Campaign mailers urging Ohio voters to support a socialist U.S. Senate candidate over Democratic nominee Sherrod Brown are being underwritten by a newly incorporated PAC with ties to Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc., public filings show.

The mailers are sponsored by Enough Promises Ohio PAC and began arriving in voters’ mailboxes in recent days. They promote independent candidate Greg Levy over Brown with messages such as “Join the Revolution” and “Send a Worker to the Senate.” Levy describes himself as “Socialist running for the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio in 2026” on his X account.

Levy condemned the fliers for falsely impersonating his campaign and engaging in “dirty tricks” designed to mislead voters. He said he is considering legal action.

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    A lot of voters (based on my own experience, a lot of older voters – yes I am aware there are many exceptions) are simply afraid of the word “socialism”.

    There are many good reasons why, not the least of which is it being at the center of a decades-long campaign by the US government to demonize anything that isn’t unfettered capitalism.

    Until there isn’t such a clear divide, this will be exploited. They know that a whole swath of voters who otherwise believe themselves to be progressive will falter at the polls if the S word comes up. It is one of the points of such a psyop.

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      And the leftists will fall for it every time.

      Add key words like:

      “Genocide”

      “Single payer health care”

      “Trans rights”

      Say Dixon doesn’t support any of those and leftists will either a) not vote or b) vote for the fake socialist.

      It’s Jill Stein all over again.

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        Appeal to leftist voters ❌ Guilt trip leftist voters ✅

        Liberals wonder why they can’t form a coalition. Last time we listened to you was when you idiots convinced people fetterman was “our guy”. So yea fuck the Democrat party for being shit at messaging

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              I never said dead pal. Just if you’re not going to be part of the solution, then just don’t bother being part of the public discourse.

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            I remember being told my vote “wasn’t needed” back in 2016 when you liberals lost to Trump the first time. You’re an arrogant bunch who never learn from your mistakes because you’d rather blame leftists and play divide and conquer games. Which ironically makes you sound more like maga than leftists do.

            Btw I did vote for Clinton (and Biden and Harris). But plenty of people aren’t going to forget the way you liberals shit talk them and won’t be as forgiving.

            Liberals need every ounce of support they can get. It’s crazy to me that despite the last ten years you’d still be dumb enough to tell people off and claim you don’t need a coalition when you very, very obviously do.

            Maybe try learning from actual leaders like Talarico who are able to appeal to all anti-fascists instead of being intentionally divisive.

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              No offense, but leftists are so unreliable, whiny, and useless most of the time that we might as well not even have your vote.

              Leftists are the type that while being loaded into a concentration camp they keep yelling at least I stood by my convictions.

              I detest Maga more than anybody, but at least they show up.

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                  You’re unreliable because none of you fuckin vote in the primaries and most of you don’t vote in the general. Now here’s the part where you deliberately misunderstand how the system works to try to claim voting is pointless or some other accelerationist bullshit. You are getting the representation you’re actively asking for.

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                  I’m sure the Palestinians, Alex Pretti, Renee Good, the dreamers, the TPS Haitians, the Ukrainians, the Venuzuelans, Greenland, Canada, women in the south and Texas, black military who worked their way up, trans folks, and Taiwan agree with your stance.

                  Take your entitled white leftist ass back to the basement because clearly you don’t care about the ramifications of the vote; just your feelings.

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                While you guys willingly would build concentration camps as long as one republican changes over to your side

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                  “At LeAsT i StOoD bY mY cOnViCtIoNs.”

                  Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. It’s honestly why black folk like myself just don’t take most leftists seriously. You don’t look at the big picture or the ramifications of your actions or lack there of and you continue to die on the hill of “my way or no way.”

                  Just. Like. MAGA.

                  And Corporate democrats have been side eyed for two decades now but black folk don’t have much of a choice as it’s either those sad sack of shits or literal fascists who want us back in chains. Things that many white entitled leftists don’t have to worry about.

                  And third parties are not an option here as we don’t do a parliament system here where a third option can occur and actually win. That ship sailed with Ross Perot.

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      There is no democrat infighting because the socialist that they are promoting are not Democrats. Socialists are not Democrats. Communists are not Democrats. Democrats are Democrats.

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    Levy condemned the fliers for falsely impersonating his campaign and engaging in “dirty tricks” designed to mislead voters. He said he is considering legal action.

    “This is a highly undemocratic practice and does a disservice to voters in Ohio and throughout the country,” he wrote on X.

    According to Federal Election Commission filings, Enough Promises Ohio was founded Sept. 29. It has not yet had to disclose its contributors, but additional federal filings lay out a trail of associations linked to Republicans.

    https://www.greg4senate.com/platform

    From this foundation, we will make the essentials of life constitutional rights for every person in Ohio and across America. This means enacting a national rent cap so no one pays more than 20% of their income on housing, and banning evictions. It means establishing a universal, single-payer healthcare system, free at the point of use. It means canceling all student debt and making public education, from pre-K through college and trade school, completely free. To immediately combat the cost-of-living crisis, we will implement an across-the-board price freeze on essential goods. We will repeal Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful” tax cuts for the rich.

    This new vision is critical for Ohio, a state hard-hit by decades of deindustrialization enabled by the capitalist greed of both Democrat and Republican parties. We will rebuild our communities through a socialist industrial policy that puts working families first and corporate profits last. This will put Ohio’s proud union labor back to work at a living wage, manufacturing the renewable energy systems, transit and housing materials needed to slash emissions and rebuild America. Ohio workers will be integral in powering our push for 20 million union jobs nationwide, restoring manufacturing to its historic peak.

    The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence, which could displace a third of workers by 2030, should not mean layoffs and exploitation. Under public ownership and democratic control, technological progress can be harnessed to shorten the workweek and improve our lives, finally creating an economy that works for the many, not the few.

    We are told we live in a democracy, but in Ohio, our lives are dictated in Wall Street boardrooms. The truth is that billionaires and democracy cannot coexist. Our system isn’t broken; it’s working for the rich exactly as intended. Despite the theatrics, both Republicans and Democrats serve their true constituents: the billionaire class. The proof is everywhere: in the lobbyists who write our laws, the unelected and unrecallable Supreme Court that tramples our rights, the bankers at the Federal Reserve who control our economy, and the millionaires club that is the U.S. Congress.

    This isn’t a government of the people; it is a dictatorship of the rich. Our aim is the total reorganization of power into the hands of the working class. We will outlaw corporate lobbying and political donations, prosecute the powerful for their crimes, and set the salary of Congress to the minimum worker’s wage to ensure they live in the world they create for us. We will move to abolish the anti-democratic Senate and the illegitimate Supreme Court, transferring their powers to more democratic and accountable bodies. This isn’t a government of the people; it is a dictatorship of the rich. Our aim is the total reorganization of power into the hands of the working class. We will outlaw corporate lobbying and political donations, prosecute the powerful for their crimes, and set the salary of Congress to the minimum worker’s wage to ensure they live in the world they create for us. We will move to abolish the anti-democratic Senate and the illegitimate Supreme Court, transferring their powers to more democratic and accountable bodies.

    OK lots of promises. Who is this guy? What is his plan to achieve these promises? Is he really a socialist?

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    Putting ‘join the revolution’ on the pamphlet demonstrates that the far-right operatives pushing it think that left-wing voters must inherently be marxists.

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    Sounds about right. The cons are sowing lots of “Democrats in disarray” narratives, too.

    It’s completely brainless to throw away your vote, most especially at this time. But you just know people will do it.

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            The people who caused MAGA and Trump are the ones who pushed for spoiler candidates, people who demanded unachievable perfection, and people who repeated conservative propaganda

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            Just admit you’re a closet MAGA. Any leftist that cannot do the right thing and are more focused on their fee fees and performative “be on the right side of history” nonsense are just that.

            You sound just like one.

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              Democrats had 4 years to reign in Trump and they did shit all. Plus you want us to support fetterman like candidates because “they are our only hope”. Fuck the Democrat party. They are controlled opposition

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                Two years with a small majority with some assholes who refused to agree to override the filibuster and vote for important laws and measures. If they would’ve been given a larger majority those assholes wouldn’t have been able to block anything.

                The controlled opposition is literally the article of this post - they’re trying to get you to vote for candidates they actually control and your response is to help them

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                  Ok cool story bro.

                  But why do you expect people to vote for a neo liberal pro Reaganomics Democrat? Why do you expect people to vote against their own self interest when we are all struggling and these Democrats will do shit all to help them? When Biden was in power he didn’t do anything to stop inflation from hurting the working class and tbh so far Trump is pulling a lot of levers to keep prices “under control”. I am absolutely stunned the war in Iran didn’t fucking destroy the market, cause insane gas prices and massive inflation yet! So how the fuck is Trump administration able to get a handle on it that Biden didn’t? Is it because Biden didn’t want to fuck with the profit of corporations? Or was he just fucking incompetent?

                  So yea most Democrats are controlled opposition, they are controlled by corporations just like Republicans are. Look at Gavin Newsom: he’s a fucking elitist shit that is pretty much Republican lite.

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    Levy is a joke anyway but I’m honestly not sure who they think theyre appealing to here.

    There are a very, very small amount of people here who would like that language. Much less we’re inundated with that garbage daily from many candidates.

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        Ohioan here who got the Join the Revolution mailer.

        Not certain on TimBuck2theMoon’s meaning on "joke’, but Ohio does first past the post voting, which enforces a 2 party system. As long as we have first past the post voting, any 3rd party candidate is a joke candidate.

        Levy doesn’t really have a chance, but can pull votes away from Brown (Dem candidate).

        Personally, I’d rather vote for a socialist, but that’s only slightly better than not voting and the Republicans being in power is too great a threat to ignore.

        The time to vote socialist is during the primaries to try to replace moderates with actual left leaning candidates. Outside of primary season, we can critize and pressure the Dems to actually do something productive, but wasting votes in battleground states just enables the fascists to win and they won’t be pressured from the left.