Today we wake up to a world more in dire need of our solidarity than ever before. As votes continue to be counted across the United States, it becomes more and more clear that the Democratic Party is not the opposition we need or deserve to beat back the far-right.

 

For months, we raised the flag on the need to address working peoples’ needs, their fears, and especially their calls for their families to stop being murdered. The Democratic Party chose its donors, pundits, and the ruling class’ project in imperialism.

 

Who will choose to stand up for workers here and abroad? Who will stand up for healthcare, housing, and education for all? Who will stand up for our bodily autonomy, our civil rights, our democracy, and our planet?

 

Under Joe Biden, the United States has prioritized maintaining a massive military budget, expanded oil drilling, racist immigration policies, and a genocide in Gaza. The Harris’ campaign chose to continue (and even expand upon) many of the same policies put forward by an unpopular Biden administration and is now answering for it. Under a second Trump administration the threat of repression and consolidation of power has never been greater.

 

Without a working class alternative to the Democratic Party, and one that organizes in our homes and in our workplaces, we will fall further behind.

 

The Democratic Socialists of America believe that we can, as a united working class, beat the ruling class and build a better world. Just last night we defended rent control in Hoboken, NJ in an overwhelming victory. DSA elected socialists to office in New York, Oregon, Georgia, and Kentucky. DSA-supported ballot measures won massive victories expanding abortion rights in Montana, Nevada and Arizona. Nebraska and Missouri expanded sick leave, raised the minimum wage and cemented labor rights. Michigan Representative and DSA member Rashida Tlaib won a landslide re-election in a district Harris lost. It is clear that policies and candidates that offer genuine opposition to the far-right continue to win, and Democrats choose not to be on the side of the working people’s demands.

 

These next four years the far-right will be emboldened, but just as they ascend the need for political alternative will grow increasingly clear.

 

Will you join us? Will you stand with us as we face incredible headwinds in 2025?

 

Will you join the fight for our lives, our neighbors and our planet?

 

Join DSA

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