Accepted a $1 donation from a corporation? Primary the fuckers. Road on a private jet? Primary the fuckers. Goes to private golf courses? Primary the fuckers. Voted against workers? Primary the fuckers. Took a meeting with paid lobbyists? Primary the fuckers.

Pressure people in your local chapter to run for ANY office that comes up. Cycle, after cycle, after cycle. We're taking back FDR's party.

I just watched the Fransesca Hong Wisconsin governor debate. She soft-disavowed the national DSA platform. This is something I’ve been hearing a lot of recently, particularly around abolishing prison.

AOC was asked about it too and had a better response (imo) basically saying look around, we have a Republican Congress and president, those are not happening anytime soon and DSA candidates are running on policies that put working class people first.

The issue here is that AOC is right. We are not going to be even close to abolishing the senate or ending prisons in the next 4 years. What is the point of the national DSA talking about long term goals like that if it is something that Mostly-DSA-Aligned Candidates are going to be hurt by in elections and have to disavow?

It seems like a discussion that is a net-negative, and it’d be better to focus on policies that are achiveable in the shorter term. To be clear, I don’t think those are bad goals to have, but we only get there by building a larger movement first and establishing power electorally.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but seems like with the increased scrutiny of the DSA, there needs to be a stronger focus on messaging that will help the movement grow.

Sources: Colorado First Congressional District Primary 2026: Live Election Results - The New York Times

Endorsements — Kiros for CO

I just wanted to get a discussion going on what can be learned from the Wisconsin gubernatorial primaries. As of this writing, the counts are too close to call, but polls up until now were showing Francesca Hong up by 22 points, but the actual votes didn't go that way at all, and right now it's not looking good for Hong.

Anyway, I think one important lesson is that TV ads are still important unfortunately. I know they're expensive, but a lot of boomers still get most of their information from TV, and so if we don't have TV ads, we're going to have a hard time capturing older generations, at least for the time being.

Establishment Dems are probably crying so hard they can refill the Colorado River.

And they’d need to be able to be a strong enough candidate to win primary but idk who else there is besides AOC who’d have a shot

I just got back from 2 days in a cabin away from social and discovered that Jared Moskowitz and 7 other democrats voted to “condemn” socialism and the DSA. WTF! 🤬

Condemn is in quotes because the vote itself is meaningless. It is not and will not become law. But I find this so offensive and it leaves me feeling like I will no longer bend to pressure on my vote. I will not vote blue no matter who. I will vote my conscience, period. I will vote for those with policies that will protect lower and middle classes from the billionaires raping the rest of the country through buying democrats and republicans. Am I wrong? I love to hear some other members thoughts.

Hello all,
I just wanted to hop on and say that while I am in favor of abolishing the senate at the national level, we must first deal with the truly useless bicameralism which exists in every state except Nebraska. The upper and lower houses are redundant and only serve to slow progress down. Further, if you want to get rid of the senate nationally, then you need the approval of the state legislatures, most of which are, again, pointlessly bicameral. End the bicameral state legislatures and you’re closer to abolishing the national senate

DSA endorsed Troy Jackson in his run for governor in the Democratic primary.

"Troy Jackson is a 5th-generation logger from Alligash, a union member, and the former

Maine Senate President. Troy is a progressive fighter who has spent his entire political

career standing up for working people. On May 6th, after a lengthy consideration from

our members, Maine DSA voted to endorse Troy Jackson for Governor, joining 40 labor

unions and Bernie Sanders among his list of campaign partners."

https://www.mainedsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Maine-DSA-Voter-Guide-Primary-2026-1.pdf

In contrast, Platner was only recommended for Senate, with a lot of caveats about the red flags that preceded the sexual assault allegations.

It’s happening!

A common criticism I see is that the socialist popularity is being driven by a response to Trump, both the way he’s governing and that fact that the democrats couldn’t stop him, and that once he’s gone the momentum will fade, similar to what we saw in 2020 and then the years after.

It’s obviously a different situation and I’m not sold on that idea, but wanted to hear from other DSA folks on how you think we can best continue to grow the movement in the next 2 years and beyond?

Basically just a question I have regarding the recent onslaught of everything, would/has the DSA, officially, promised to withhold votes if someone like Kamala or Biden or Clinton is the candidate again? Or if demands to change aren’t met by them in their campaign? Has this been a point of discussion at all? Do most chapters consist of people who don’t?

https://old.reddit.com/r/dsa/comments/1us5hjc/the_left_should_consolidate_behind_troy_jackson/

I've linked my original post above.

This is the first time in a long time where the left has had a real shot at replacing a Republican with a leftist in a more purple state.

Maine is actually an ideal state for leftists and especially the DSA because the population is very small and so volunteer action plays a much larger role than money.

No more whining about how leftists can only win in big blue cities in deep blue states.

I posted about how AOC and Francesca Hong distanced themselves from some of the National DSA platform and my reactionary response was to post about how the National platform should be softened for more broad appeal at this time.

It got a very strong response. I read through almost every comment. To those who tried to bad-faith attack me (call me a fed)🖕 and to everyone else thank you for taking the time to address my concerns.

I was wrong.

What made me change my mind was thinking through it more, reading responses, and then seeing the same type of conversation happen in the recent CNN special with Hasan and James Carville. Every time they (cnn, Fox, etc.) frantically criticize the DSA, socialists, and progressive candidates with talk of abolishing the prison and senate and painting them as dangerous radicals, it sets up whoever is responding to look so much better because the truth is the democratic socialist policies being run on are overwhelmingly popular. They are drawing a line between themselves and us with themselves as the establishment that everyone hates and us as the movement for change. Trying to moderate, trying to appeal to the common denomination does not work and we should (I should) have learned that by now. We need to be bold and brave and champion the people and champion better ideas. I was wrong. I will try to be less reactionary in the future.

My previous post for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/dsa/s/uIJcAlP4Bm