ahsheek.bsky.social
🌊🌹⛈ | @demsocialists.bsky.social co-chair | invented doomscrolling
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Find the episode here:
goodmorningcomrade.podbean.com/e/picking-up...
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Change your party registration by TONIGHT or drop off you form at a Board of Elections office by TOMORROW!
zohranfornyc.com/vote
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Don't let the haters and losers get in your head... The "Resistance" didn't go too far. It didn't go far enough.
The only way to win is to fight for our rights as hard as we can, for as many and as much as we can.
We know it works! And so do they.
Join DSA!
🌹👉🏾http://dsausa.org/join
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While Biden gave up a month into his term on a minimum wage over 7 dollars, DSA won over $20, the highest in the country.
While Democratic turnout plummeted even in deep blue cities, DSA chapters are growing in record numbers from coast to coast.
People see us throwing down for fights that matter.
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As Trump's power grabs spark outrage, there's hope.
As co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, I hear this common trend in every conversation with members across the country.
What people want are fighters. People who will fight for them, their families, their co-workers, & their communities.
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Protests against Trump's inauguration last month were smaller than 2017, but the thousands who showed up have fewer illusions 8 years later—after Dems squandered the chance to show a real alternative for working-class people.
And orgs like DSA, with no corporate funders limiting us, keep growing.
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When anyone talks about leftists "staying home," remember that it was the Desistance who said "stay home."
By hamstringing committed activists & spurning the new voters who beat Trumpism in 2018, 2020, and 2022, the Desistance got exactly what they wanted.
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
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Anyone involved in the major policy fights knows the opposite is what happened.
Through 2019, orgs like Sunrise Movement made their name with sweeping Green New Deal demands. With Biden in office, members were pushed to tone down conflict in order to work with the administration.
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Take another Desistance boogeyman, a set of progressive nonprofits that Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social has ominously termed "the groups," claiming these organizations pulled Democrats to become far too radical for ordinary people to support, & thus elected Trump.
www.vox.com/politics/388...
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What Dems did from 2021-24 is what enabled Trump's return. Biden Democrats failed to visibly fight for demands of the "Resistance" that brought them to power.
Very consistently, the Desistance worked to stall energy that threatened them or their donors.
jacobin.com/2025/01/bide...
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The real way to make change isn't to let elites eke out compromises that corporate backers tolerate.
It's full-throated demands by ordinary people for all we need to not only survive, but thrive.
We make change by fighting for more—not settling for less.
inthesetimes.com/article/demo...
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For pundits like Yascha Mounk or Ruy Teixeira, it's the Resistance's fault Trump was re-elected, pushing Dems into radical positions, that voters rejected...in 2024.
But that's wrong. The "Resistance" won in 2020, beating Trump.
www.thefp.com/p/trump-20-a...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/19/o...
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The Desistance isn't new. It’s the same centrist wisdom since Dems lost a 40-year Congressional majority by triangulating in the 1990s.
To admit Trump disproved them twice by beating centrists Hillary Clinton in 2016 & Kamala Harris in 2024 would be to lose credibility forever.
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Democratic leaders like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries demonstrate how to keep losing.
Anyone who wants to win for good against the far right — who believes in radical concepts like "all people are created equal — must understand why The Desistance prefers to simply back down.
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Thanks for listening!