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05/25/2026

Jimmy Dore was pumping Trump for a while, but his moral code is strong enough that he quickly saw through the Trump charade and went back to being a left-wing gadly. In this 14-minute segment, he interviews Butch Ware, the Green Party candidate for Governor of California, who was lawfared off the ballot by the Democrats and is running a write-in campaign.

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05/24/2026

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05/22/2026

I have long maintained that, while keeping church and state separate is one thing, "politics" is how we apply our spiritual/religious values to shape our society. British Green Rupert Read expands on that notion in this short talk. (19 min.)

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05/17/2026

Here's how the list starts:

The California DSA voter guide openly smeared Dr. Butch Ware, 2026 Gubernatorial Candidate, and urged voters not to support his write-in campaign.

What should have been a voter guide for California socialists was a coordinated character assassination campaign against the most openly anti-imperialist, pro-Palestinian, anti-corporate candidate in the race — a candidate whose platform otherwise aligns with many of the very socialist principles DSA claims to champion.

Then, a few sentences later, DSA endorsed a billionaire who made their money from private prisons and ICE concentration camps.

The central tension surrounding Dr. Butch Ware is simple: he’s building political energy that doesn’t originate from Democratic Party infrastructure.

That alone makes him difficult to manage, especially as he begins to attract people disillusioned with both parties.

End the

04/25/2026

Green Party candidate Butch Ware. the Zohran Mamdani of the California governors race, was kept off the ballot by the Democratic Secretary of State's double standards, but he's running as a write-in candidate. Here's his latest update, and here's a sample of it:

What Just Happened in This Race
You've probably heard by now — Eric Swalwell, who was leading in Democratic primary polling, suspended his campaign last Sunday following serious sexual misconduct and sexual assault allegations from four women, including a former congressional staffer. He has since resigned from Congress as well.

His name will still appear on the June 2 ballot. The deadline to remove it has passed.

I'm not going to dwell on the scandal itself. The survivors deserve to be believed and supported, and that story belongs to them.

What I will say is this: character is not optional. It never has been in the tradition we come from.

While the Democratic frontrunner's campaign collapsed in a matter of days, our candidate has been showing up — in Sacramento fighting for CalCare, on campuses building coalitions, in communities that have been told their voices don't count.

We are 47 days from June 2nd. We are still in this race. And the political landscape around us just shifted in ways that matter. VOTE BUTCH WARE

04/12/2026

NO KINGS (unless they are Democrats)

Every time I start thinking that the Trumpster Fire regime is so nasty that the Democrats would be a welcome change, they remind me of why they wouldn’t be. The latest reminder comes from California, where a strong Green Party gubernatorial candidate HB excluded from the ballot via Democratic Party legal chicanery.

The first thing you need to know about the situation is that, in 2010, the state voted by popular referendum to switch to a “top-two” electoral system. This means that all declared candidates for an office are on the ballot in a primary election, and…the top two vote-getters are the ones on the ballot in November. It was sold to the voters by then-Governor Schwarznegger as a way to elect more “practical centrists” and exclude reactionary rightists and “radical leftists.” I put “radical leftists” in quotes because, while there are a few good-hearted democratic socialists gaining ground in US politics, the truly radical “confiscate the wealth of the extractive class” left is hardly to be found. Butch Ware, the Green Party’s candidate for Governor of California, is about has close as I’ve seen in recent years, though Zohran Mamdami is definitely in the ball park. I’ll have more to say about Butch Ware, both in terms of his campaign and platform and how the system has dealt with his candidacy, a little later. Let’s lay out more context first.

Top-two was passed by a slim majority in a referendum, and went into effect in 2012.

And then there’s this: In 2019, in a effort to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in California, the state legislature passed a law mandating that all Presidential and gubernatorial candidates had to submit their last five years of tax returns to the California Secretary of State. The California Secretary of State office is a partisan, elected position that has been held by Democrats for most of the last 56 years. The Democrats who wrote the legislation included the gubernatorial race along with the Presidential race, (according to the April print edition of Ballot Access News, which is not yet available on line) so that it wouldn’t seem like such a blatant attack on Trump. The courts, however, were not fooled, and firmly held the law unconstitutional for Presidential candidates–but left it in place for the Governor’s race. It creates quite an obstacle course for candidates. They had to submit, in the words of Ballot Access News,

….two copies for each (of those five) year(s). One was original and one had to have redactions of the candidate’s Social Security number, home address, email address, phone number, medical information, and bank account number.

When you consider how lengthy and complicated tax returns can be, especially for the kind of people who usually run for governor–i.e., wealthy people, about the best you can say for this is that it would tend to discourage anyone who didn’t really, really want to be governor of California from entering the race.

Every time I start thinking that the Trumpster Fire regime is so nasty that the Democrats would be a welcome change, they remind me of why they wouldn’t be. The latest reminder comes from Cal…

03/27/2026

03/01/2026

Butch Ware, the Green Party's candidate for Governor of California, gives his response to Trump's State of the Union Address:

Donald Trump stood at that podium Tuesday night and told a nation of people skipping doctor visits, doubling up in apartments, and watching their grocery bills eat what is left of their paychecks that America has never been bigger, richer, or stronger.

He blamed California for immigrant crime and demanded an end to sanctuary cities, which I see as a direct policy threat to California.

He uses these national moments to paint immigrants as a source of chaos, even manufacturing moments of division to make people choose sides.

When he attacks immigrants, he attacks us all.

Trump's vilification of immigrants was the foundation of that entire speech, the political fuel that powers the ICE raids tearing through our communities as we speak.

The Green Party is calling for the end of the deportation machine entirely, because California will either protect all of its people or be complicit in their destruction, and this campaign has no interest in complicity.

Trump boasted that he ended DEI and then went after transgender youth in the same breath, and what we witnessed was a systematic campaign to erase people from public life, cheered on by a room full of cowards.

Californians have fought to protect LGBTQ+ families and providers of gender-affirming care, and we are proud of that, even as our governor finds ways to hedge and equivocate on transgender rights from the comfort of his podcast while real people's lives hang in the balance.

Every person in this state has the right to live fully and freely, and I will defend that right against anyone who comes for it, including the people who are supposed to be on our side.

This was a State of the Union address indistinguishable from state propaganda, all spectacle and manufactured enemies, designed from the first word to the last to keep us at each other's throats while the people who bought both parties pick our pockets clean.

The Green Party has been warning for a generation that a political system owned by corporations cannot produce anything else, and last night was yet more proof that we were right.

Later in his speech, Trump began laying the groundwork for war with Iran. And members of the Democratic opposition stood up in that chamber and applauded.

I want you to hold on to that image.

These are the same people who cheered on the invasion of Iraq on the basis of lies that anyone paying attention could see through.

The same political class that has sent a generation of working-class young people to die in wars that made defense contractors rich and left our communities with nothing but folded flags and broken veterans.

They have not learned a single lesson because learning a lesson would require admitting that they were never actually the opposition to begin with.

That is the moment that tells you everything about why we are in this race.

Not to be the best version of a broken system, but to build something that is genuinely accountable to the people.

California is the fourth-largest economy on the planet, and a Green Party governor of this state would be something neither Trump nor the Democratic establishment has ever had to reckon with: a true opposition.

One that cannot be bought, cannot be intimidated, and has no interest in playing its assigned role in political theater that has been killing our people for generations.

Please support The Green Party and help us build the only campaign in this race ready to be the opposition this moment actually demands.

Peace and power,

Butch Ware

02/27/2026

Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner has endorsed Green Party gubernatorial candidate Butch Ware in California’s 2026 governor’s race, praising him as “a champion” who is running on “a humanitarian platform for all people.”

Turner was deeply involved with both of Bernie Sanders's Presidential campaigns, as a result of which the Democratic Party did everything it could to keep her out of power.

She announced her support during a January 27 conversation with Ware hosted by his campaign, saying she was giving him her “full endorsement” to become California’s next governor. During the discussion, the two also addressed immigration enforcement, state violence, and systemic injustice facing Black communities.

Turner pointed to recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and referenced the New Year’s Eve killing of Keith Porter, an unarmed Black man from Los Angeles who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent, citing the incident as an example of what she called “anti-Blackness” in American society. She compared the wider political struggle to a “tug of war” between Black liberation and what she described as ruling-class white supremacy.

The two also discussed lessons from past political movements, with Turner pointing to Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as models of coalition politics that challenged entrenched power structures. Ware, who is running as part of a left unity coalition with the Peace and Freedom Party, argued that similar coalition-building remains necessary today as an alternative to the two-party system.

Turner served in the Ohio Senate from 2008 to 2014 after several years on Cleveland City Council. She was the Democratic nominee for Ohio secretary of state in 2014 and later ran in the Democratic primary for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District in both the 2021 special election and the 2022 midterm cycle. She also served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign and identifies as a democratic socialist.

Turner reiterated her support for Ware again later that week on social media, writing that “in a moment of rapidly increasing wealth and power inequality, it’s important to have people like Dr. Ware fighting for working people.”

California’s gubernatorial election will take place on November 3, following a “top-two” primary set for June 2. Under the state’s Proposition 14 system, all candidates for governor will appear on a single ballot regardless of party, with the two highest vote-getters advancing to the general election.

I am happy to announce that Butch Ware has my full endorsement to become the next governor of the great state of California.