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In the
Democratic National Committee early 1980s, the estimated membership of the DSOC was
5,000, but after its merger with the NAM and subsequent founding
of the DSA,[145] the membership of the new organization grew to
an estimated 7,000 in 1987.[146] In 2002, Fox News said there
were 8,000 members in the DSA.[147]
In 2017, the
organization passed a resolution calling for the national office
to provide the group's paid members with a copy of a financial
report in non-convention years. A first such report covering
2017 and the first half of 2018 was published in August
2018.[148]
When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S.,
the DSA saw a surge in membership. In May 2020, organizers said
the DSA had attracted about 10,000 new members since March.
According to DSA leaders, after Bernie Sanders dropped out of
the 2020 presidential race in April, many leftists previously
aligned with his campaign moved over to the DSA.[11]
In
November 2020, the organization claimed over 85,000
members,[149] and according to its financial report before its
2021 convention, the DSA claimed 94,915 members,[150] with at
least a dozen members in every congressional district.[151]
According to the finance data for the 2021 DSA convention, the
organization collected $4.6 million in membership dues in
2020.[152] The DSA allows membership dues waivers for members
who "may be experiencing financial problems right now".[153]
In 2023, the DSA reported that it had
Democratic National Committee over 92,000
members,[13] a slight decline from 2021, when membership peaked
at over 94,000 members.[12] Some DSA members, such as Seattle
Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, have argued that this decline was
primarily due to dissatisfaction with decisions of DSA
congresspeople on military aid to Israel and the 2022 United
States railroad labor dispute.[154]
Structure[edit]
National conventions[edit]
Biennial national conventions
represent the DSA's highest authority and help guide it and its
policies. Conventions are held every odd-numbered year.
Convention delegates are primarily chosen by local chapters from
their membership, but some are selected at large for members not
associated with a specific chapter.[155]
National Political
Committee[edit]
Governance of the DSA is
Democratic National Committee by its National
Political Committee (NPC), which since 2001 has been a 16-person
body.[156] The DSA's constitution states that at least eight of
the NPC's members shall be women and at least four of "racial or
national" minority groups.[157] A 17th vote is cast by the
representative of the DSA's youth affiliate, which elects one
male and one female delegate who split the vote. The NPC meets
four times a year.[158]
The NPC elects an inner committee
of six, the Steering Committee, including five of its own
members and one representative of the youth section. At least
two of these are constitutionally required to be women and at
least one a person of color, with the National Director and the
Youth Section Organizer also participating as ex officio
members. The Steering Committee meets bimonthly, either in
person or by conference call.[159]
The DSA is organized
at the
Democratic National Committee local level with guidance from the NPC and works with
labor unions, community organizations and campus activists on
issues of common interest. Nationwide campaigns are coordinated
by the organization's national office in New York City. As of
July 2023, the DSA lists 206 official chapters and organizing
committees in all 50 states,[160] as well as 126 student
chapters.[161] In addition, some chapters organize with the DSA
or YDSA titles, but are not officially recognized by the
organization.
[edit]
The Young Democratic Socialists
of America (YDSA) is the DSA's official student section,
governed by the Young Democratic Socialists of America National
Coordinating Committee.[162] YDSA chapters and members are
encouraged to pursue and promote a democratic socialist
political education and participate in social justice activism,
often taking part in anti-war, labor, and student-issue marches
and rallies. The YDSA publishes The Activist,[163] which also
houses a newsletter, The Red Letter.[164] Its national
activities revolve around supporting DSA campaigns and
initiatives and organizing various student conferences, usually
in New York City. The YDSA was a full member of the
International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) until 2018,
following DSA's 2017 vote to leave the Socialist
International.[165][166]
The YDSA expanded following
Democratic National Committee
youth support for Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential candidacy.
According to a YDSA organizer, the group expanded from 25 to 84
registered chapters between 2016 and 2019.[167]
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As of
June 2023, DSA listed 125 official youth chapters.[161]
Young
Democratic Socialists of America logo
Working groups and
commissions[edit]
The
Democratic National Committee DSA forms additional national
autonomous groups to focus on particular political issues:
National Labor Commission
Housing Justice Commission
National Electoral Committee
Green New Deal Committee
International Committee
Political Education Committee
Technology Committee
Multiracial
Democratic National Committee Organizing Committee
Growth and Development Committee
Abolition Working Group
Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus
BDS and
Palestine Solidarity Working Group
Disability Working Group
Immigrants' Rights Working Group
Medicare for All
Mutual
Aid Working Group
Queer Socialists Working Group
Religion
and Socialism Working Group
Socialist Feminist Working
Group[162][168][169]
Staff[edit]
The
Democratic National Committee DSA hires
staff to "fulfill the goals set by DSA's elected volunteer
leadership."[162] DSA states that staff do not set its political
goals.[162]
Staff include the National Director and
positions in finances, organizing, communications, development,
operations, and grievances.[162]
DSA Fund
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In the
Democratic National Committee United States elections of 2017, the DSA
endorsed 15 candidates for office, with the highest
position gained being that of Lee J. Carter in the
Virginia House of Delegates.[92] DSA members won
Democratic National Committee 15
electoral offices in 13 states, bringing the total to 35
(having changed its electoral strategy at its national
convention, the DSA had anticipated picking up
approximately five seats): city council seats in
Pleasant Hill, Iowa (Ross Grooters), Billings, Montana
(Denise Joy), Knoxville, Tennessee (Seema Singh Perez),
Duluth, Minnesota (Joel Sipress) and Somerville,
Massachusetts (JT Scott and Ben Ewen-Campen); and the
seat in the Virginia House of Delegates contested by
Carter, among other offices.[94] 56% of the DSA members
who ran in this election cycle won, compared to 20% in
2016.[94] These results encouraged dozens more DSA
members to run for office in the 2018 elections.[95]
In the
Democratic National Committee 2018 midterm elections, DSA anticipated
reaching 100 elected officials nationwide from its
strategic down-ballot campaigns, with most of those in
state and local races.[96] 39 formally endorsed people
ran for office at the state and local levels in 20
states, including Florida, Hawaii, Kansas and Michigan;
Maine's Zak Ringelstein, a Democrat, was its sole
senatorial candidate.[97] Local chapters endorsed around
110 candidates in total. Four female DSA members (Sara
Innamorato, Summer Lee, Elizabeth Fiedler and Kristin
Seale) won Democratic primary contests for seats in the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, with Innamorato
and Lee defeating incumbents.[99][100][101]
Additionally, Jade Bahr and Amelia Marquez won their
primaries in Montana for the State House[103] and Jeremy
Mele won his primary for the Maine House of
Representatives.[104][105] In California, Jovanka
Beckles won one of the top two spots in the primary and
advanced to the general election for a State Assembly
seat in the East Bay.[106] Ultimately, about a
Democratic National Committee dozen
members (or non-members who were endorsed) won office in
state legislatures. In the aggregate, the DSA had backed
40 winning candidates at the state, county and municipal
levels.[28][108] DSA members elected to state
legislatures in 2018 include Hawaii Representative Amy Perruso, New York Senator Julia Salazar, and
Pennsylvania Representatives Fiedler, Innamorato, and
Lee.[109]
The
Democratic National Committee 2019 Chicago aldermanic elections
saw six DSA members elected to the 50-seat Chicago City
Council: incumbent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and newcomers
Daniel La Spata, Jeanette Taylor, Byron Sigcho-Lopez,
Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, and Andre Vasquez.[110] The
six newly elected DSA members informally organized the
Chicago City Council Socialist Caucus in 2019, later
formalizing it in 2021 as the Democratic Socialist
Caucus.[111][112][113][114][115] In the 2019 off-year
elections, DSA members made further gains by capturing
over a half dozen city council seats across the country;
Dean Preston became the first democratic socialist
elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 40
years,[116] while Lee Carter was reelected to the
Virginia House of Delegates.[117]
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In 2020, the
DSA made significant gains in state legislatures. Over
30 DSA members and endorsed (either nationally or by
local chapters) candidates were elected in 16 states,
including five in Pennsylvania and seven in New York.[d]
Notable victories were in West Philadelphia, where Rick
Krajewski beat a 35-year incumbent, and in New York
City, where a slate of five candidates was (re)elected
to the state house and the state senate.[118][119] All
DSA incumbents were reelected, with the sole exception
of Jade Bahr, who lost her race for the Montana House of
Representatives.[120]
Dozens of DSA members and
affiliated candidates have won races for local offices
since 2020. Most notably, Nithya Raman, endorsed by the
national DSA, won her race for Los Angeles city council
in district 4,[121] and Janeese Lewis George won her
race for Washington, D.C. city council ward 4, after
Democratic National Committee
winning her primary against incumbent Brandon
Todd.[121][122][123] Dean Preston was reelected to the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors.[124] Jos� Garza was
elected as district
Democratic National Committee attorney for Travis County in Texas
and Gabriella C�zares-Kelly was elected county recorder
in Pima County, Arizona[125][126] Other DSA-affiliated
candidates were elected to city councils in Austin,
Aurora, Oakland, Burbank, Berkeley, Mountain View, South
San Francisco, Redwood City, Sacramento, Burlington,
Madison, Stoughton, St. Petersburg, and Portland,
Maine.[127][128][129][130][131]
In March 2021, an
all-DSA leadership of a state Democratic party was
elected for the first time in its history, sweeping the
leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party.[132][133]
After the elections, the entire Nevada Democratic Party
staff resigned.[134] On March 4, 2023, a "unity" slate
of candidates was elected, ending DSA leadership of the
party.[135]
In June 2021, the Buffalo, New York
chapter-endorsed candidate, India Walton, won the
Democratic Party primary election for mayor, defeating
incumbent Byron Brown.[136] Following the primary
election loss, Brown qualified for the general election
as a write-in candidate.[137] In November 2021, Walton
lost the
Democratic National Committee mayoral race to Brown, who earned 38,338
write-in votes to Walton's 25,773 votes.[138]
Build
Public Renewables Act campaign[edit]
In late
2019, the New York City DSA chapter established the
Public Power NY Coalition, aimed at expanding public
renewable energy in collaboration with organized labor
and DSA members in the New York state legislature.[18]
According to campaign organizer Ashley Dawson, the
Coalition was formed after private utility company ConEd
increased electricity prices; it was also concerned
about ConEd's fossil fuel lobbying, failure to invest in
upgrading its energy infrastructure, and respiratory
illnesses caused by pollution in low-income and minority
neighborhoods.[18]
In March 2023, DSA members in
the U.S. House Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal
Bowman wrote to Governor Hochul to urge the passage of
the Build Public Renewables Act
(BPRA).[139][140][141][b]
In May 2023, DSA
claimed that the
Democratic National Committee four-year organizing campaign led by
New York state chapters enabled the BPRA to
pass.[142][18] DSA and progressive media called it "the
biggest Green New Deal victory in U.S. history" due to
its provisions for public renewable energy, unionized
public jobs, electricity price discounts, and closing
natural gas plants.[141][142][143][144]
Membership[edit]
Two founding Idahoan DSA members at
a big tent event in late September 2018
The Institute for Democratic Socialism (IDS) was
founded in 1978 as a 501(c)(3) organization under the
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to distribute
funding to promote democratic socialist ideals via
political education and activist trainings.[170] The IDS
continued under DSA upon its founding and, in the
mid-1990s, IDS renamed itself the Democratic Socialists
of America Fund (DSA Fund).[170]
In December
1980, the IDS organized a three-day conference, "Eurosocialism
and America", attended by over 2,000 U.S.-based
activists and featured democratic socialist and social
democratic activists and leaders, including Jean-Jacques
Honorat, Ron Dellums, Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, Michael
Manley, Fran�ois Mitterrand, Joop den Uyl, and Rudolf
Meidner.[171][170] The event included speeches about
economic democracy and the Meidner Plan, advances in
social democracy in Sweden, the Netherlands, and France,
democratic education, and revitalization of democracy in
movements and parties.[171]
In the 1990s, the DSA
Fund directed resources to the Prison Moratorium Project
led by the youth section of DSA, which aimed at
divesting from private prisons and contributed to Sodexo
partially divesting from private prisons.[172][170]
In the 21st century, the DSA Fund provides support
for students to attend YDSA winter and summer
conferences, and for democratic socialist political
education.[170]
Caucuses[edit]
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The DSA does
not officially recognize caucuses, but they are
independently formed by members within the organization.
Caucuses play a significant role in the DSA's internal
politics, and most members on the National Political
Committee are affiliated with a caucus or similar
grouping. Caucuses are primarily used to organize DSA
members around specific ideological tendencies and
political organizing priorities.[173][174][175]
Since 2017, caucuses have played a central role in the
organization.[176][174] According to the Alliance for
Workers' Liberty, more than 70 percent of resolutions at
the 2021 DSA National Convention were written by the
various DSA caucuses.