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🚨 DSA Is Already Plotting Its 2027–2028 Power Grab DSA NPC member Sidney Carlson White was on tonight’s The DSA Difference call telling chapters to start preparing now for the 2027 and 2028 elections. “DSA thinks in years and decades, not news cycles.” DSA is not resting on its... laurels. Its national leadership is already thinking about the next campaign cycle, the next slate of candidates, and how to use national infrastructure to make those candidates more disciplined, more fearless, and more aligned with DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program, which I exposed last month. White is explicit that this is not just about winning elections. DSA sees elections, unions, street protests, tenant organizing, and national coordination as pieces of one “holistic political vision.”show more

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39,304 views • 5 months ago

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213,953 views • 16 days ago

Black America is more dependent on welfare and government jobs than any other group, so why is DSA a white college club that can’t sign them up? Blacks are 13% of the population, take 28% of SNAP, and fill 19% of federal jobs. Nonmarital births near 70% drive the poverty that keeps the dependency high. Polls give them HIGHER favorability for SOCIALISM than whites (52% to 31%) so we know the bigger checks already sell. And yet, DSA membership stays some 85% white with black numbers stuck in the single digits. And that’s because so far (1) the DSA pushes defunding the police and open borders while black neighborhoods eat the crime, and (2) it runs secular campus culture that is more urban, white, and not exactly working class. So blacks just stick with the Democratic machine that already cuts the checks. HOWEVER, when DSA candidates drop the culture war and run pure economics as they’ve done in places like DC, they win black wards the same way Democrats already lock in socially conservative Black churchgoers who take the welfare programs and ignore the rest of the socially liberal bs. That limited focus is enough for them now and it will be enough for DSA.

Black America is more dependent on welfare and government jobs than any other group, so why is DSA a white college club that can’t sign them up? Blacks are 13% of the population, take 28% of SNAP, and fill 19% of federal jobs. Nonmarital births near 70% drive the poverty that keeps the dependency high. Polls give them HIGHER favorability for SOCIALISM than whites (52% to 31%) so we know the bigger checks already sell. And yet, DSA membership stays some 85% white with black numbers stuck in the single digits. And that’s because so far (1) the DSA pushes defunding the police and open borders while black neighborhoods eat the crime, and (2) it runs secular campus culture that is more urban, white, and not exactly working class. So blacks just stick with the Democratic machine that already cuts the checks. HOWEVER, when DSA candidates drop the culture war and run pure economics as they’ve done in places like DC, they win black wards the same way Democrats already lock in socially conservative Black churchgoers who take the welfare programs and ignore the rest of the socially liberal bs. That limited focus is enough for them now and it will be enough for DSA.

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🚨 Neville Roy Singham’s Niece Says DSA’s New York Wins Could Lead to a Socialist Presidential Campaign Alicia Singham Goodwin, the niece of far-left billionaire financier Neville Roy Singham, is a member of NYC DSA’s Steering Committee. She joined tonight’s DSA call celebrating its New York victories to discuss where the organization goes next. Goodwin said DSA’s electoral wins are “just one piece” of building the power needed to “transform people’s lives.” She laid out the next phase: freezing the rent, fighting for fast and free buses, moving from Zohran’s 2,000-childcare pilot to universal childcare, and using 2027 in Albany to tax the rich. She made clear this will require pressure from DSA members on the ground: “We’ll have the same uphill battle that we’ve had every year we fought to tax the rich, but we’re going in with double the number of our socialists in office and hopefully double the number of DSA members on the ground to really keep the pressure up.” Then she pointed to 2028... “If we grow and we build enough between now and then, the next year in 2028, we might be working on a campaign for a democratic socialist for president.” Goodwin closed by asking people not just to join DSA or pay local dues, but to “become an organizer.” Not gonna lie, after everything I know and everything I’ve seen, seeing her of all people on that call was a genuine holy-crap moment. Especially when she’s the one delivering the socialist presidency message.

🚨 Neville Roy Singham’s Niece Says DSA’s New York Wins Could Lead to a Socialist Presidential Campaign Alicia Singham Goodwin, the niece of far-left billionaire financier Neville Roy Singham, is a member of NYC DSA’s Steering Committee. She joined tonight’s DSA call celebrating its New York victories to discuss where the organization goes next. Goodwin said DSA’s electoral wins are “just one piece” of building the power needed to “transform people’s lives.” She laid out the next phase: freezing the rent, fighting for fast and free buses, moving from Zohran’s 2,000-childcare pilot to universal childcare, and using 2027 in Albany to tax the rich. She made clear this will require pressure from DSA members on the ground: “We’ll have the same uphill battle that we’ve had every year we fought to tax the rich, but we’re going in with double the number of our socialists in office and hopefully double the number of DSA members on the ground to really keep the pressure up.” Then she pointed to 2028... “If we grow and we build enough between now and then, the next year in 2028, we might be working on a campaign for a democratic socialist for president.” Goodwin closed by asking people not just to join DSA or pay local dues, but to “become an organizer.” Not gonna lie, after everything I know and everything I’ve seen, seeing her of all people on that call was a genuine holy-crap moment. Especially when she’s the one delivering the socialist presidency message.

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🚨 THEY’RE NOT DONE, AOC FOR PRESIDENT? LOL! Even the Wall Street Journal is now admitting what many of us already knew: Do not rule out an AOC presidential run. 30+ million social media followers. Ability to pack crowds. And the DSA is only growing more powerful inside the Democrat Party. The far left is not moderating. They’re consolidating. 2028 is going to be a CIRCUS!

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39,359 views • 1 month ago

.Alyssa Farah Griffin mocks the DSA on CNN NewsNight and calls them out for not caring about affordability: “The rise of the DSA, some of this is, yes, economic in nature. I think a lot of it is overeducated, younger, largely white voters who frankly are more motivated by cultural issues, by issues like Gaza, and they’re kind of just putting all of their energy behind a progressive cause. But you don’t see most of these candidates prioritizing first and foremost affordability and bringing down the cost of living. It is much more these third rail issues.”

.Alyssa Farah Griffin mocks the DSA on CNN NewsNight and calls them out for not caring about affordability: “The rise of the DSA, some of this is, yes, economic in nature. I think a lot of it is overeducated, younger, largely white voters who frankly are more motivated by cultural issues, by issues like Gaza, and they’re kind of just putting all of their energy behind a progressive cause. But you don’t see most of these candidates prioritizing first and foremost affordability and bringing down the cost of living. It is much more these third rail issues.”

Steve Guest

27,817 views • 1 month ago

🚨 Dave Smith’s DSA Analysis Falls Apart Immediately Libertarians, you don’t have to agree with me on everything. But if you want serious DSA coverage based on what the organization is actually saying and doing internally, please consider my work. Dave Smith’s DSA analysis is not good, which is shocking given how confidently he talks about it, the fact that he is a libertarian, and his ties to New York. He gets a few things right, but this is not high-level analysis of the socialist left. The most revealing part is that Dave seems unsure whether Zohran Mamdani is actually a democratic socialist or meaningfully connected to DSA. Zohran is one of DSA’s clearest success stories, someone recruited, trained, elevated, and elected through the movement. He is the poster boy for DSA and one of the clearest examples of DSA’s project to build power through the Democratic ballot line. Dave treats all of this like little-d little-s “democratic socialism,” as if these are just welfare liberals who are not really socialists and occasionally latch onto whatever issue is trending. But DSA is not randomly latching onto wokeism, Bernie, Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon. These positions flow from a worldview. When DSA “latches onto” something, whether it is anti-ICE activism, Gaza, or labor militancy, it is usually because the organization wants to operate inside the broader movement space and pull those fights into its socialist project. Libertarians should be the people most interested in getting this right. If your opponents are openly trying to put government, unions, and socialist institutions into every corner of economic and civic life while building a democratic socialist republic, you should probably know what they actually believe.

🚨 Dave Smith’s DSA Analysis Falls Apart Immediately Libertarians, you don’t have to agree with me on everything. But if you want serious DSA coverage based on what the organization is actually saying and doing internally, please consider my work. Dave Smith’s DSA analysis is not good, which is shocking given how confidently he talks about it, the fact that he is a libertarian, and his ties to New York. He gets a few things right, but this is not high-level analysis of the socialist left. The most revealing part is that Dave seems unsure whether Zohran Mamdani is actually a democratic socialist or meaningfully connected to DSA. Zohran is one of DSA’s clearest success stories, someone recruited, trained, elevated, and elected through the movement. He is the poster boy for DSA and one of the clearest examples of DSA’s project to build power through the Democratic ballot line. Dave treats all of this like little-d little-s “democratic socialism,” as if these are just welfare liberals who are not really socialists and occasionally latch onto whatever issue is trending. But DSA is not randomly latching onto wokeism, Bernie, Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon. These positions flow from a worldview. When DSA “latches onto” something, whether it is anti-ICE activism, Gaza, or labor militancy, it is usually because the organization wants to operate inside the broader movement space and pull those fights into its socialist project. Libertarians should be the people most interested in getting this right. If your opponents are openly trying to put government, unions, and socialist institutions into every corner of economic and civic life while building a democratic socialist republic, you should probably know what they actually believe.

Stu Smith

13,395 views • 2 months ago

🚨 New DSA Talking Point Just Dropped! Communists Inside DSA Are Apparently Just “Highly Obscure Historical Strains” Paola Ramos of The Moment podcast point-blank asked DSA’s national co-chairs whether they consider themselves communists and what separates communism from DSA. Megan Romer took the question, but never really answered either part. Instead, she describes DSA as a “big tent” stretching from social democrats to “highly obscure historical strains” that she sometimes struggles to understand. But she never mentions Maoists. She never mentions Trotskyists. She never even mentions Marxist-Leninists, despite her own affiliation with the Red Star Caucus. These “highly obscure historical strains” wield real power inside the organization, actively shaping its policies and priorities. Romer eventually defines democratic socialism as “transferring power from the ruling class to the working class,” including through elections, labor unions, and tenant unions.

🚨 New DSA Talking Point Just Dropped! Communists Inside DSA Are Apparently Just “Highly Obscure Historical Strains” Paola Ramos of The Moment podcast point-blank asked DSA’s national co-chairs whether they consider themselves communists and what separates communism from DSA. Megan Romer took the question, but never really answered either part. Instead, she describes DSA as a “big tent” stretching from social democrats to “highly obscure historical strains” that she sometimes struggles to understand. But she never mentions Maoists. She never mentions Trotskyists. She never even mentions Marxist-Leninists, despite her own affiliation with the Red Star Caucus. These “highly obscure historical strains” wield real power inside the organization, actively shaping its policies and priorities. Romer eventually defines democratic socialism as “transferring power from the ruling class to the working class,” including through elections, labor unions, and tenant unions.

Stu Smith

62,906 views • 1 month ago