Ritter responded by calling the BRICS the “new club”, and said, “We need to get people like Diane into the U.S. Senate to promote peace.”

A SOCRATIC CAMPAIGN

Both Sare and Vega apply what she describes as “Lyndon LaRouche’s approach to campaigning, which is really a Socratic dialogue where you’re transforming the people that you’re engaging with by finding those areas of disagreement and developing a higher conception.”  Vega has honed this method as an intervenor, challenging officials, including Biden, Vice President Harris, former CIA Director and admitted liar Mike Pompeo, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, exposing their hypocrisy and lies in public forums.

The problem which must be addressed, he said, is that the people have no voice.  He described his campaign strategy as building an independent force against the war, and for a new strategic and development paradigm, in every Congressional District.  In a June 1 presentation at the LaRouche Organization’s Manhattan Project, he said, “We need 435 people in the country—at least one in every Congressional district—standing up to tell the truth, deciding that they are going to be the person in that Congressional district to tell the truth. That doesn’t mean that everybody is going to run for Congress or Senate; although that might include that. It’s just somebody who decides ‘You know what? My Congressman is saying a lot of lies; the media is saying a lot of lies. I’m going to elect myself to just tell the truth.’ If that’s intervening…if that’s protesting and picketing, whatever it looks like, somebody has to elect themselves to be one of the people, part of this 435 different voice process.”

TAKING ON ADVOCATES OF PERMANENT WAR

Vega is running against incumbent Representative Ritchie Torres, who describes himself as a “champion of Israel,” and is an unapologetic defender of Netanyahu’s and the Israel Defense Force’s murderous campaign against the civilian population of Gaza and the West Bank, which has already taken more than 37,000 lives.   Torres has received $600,000 in campaign funds in the last three years from AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the leading Zionist “lobbying firm”, which attacks any criticism of Israeli policy as “antisemitic.”

He was identified in a {New York Times} special report, “Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers with Influence Campaign on Gaza War”, published June 5, as one of the targets of the campaign.  The article details an Israeli government operation “targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging.”   Hundreds of fake accounts were set up on social media platforms, producing posts calling on Congressmen to support funding for Israel’s military operations.  The {Times} reported that Torres was receiving messages from fake accounts condemning “antisemitism on college campuses.”  The article describes him as “outspoken about his pro-Israel views.”