successful than any of the major third parties that we're seeing right now, including, I would say, the Working Families Party.

Christopher, do you want to weigh in here on the Democrats versus Democratic socialism and whether we'll see the Democratic Socialist Party become, you know, a viable third party with instead of being listed as independent, being listed as that on the ballot?

Right now, it's not really functioning as a political party, so I could be wrong.

Row C is Conservative.

Row D is Working Families, which hopefully gets knocked out because the name is so misleading.

It's even more communist than the Democratic Party.

And then all the other lines are for different independent candidates.