Federal agents have raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's home after months of threats from Trump officials to strip her citizenship. In the second of this two-part series, Andy C. and T.E. Moon look at how the people in Minneapolis drove out Operation Metro Surge and how D.C. organizers are holding out against a slow-burn federal occupation. Like the abolitionists before us, our networks of neighborhood defense must go on the offensive to make Democratic Revolution and seize power.

Pollsters can tell you what voters will tolerate. They can’t tell you what people will fight for. In T. E. Moon’s latest, he tackles the limits of poll-tested politics, the hunger for accountability, and a modest proposal for the left: Hang the Bastards!

Angela Gonzales-Torres' opponent in the race for California's 34th Congressional District, Jimmy Gomez, has been accused of sexual assault. In her latest, Lydia Cardwell examines DSA-endorsed Angela Gonzales-Torres' campaign, the Left’s struggles with misogyny in its own movement, and the necessity to fight against the Right not just as fascists, but as a political movement structured around enacting violence against women.

While NYC-DSA’s Membership Committee has been able to pull off a small miracle by onboarding more new members than ever before during the latest massive surges of new membership, J. Kraush argues that now is the time to invest in further resources for membership, including a new staffer. This would ensure that our membership organizing efforts can scale to future growth and work toward correcting NYC-DSA’s improving but still lackluster demographic imbalances. 

As Zohran Mamdani struggles to address ICE violence in NYC, Los Angeles has seen mass deportations by ICE since last year. In the first of this two-part series, Matthew J. Hunter reviews the political lessons from the anti-ICE uprising in LA.