Tag: Democratic Socialists of America
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A Longtime Political Organizer in AOC’s District Says She’s the Real Deal
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August 2, 2023
She has used her skills to win concrete, historic political victories.
Today’s socialist movement is the US’s strongest in generations, thanks mainly to the 81,000 member strong Democratic Socialists of America. The highly engaged of the DSA base has elected over 100 openly declared socialists to local, state, and federal offices.
As a longtime DSA organizer living in
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“The more I’m in government, the more I realize how corrupt it is.”
Janeese Lewis George is sitting in the lobby of the Kellogg Conference Hotel at Washington, D.C.’s Gallaudet University, telling me about the last three years. It hasn’t been easy for the 35-year-old since she became the only democratic socialist elected to the overwhelmingly Democratic D.C. City Council in 2020. She’s clashed with a mayor she calls a “borderline Republican” and been stifled by the council