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🚨 From Bernie to “Full-Fledged Communists”: Inside DSA’s Radicalization Christopher Winston, known by many for his online moniker BlackRedGuard, is never one to hide behind language or dodge a question. He says people who entered DSA through Bernie Sanders have since become “full-fledged communists.” He says younger members are... drawn to Red Rabbits, DSA security team largely focused on protests, because they like seeing DSA “actually taking this stuff seriously.” And a lot has changed in the last few years for Winston as he became a national DSA leader. He is co-chair of National AfroSoc, sits on the steering committee of a national Red Rabbits Security Commission, leads a local Red Rabbits subcommittee, and serves as a political education co-chair. Meanwhile, he openly talks about “toppling and overthrowing this shit,” says “the proletariat must eventually eat up the bourgeoisie,” upholds “protracted people’s war,” and would like to see the state become a Maoist “proletarian weapon.” These are tame considering other past comments on his. What I wish journalists interviewing DSA leaders would do is move beyond simply accepting the “big tent” explanation and actually press them on the figures gaining influence inside the organization. Christopher Winston is a perfect example. If someone holds multiple local and national roles while openly advocating Marxist-Leninist-Maoist politics, “protracted people’s war,” and revolutionary state power, DSA’s leadership should be asked directly what that says about the organization’s trajectory.show more

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As unrest spreads and anti-ICE protests escalate, DSA formed the “Red Rabbits Security Commission” for what it calls “community defense.” Then it put a self-described Maoist, Christopher Winston, on the commission. When some inside DSA tried to remove him, they lost in a vote. Listen closely; this is the Maoist security culture DSA is normalizing. “You’re in a caucus full of Maoist gun nuts.” “We are at war.” “If you refuse to arm yourself, you deserve what happens to you.” He even boasts about helping found a Red Rabbits subcommittee in his own city because members need to “start taking this shit seriously.” None of this was news to DSA leadership. During the NPC discussion, member Jeremy Cohan said he only knew about Winston because of media coverage of Winston’s comments supporting Elias Rodriguez. Even then, the NPC still voted to keep Winston in place.

As unrest spreads and anti-ICE protests escalate, DSA formed the “Red Rabbits Security Commission” for what it calls “community defense.” Then it put a self-described Maoist, Christopher Winston, on the commission. When some inside DSA tried to remove him, they lost in a vote. Listen closely; this is the Maoist security culture DSA is normalizing. “You’re in a caucus full of Maoist gun nuts.” “We are at war.” “If you refuse to arm yourself, you deserve what happens to you.” He even boasts about helping found a Red Rabbits subcommittee in his own city because members need to “start taking this shit seriously.” None of this was news to DSA leadership. During the NPC discussion, member Jeremy Cohan said he only knew about Winston because of media coverage of Winston’s comments supporting Elias Rodriguez. Even then, the NPC still voted to keep Winston in place.

Stu Smith

26,521 views • 6 months ago

🚨 From “Stalin Was On It” to Red Rabbits: Inside Philly DSA’s Revolutionary Current James Ray of Philadelphia DSA is a perfect example of how DSA’s radical flank uses the organization to push the Overton window toward revolution. In this supercut, Ray jokes about putting ICE officers in camps, says he gets closer every day to thinking “Stalin was on it,” embraces being called a “jihadist,” and describes Jersey State Police as “Hitlerites” and “fascist dogs.” But the most important part is Ray’s role inside DSA. He lays out his work in international solidarity, local anti-apartheid organizing, and the Red Rabbits, “Philly DSA’s security and marshaling contingent.” In conversation with the infamous James Harr of Means TV, who people may remember from his “Most Wanted CEOs” deck, Harr and Ray discuss DSA as a place where anyone who enters is already more open to “the most radical position,” making it “the most fruitful ground” for Marxist-Leninists to win people over. People talk about DSA taking over the Democratic Party, and in many places it is. But inside DSA, people like Ray are dragging the organization toward revolutionary politics and making the radical flank less of a flank every year.

🚨 From “Stalin Was On It” to Red Rabbits: Inside Philly DSA’s Revolutionary Current James Ray of Philadelphia DSA is a perfect example of how DSA’s radical flank uses the organization to push the Overton window toward revolution. In this supercut, Ray jokes about putting ICE officers in camps, says he gets closer every day to thinking “Stalin was on it,” embraces being called a “jihadist,” and describes Jersey State Police as “Hitlerites” and “fascist dogs.” But the most important part is Ray’s role inside DSA. He lays out his work in international solidarity, local anti-apartheid organizing, and the Red Rabbits, “Philly DSA’s security and marshaling contingent.” In conversation with the infamous James Harr of Means TV, who people may remember from his “Most Wanted CEOs” deck, Harr and Ray discuss DSA as a place where anyone who enters is already more open to “the most radical position,” making it “the most fruitful ground” for Marxist-Leninists to win people over. People talk about DSA taking over the Democratic Party, and in many places it is. But inside DSA, people like Ray are dragging the organization toward revolutionary politics and making the radical flank less of a flank every year.

Stu Smith

25,102 views • 3 months ago

Have you read my newest City Journal piece on Christopher Winston, a Maoist streamer known as BlackRedGuard, who sits on DSA’s new Red Rabbits Security Commission? He tells his audience, “Until the last American flag is pulled down, we have to be on our shit,” and defines a “cadre” as “someone willing to die for this shit.” DSA’s top leaders voted 15–10 to keep him, despite a long record of extreme rhetoric that includes defending Elias Rodriguez.

Have you read my newest City Journal piece on Christopher Winston, a Maoist streamer known as BlackRedGuard, who sits on DSA’s new Red Rabbits Security Commission? He tells his audience, “Until the last American flag is pulled down, we have to be on our shit,” and defines a “cadre” as “someone willing to die for this shit.” DSA’s top leaders voted 15–10 to keep him, despite a long record of extreme rhetoric that includes defending Elias Rodriguez.

Stu Smith

29,599 views • 6 months ago

🚨 Inside DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” Socialism 2026 Panel: Abolish the Senate, Build “Militant” Unions, and Use a “Roadmap” to the “Big Thing” Not everyone is going to have time to sit through the full Hasan Piker panel on DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program at Socialism 2026, so here are some of my favorite moments that really hammer home what DSA’s national leaders, with Hasan as hype man, say they are trying to build. DSA national co-chair Megan Romer says, “we know we’re not abolishing the Senate tomorrow.” Instead, the program is a “roadmap” for DSA politicians, chapters, and union organizers to push toward goals like social housing, moving “a little policy here and a little policy there” that can “eventually build up to this big thing.” Fellow national co-chair Ashik Siddique says DSA is “not formally a party, although we are functioning more and more like one,” while describing an internal debate ranging from formally breaking away and creating a new party to trying to “realign the Democratic Party.” Michaela Branagan, co-chair of the Workers Deserve More Program Committee, casually says, “we also talk about abolishing the Senate because who needs a Senate, right?” She also points to “powerful militant democratic unions” as part of DSA’s vision of what “real democracy” should look like. And when labor power comes up, Siddique points to the historical ability of organized workers “to shut down the economy” and says, “we need to rebuild labor power.” Are you ready to #TrySocialism yet? So is “the big thing” just DSA-speak for the revolution?

🚨 Inside DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” Socialism 2026 Panel: Abolish the Senate, Build “Militant” Unions, and Use a “Roadmap” to the “Big Thing” Not everyone is going to have time to sit through the full Hasan Piker panel on DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program at Socialism 2026, so here are some of my favorite moments that really hammer home what DSA’s national leaders, with Hasan as hype man, say they are trying to build. DSA national co-chair Megan Romer says, “we know we’re not abolishing the Senate tomorrow.” Instead, the program is a “roadmap” for DSA politicians, chapters, and union organizers to push toward goals like social housing, moving “a little policy here and a little policy there” that can “eventually build up to this big thing.” Fellow national co-chair Ashik Siddique says DSA is “not formally a party, although we are functioning more and more like one,” while describing an internal debate ranging from formally breaking away and creating a new party to trying to “realign the Democratic Party.” Michaela Branagan, co-chair of the Workers Deserve More Program Committee, casually says, “we also talk about abolishing the Senate because who needs a Senate, right?” She also points to “powerful militant democratic unions” as part of DSA’s vision of what “real democracy” should look like. And when labor power comes up, Siddique points to the historical ability of organized workers “to shut down the economy” and says, “we need to rebuild labor power.” Are you ready to #TrySocialism yet? So is “the big thing” just DSA-speak for the revolution?

Stu Smith

33,585 views • 6 days ago

🚨 Meet the National DSA Leader Defending a “Community Force Under Communism” Hazel Williams sits on DSA’s National Political Committee, formerly co-chaired California DSA, and helped craft the language in DSA’s new platform calling for “steps towards abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state.” Williams makes clear that “abolish the police” does not necessarily mean no enforcement structure ever. It means abolishing police as a force of the capitalist state. In her own words, she does not mean abolishing “some community force under communism” that can “hold each other accountable.” The leaders from the “Commie Caucuses,” DSA’s own internal term, are often the ones pushing the organization further and further left, while the media still debates whether DSA really means the radical things it says. As media talking heads rush to condemn Trump for calling DSA electeds Communist, have they bothered to look at DSA’s board of directors, its National Political Committee, which is now majority Communist?

🚨 Meet the National DSA Leader Defending a “Community Force Under Communism” Hazel Williams sits on DSA’s National Political Committee, formerly co-chaired California DSA, and helped craft the language in DSA’s new platform calling for “steps towards abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state.” Williams makes clear that “abolish the police” does not necessarily mean no enforcement structure ever. It means abolishing police as a force of the capitalist state. In her own words, she does not mean abolishing “some community force under communism” that can “hold each other accountable.” The leaders from the “Commie Caucuses,” DSA’s own internal term, are often the ones pushing the organization further and further left, while the media still debates whether DSA really means the radical things it says. As media talking heads rush to condemn Trump for calling DSA electeds Communist, have they bothered to look at DSA’s board of directors, its National Political Committee, which is now majority Communist?

Stu Smith

365,343 views • 2 months ago

🚨 The Mask Is Off: DSA, ANSWER, and The People’s Forum Plan Weeks of “Escalation” At today’s ANSWER “Stop the War on Venezuela” webinar, Ashik Siddique, co-chair of DSA’s National Political Committee, pledged to “escalate” with The People’s Forum and ANSWER — “over the next few weeks.” Siddique is the DSA straightman, the buttoned-up milquetoast face of the organization, which is exactly why this matters. Even he is speaking in movement code about “the heart of empire,” “can’t leave any power on the table,” and finding “all the cracks” in a collapsing power structure and “hammer[ing] away.” This escalation plan is framed as a duty to weaken America from within. Don't be fooled by the "anti-war" framing. It’s an escalation pipeline packaged as solidarity.

🚨 The Mask Is Off: DSA, ANSWER, and The People’s Forum Plan Weeks of “Escalation” At today’s ANSWER “Stop the War on Venezuela” webinar, Ashik Siddique, co-chair of DSA’s National Political Committee, pledged to “escalate” with The People’s Forum and ANSWER — “over the next few weeks.” Siddique is the DSA straightman, the buttoned-up milquetoast face of the organization, which is exactly why this matters. Even he is speaking in movement code about “the heart of empire,” “can’t leave any power on the table,” and finding “all the cracks” in a collapsing power structure and “hammer[ing] away.” This escalation plan is framed as a duty to weaken America from within. Don't be fooled by the "anti-war" framing. It’s an escalation pipeline packaged as solidarity.

Stu Smith

79,040 views • 8 months ago

🚨 DSA Entryism 101 - Why Marxist-Leninists See DSA as Fertile Ground A lot of people still think DSA is mainly about electoral work. This clip with James Harr of Means Workwear and James Ray of Philly DSA shows something else, how DSA can function as a target for radical organizing and entryism. Ray is a great example of the kind of organizer who enters DSA not because it is the most disciplined revolutionary party, or even the closest fit for his politics, but because it has the biggest membership base, the most infrastructure, and people he believes can be moved further left. As Harr puts it, “Any person that comes into the DSA is already more open to the most radical position that you could have.” He then says, “Entering into that space as an ML [Marxist-Leninist] is the most fruitful ground for talking to people and convincing them of the most radical position.” What is being articulated here is entryism, reframed as organic organizing within a mass-membership institution.

🚨 DSA Entryism 101 - Why Marxist-Leninists See DSA as Fertile Ground A lot of people still think DSA is mainly about electoral work. This clip with James Harr of Means Workwear and James Ray of Philly DSA shows something else, how DSA can function as a target for radical organizing and entryism. Ray is a great example of the kind of organizer who enters DSA not because it is the most disciplined revolutionary party, or even the closest fit for his politics, but because it has the biggest membership base, the most infrastructure, and people he believes can be moved further left. As Harr puts it, “Any person that comes into the DSA is already more open to the most radical position that you could have.” He then says, “Entering into that space as an ML [Marxist-Leninist] is the most fruitful ground for talking to people and convincing them of the most radical position.” What is being articulated here is entryism, reframed as organic organizing within a mass-membership institution.

Stu Smith

22,319 views • 2 months ago

🚨 Democrats Are an “Imperialist Apparatus,” and an Ossoff-AOC Ticket Would Make This DSA Insider “Die a Little Inside” I went a little long on this supercut, but Philly DSA’s James Ray gave Briahna Joy Gray what I’d call a very good “everyman DSA” interview. They cover a lot of ground, from the Democratic Party as an oppositional force, to a genuinely useful explainer of DSA’s factional caucuses for anyone unfamiliar with the DSA Left vs. DSA Right, to the cross-caucus consensus behind DSA’s platform and the internal debate over an AOC presidential run. “The Democrats exist as another wing of an imperialist apparatus to ensure the maintenance of capital and to ensure the maintenance of US empire.” Ray says socialist elected officials operating as Democrats should be “consistently agitating” through “maximalist political rhetoric and actions.” On AOC, he calls her “a political careerist” and says even “defund [the police]” amounts to “moderate demands if you’re a socialist.” Then there’s the potential nightmare scenario of AOC ending up as Jon Ossoff’s VP. Gray jokes about people who think it would “mean so much to America if Jon Ossoff had a VP that was AOC,” and Ray says that outcome would make him “die a little on the inside.” A lot of people claim to be experts on DSA. I always find it more useful to go directly to the source and just listen. This interview is a great example of a DSA primary source. Ray is an up-and-coming and increasingly influential figure within the organization, and you get a much better sense of its internal politics by hearing him explain them in his own words. The fact that he thinks Jacobin has drifted too far to the right may capture the political moment, and the entryism at work inside DSA, better than almost anything else in the interview.

🚨 Democrats Are an “Imperialist Apparatus,” and an Ossoff-AOC Ticket Would Make This DSA Insider “Die a Little Inside” I went a little long on this supercut, but Philly DSA’s James Ray gave Briahna Joy Gray what I’d call a very good “everyman DSA” interview. They cover a lot of ground, from the Democratic Party as an oppositional force, to a genuinely useful explainer of DSA’s factional caucuses for anyone unfamiliar with the DSA Left vs. DSA Right, to the cross-caucus consensus behind DSA’s platform and the internal debate over an AOC presidential run. “The Democrats exist as another wing of an imperialist apparatus to ensure the maintenance of capital and to ensure the maintenance of US empire.” Ray says socialist elected officials operating as Democrats should be “consistently agitating” through “maximalist political rhetoric and actions.” On AOC, he calls her “a political careerist” and says even “defund [the police]” amounts to “moderate demands if you’re a socialist.” Then there’s the potential nightmare scenario of AOC ending up as Jon Ossoff’s VP. Gray jokes about people who think it would “mean so much to America if Jon Ossoff had a VP that was AOC,” and Ray says that outcome would make him “die a little on the inside.” A lot of people claim to be experts on DSA. I always find it more useful to go directly to the source and just listen. This interview is a great example of a DSA primary source. Ray is an up-and-coming and increasingly influential figure within the organization, and you get a much better sense of its internal politics by hearing him explain them in his own words. The fact that he thinks Jacobin has drifted too far to the right may capture the political moment, and the entryism at work inside DSA, better than almost anything else in the interview.

Stu Smith

24,802 views • 10 days 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

🚨 Is This Chris Cuomo Surrendering to DSA? Is DSA the Future of the Democratic Party? This Chris Cuomo segment almost feels like a surrender to the DSA. Cuomo frames the Democratic Socialists of America as the Democrats’ best shot at capturing populist affordability anger, then brings on DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique to make the socialist case. And who is the counterpoint? John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan, a Democratic mega-donor law-firm guy warning that socialism leads to Cuba and Venezuela. If the public face of the anti-DSA argument inside Democratic politics is a wealthy establishment Democrat telling people to trust the old Bill Clinton model while sounding like a Cold War PSA, then DSA has already won the optics fight before Ashik even opens his mouth. The worst part is that Morgan is basically right about the danger. He is just the worst possible messenger for it. If I had his ear, I would have told him to stop doing generic “socialism bad” warnings and get specific. Hit DSA on its own record. Hit them on their repeated delegations to Cuba and Venezuela, the praise for socialist regimes, the constant laundering of authoritarian politics through “solidarity,” and the new DSA platform coming this July, which I broke the news on. Saying “socialism bad” in the abstract does nothing. The argument has to be specific. DSA is bad by its own words and actions. By the delegations it sends, the regimes it flatters, the platform it passes, and the radicals it keeps elevating. Cuomo basically tees Siddique up as young and plugged into the future of the party. Morgan comes off like a dinosaur. And if he is serious about taking back his party, whoever is advising him on how to talk about DSA is doing him no favors.

🚨 Is This Chris Cuomo Surrendering to DSA? Is DSA the Future of the Democratic Party? This Chris Cuomo segment almost feels like a surrender to the DSA. Cuomo frames the Democratic Socialists of America as the Democrats’ best shot at capturing populist affordability anger, then brings on DSA co-chair Ashik Siddique to make the socialist case. And who is the counterpoint? John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan, a Democratic mega-donor law-firm guy warning that socialism leads to Cuba and Venezuela. If the public face of the anti-DSA argument inside Democratic politics is a wealthy establishment Democrat telling people to trust the old Bill Clinton model while sounding like a Cold War PSA, then DSA has already won the optics fight before Ashik even opens his mouth. The worst part is that Morgan is basically right about the danger. He is just the worst possible messenger for it. If I had his ear, I would have told him to stop doing generic “socialism bad” warnings and get specific. Hit DSA on its own record. Hit them on their repeated delegations to Cuba and Venezuela, the praise for socialist regimes, the constant laundering of authoritarian politics through “solidarity,” and the new DSA platform coming this July, which I broke the news on. Saying “socialism bad” in the abstract does nothing. The argument has to be specific. DSA is bad by its own words and actions. By the delegations it sends, the regimes it flatters, the platform it passes, and the radicals it keeps elevating. Cuomo basically tees Siddique up as young and plugged into the future of the party. Morgan comes off like a dinosaur. And if he is serious about taking back his party, whoever is advising him on how to talk about DSA is doing him no favors.

Stu Smith

22,489 views • 2 months ago

🚨 DSA’s Future Leaders Say the Organization Is White Supremacist, Paternalistic, and Protecting Abusers This Young Democratic Socialists of America meeting was really something. These candidates are running for seats on YDSA’s national leadership body and could become some of DSA’s future leaders. Yet much of the discussion focused on what they described as the organization’s entrenched problems with white supremacy, patriarchy, anti-Blackness, racism, harassment, abusers, and its reputation as “five white guys sitting around and reading theory.” The candidates did not confine these criticisms to a few isolated chapters. They described whiteness, racism, and “white-centered organizational practices” as problems extending across local YDSA chapters, YDSA’s national structures, and the broader DSA organization. I do not generally think it is fair to reduce DSA to simply a “white organization.” Its membership and culture can vary considerably by chapter and region. I would describe the organization more broadly as overeducated, downwardly mobile, and arguably elitist. That said, DSA’s national leadership does play some remarkably vicious internal games, conduct that Cliff Connolly has described as “bureaucratic freakery.” Perhaps that is the deeper dysfunction these aspiring leaders are picking up on, even if they interpret it primarily through the language of whiteness and white supremacy. But it is still remarkable to hear so many aspiring DSA leaders portray both YDSA and the national organization as fundamentally shaped by white supremacy. Stick around until the end to hear yours truly mentioned.

🚨 DSA’s Future Leaders Say the Organization Is White Supremacist, Paternalistic, and Protecting Abusers This Young Democratic Socialists of America meeting was really something. These candidates are running for seats on YDSA’s national leadership body and could become some of DSA’s future leaders. Yet much of the discussion focused on what they described as the organization’s entrenched problems with white supremacy, patriarchy, anti-Blackness, racism, harassment, abusers, and its reputation as “five white guys sitting around and reading theory.” The candidates did not confine these criticisms to a few isolated chapters. They described whiteness, racism, and “white-centered organizational practices” as problems extending across local YDSA chapters, YDSA’s national structures, and the broader DSA organization. I do not generally think it is fair to reduce DSA to simply a “white organization.” Its membership and culture can vary considerably by chapter and region. I would describe the organization more broadly as overeducated, downwardly mobile, and arguably elitist. That said, DSA’s national leadership does play some remarkably vicious internal games, conduct that Cliff Connolly has described as “bureaucratic freakery.” Perhaps that is the deeper dysfunction these aspiring leaders are picking up on, even if they interpret it primarily through the language of whiteness and white supremacy. But it is still remarkable to hear so many aspiring DSA leaders portray both YDSA and the national organization as fundamentally shaped by white supremacy. Stick around until the end to hear yours truly mentioned.

Stu Smith

240,348 views • 1 month ago

Sen. Ted Cruz says Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America are “full-on communists,” warning that political violence has become “a feature, not a bug” of the radical left: “The word ‘communist’ sounds jarring, but that is who these people are. Mamdani is not a socialist. He is a Marxist. He is a full-on communist. The DSA candidates he supported who won in New York are full-on communists. The DSA candidates who won in Colorado are full-on communists. And look, as you know, my family has seen this firsthand. My father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba as a teenager. My Tía Sonia was imprisoned and tortured by Fidel Castro. This can happen, and this is part and parcel of the strategy. It is to identify the people you hate and then harass them, threaten them, and use violence. Violence is not a bug—it is a feature. It is the objective.The radical left is perfectly fine with using violence to attack its enemies. They put out a list intended for their supporters to, at a minimum, harass these people, but potentially do even worse.”

Sen. Ted Cruz says Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America are “full-on communists,” warning that political violence has become “a feature, not a bug” of the radical left: “The word ‘communist’ sounds jarring, but that is who these people are. Mamdani is not a socialist. He is a Marxist. He is a full-on communist. The DSA candidates he supported who won in New York are full-on communists. The DSA candidates who won in Colorado are full-on communists. And look, as you know, my family has seen this firsthand. My father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba as a teenager. My Tía Sonia was imprisoned and tortured by Fidel Castro. This can happen, and this is part and parcel of the strategy. It is to identify the people you hate and then harass them, threaten them, and use violence. Violence is not a bug—it is a feature. It is the objective.The radical left is perfectly fine with using violence to attack its enemies. They put out a list intended for their supporters to, at a minimum, harass these people, but potentially do even worse.”

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256,239 views • 1 month ago

🧵 DSA says its Red Rabbits initiative is about “security.” But according to its own authorizing resolution, the project is preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.” A recent panel showed what that means in practice. “Takedowns on intersections,” training where participants practiced being pepper-sprayed, firearm-safety training, protest marshalling, umbrellas and signs to block “fascists,” and direct-action support for Palestine and immigrant-justice groups. The legal-risk issue was obvious enough that even the panelists kept circling it. They talked about compliance, liability, tax purposes, and how far DSA could push this without putting the organization at risk. One organizer even described keeping a project DSA-sponsored but not fully DSA-run, so the fallout would not “come back to the DSA.” My latest for City Journal!

🧵 DSA says its Red Rabbits initiative is about “security.” But according to its own authorizing resolution, the project is preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.” A recent panel showed what that means in practice. “Takedowns on intersections,” training where participants practiced being pepper-sprayed, firearm-safety training, protest marshalling, umbrellas and signs to block “fascists,” and direct-action support for Palestine and immigrant-justice groups. The legal-risk issue was obvious enough that even the panelists kept circling it. They talked about compliance, liability, tax purposes, and how far DSA could push this without putting the organization at risk. One organizer even described keeping a project DSA-sponsored but not fully DSA-run, so the fallout would not “come back to the DSA.” My latest for City Journal!

Stu Smith

101,456 views • 3 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 • 27 days ago

🚨 DSA Top National Leader: “We’re Fighting To Have Worker Control Of Every Aspect Of Our Lives” — “There’s No Democracy in the Democratic Party” On the Progressive Victory stream, DSA National Political Committee Co-Chair Megan Romer — one of the two top figures in the organization alongside Ashik Siddique — says the quiet part out loud. “We’re not fighting for a kinder, gentler capitalism… we’re not fighting to soften the edges.” Instead, she lays out the real goal: “worker control of every aspect of our lives” — housing, workplaces, and communities. Romer also draws a hard line between DSA and the Democratic Party. She says there is “no democracy” in the Democratic Party, that it is run by donors and patronage networks, and contrasts that with DSA’s model of collective decision-making and explicitly socialist organizing. Then she makes the ideological break unmistakable: “We are explicitly socialist… we’re not the Democrats… stop calling us that.” That matters, because DSA is often treated as just another faction inside the broader Democratic coalition. Romer is saying the opposite. She is describing a separate political project with a separate theory of power. And she openly pitches DSA on those terms: not just voting every few years, but joining an organization where you can help decide campaigns, shape organizing priorities, and influence political direction yourself.

🚨 DSA Top National Leader: “We’re Fighting To Have Worker Control Of Every Aspect Of Our Lives” — “There’s No Democracy in the Democratic Party” On the Progressive Victory stream, DSA National Political Committee Co-Chair Megan Romer — one of the two top figures in the organization alongside Ashik Siddique — says the quiet part out loud. “We’re not fighting for a kinder, gentler capitalism… we’re not fighting to soften the edges.” Instead, she lays out the real goal: “worker control of every aspect of our lives” — housing, workplaces, and communities. Romer also draws a hard line between DSA and the Democratic Party. She says there is “no democracy” in the Democratic Party, that it is run by donors and patronage networks, and contrasts that with DSA’s model of collective decision-making and explicitly socialist organizing. Then she makes the ideological break unmistakable: “We are explicitly socialist… we’re not the Democrats… stop calling us that.” That matters, because DSA is often treated as just another faction inside the broader Democratic coalition. Romer is saying the opposite. She is describing a separate political project with a separate theory of power. And she openly pitches DSA on those terms: not just voting every few years, but joining an organization where you can help decide campaigns, shape organizing priorities, and influence political direction yourself.

Stu Smith

39,304 views • 5 months ago

🚨 DSA’s Michaela Branagan Says Militant Labor Organizing is Happening “On the DL” At Socialism 2026, DSA’s Michaela Branagan said she is “not particularly a constitutionalist” and suggested it would be “one step in the right direction” if the Constitution did not “primarily protect private property like ours does.” She then turned to a much less visible side of DSA organizing, what Branagan herself describes as “radical militant democratic unionism.” Branagan says DSA members are building a “current of radical militant democratic unionism” inside unions and that this work often happens “on the DL” through “strategic organizing.” She says the labor side of DSA gets far less attention than its electoral work precisely because people do not see what its members are doing inside organized labor. Branagan even credits socialist labor organizing, in part, with creating a more “militant sea of struggle” inside unions. The electoral victories get the headlines. Her point is that a quieter part of DSA’s project is being built inside workplaces and unions. I’m going to turn this into a thread and pull together some concrete examples of what Branagan is talking about.

🚨 DSA’s Michaela Branagan Says Militant Labor Organizing is Happening “On the DL” At Socialism 2026, DSA’s Michaela Branagan said she is “not particularly a constitutionalist” and suggested it would be “one step in the right direction” if the Constitution did not “primarily protect private property like ours does.” She then turned to a much less visible side of DSA organizing, what Branagan herself describes as “radical militant democratic unionism.” Branagan says DSA members are building a “current of radical militant democratic unionism” inside unions and that this work often happens “on the DL” through “strategic organizing.” She says the labor side of DSA gets far less attention than its electoral work precisely because people do not see what its members are doing inside organized labor. Branagan even credits socialist labor organizing, in part, with creating a more “militant sea of struggle” inside unions. The electoral victories get the headlines. Her point is that a quieter part of DSA’s project is being built inside workplaces and unions. I’m going to turn this into a thread and pull together some concrete examples of what Branagan is talking about.

Stu Smith

212,761 views • 6 days ago

🚨 MUST WATCH AMERICA: DSA Leader Openly Confessed the Socialist Takeover Plan in 2019... This Is the Exact Blueprint Behind Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed & the Red-Green Machine This is the blueprint. This is the playbook This is the open confession of how the Democratic Socialists of America planned the socialist takeover of America, and they said it out loud in the European Parliament in Brussels. ⚠️ Maria Svart, then-national director of the DSA (America’s largest Marxist organization), laid it all out in front of global communists: • They exploded from 5,000 members to 56,000 dues-paying radicals in just a few years - with chapters in every single state • They already had 75 dues-paying DSA members elected to local, state, and national office (including AOC and Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Michigan) • They run as Democrats on purpose - to deceive the American people • They use a Gramscian strategy: one foot inside the electoral system, one foot outside —- infiltrate institutions, capture hearts and minds, and seize state power • They deliberately push their members into teaching positions to radicalize the next generation • They build alliances with labor unions and train their own people to replace the “blood-sucking consulting class” • They successfully organized to kill Amazon’s HQ2 in New York - pure power politics • After Bernie, they planned an “organized base of socialists” ready to push the entire system further left This is the exact movement powering Zohran Mamdani in New York and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan right now. The same DSA machine. The same infiltration. The same deception. The same Red-Green axis that has been marching city by city, state by state. We exposed this in 2019. We have been screaming it for over a decade. Now the fruits of their plan are in power and running for the U.S. Senate. See our exclusive RAIR report:

🚨 MUST WATCH AMERICA: DSA Leader Openly Confessed the Socialist Takeover Plan in 2019... This Is the Exact Blueprint Behind Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed & the Red-Green Machine This is the blueprint. This is the playbook This is the open confession of how the Democratic Socialists of America planned the socialist takeover of America, and they said it out loud in the European Parliament in Brussels. ⚠️ Maria Svart, then-national director of the DSA (America’s largest Marxist organization), laid it all out in front of global communists: • They exploded from 5,000 members to 56,000 dues-paying radicals in just a few years - with chapters in every single state • They already had 75 dues-paying DSA members elected to local, state, and national office (including AOC and Rashida Tlaib in Detroit, Michigan) • They run as Democrats on purpose - to deceive the American people • They use a Gramscian strategy: one foot inside the electoral system, one foot outside —- infiltrate institutions, capture hearts and minds, and seize state power • They deliberately push their members into teaching positions to radicalize the next generation • They build alliances with labor unions and train their own people to replace the “blood-sucking consulting class” • They successfully organized to kill Amazon’s HQ2 in New York - pure power politics • After Bernie, they planned an “organized base of socialists” ready to push the entire system further left This is the exact movement powering Zohran Mamdani in New York and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan right now. The same DSA machine. The same infiltration. The same deception. The same Red-Green axis that has been marching city by city, state by state. We exposed this in 2019. We have been screaming it for over a decade. Now the fruits of their plan are in power and running for the U.S. Senate. See our exclusive RAIR report:

Amy Mek

39,389 views • 23 days ago

🚨 DSA National Leader David Jenkins Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Our Goal Is Communism” You may have seen the recent New York Post piece on David Jenkins, the DSA mime leader who also holds national leadership. Since mimes are usually silent, it seemed worth letting people hear Jenkins in his own words. Consider this supercut a helpful guide for anyone still wondering what “libertarian socialism” looks like in practice. Though he brands himself a libertarian socialist, Jenkins frames the broader DSA project in explicit terms, “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.” He calls for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, aligns himself with a political tendency that includes anarchists and left communists, and says he was the “only DSA member” at a January 6 counter-protest in Washington. Speaking about his campaign against the SRG, Jenkins escalates the rhetoric further, “We’re not going anywhere until your goons finally start killing us, because that’s where this shit is going.” He also fumes that the NYPD protected those attending a rally in support of Daniel Penny, which he denounces as a “disgusting display” by “outside agitators from Long Island” celebrating a “self-deputized racist murderer.” Stick around, for more clips!

🚨 DSA National Leader David Jenkins Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Our Goal Is Communism” You may have seen the recent New York Post piece on David Jenkins, the DSA mime leader who also holds national leadership. Since mimes are usually silent, it seemed worth letting people hear Jenkins in his own words. Consider this supercut a helpful guide for anyone still wondering what “libertarian socialism” looks like in practice. Though he brands himself a libertarian socialist, Jenkins frames the broader DSA project in explicit terms, “Our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism.” He calls for disbanding the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, aligns himself with a political tendency that includes anarchists and left communists, and says he was the “only DSA member” at a January 6 counter-protest in Washington. Speaking about his campaign against the SRG, Jenkins escalates the rhetoric further, “We’re not going anywhere until your goons finally start killing us, because that’s where this shit is going.” He also fumes that the NYPD protected those attending a rally in support of Daniel Penny, which he denounces as a “disgusting display” by “outside agitators from Long Island” celebrating a “self-deputized racist murderer.” Stick around, for more clips!

Stu Smith

105,154 views • 5 months ago

🚨 Conservatives Still Do Not Understand DSA You really do have to give DSA credit for being a scrappy organization that consistently punches above its weight. Denver DSA is a perfect example. This relatively small 2021 canvass included three future NPC members in Hayley Banyai-Becker, Ahmed Husain, and Andrew Thompson. Banyai-Becker and Husain no longer even live in the Mile High City, having taken their organizing experience to other states, but Denver DSA has continued to grow. NYC DSA understandably gets most of the attention, but chapters like Denver have served as national leadership incubators while helping topple a 15-term incumbent. Meanwhile, many conservative influencers use “DSA” so loosely that they cannot even accurately identify whether a candidate is a member, formally endorsed, or affiliated with the organization at all. The real story is the organization’s leadership pipeline and the people working behind the scenes to build power, export organizers, and rack up victories without ever being noticed by the broader conservative media sphere.

🚨 Conservatives Still Do Not Understand DSA You really do have to give DSA credit for being a scrappy organization that consistently punches above its weight. Denver DSA is a perfect example. This relatively small 2021 canvass included three future NPC members in Hayley Banyai-Becker, Ahmed Husain, and Andrew Thompson. Banyai-Becker and Husain no longer even live in the Mile High City, having taken their organizing experience to other states, but Denver DSA has continued to grow. NYC DSA understandably gets most of the attention, but chapters like Denver have served as national leadership incubators while helping topple a 15-term incumbent. Meanwhile, many conservative influencers use “DSA” so loosely that they cannot even accurately identify whether a candidate is a member, formally endorsed, or affiliated with the organization at all. The real story is the organization’s leadership pipeline and the people working behind the scenes to build power, export organizers, and rack up victories without ever being noticed by the broader conservative media sphere.

Stu Smith

45,951 views • 2 months ago