We’ll be hosting our next Greenville event on Saturday, August 23rd, from 2-4 pm at the Flat River Community Library.

We’ll be discussing Trump’s new ICE Detention Center in Baldwin, Michigan. The conversation will center around the racist anti-immigrant efforts rising around us, why we’re against them, and what we can do about it!

RSVP to the event here, and share the details with a friend! We’re looking forward to a robust discussion with you.

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by Sam K.

Rights are not rights if we don’t use them, and we must use exercise them openly, frequently, and without reservation.

I don’t usually talk about masking very much, I just do it. I find people talk to me about masking more than I talk to them about it. The act of masking causes others to reflect; perhaps to feel some sort of guilt about themselves, or judgement about me and other maskers. This one time, let me make the case for masking for 2025 and the foreseeable future.

The techno-surveillance police state is already here – its gradually cemented itself in the digital and physical world we navigate our lives through. After 9/11, the normalization of surveillance has evolved from an initial public support for sacrificing freedoms for supposed “public safety,” to the shocking revelations of Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, to an almost pathetic view of the security theater of going through TSA. Cameras are watching us in the sky – far enough away where we cannot seem them, but precise enough to see details on the ground. Many people tend to feel hopeless about avoiding such surveillance when thinking about this – but hope is not lost. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been fighting for digital privacy rights for decades, paving the way for alternatives to Big Tech such as the Graphene OS android operating system, Proton emerging as a Google suite alternative, and the more widespread adoption of Signal. The use of these digital tools help to shield us from the surveillance state, but the digital privacy community and socialist organizers are failing to discuss how we can protect ourselves from both the surveillance state and fascist forces in public. Being tracked by the state or being doxxed and identified by fascist forces are real threats we must confront head-on.

Historically, bans on facial coverings have a mixed history in the United States. One the one hand, there were some 20th century laws passed in various states in efforts to crack down the Klu Klux Klan, while later being applied to Occupy Movements. On the other hand, In 1845, New York State passed an anti-mask law for “public safety” after a tenants’ revolt, known as the Anti-Rent War, or the Helderberg War. Many states, and the District of Columbia, either already have anti-mask laws on the books, have pushed for them recently, or likely will continue to push for them. While the legal statuses have been challenged and some have been struck down by the Supreme Court, we know these liberal institutions have already failed us, and will continue to enable fascism.

So, what happens when ICE starts going after socialists? Will you wear a mask to a protest or at court watching? What will you do when a police officer or a masked ICE agent claims you cannot wear a mask because you’re hiding your identity and you might be a terrorist? Will you comply, or will you disobey, whether legal or not? Will you start coughing, or will you verbally argue the necessity of masking to protect yourself from a contagious virus that can cause young, otherwise healthy people to become disabled and immuno-compromised? Actions speak louder than words.

I’ve now contracted covid-19 three times, the third leaving me with a compromised immune system and GI reactions to some of my favorite foods – which I had been eating during isolating and recovering from the third infection. Wearing good masks that fit your face absolutely works to protect yourself from covid-19, other viruses, and those brutal Austin allergies, too! Maybe you still don’t care about covid-19, and I don’t think I can convince you with words. But the reality is, you cannot mask only for protection from the fascist forces; you must also mask for your protection from airborne viruses. Otherwise, your masking would be atypical. It would signal a divergence in your regular behavior. Our safety and security practices are for all of the time. We always wear our seat belts, not just right before we get into a collision. Normalizing masking in 2025 and onward is a matter of practice, and just doing it. Do it at the grocery store, do it at your work place. Do it inside, and do it outside. Do it to protect yourself, and do it to remind others to do it – because actions speak louder than words. Exert your right to mask, and do it now – before its too late.

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by Henry M.

A modern industrial society requires a democratically-controlled economy. Here is an outline of why that’s true

Few clearer exhibits of capitalism’s need for waste arrive in the mailbox than the annual Auto Issue of Consumer Reports. In it are listed and reviewed the multiple automobiles overfilling the categories (sedan, pickup, minivan, etc.) that have evolved since the Tin Lizzie went into production generations ago. (“435 Models Tested” in the 2024 edition.) The waste of labor and material involved in the manufacture of numerous candidates to fit each category, and the implications for democracy, are the subject of this brief diatribe, using the ubiquitous Sport-Utility Vehicle (SUV) as an example.

The SUV is a kind of mix of station wagon, minivan, sedan, and sports car. The general type really is useful, whether electric, hybrid or gasoline-burner. But so many of them!

Ten interchangeable models (with romantic names) just among the “Midsized 3-Row SUVs”! This overpopulation situation comes about because manufacturers want to maximize their profit, to fulfill the dreams of their managers and investors. This drive leads them to try to wrest away a portion of the market from one another. In this effort, they must differentiate their SUVs from those of their rivals. The cost in terms of finance they do not hide. But the hidden costs undercut democracy.

Bringing each SUV to reality and ultimately to the driveway of the buyer is not trivial. Each of the ten requires the fabrication of enormous metal-stamping molds for each body panel, of which there are a multitude on each different model. High-strength steel is fashioned into these giant molds, which must withstand the tremendous forces and the friction associated with crushing a big piece of sheet metal into the desired shape, requiring rare alloying elements.

Moreover, each mating mold pair, male and female, must be designed by skilled tool designers and fabricated by skilled toolmakers. And the body panels themselves: their shape emerges from the combined imaginations of Marketing and Industrial Design. Every swoop and curve, every seam, bulge and fin is wrestled over by trained professionals and reviewed by Management before the tooling is released for production…and they must all fit together perfectly, and not look quite like anyone else’s SUV. (A cursory inspection of a few SUV makes will reveal the differences among, for example, the front fenders.)

So thousands of labor-hours and refined talent are expended just on the body of each individual model…and that’s without looking at integration of the seats, the dashboard, the wipers, the door latches and the all-important cup holders. All these features, different for each, for every single, 3-row SUV, and we’ve ignored dozens of body categories (two-row SUVs, small sedans, etc.) Each of these models is dumped into the chaos and uncertainty of the marketplace; the makers must wait to see if their huge bets pay off in sales. Secrecy is crucial to profitability, an imperative of competition; none can afford to actually fabricate and test-market their creations among the public, as would be routine in a democratically-directed economy not dependent on secrecy. In the parts of our society permitted to operate along democratic principles, we discuss publicly and know in advance what policies will be adopted…not so when it comes to the operation of our enormous economy!

Now this is a critique of capitalism. So what’s to critique? Well, the flagrant waste. Among other things, the hoary Principle Of Interchangeable Parts is flung down and danced upon; standardization is spurned. If we as an electorate had dictated this state of affairs back in the Martin van Buren Administration and bequeathed it to our progeny for generations to come, it would be one thing. But that’s not how it happened. Over a century ago, when industrialization was young, people who had money to invest joined with others and built physical plants to manufacture cars. Others sought to compete with them. Millions went to work, of necessity, for the resulting corporations. Those manufacturers and their heirs have dominated our economy ever since. In requiring huge percentages of the population to engage in duplication of effort to earn a living, the economy misuses their labor.

But we are democrats. We believe ourselves capable of making the most important decisions in our society. Given the opportunity, we might not elect to make so many functionally interchangeable, but part-wise unique cars, each with its own infrastructure of parts and dealers. Socialism gives that opportunity.

Only socialism recognizes this silly duplication as a problem and proposes to correct it. Socialism, as a rationalizing force, would place direction and management of such an important part of our economy in the hands of the citizenry, for example through elected managers, like our choice of political candidates in conventional elections. All these manufacturers worked hard to provide us with things we don’t need, wasting resources, clean air and the labor of countless Americans. Socialism, somewhat more fundamentally than police and gender reforms, would impose order and planning, and democracy, on the productive capacities of our economy, and Consumer Reports would become thinner.

Respectable, proud democracy cannot coexist with this wasteful mode of industrial organization.

Henry M is an Automotive and Mechanical Engineer.

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By Aidan P and Carl H

Right now, people in Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Hillsborough, as well as in Alamance and Chatham counties, are recovering from the severe and costly flash flooding brought on by Tropical Depression Chantal. We know that the climate crisis is making weather disasters more frequent and more intense, and our region is now threatened by supercharged floods, heat waves, and hurricanes. Even areas that were thought to be relatively safe are at risk. For example, North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, once seen as a refuge due to the cooler climate and inland location, were hit hard by Hurricane Helene in September 2024. Entire districts of Asheville were destroyed, tens of billions of dollars in damages were sustained, and many rural mountain communities were devastated. 

But even though climate change is now a manifest reality, our leaders have utterly failed to meet the moment. At the federal level, investments and incentives for renewable energy are systematically rolled back, public lands are threatened, environmental regulations are aggressively slashed, and proper forecasting equipment and personnel are thrown to the wayside with deadly consequences. At the same time, big tech’s extremely dangerous and ecologically costly gamble on a mass buildout of deregulated nuclear plants to power AI datacenters continues to accelerate. State leadership is hardly any better. Duke Energy, with the help of politicians on both sides of the aisle, continues to drag its feet on cutting emissions, instead investing in new fossil gas infrastructure. Most recently, the state legislature overrode Governor Josh Stein’s veto and dropped North Carolina’s interim 2030 decarbonization goal, removing incentives for Duke Energy to shift to renewables and encouraging continued use of fossil gas. According to an analysis by NC State professor Joseph DeCarolis and his colleagues, this destructive bill will lead to a 40% increase in fossil gas generation in our state between 2030 and 2050. This is only the tip of the melting iceberg when it comes to Duke Energy’s disastrous activities, which also include greenwashing and mass deception, systematic subversion of democracy, and an allegedly cavalier attitude towards nuclear safety, among others.

Besides emitting greenhouse gases, burning fossil fuels also emits a huge quantity of toxic pollution harmful to natural ecosystems and human health, causing asthma, cancer, and heart disease. Furthermore, as anyone who lives near one of Duke Energy’s coal ash deposits knows, the ecological and human costs don’t end with emissions, also including the leaching of heavy metals linked to cancers, reproductive harm, and heart and thyroid diseases into soil and groundwater. In addition to the impacts on our communities and our health, the climate crisis compounds the more general ecological crisis as animals and plants struggle to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

In contrast to burning fossil-fuels, solar panels convert sunlight directly into electricity, avoiding greenhouse gasses and other toxic emissions. Increasing solar electricity generation is an important step in the transition to renewable energy and a sustainable economy. The Triangle region receives abundant sunlight, an average of 4.5-5.4 hours of peak sun per day. Thanks to technological advances, solar panels today are efficient, long-lasting, and low-cost compared to other ways of producing electricity. Renewable energy sources like solar also stabilize energy prices, as they are not prone to the periodic severe price shocks experienced by volatile fossil gas markets. 

While it is possible to fund solar installations through regular budget measures, this creates a false conflict between money for solar and money for other important public services. A bond resolves this, helping to facilitate the large scale solar projects necessary for a swift and comprehensive energy transition. 

The solar bonds we are advocating would borrow money specifically to fund solar installations on public buildings like schools, libraries, public housing, and government buildings. Any renewable energy installations funded by these bonds should be publicly owned, and money saved that previously went towards paying Duke Energy's high electricity rates should, after paying off the bond, instead be allocated to improving public services or helping to raise the wages of sanitation workers, teachers, support staff, and other low-wage public sector workers. 

These bonds are also a climate resilience measure. The importance of a climate resilient grid cannot be underestimated: this can be a matter of life and death during a climate disaster. For example, when combined with infrastructure hardening and the development of localized microgrids, the solarization of public buildings can ensure that our most critical public facilities stay on during the power outages that often accompany weather emergencies.

Depending on the specific needs of each county or city in the Triangle, these bonds could also fund other critical resilience, renewable energy, and energy efficiency measures. For example, a broader bond referendum could be used to fund efficient HVAC systems for our schools, improve stormwater infrastructure for our towns and cities, or even acquire property for new public housing. We encourage anyone familiar with the needs of their community to contact us and share what similar measures they would like to see included in local bonds.

Many cities and counties in North Carolina and across the South have already passed bonds to fund sustainability measures, including solar installations on public buildings. In 2020, Buncombe county, the city of Asheville, and Asheville’s Isaac Dickson Elementary School agreed to collectively spend $11.5 million on solar facilities capable of generating seven megawatts of power, mostly for public buildings -- schools, community colleges, community centers, and fire stations, among others. The majority of this money ($10.3 million) came from a bond issued by Buncombe county, approved unanimously by Buncombe county commissioners. Even Republican county commissioners voted to approve the bond, citing the cost savings, which more than covered each year’s bond payment. A 2024 initiative in San Antonio, Texas, provides a second example. Here, a total of $30.8 million was raised ($18.3 million from bonds, $10 million from Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, and $2.5 million from the State Energy Conservation Office), partially to solarize a variety of municipal facilities, such as municipal building rooftops and parking lots. San Antonio expects to pay off all debt within 10 years using savings accrued through the project, which also makes substantial progress towards the city’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Locally, a 2022 Durham County schools bond included funding to solarize Lyons Farm Elementary School, which now supplies about 20% of its electricity from rooftop solar. 

While we encourage local governments to adopt renewable energy measures through their regular budget proceedings, as Democratic Socialists we wanted to bring the issue directly to voters -- giving regular people a real say in important and economically consequential decisions brings us a step closer to the democratically organized economy we ultimately envision.

Currently, our goal is to get solar bonds on the ballot for Orange, Durham and Wake Counties, as well as for our smaller municipalities (Carrboro and Chapel Hill) and our larger cities (Durham and Raleigh)  But make no mistake -- a solar bond is only the beginning. Powerful forces stand in the way of the comprehensive energy and sustainability transition our society needs, especially in North Carolina. To overcome these forces we need to build a mass movement that centers the multiracial working class and all the oppressed and colonized peoples of this land. One of the core goals of the mass movement must be to establish an energy system owned and planned by and for the people, an energy system that puts our interests and our planet over corporate profit. We invite you to join us.

Interested in helping? Triangle DSA’s Solar Bond Campaign Committee meets every other Tuesday at 6:00pm online, and is open to the general public. The committee has already reached out to potential coalition partners, and plans to build support through tabling and canvassing campaigns. The committee is also in the process of meeting with elected leaders to advocate for the bond. You can reach out to us directly to join in this important effort by contacting nctdsa.solarbond@gmail.com, or you can simply show up to a committee meeting!

Victory in the Democratic primary has transformed what’s possible for socialists in New York City. A 10,500 member-strong NYC-DSA's road to November is paved with opportunities to expand our base and muster the forces needed to implement his agenda.

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by Rochester Grants Pass Resistance

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Champion for working class wages, Michael Westgaard has qualified for the 2025 General Election in Renton!

The Renton City primary on August 5th narrowed the pool of candidates to the top two, which will go on to the General Election.

Michael and his Seattle DSA comrades began raise the wage efforts in earnest in 2023 and the initiative won in 2024. However, Renton residents have yet to see these democratically demanded wage increases from $16.28 to $20.29. Michael is determined use his position to defeat the bureaucratic blockade preventing Renton residents from raising the minimum wage.

As with Zev Cook in Tacoma, Michael is facing extreme opposition in his race, in this case with funding coming from Amazon and big real estate. Unsurprisingly, Michael’s General Election opponent has even argued that minimum wage should not be a living wage and disgustingly cast minimum wage workers as “unskilled.” In stark contrast, Michael is channeling the sewer socialism tradition, which Alex Brower successfully campaigned on earlier this year in Milwaukee.

We encourage all DSA members to help out with the Michael Westgaard campaign or send a donation!

Our DSA candidates in Washington state are sending a clear message – whether it happens this November or in a future year, socialist cash will take out the capitalist trash.

Tireless advocate for the Palestinian cause and Co-Founder of Tacoma for All, Zev Cook, has qualified for the 2025 General Election!

Tacoma’s primary election narrowed down the pool of candidates to a total of six, which will go on to the General Election for selecting the three new city council members.

Motivated by her Jewish values of community repair, Zev has worked with various direct aid and non-profit organizations and co-founded Serve the People Tacoma which has provided over 10,000 meals and other supplies for homeless neighbors over two years.

Super PAC money has been flooding into Tacoma to oppose Zev and mislead voters into equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

Zev will be facing off with Joe Bushnell this November, who plans to increase policing should he win. These two have previously battled over Zev’s wildly popular efforts to protect renters, Tacoma for All. Despite this fact and Zev’s years of community organizing to protect the most vulnerable of the population, she is facing very difficult odds for the General Election. Fellow Washington state candidate Michael Westgaard is similarly facing steep opposition, in his case from Amazon and real estate interests.

We encourage all DSA members to help out with the Zev Cook campaign or send a donation!

We are thrilled to announce that one of our most recent National DSA endorsees, Denzel McCampbell, just won his August 5th primary!

Denzel has spent more than a decade working on issues such as voting rights, water affordability, and equitable transportation. He also has a keen focus on community violence intervention programs and mental health services.

Denzel is part of a slate of candidates in the Socialist Cash Takes Out Capitalist Trash fundraising project!

Can’t afford to donate at this time? Support Denzel by phonebanking your DSA comrades!

By: Collin P.

All resolution numbers are linked, and links are to the DSA Forum. You must be a DSA member and opt into the forum, which you can do here.

This article will mainly be listing the passed/rejected resolutions. Resolutions either not considered or referred to the NPC are generally not included. A full list of motions and their status from OpenSlides can be found here: Full List. All results are preliminary and need to be reviewed by the Resolutions Subcommittee. All links to resolutions are their original language and not the final amended language with the passed resolutions.

This last weekend, August 8–10, DSA hosted our biennial national convention. Elected delegates from around the country came together in Chicago to debate, to vote, and to decide on the organization’s direction for the next two years.

The convention center was filled with 1300 delegates, many alternates, many observers, and the countless volunteers who spent their own time working to make this convention a success.

Consent Agenda Items

These are the items that were adopted as part of the “consent agenda” — that is, they were accepted all at once without discussion through a single vote of adoption. If an amendment to a resolution was not accepted into the consent agenda but the base resolution was, the amendment was considered null and void. Some amendments were added to the consent agenda while their base resolutions were not and either considered separately or referred to the National Political Committee (NPC).

• CR01: DSA National & Chapter Affiliation Agreement Proposal
• CR04: National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution
• CR05-A04: Carnation Program Amendment to the National Education Committee Resolution
• CR05-A05: Invest in Cadre Candidates and Political Independence
• CR06: 2025 DSA Housing Justice Commission Consensus Resolution
• CR08: Unified Grievance Policy — AS AMENDED
  - Amendments:
  — CR08-A01: Member Expulsion Policy (formerly CB01–3)
   — CR08-A02: For a Member-Led Grievance Response
   — CR08-A03: Fix the At-Large Loophole in Grievance Policy
   — CR09-A02: Removal of Staffer Requirement

PASSED but base resolution referred to NPC

• CR10-A02: Carnation Program Amendment to the National Labor Commission Resolution
• CR10-A03: Support Federal Worker Organizing
• CR10-A04: Non-Reformist Labor Reforms for Worker Power
• R02: No AI Images!
• R05: Fight Fascism, Build Socialism — AS AMENDED
  - Amendments:
   — R05-A01: Leave Hiring to the NPC
• R09: For Political and Technological Independence: A Path to Exit from Capitalist and Democratic Party Tech
• R13: For a Robust & Centralized National Resource Library
• R18: Seize the Moment! Defeat Corporate Democrats and Elect More Socialists
• R19: From Palestine to Mexico: Fighting Fascist Attacks on Immigrants
• R26: Fight Fascist State Repression & ICE
• R29: Proposal to Launch a Member-Led National Design Committee
• R30: Fighting Back in the Class War: Preparing for May Day 2028
• R30-A01: Tenants & Workers Together in 2028
• R32: Towards a Multilingual DSA / Hacia un DSA Multilingüe
• R36: A Unified Democratic Socialist Strategy for Palestine Solidarity
• R40: Build Worker Power, Defeat Amazon
• R49: Resolution on the Use of X.com
• CB02-A01: Power to the Members: Deliberative Democracy for 1 Member 1 Vote (amendment consented to but base resolution voted down)

Non-Consent Agenda Resolutions:

These are the items that were debated on or had more delegate involvement.

• CR02: International Committee Consensus Resolution — Building an Internationalist Party — UNAMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 1013 (89.173%)
  No: 123 (10.827%)
  Abstain: 31
  - Amendments:
   — CR02-A02
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 504 (43.486%)
  No: 655 (56.514%)
  Abstain: 50
• CR05: National Electoral Commission Consensus Resolution — AS AMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 1049 (88.823%)
  No: 132 (11.177%)
  Abstain: 23
  - Amendments:
   — CR05-A02 : One DSA: Toward a Unified Endorsement Process
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 373 (31.962%)
  No: 794 (68.038%)
  Abstain: 25
   — CR05-A03: Towards Deliberative Federal Endorsements
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 655 (55.508%)
  No: 525 (44.492%)
  Abstain: 23
   — CR05-A04: Carnation Program Amendment to the NEC Resolution
  Outcome: PASSED BY CONSENT AGENDA
   — CR05-A05: Invest in Cadre Candidates and Political Independence
  Outcome: PASSED BY CONSENT AGENDA
• CR10: “Building A Worker-Led Labor Movement”- 2025 National Labor Commission — AS AMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 1049 (88.823%)
  No: 132 (11.177%)
  Abstain: 23
  - Amendments:
   — CR10-A01
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 544 (47.93%)
  No: 591 (52.07%)
  Abstain: 40
   — CR10-A02: Carnation Program Amendment to the NLC Resolution
  Outcome: PASSED BY CONSENT AGENDA
   — CR10-A03: Support Federal Worker Organizing
  Outcome: PASSED BY CONSENT AGENDA
   — CR10-A04: Non-Reformist Labor Reforms for Worker Power
  Outcome: PASSED BY CONSENT AGENDA
• R01: DSA for One Palestinian State
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 330 (30.499%)
  No: 752 (69.501%)
  Abstain: 53
• R06: One Member One Vote For Federal Endorsements
  Outcome: NOT CONSIDERED — RULED OUT OF ORDER BY CHAIR
   — Motions related to resolution:
   — Vote to sustain the ruling of the chair
  Yes:669 (57.179%)
  No: 501 (42.821%)
  Abstain: 30
• R07: Principles for Party-Building
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 641(53.775%)
  No: 551 (46.225%)
  Abstain: 0
• R20: Workers Will Lead the Way: Join with Unions to Run Labor Candidates — AS AMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 987 (91.729%)
  No: 89 (8.271%)
  Abstain: 27
  -Amendments:
   — R20-A01: Democratic Socialists and the Labor Movement Need Each Other
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 834 (72.585%)
  No: 315 (27.415%)
  Abstain: 20
• R22: For a Fighting Anti-Zionist DSA — UNAMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 675 (56.297%)
  No: 524 (43.703%)
  Abstain: 30
  - Amendments:
   — R22-A01: Align with the BDS Movement
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 572 (45.397%)
  No: 688 (54.603%)
• R27: Staff Relationship to Members in a Democratic Organization
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 683 (58.029%)
  No: 494 (41.971%)
  Abstain: 37
• R33: Unite Labor & the Left to Run a Socialist For President and Build the Party — UNAMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 687 (59.326%)
  No: 471 (40.674%)
  Abstain: 36
  - Amendments:
   — R33- A02: Building a United Front Toward 2028 (Formerly R37)
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 540 (46.114%)
  No: 631 (53.886%)
  Abstain: 25
• R34: Workers Deserve More, Forever: For a Coherent and Continuous Program Befitting DSA’s Political Growth — UNAMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 900 (75.567%)
  No: 291 (24.433%)
  Abstain: 28
  - Amendments:
   — R34-A01: A Fighting Socialist Program for DSA (formerly: R12 & R23)
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 532 (44.97%)
  No: 651 (55.03%)
  Abstain: 30
• R35: For Working-Class Member Leadership
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 651 (56.51%)
  No: 501 (43.49%)
  Abstain: 28
  - Amendments:
   — R35-A01: Stipend the NPC
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 538 (45.593%)
  No: 642 (54.407%)
  Abstain: 20
• R42: Labor for an Arms Embargo — UNAMENDED
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 347 (80.139%)
  No: 86 (19.861%)
  Abstain: 10
  - Amendments:
   — R42-A01: For a Strike-Ready Labor for an Arms Embargo
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 421 (35.348%)
  No: 770 (64.652%)
  Abstain: 35
• R44: Resolution on Staff, Contractors, and Budgeting
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 583 (49.533%)
  No: 594 (50.467%)
  Abstain: 21

Constitution and Bylaws Changes

All constitution or bylaws changes required a vote of ⅔ or more to pass.

• CB01: Democracy Commission Comprehensive Structural Reform Proposal
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 989 (82.007%)
  No: 217 (17.993%)
  Abstain: 13
  - Planks:
   — CB01–1: Archive Policy
   — CB01–2: Abolishing Constitutional Membership
   — CB01–4 Member Input Policy*
   — CB01–5 National Commission Policy*
   — CB01–6 Changes to the NPC Democracy Commission
   — CB01–7 Standards for the NPC Democracy Commission
   — CB01–8 Implementing Chapter Affiliation Agreement
   — CB01–9 Reauthorizing the Democracy Commission
   — CB01–10 Repealing the Ban on Democratic Centralism
• CB02: One Member, One Vote for National Leadership Elections
  Outcome: FAILED
  Yes: 487 (39.82%)
  No: 736 (60.18%)
  Abstain: 11
  - Amendments:
   — CB02-A01: Power to the Members: Deliberative Democracy for 1 Member 1 Vote
  Outcome: PASSED BY CONSENT AGENDA
• CB03: Setting Fee Structures for the Organization’s Print Publications
  Outcome: PASSED BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT
• CB04: Fair Representation via STV Delegate Elections
  Outcome: PASSED
  Yes: 711 (63.313%)
  No: 412 (36.687%)
  Abstain: 22

NPC Election Results

There were also elections for our National Political Committee, the highest decision-making body between conventions. This is the body that meets and votes on the whole organization’s policies and is elected by delegates to lead our organization for the next two years.

The NPC consists of two co-chairs, 23 at-large members, and two YDSA Co-chairs.

The number of members was expanded to 25 from 16 seats by the passage of R01, the Democracy Commission recommendations at this year’s convention. The two YDSA Co-chairs were elected at the 2025 YDSA “Over the Barricades!” Convention held in Chicago August 6–7.

Each member has their chapter and their caucus or slate affiliation next to their names.

Our two co-chairs are

• Ashik S.- Wilmington DSA — Groundwork
• Megan R.- At-Large — Red Star

The NPC at-large members for the next two years are -

• Abdullah F.- DSA-LA — Carnation Program
• Ahmed H.- NYC DSA — Springs of Revolution Slate
• Amy W.- Seattle DSA — Marxist Unity Group
• Andrew T.- Denver DSA — Springs of Revolution
• Cara T.- Metro Detroit DSA — Groundwork
• Cerena E.- Houston DSA — Bread and Roses
• Christian A.- Long Island DSA — Socialist Majority Caucus
• Clayton R.- DSA-LA — Socialist Majority Caucus
• Cliff C.- Orlando DSA — Marxist Unity Group
• David J.- NYC DSA — Libertarian Socialist Caucus
• Eleanor B.- NYC DSA — Groundwork
• Ella T.- Seattle DSA — Bread and Roses
• Frances G.- DSA-LA — Groundwork
• Francesca M.- Connecticut DSA — Springs of Revolution Slate
• Hayley B.B — Portland DSA — Bread and Roses
• Hazel W.- San Francisco DSA — Red Star
• Jeremy C.- NYC DSA — Socialist Majority Caucus
• John L.- New Orleans DSA — Red Star
• Kareem E.- NYC DSA — Groundwork
• Katie S.- Ithaca DSA — Socialist Majority Caucus
• Sarah M.- Portland DSA — Reform and Revolution
• Sidney C.W — NYC DSA — Marxist Unity Group
• Luisa M.- Portland DSA — Springs of Revolution Slate

YDSA Co-Chairs elected this week at the YDSA Convention:

• Daniel S-C — Florida International University — Reform and Revolution
• Sara A — Cornell — Independent/No Affiliation

Whether the resolutions you wanted passed or failed, the convention is about camaraderie and building a unified vision for DSA. We have a vision and a direction for the next two years. Let’s try our best to build up the working class. We got a world to win.

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