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The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 80,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few.

What we do

We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters, DSA members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people.

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The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States because we’re a member-driven mass organization. We believe that working people should run both the economy and civil society, and we show our commitment to this principle by being an organization of, by, and for the working class.

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Our Campaign Priorities

DSA and YDSA chapters organize around various issues, striving to run strategic campaigns based on local conditions. Nationally, we also provide resources and support for work done as part of our major priorities as democratically voted upon:

Electoral Strategy

Bernie Sanders launched a political revolution and DSA continues to build it, training our chapters to effectively support democratic socialist candidates running for local and state office while lifting up our key issues. We’re also grappling with how to build independent political power to hold elected officials accountable to their constituents rather than the donor class.

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Strong Labor Movement

Capitalism pits us against each other and workplaces are fundamentally authoritarian unless workers can self-organize and build collective power. This is why people build unions, and why employers undermine them. It is also why the capitalists as a class constantly promote narratives about unions that frame them as unnecessary, undemocratic, or ineffective. We know better, and we’re building worker power in every region of the country.

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Green New Deal

The climate crisis is an emergency. The world’s top scientists are saying we have little time to get off fossil fuels. Meanwhile, inequality is already out of control — and rising. We fight for a Green New Deal because it’s the only plan that meets the scale of the crisis, one that puts people and planet over profit to build a more just and sustainable economy. We’re organizing in our workplaces, communities and schools to build the working class movement it will take to win.

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September 19, 2025

DSA Affirms the Freedom to Organize

Everyday people should be able to organize freely in our own self-interest without fear of state repression. Engaging in peaceful organizing, protest, and criticism of the government and the current social order are our rights, and essential to democracy and freedom. But the right to organize is under attack under the Trump administration. DSA condemns…


September 12, 2025

The Global Sumud Flotilla Does Not Sail Alone: A Call for Solidarity Mobilizations

Two years into the US-backed Israeli genocide of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered and two million now face an escalating famine caused by a policy of deliberate mass starvation. This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla has endured multiple drone attacks against its boats in Tunis while sailing to break the illegal…


August 29, 2025

Racism and State Violence, Then and Now: Hurricane Katrina 20 Years Later

On this day 20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall over Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, as a high-end Category 3 hurricane. Prior to landfall, Katrina was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico, only to be surpassed by Hurricanes Rita and Wilma later that year, and remains the costliest tropical cyclone on record,…


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