California Primary Ballot Will Include Gubernatorial Candidates of Socialist Workers Party and American Solidarity Party

Posted on by March 8, 2026

Filing has closed for the June 2026 California top-two primary. The gubernatorial candidates of the Socialist Workers Party and of the American Solidarity Party each qualified, although the law won’t allow their party names to be listed on the ballot. The candidates are Margaret Trowe for the Socialist Workers Party, and Duane Loynes for the ASP.

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California Primary Ballot Will Include Gubernatorial Candidates of Socialist Workers Party and American Solidarity Party — 20 Comments

  2. No, but they are the only parties with gubernatorial candidates that are not ballot-qualified.

    There are gubernatorial candidates on the Cal. primary ballot from the Green, Libertarian, and Peace & Freedom Parties. possibly there is one from the American Independent Party also. The list will be out soon from the Secretary of State.

  5. Does any human reading this seriously believe that President Trump is more tyrannical than, for example, Cho Bai-Din, Killary Klingon, Barack Insane Osama, Cumala Drunkass, or any currently plausible winning 2028 POTUS candidates? Or for that matter the Bushes, Romney’s, Doles, McCain’s etc? If so, try to logically back up that opinion?

  6. USSR Yesterday and Reuters are of course fake news, but the more relevant fact here is that all these obviously ridiculous lies about Liberator Trump being a “tyrant” are why there have been so many assassination attempts against Him, including again just recently.

    Obviously, the nAZi-666 spambot has no sense of shame, but Richard Winger should know better than to continue enabling further assassination attempts against the President.

  7. The Supreme Leader of Iran was a tyrant. When people demonstrated against him, tens of thousands of them were killed and many more disappeared into secret prisons. Maduro was a tyrant who did similar things. President Trump is a Liberator, the opposite of a tyrant.

    All wars obviously have costs, but so does failure to take down terrorist regimes such as Iran and Venezuela that wage chemical, terror, cyber and other war against us and strive to develop nuclear weapons and delivery systems.

  8. Real Facts

    “AZ spambot,

    As always, if President Trump was a tyrant, you would be deprogrammed, your programmers would be in prison, and this website would be taken down.”

    Duh!

  9. These are changes that California can make without a change to the Constitution.

    (1) Move the primary to October.

    (2) Make party qualification more like in Florida. In Florida, three voters can form a political party. If successful, their registration is changed to that of the new party, and other voters can switch their registration to that party. But the party is only recognized so long as the party is active. In California, I would require more voters to form a party, say fifty. So long as registration remains above 50, the party would remain recognized. This would permit candidates registered with the party to have that preference appear on the ballot.

    Voters would only be permitted to register with a recognized party. Most new voters are registered by AVR when they update their driver’s license. Their party affiliation is indicated as “unknown”, and they are sent a notice of their registration. They can decline to be registered, and choose a party affiliation. The notice can easily include a list with dozens of option. If the form is a write-in, invalid names can be ignored.

    Florida parties are required to show a level of activity, which in Florida, the SOS has defined as $500 in contributions or expenditures. In California it can be defined as a biennial state convention, and a state executive committee chosen by registered voters.

    If a recognized party becomes inactive, it would have a dormant status. Candidates registered with the dormant party may continue to have that affiliation appear on the ballot. The dormant party could not make endorsements that appear on the sample ballot. There would be a procedure to change a dormant party to an active party, which would be subject to approval by those registered with the party.

    Initially, the SOS would tabulate the number of voters affiliated with any previously recognized political party (e.g., Natural Law or Reform) or any political body that has attempted to qualify. Those that have 50 registrants would become dormant parties. Those that are currently actively seeking to qualify (e.g. American Solidarity, Common Sense) could undertake the formal activation process.

    Voters registered with groups with fewer than 50 registrants would be warned that their registration will be changed to “unknown” unless they choose another affiliation. The change will occur after some grace period during which they may seek to recruit new members.

    “Independent” registrants will be given an opportunity to activate the “party” under an alternative name. If they don’t change to the new name, they will be changed to “unknown”.

    Candidates registered with No Party Preference will be given the option to appear on the ballot as “Unaffiliated”, “No Party Preference”, “independent” or ” ” (blank).

    (3) Party elections will be moved to odd-numbered years. Balloting will be by mail only, with voted ballots returned to county election officials. Parties with conventional elections can have their ballots counted by county election officials. Parties with more exotic voting methods will have the ballots delivered to the party. They may contract with county election officials to count the ballots. Parties that don’t want state involvement may have a party announcement appear in the envelope sent to registrants.

    (4) Presidential primaries will continue to be held in March, using the 2000 format where all voters can vote for any candidate, but the votes are tabulated by the voter’s party. Each party would be free to interpret the results as they wish. A political party can choose to have the top candidate appear on the general election ballot (direct popular nomination). Other candidates may qualify by petition, which may be endorsed by political parties.

  14. Every POTUS has engaged in military actions without declarations of war since…when? Before you say WWII, brush up on US history before that time.

  16. The daily beast is of course fake news, but the more relevant fact here is that all these obviously ridiculous lies about Liberator Trump being a “tyrant” are why there have been so many assassination attempts against Him, including again just recently.

    Obviously, the nAZi-666 spambot has no sense of shame, but Richard Winger should know better than to continue enabling further assassination attempts against the President.

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    Do you really want Trump as President forever?
    Forever, and ever
    Forever Trump, I want to have forever Trump

    Do you really want Trump forever?
    Forever Trump!

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