I am an activist. Things in American Canyon that I have advocated for include the repair of our skate park, the repair of all of the city parks, the banning of RoundUp on public land and the left turn lanes that were installed on American Canyon Road when they repaved. I have also been a constant advocate for the Family Resource Center, because I believe a society should be judged based on how we treat the poorest among us, not on the stock market or real estate prices.

I am also the only corporate-free candidate for American Canyon City Council that is coming into the race with specific changes in mind. Those changes prioritize health and community, from bringing back our farmers' market to building activities for our youth, including a park for disable children, to prioritizing locally owned business over corporations. But I am competing against four other candidates for two Council seats. That's a tough challenge and I can't do it alone.

You can help by spreading the word to your friends, by writing a letter to the editor of the Napa Valley Register and emailing it to [email protected].
or by contributing financially. It doesn't have to be long and fancy. It can be one sentence, like "Jason is running for City Council in American Canyon. I like him because he puts people first" or "I like him because he wants to create some activities for our teenagers." Any letter that you write will be helpful. Thank you. And when I am elected, I promise to put people first, always.
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Republicans are appealing to the right. Democrats are appealing to the right. How can so many people not see the problem with this? This dynamic, this ignoring of policies on the left, has moved politics so far right that the center now looks extreme. And when I say left, I mean healthcare, education and equal opportunity to earn a livable wage for all. But those are not extreme policies. What is extreme is killing people, or allowing people to die, so that donors can post higher fourth quarter earnings. It will take an average American worker fifty years to make what Mark Zuckerberg makes in 1 year, yet homelessness is getting worse. THAT is extreme. Currently both parties are representing the wealthy and corporate interests. This election is like a second Republican primary. The people have already lost. We lost when the DNC cheated Senator Sanders yet again. We need to start building A People's Party NOW, no matter who you vote for in November, so that we'll be ready for the next
election. Get involved! If you don't like to talk about politics, or to get involved, that's exactly how the people holding your wages down and your rent up WANT you to feel. Get involved! Your healthcare company wants to raise your rates, your electric company wants to raise your rates, the corporate politicians want to make YOU pay for a new bridge and new roads. Get involved!
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Black Lives protesting is still going on in cities with abusive police departments, like Portland, Oregon, where an activist was killed by a white supremacist a couple of days ago, and of course Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a 17 year old white supremacist with an AR-15 shot three people, killing two and blowing the arm off a third. This 17 year old was driven by his mother from Illinois, where it is illegal to open carry, across state lines into Wisconsin, where it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to own a gun, allegedly to protect the store fronts of complete strangers.

This story is absurd. The reality is: this is what white supremacists are doing. They are seeking out violence at protests, under the guise of protecting the stores of strangers, so that they can have the opportunity to shoot protesters. I believe that the vast majority of protesters are peaceful, and that violence, looting and destruction (including arson) is being caused by white supremacist infiltrators. It sounds a little crazy, but we have seen this before. The protesters- people who have been victimized by systemic racism, many who have lost loved ones, and others, like me, marching in solidarity were not the ones seeking violence.

This is how Dr. King was portrayed in 1967 to scare white people. This "Antifa are terrorists"/"violent looters"/"Black Identity Activists" bull shit is the same white supremacist playbook they've been using all along, for 60 years and more. Please do not fall for it, and please share with your friends what I am sharing with you.
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Make no mistake. President Trump has his knee on the neck of Venezuela and he is not going to let anyone or anything stop him from strangling the country's economy. Tens of thousands have starved to death because of US sanctions and trade embargo already, and he is not relenting. Not elections, nor Covid, nor international aid will prevent Trump from his "king making". And Iran is next. Think we can stop it by voting him out? Joe Biden has already criticized Trump for not being hard enough on Venezuela.
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Some people say that our economic system is not so unequal. They think the economy is fixed. They think the people at the top got what they have from hard work and ingenuity. Looks pretty unequal to me! Earlier you heard me mention that the average worker would have to work 50 years to make what Mark Zuckerberg makes in an hour. Take a look. If you subtract the average national rent ($1300), the average amount Americans pay for health insurance and the average cost of owning a sedan (less than the amount for a pickup truck), without accounting for children, pets, home repairs, clothing, electricity, cable or coffee, you would only have $308,752 left out of that $1 million bucks. That's 20 minutes work for Zuck. He makes $2 billion per year. That would take the average American worker 50,000 years to earn. That kind of blows the argument about getting paid more for working harder out of the water, don't you think?
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"The Napa County Progressive Alliance has endorsed Eve Ryser for Napa Valley Unified School Board to represent Area 4! As a former teacher and curriculum developer, Eve is a highly qualified candidate. As an activist, she has fought to protect the health and safety of our community by opposing the rollout of close proximity microwave radiating cell antennas and the 24-hour card room in Napa, and by working to prevent gun violence in schools. Finally, as a candidate, she has pledged to only accept donations from individuals (never corporations and other businesses).
Please consider volunteering for or donating to her campaign." - Amy Martensen, NCPA Coordinator
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As much of a danger as this Deathclown is, why isn't the Democratic Party offering us Medicare For All, a ban on fracking, an end to the Afghanistan War or national cannabis legalization to get our votes? They should be BEGGING us and offering us some real policy wins to hang our progressive hats on. But instead, Joe Biden had pledged to make sure millions will remain without health insurance, he's promised corporations no new legislation forcing corporate behavior to change, talking about cannabis being a gateway drug, earlier today he promised NOT to ban fracking and last month Congressional Democrats blocked an effort to withdraw from Afghanistan. And not one progressive speaker at the Democratic Convention, besides Senator Sanders who they were obligated to let speak. This has left some progressive Democrats confused? Don't they want our votes? Why aren't they acting like it?
The establishment wants you to believe that the federal government has to make cuts or raise taxes in order to spend. That's false. Taxes don't fund federal spending.
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When a president says "I'm going to put sanctions on a country", what that means is "I'm going to starve the poor in that country, and maybe if enough people starve to death, that country will obey me." Sanctions always target the poor.
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I like this picture, but it's inaccurate. What it's missing is the rich guy telling the middle class woman to blame the poor because she doesn't have more, and a donkey helping the elephant. That has been our reality ever since the corporate coup d'etat started.

For about 40 years before Ronald Reagan, the United States utilized a marginal tax rate of at least 70%, much higher from 1951-1963, reaching as high as 92%. During that same time, we had a corporate tax rate of 52%.

Beginning in the 1970's, the very wealthy, or oligarchs, began to dump money into our political system with the explicit purpose of controlling the government entirely, but really we didn't see the success of some of these influenced politicians until Ronald Reagan.

The billionaires that pull the strings that are attached to our elected officials have been fighting to pay less taxes and to force the middle class to pay as much as possible. This has been done covertly, through many elected officials at every level from city council on up to the federal level, so that people blame their individual Congressperson or Assembly Member.

The result is the middle class feeling the squeeze of more and more taxes, forcing many people to seek ways to cut expenses (the poor) instead of examining why life just keeps getting more expensive and wages don't go up.

These same elected officials that take big money from oligarchs and allow their political views to be determined by them, have been bribed, however legally, by the executives and investors of drug and insurance companies, to believe that Medicare For All will lead to the destruction of the country. It doesn't matter what evidence they're shown or what numbers, because they've essentially been hired to have this view, even if they don't believe it themselves. And they're in both parties. The majority of both parties, I'd say.

And they've been hired to believe that giving people money makes them lazy. And they've been hired to believe that providing free housing to the poor will, again, destroy the nation, turning the US into a "socialist hell hole" like Venezuela, completely overlooking the US' role in keeping the economic situation so unequal in Venezuela.

These are the people left to make sure that no one starves to death or loses their home when the economy crashes. These are the people left to make sure everyone has health insurance. They know what we need. They know! But they don't work for us! You think Nancy Pelosi works for you? Or Mike Thompson?

Ro Khanna and Tim Ryan sponsored a bill to give everyone $2000 per month for the lockdown. How much do you see Nancy Pelosi or Mike Thompson talking about that bill? A bill that would actually help people a lot more than the $1200 crumbs Congress gives us so we don't complain about the trillions they give their buddies, And Mike Thompson hasn't said a fucking word about it. He wants you to take the $1200 and stop complaining. He doesn't work for you! But he wants you to vote for him.

So it's no wonder they keep going on vacations and recesses. They know what you need, but they're paid not to give it you. They've promised to make sure that you don't get Medicare For All. If you get ANY healthcare at all, it will be Cobra, so they can rip you off even after they "help" you.

I know I mentioned Pelosi, but if you think Mitch McConnell cares about your healthcare, think again, my friend. He doesn't care. He believes giving you healthcare will destroy the country. He's PAID to. He's paid to believe that giving you healthcare, if you don't have to pay for it out of pocket, IN A PANDEMIC, will destroy the country. Still think we don't like in a government controlled by oligarchs?
On August 22, in an endorsement meeting held on Zoom by the Solano County Democratic Party, a young black man named Louis Michael, who is running for Vallejo City Council in District 3 got two state propositions mixed up- really not a big deal. He signed off after meeting with the local party leadership, and one of the leadership team, a member of the Napa-Solano Central Labor Committee named Steve Quinlan, accused this young man of being stoned during the interview (he was not stoned). This was no honest mistake, this was deliberate sabotage. Steve was trying to play to the biases of the others insidiously. His aunt and my good friend, Brenda, was the only one who spoke up in his favor.

In another endorsement interview, the same man, Steve Quinlan asked Tina Arriola about being raised Republican and her apparently several changes in party affiliation (less changes than me, I imagine). She stumbled a bit on that question and her answer wasn't great. Again, we're talking about years ago, though, and this is an activist who is involved with Food Is Free Solano County, so she's always helping to feed marginalized communities. Steve Quinlan decided to post that she was racist in the Vallejo City Politics Facebook group.

In a third situation, Steve Quinlan has been trying to make my good friend Robert McConnell, who is a timed-out sitting City Council member in Vallejo and is running for Mayor of that city, look racist in that same Facebook group by mischaracterizing why the City Council has supported actions that protect abusive police officers, blaming inaction on Robert. The truth is Robert is frequently the ONLY Council Member to vote for police accountability, not that he is anti-cop by any means. He is not.

I went before the Napa-Solano Central Labor Council late last year, as a Congressional candidate, because I wanted to represent everyone, especially unions, and I considered myself the pro-labor, pro-union candidate, as I did in 2018. But they didn't care who was supporting the best pro-labor policies. I'm not sure what they did care about, but it clearly wasn't policy, as they ended up endorsing Mike Thompson who has a pretty spotty labor record, including opposing a lot of things that unions support such as a $15 minimum wage. I learned my lesson. I won't ask this corrupt organization for endorsement again.

The fact is that the Napa-Solano Central Labor Council is an utterly corrupt organization. I am not speaking of the individual member unions, but the Central Labor Council has repeatedly thrown their money behind disastrous projects like the Orcem Cement Factory, which took the people 6 years of fighting to stop, and numerous questionable political officials, that have hurt the economic development of the city and have helped to bankrupt the Vallejo Unified School District. Someone from this council even had the nerve to ask a Vallejo Vice Mayor why she wouldn't stay bought. The Napa-Solano Labor Council is a corrupt organization. The leadership do not have the best interests of the people at heart. Beware any time you see the name Napa-Solano Central Labor Council. And beware political candidates backed by this group.

The Great Depression: things got so bad that 17,000 WWI veterans and their families (43,000 demonstrators) marched on Washington, demanding their military bonuses early. socialism and communism surged as the people looked for ways to solve their economic problems.
FDR, a wealthy capitalist, saved capitalism by using some socialist ideas, which resulted in weakening the socialist/communist movement for many decades. But this also had the effect of not only regenerating our economy, but providing jobs, which fed the masses.

He also proposed an Economic Bill Of Rights in 1944, which you can take a look at. You'll notice that healthcare, as a human right, has been a Democratic talking point for 76 years, even though we have yet to reach that goal FDR's programs have been attacked by fascists, widdled down, defunded. And then the fascists pointed out that those systems didn't work, even though they were the cause. Fascists seem to want to turn back the clock to Hoover, for some reason.

Not much is left of FDR's policies besides Social Security. Bernie warned everyone that Joe Biden wanted to cut Social Security. But we "chose" Biden anyway. And now Trump is threatening to defund Social Security. There are a lot of wise people who believe that capitalism is eating itself and that we're looking at the last stages of capitalism, and that what comes next will be even worse.
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