After college, Farias worked in New York City as a researcher for the A&E documentary series "The Eagle and The Bear", which looked at the history of US-Soviet relations through the prism of the Cold War.
In October 2003, Farias joined the Howard Dean presidential campaign as an aide and met physician and radio personality Mike Newcomb.
In 2005, Farias moved to the new Air America Radio station featured at KXXT where he was given a weekend show called the "Truth to Power Hour", which he co-hosted with Arizona state Representative Kyrsten Sinema.
Farias, as a talk show host, interviewed many political figures, including Scott Ritter, Mike Malloy, Cindy Sheehan, Rev.
In October 2008, on the eve of the Obama-McCain election, Farias, an old school democrat living in John McCain's home state became involved in a minor controversy.