Howdy y'all! Welcome to another episode of Redneck Gone Green! We're joined to night with Gloria Mattera as we discuss the ins and outs, struggles, and goals of the Working Families Party. Thank y'all for joining and remember, feel free to join in on the conversation by writing to us in the comments section

Orange County State Senator James Skoufis recently ended his campaign for Democratic National Committee Chair. What can be learned from his effort? 

In early January, Skoufis posted on X, exhibiting a self-delusion about Green voters common to many Democrats. Referring to the 2024 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race in which the Republican won with 48.82%, followed by the Democrat (48.60%), Libertarian (1.29%), Green (0.95%) and Constitution Party candidate (0.34%), Skoufis wrote “The Green Party spoiled another major race for us just the latest on a very long list.”

New York State Senator James Skoufis, a candidate for Democratic National Committee Chair, recently said he would go on “permanent offense” and “dismantle” the infrastructure of the Green Party if successful in his bid. Skoufis made the remarks last month on social media, specifically citing the results of the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.

Three California Alternative Parties File Federal Lawsuit Against the Top-Two System

On November 21, 2024, the Peace & Freedom Party, Green Party, and Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit against California's top-two election system. The case, Peace & Freedom Party v. Weber, challenges the system's constitutionality. 

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.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- New York is the only state in the country where voters have only two choices on the ballot for president.

Green Party of New York Co-Chair Gloria Mattera chalks that up to a 2020 state budget provision that increased the threshold for automatic party ballot access to 2% or 130,000 votes, whichever is higher, in presidential and gubernatorial elections.

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.

In 2016, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got more than 132,000 votes across the pivotal swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, helping Donald Trump eke out victories in those battlegrounds—and with them the election—by a margin of roughly 77,000 votes.

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. 

On Thursday, Jill sat down for an interview with celebrated journalist Tavis Smiley. As the interview began, Tavis read an email written to him on behalf of the DNC that was sent with the intention of coercing him into asking their outrageous gotcha questions to Jill as if they were his own!