One of the largest third-parties in New Jersey, the Greens put together a full Congressional slate for the 2024 election. ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Candidates with the Green Party of New Jersey nailed down thousands of votes in Essex County during the 2024 general election, official results show. Continue reading

Most Muslim Americans did not vote for either of the two major presidential candidates in the 2024 election, new polling reveals. Instead, a majority of Muslims, 53%, cast their ballots for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, according to a poll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy organization. Instead, a majority of Muslims, 53%, cast their ballots for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, according to a poll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy organization. Continue reading

The change to ballot access laws in 2020 make gaining any high political office in New York an uphill battle. The changes came in a budget provision in the last year of the Andrew Cuomo administration increasing automatic ballot access to 2% or 130,000 votes whichever is higher in presidential and gubernatorial elections. The Green Party of New York, which gained less than 1% of the vote in 2020, subsequently has their automatic ballot access revoked, leading to the party not being on the ballot in New York for the 2024 elections. Continue reading

Santa Barbara, CA – Dr. Rudolph "Butch" Ware, the Green Party's 2024 vice-presidential nominee, has announced he is running to become the next governor of California. "11/11 11:11 I hereby officially announce my candidacy for Governor of the State of California," Ware posted on X. Continue reading

Brianha Joy Gray joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate to discuss the massive hurdles the Green Party faced in the 2024 campaign as the Democratic Party's vast machinery sought to prevent it from obtaining ballot access in order to deny voters an antiwar alternative. Continue reading

The US presidential election takes place on 5 November along with the election of vice president, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate. 13 state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. BW Sculos, Vice President of Rio Grande Valley United Faculty (TFA/NEA) (personal capacity), Edinburg, Texas, explains what the Independent Socialist Group (the CWI’s co-thinkers in the US) is calling for. Continue reading

  New Yorkers filling out their ballots this year will notice something unusual: there are only two presidential candidates listed. In fact, New York has the dubious distinction of being the sole state in 2024 with only two presidential candidates on the ballot. In a time when both Democratic and Republican parties loudly decry alleged voter disenfranchisement, New York has managed to suppress every alternative party and constrain voter choice. This is a serious form of voter suppression that has received almost no political attention, and it comes at a time when 58% of Americans polled by Gallup show support for a third political party. Continue reading

As Election Day approaches, New York has a rather dubious distinction. It is the only state in the country in which Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are the only presidential choices voters have listed on their ballots. Anyone wanting to choose other candidates will have to write in those names.  Continue reading

NY 21 Congress Watchdogs, a Ralph Nader-inspired group, is out with a report documenting how Congressmember Elise Stefanik has introduced several bills that, while sounding pro-worker, threaten their economic well-being. Fred Balzac outlines why a trio of Cong. Stefanik's labor bills are actually pro-business. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. Continue reading