Here's what she's done that i believe warrants support. Thanks for posting, I hope this brings understanding.

Sawant is actively creating some of the country's strongest rental protections. as of last month, Seattle landlords can no longer evict:
- families with schoolkids and education workers during the school year. only other city doing this is SF.
- due to COVID rental debt
- without just cause
- without informing their tenant about the availability of a city lawyer
As some in these comments have articulated concern about these changes, i want to point out the just cause bit - the regulations now state that landlords need to have a good reason to evict someone. If you were not in the practice of evicting people without good reason, then nothing has changed.

Not long after after SPD's cynical clouds of teargas, Sawant got a ban in place on SPD using chemical weapons. She is currently working to ban their participation in the deadly exchange of training with the Israeli Defense Force

She fought for and won the Amazon Tax - the first municipal tax ever applied to Amazon. I've seen some in here attributing that to other councilmembers. While the majority of the council did vote for Jumpstart Seattle (refusing to name the uberprofitable companies it targets) they did so to prevent a larger $500M ballot initiative from going before voters as a ballot initiative. And once passing JS they immediately set about hamstringing by adding a 10 year sunset clause.

the impact of winning the $15 minimum wage cannot be understated. It did spread to other cities and even Biden was forced to talk about it this year (though he abandoned it, big surprise). But in 2015 there was fierce opposition from the business elite, who prophesized doom and gloom. None of their fears came to pass but many of them are now Recall donors and Compassion Seattle advocates.