Anchorage Daily News article features news of Richard Grayson's campaign for U.S. Senator from Alaska

Today, October 16, 2025, the Anchorage Daily News published an article by Iris Samuels, "Begich and Sullivan maintain fundraising efforts ahead of 2026 elections," that mentions Richard Grayson's Green Party candidacy for the U.S. Senate from Alaska in its final paragraph:

The Alaska Democratic Party has indicated that though no Democratic contenders have filed to run as of Thursday, it plans to field candidates in both congressional races.

“We’re working on candidate recruitment,” Alaska Dems Executive Director Jenny-Marie Stryker said in an interview Wednesday. “There’s lots of planning that’s happening on our side, and we’re going to be ready for those races.”

Though no candidate with Democratic Party backing has entered the race, several people have filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission indicating plans to place their names on Alaska’s ballot.

Among them is Richard Grayson, an Arizona resident who filed to run for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat as a member of the Green Party. He is attempting to form a fundraising committee titled “Sophisticated Cosmopolitan Anti-Fascist Brooklynite Richard Grayson for Alaska Senator.”

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Mid-December, 1999 | Richard Grayson

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Mid-December, 1999 | Richard Grayson

Biden Supporters Richard Grayson and Daniel Grayson are quoted in Dagens Nyheter article, "Äldre i Sun City välkomnar Biden till pensionärsparadiset"

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest morning newspaper, has an article by Bjorn af Kleen published today, Wednesday, February 14, 2024, "Äldre i Sun City välkomnar Biden till pensionärsparadiset,that quotes Richard Grayson as saying he would support Joe Biden's reelection even if the President were on a ventilator and his 97-year-old father as saying that he would vote for a dog against Donald Trump.

Demokraten Richard Grayson i Apache Junction är faktiskt från Brooklyn, New York. Males bor tillfälligt i Arizona för att ta hand om sin 97-årige far.

Den här söndagsmorgonen är pappa Daniel rasande på New York Instances, som vidarebefordrade resultaten från ännu en undersökning som bekräftar att cirka 7 av 10 amerikaner oroar sig för Bidens ålder. Presidenten för gammal?! Ganska behagligt diskret! protestera far och son Grayson. Den första mandatperiodens triumfer – ny infrastruktur, ett historiskt klimatpaket, en börs som går som ett tåg – talar för sig själva. Until skillnad från Trump behöver Biden inte skramla med tomma tunnor. – Jag skulle rösta på en hund som kandiderar mot Trump, säger 97-årige Daniel Grayson.

Google translate:

I would vote for Joe Biden even if he was on a ventilator, says 73-year-old university librarian Richard Grayson. He lives in Apache Junction, east of Phoenix, in a neighborhood so heavily Republican that two of the neighbors have flown flags at half-staff every day since Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021. Democratic voters are in the minority in Apache Junction, but those who hold out are almost as devoted to their party as their Republican neighbors are to theirs. "Vote Blue No Matter Who" - vote blue no matter who - signs an ally until the Grayson family. Apache Junction Democrat Richard Grayson is actually from Brooklyn, New York, but lives temporarily in Arizona to take care of his 97-year-old father. This Sunday morning, Father Daniel is furious at New York Instances, which relayed the results of yet another poll confirming that about 7 in 10 Americans worry about Biden's age. The president too old?! Quite pleasantly discreet! protest father and son Grayson. The triumphs of the first term – new infrastructure, a historic climate package, a stock market that runs like a train – speak for themselves. Unlike Trump, Biden does not need to rattle off empty barrels. - I would vote for a dog running against Trump, says 97-year-old Daniel Grayson.

Thursday Morning in Downtown Brooklyn: "We Are All Arizona" March over Brooklyn Bridge gathers at Cadman Plaza

Along with an enormous crowd of people from all walks of life, we gathered early this morning at Cadman Plaza in downtown Brooklyn for the "We Are All Arizona" march over the Brooklyn Bridge and rally at Foley Square.

Here are some of the pics we took in Brooklyn

before our cell phone memory gave out just before we were about to get on the bridge.


Yesterday, in what was no surprise to anyone familiar with constitutional law, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction to halt today's implementation of the xenophobic, racist, and hateful Arizona immigration law,

SB 1070, from going into effect. (We turned on the news at 3 p.m. expecting to hear about the injunction, and we were not disappointed.)

But today is a nationwide protest against Arizona,

which is appealing the ruling to the Ninth Circuit

and no doubt the final decision will come from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Demonstrations still went on all over the Cactus State and the entire nation in a National Day of Action Against SB 1070,

including our protest starting in downtown Brooklyn this morning.

Luckily the rain cleared up about an hour before.

We waited for about half an hour for everyone to arrive before the march began.

It was great to see so many people of all ages turn out, both individuals with homemade signs and members of religious, political, and social action organizations.





We'll let the news media give the coverage of today's event,

but it really made us feel good to see so many folks come out and support Arizona's beleaguered immigrant community and stand up for justice and the American way of doing things.

Our event today in New York was organized by the New Sanctuary Movement, Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project,

Churches United to Save & Heal, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights,

DRUM-Desis Rising Up & Moving, Black Institute, VAMOS Unidos,

American Friends Service Committee, and Wind of the Spirit (New Jersey).

It was sponsored by, among others, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition,

Damayan, Sistas and Brothas United, NY Immigration Coalition, World Can’t Wait, Sikh Coalition,

Urban Youth Collaborative, Immigrant Communities in Action, Center for Immigrant Families,

United for Peace and Justice, South Asian Americans Leading Together,

Boycott Arizona Coalition, Muslim Consultative Network, New Immigrant Community Empowerment,

CAAAV, Center for Constitutional Rights, Peekskill Area Pastors Association, La Union,

National Economic & Social Rights Initiative, Coney Island Avenue Project, Youth on the Move,

South Asian Bar Association of NY, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, Adhikaar, NYS Youth Leadership Council

- and that list isn't comprehensive, as you can tell by glancing at some of the banners here.

We are a part-time Arizona resident and we vote and have a house and car in Apache Junction.

Currently we're running for the as the only candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the August 24 Green Party primary in Arizona's Sixth Congressional Distict

in the East Valley of the Phoenix metro area. We support comprehensive reform and amnesty and obviously we oppose the odious SB 1070 and are always really happy to be in this city, but today we were especially glad and proud, to be in Brooklyn, a place we've loved since we were a boy.

Saturday Afternoon in Northeast Mesa: Driving in the Desert

Our mom, who has Alzheimer's, is sadly deteriorating, and it's a big strain on everyone. But she still loves to take drives in the late mornings and afternoons.

We often go from our house in Apache Junction to the northeast, up to look at the expensive homes on the roads leading to the mountains in the far northeast corner of Mesa.

One mountain has the Phoenix sign, on top. Today was warm and sunny, and we sit the back seat with our parents in front, just the way we did back in Brooklyn in the early 1950s when we were close to 6 and not 60.

For someone who lived for so many years in lush, semitropical Florida, the Sonoran Desert originally seemed ugly and barren to us.

"It's all brown all the time," one of our South Florida friends, once said of Arizona.

Well, sort of. But we like to come out here. We still prefer the excitement of street life in the city or the beaches of Florida or the gorgeousness of Gainesville. But we've come to appreciate the stark beauty.

Not that the desert gives a shit what we think of it.

"The finest quality of this...desert landscape is the indifference manifest to our presence, our absence, our coming, our staying or our going.

Whether we live or die is a matter of absolutely no concern whatsoever to the desert." - Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Besides, this is hardly the wilderness. Wildernesses don't have Walgreens.