Over the weekend, Los Angeles City Council Member Nithya Raman launched what may be the most revealing mayoral campaign in the country. A member of both the Democrat Party and the Democrat Socialists of America, Raman is now running for mayor in 2026, positioning herself as the “accountable” alternative to Mayor Karen Bass. 

In reality, her candidacy exposes a deeper truth: the Democrat Party is no longer drifting toward socialism—it has embraced it.

Raman’s announcement was wrapped in familiar Democrat rhetoric—talk of accountability, urgency, affordability, and compassion. She positioned herself as ideologically aligned with Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who won the New York City mayoral race. Beneath the polished language, however, was a worldview that has failed everywhere it has been tried.

Raman is not just a progressive Democrat; she is an open socialist, part of an organization that explicitly advocates for government control over housing, energy, and large segments of the economy.

Democrats often insist that “democratic socialism” is different from socialism, and socialism is different from communism. History tells a different story. 

Every communist state in the world began as a socialist project. The Soviet Union. Mao’s China. Castro’s Cuba. Venezuela. Each promised fairness, equity, and government “accountability.” 

Each delivered shortages, corruption, repression, and economic collapse. The labels changed. The outcomes did not.

Raman’s own remarks highlight the contradiction. She criticizes City Hall for fiscal mismanagement while supporting the same tax-and-spend ideology that created Los Angeles’ budget crisis in the first place. 

She acknowledges that voters approved higher taxes for homelessness and housing, yet admits the city has failed to deliver results. That failure is the inevitable product of socialist governance—high spending, low accountability, and no consequences for failure.

Los Angeles already serves as a warning sign. Streetlights can take a year to fix. Homeless encampments persist despite billions spent. Housing costs continue to soar. Public trust has collapsed. 

Raman’s solution is not reform—it is doubling down. More government control. More centralized planning. More promises that this time will be different.

Raman believes Mayor Bass has not gone far enough, not that she has gone too far. 

This is not a debate between moderation and extremism. Rather, it is a competition between two wings of the same failing party—one progressive, the other openly socialist.

Even when pressed on basic questions—public safety, women’s spaces, fiscal responsibility—Raman deflected, hedged, or claimed she had not yet “had those conversations.” 

Socialist candidates rarely offer specifics because specifics expose the cost of their ideology.

https://www.stationgossip.com/2026/02/communist-la-council-member-launches.html

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s office in California help a news conference 2023 on illegal voting in their California community.

The San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office found 41 sealed, completed, mail-in ballots in the home of Lodi City Council member Shakir Khan. There were a total of 71 voter registrations tied to his address, phone, or email.

Khan targeted members of the local Pakistani immigrant community (including elderly individuals unfamiliar with U.S. voting processes), pressuring them, forging signatures, filling out ballots, and submitting fraudulent registrations.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Captain told reporters at the time that voting records revealed people outside of the country, in Pakistan, were allowed to vote in the California elections.

The Sheriff’s  Captain revealed this during a press conference in September 2025.

Sheriff’s Captain: “The way the voting system is structured, we see quite a few flaws. You’re able to register and cast a vote if you don’t live in the country as evidence of his brother in Pakistan.

I think we have some evidence of two or three other people out of the country that are voted? Is that correct? Yeah, approximately two or three other people out of the country, as well as people residing outside of the district.

The online voter registration system, it seems to be an honor system. Anybody can put information in there to register to vote. All you have to do is click a box and say that you’re not lying, and then you’ll get an email from the Secretary of State or something in the mail saying, Thank you for registering to vote. And there you are. Once you’re on the voter rolls, anytime an election comes around, guess what? You get mailed a ballot, right? You get mailed something to vote. So we found that a little bit problematic.

Via Wall Street Apes.

Here’s how Gavin Newsom steals California elections

San Joaquin County Sheriff says voting records show people from outside the country vote in California elections, including Pakistan

“The online voter registration system, it seems to be an honor system — You’re able to… pic.twitter.com/kmsRVC2v9G

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 27, 2025

Of course, California still has “open” elections where not only do they not know who is voting, but it is now illegal in California to ask for a phot ID to vote. And ballot counting goes on for several weeks after election day until Democrats can find enough votes to be declared the winner.

But California is not alone.

In 2020, Republican Poll challengers in Detroit, Michigan saw active-military ballots of 71-year-old people from Canada being counted in Detroit.

Elizabeth Forlini saw the fraud. She was processing absentee votes from active military members when she noticed odd birthdates. “1938, 1939, 1940, all for Biden.”

According to Forlini, there wasn’t even “one Trump ballot.”

Forlini wrote down a name and a ballot number she was so concerned. She wrote down the name of a 71 year old with an address in Detroit whose ballot was postmarked from Ontario.

Forlini said the ballot number was 4880. She relayed that the voter’s name was Kathy Leal, with a registered address of 4160 John R St. Detroit, MI, which Forlini was surprised that it was a location for the Karmanos Medical Center.

Calling the Karamos Medical Center, they had never heard of Ms. Leal or that address, and suggested the University Medical Center. Calling the University Medical Center, they said Ms. Leal has a registered address for a doctor’s office, but that her Suite number does not exist.

This tactic of using foreigners to win elections is nothing new to Democrats.

In fact, in 2024, Democrats announced that “overseas voters” could be the deciding factor in battleground states in 2024.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe in October 2024 and told the far left audience that the Democratic Party’s efforts to mobilize millions of American voters living abroad, highlighting the pivotal influence these overseas voters could have in battleground states, where close margins may decide the election’s outcome.

Heyman telegraphed to the American people that they believe the key to winning elections is getting 9 million individuals to vote for Kamala Harris, out of a total of 2.4 million eligible overseas voters (according to the U.S. government FVAP website).

The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray previously reported:

“None of the so-called “9 million voters” Democrats claim they are trying to recruit will have to prove their identity or even provide a legitimate address for their past or present residence in the United States.”

According to Heather Honey, formerly of Verity Vote, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) is a Federal law passed in 1986.

UOCAVA requires that the states allow members of the US Armed Forces, their family members, and US citizens who reside outside of the US to register and vote absentee in elections for Federal offices in a standardized format.

UOCAVA requires that the states allow members of the US Armed Forces, their family members, and US citizens who reside outside of the US to register and vote absentee in elections for Federal offices in a standardized format.

In our first article on UOCAVA Voters (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act), we explained how both federal and Democratic Party websites allow online voters to register without verification of identity or citizenship status.

US Citizens in the USA who would like to register to vote must share the last four digits of their Social Security number and/or provide a driver’s license or state-issued ID, but UOCAVA voters can bypass the requirement to share the last four digits of their Social Security number and/or provide a driver’s license or state-issued ID.

The screenshot below shows how the Democrat Party website, much like the federal government’s website, registers UOCAVA voters to vote in US elections and allows the user to bypass the ID portion of the online registration process.