Seattle’s most famous and controversial elected official, Kshama Sawant, is headed for the exits in January after a decade on the City Council. In that time, she’s managed to win three ...

Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative have systematically violated every principle upon which they claim their “new movement” will be built.

Councilmember Kshama Sawant said the city should not add police to the Central District neighborhood after a day-time shooting sent bullets into a day care.

Kshama Sawant adeptly channeled the economic clashes and political rising tides of the 2010s. But it was always more story than substance, and at some point people stopped reading.

FILE - Seattle city councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks during a protest against family separation at the border and other immigration-related issues on Aug. 1, 2019, outside ICE headquarters in ...

Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council member and prominent socialist activist, has filed to run for Washington’s 9th Congressional District, challenging longtime Democratic incumbent Rep ...

Former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant says she'll run as an independent socialist in the upcoming race for Washington's 9th Congressional District.

Former socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant announced Monday that she's running to unseat longtime U.S. Rep. Adam Smith. Smith, a Democrat, has represented Washington's 9th ...

SEATTLE — Former socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant announced she will run against 9th Congressional District incumbent Rep. Adam Smith, making some biting remarks about Smith in ...

Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who took on Amazon and others over the years in an effort to tax big businesses, will not seek re-election to the Seattle City Council. Sawant, ...

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant says she is not running for re-election. Sawant said she is choosing not to run again and instead will help the launch of a national workers’ movement.

RELATED | Kshama Sawant will not seek re-election on Seattle City Council. In 2020, Sawant was at the forefront of a push to defund the police department by 50%, and while cuts did happen, ...