This 50-minute conversation can be heard here, while following is how Hard Knock Radio describes the segment.
On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with Green Party candidate Dr. Butch Ware for a wide ranging conversation about ballot access, voter suppression, the crisis facing third party candidates, and the larger political climate heading into the California governor’s race. The discussion centered on Ware’s lawsuit against the California Secretary of State after officials attempted to remove him from the ballot over what he described as a minor clerical redaction issue in his tax documents.
Ware argued that the case against him was never really about paperwork. Instead, he framed it as a deliberate effort to sideline a growing third party campaign that is beginning to gain traction. He said both major parties play different roles in undermining democracy, with Republicans trying to challenge results after elections and Democrats working before elections to narrow the field and eliminate candidates who threaten their power. He rejected the long standing claim that Green candidates simply “spoil” elections for Democrats, saying the evidence does not support that argument and that many Green voters come from non-voters, independents, and people alienated by both parties.
Davey D pressed Ware on the fear many people feel in this political moment, especially with rising authoritarianism, attacks on voting rights, repression of dissent, and the weaponization of labels like “domestic terrorist” against radicals and progressives. Ware responded by saying that neither major party can be trusted to stop fascism because both have helped create the conditions for it. He insisted that only a real left opposition rooted in organizing, anti-imperialism, and working class politics can offer meaningful resistance.
The conversation also dug into Gaza, the influence of AIPAC and the Zionist lobby, media blackouts, and the pressure placed on candidates who speak openly against genocide and war. Ware said his anti war, anti corporate message is resonating precisely because so many voters are tired of being forced to choose between what he described as two compromised parties. He closed the interview by linking politics and Hip Hop culture, even delivering a fiery rap aimed at the political establishment, underscoring his belief that the fight for political change is also a fight happening through culture.
with Dr. Butch Ware, click here.
And if you’re in the Sacramento area today . . .
Above: Standing second from right with Dr. Butch Ware (center) and members of the Green Party of Minnesota at an iftar, the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims during Ramadan – Tuesday, March 3, 2026. This iftar was hosted by the Muslim American Caucus of the Green Party of Minnesota, and Dr. Ware was the event’s special guest.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
BUTCH WARE
• Introducing California’s Gubernatorial Candidate Butch Ware
• “People Really Want New Options in Politics”
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• “We Have the Power to Stop the Flow of Money and the False Legitimacy Upon Which Empire Depends”
• Photo of the Day – March 3, 2026
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – November 26, 2025
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – June 5, 2025
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – January 30, 2025
• The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview
• “This Is a Tragic, Heartbreaking Moment in the History of Humanity”: Butch Ware on the Gaza Genocide
• Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis
• Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”
• Butch Ware: “I’m Not Here as a Spoiler”
GREEN PARTY
• “Green Wave 2026 is Global”
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• An Opportunity for Organizing Against Duopoly
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• Something to Think About – December 8, 2024
• The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis
• Butch Ware: “I’m Not Here as a Spoiler”
• Jill Stein: “Americans Deserve Choices”
• Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy
• Something to Think About – August 15, 2024
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Cornel West: “The Next Step Is a Green Step, a Progressive Step”
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is a “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)
• Voting Green: Hope Over Fear
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