La Riva. If you’re gonna vote for someone who won’t win, you might as well vote for the party with Marxist politics, consistently good positions on imperialism, and a presence outside of elections.

Also, PSL is steadily creeping onto the ballot in other states. They just got on in Arkansas of all places, so who knows?

Greens is on the ballot and almost has federal funding

Hawkins is more likely to be on the ballot.

La Riva if it’s just a protest vote and you want to be “morally correct,” for whatever that’s worth. You can write in La Riva in almost every state she’s not on the ballot, but be aware that your vote will be reported in the media as “other.”

Hawkins if you think you might help the greens get the 5% for federal funding or whatever percentage they need in your state to get automatic ballot access for state-level races for the next 4 years (between 2-5% where that’s a thing, I think). Hawkins is good, and got a couple nominations from socialist parties before muscling into the Green primary. The greens, overall, are dogshit (but maybe co-optable – they couldn’t keep Howie out, despite protest).