Claire Valdez is a candidate for New York’s 7th Congressional District.
The most effective counter to Donald Trump’s State of the Union lies is an affordability agenda with teeth, writes New York socialist assemblymember Claire Valdez, backed up by an organized working-class majority.
Socialist state assembly member and former UAW organizer Claire Valdez is running for Congress in New York’s 7th district. We spoke to her about the race, the right and wrong ways to fight Donald Trump, and how the labor movement changed her life.
Next year, New York’s democratic socialists hope to grow their bloc in the state legislature by electing union organizer Claire Valdez, who is running to represent Assembly District 37 in Queens. Jacobin spoke with Valdez about her campaign.