New York City is preparing to send two DSA members, presumptive election night winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, to Capitol Hill. DSA-backed candidates made historic gains in this year’s Democratic primaries, with at least five expected to join current DSA members Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the House. But can socialism really make headway in the halls of Congress? Democracy Now! fellows Amba Guerguerian and Diego Ramos report.
“Our task is going to be winning our colleagues over to our position and finding common ground,” Valdez tells Democracy Now! “Some of the most popular policies in our country’s history have been socialist policies,” says Avila Chevalier. “They have been the things that working people have organized for and won.”
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