{"id":2625502,"date":"2026-07-06T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-socialists-of-america-reaches-all-time-high-membership\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:33:00","slug":"democratic-socialists-of-america-reaches-all-time-high-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-socialists-of-america-reaches-all-time-high-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Socialists of America reaches all-time high membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-socialists-of-america-reaches-all-time-high-membership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2625502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) surpassed 120,000 members on July 4, celebrating its milestone as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-here-are-the-clear-reasons-why-hispanics-are-moving-away-from-the-democratic-party\/\" title=\"ANALYSIS: Here Are The Clear Reasons Why Hispanics Are Moving Away From The Democratic Party\">largest socialist organization<\/a> in U.S. history, overtaking the socialist Party of America&#8217;s peak in 1912. Following the victory of DSA member zohran Mamdani in a New York Democratic primary, the group&#8217;s membership increased further, aided by efforts in get-out-the-vote campaigns and outreach, contributing to more local candidates across the U.S. winning elections in November 2025. The DSA has historically supported prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Cori Bush, helping to bolster socialist representation in Congress. President trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >criticized rising socialist influence<\/a>, warning against communism and equating democratic socialism with communism, framing it as a threat to American freedoms. Despite ideological tensions, some DSA-backed candidates and members have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-the-south-northeast-u-s-no-longer-leader-contributing-to-nations-gdp\/\" title=\"Northeast U.S. no longer leads in contributing to nation&#039;s GDP in the South.\">gained significant political influence<\/a>, prompting scrutiny from more centrist Democrats and national figures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4634845\/kamala-harris-socialist-left-are-they-interested\/\">Democratic Socialists of America<\/a> topped 120,000 members on Saturday as the United States celebrated its 250th <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4634634\/leftists-july-4-fundraising-antifa\/\">Independence Day<\/a>, the group announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DSA is now the \u201clargest socialist organization in United States history,\u201d surpassing the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/moves\/SP_map-members.shtml\">Socialist Party of America\u2019s 1912 peak<\/a> of 113,000 members, the organization said in an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DemSocialists\/status\/2073858007017164832\">X post<\/a>. The group reported <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/06\/27\/democratic-socialists-america-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-membership-increase\/\">increasing membership<\/a> after DSA member and New York Mayor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11802\">Zohran Mamdani\u2019s<\/a> Democratic primary win in June 2025.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4636582\/mallory-mcmorrow-suspend-michigan-senate-campaign\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Democrat Mallory McMorrow exits Michigan Senate race, vows to back nominee<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4634789\/democrats-investigation-priorities-retake-house\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Democrats lay out investigation priorities if they retake the House<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4636140\/democrats-sour-about-america-not-work-voters-joe-concha\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Democrats being \u2018sour\u2019 about America will not work for voters: Joe Concha<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mamdani and a dozen other <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/11\/10\/socialists-mamdani-dsa-democratic-socialists-elections\/\">local candidates<\/a> across the U.S. won in November 2025 with the DSA\u2019s help in get-out-the-vote operations, outreach, and other campaign efforts. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4632602\/mamdani-backed-candidate-billionaires-soros\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4632602\/mamdani-backed-candidate-billionaires-soros\/\">DSA candidates<\/a> asserted more control over the Democratic Party in June with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4622549\/darializa-avila-chevalier-advocated-pro-hamas-group-columbia-university\/\">three primary wins<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4630204\/mamdani-backed-new-york-candidate-arrested-multiple-times-protests\/\">New York<\/a>, prompting <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4628008\/mamdani-democrats-socialist-manifesto-new-york\/\">criticism<\/a> from more centrist Democrats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to helping Mamdani\u2019s rise, the DSA has spent more than a decade supporting high-profile Democrats such as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dsausa.org\/blog\/dsa_convention_new_strategy_for_a_new_era_dl\/\">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)<\/a>, a former 2016 presidential candidate, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/democratic-socialism-dsa-aoc-bernie-sanders-congress\">Rep.\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0(D-NY)<\/a>, and former Missouri <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/electoral.dsausa.org\/cori-bush-another-round\/\">Rep.\u00a0Cori Bush<\/a>, who is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3835797\/cori-bush-reelection-campaign-2026-midterm-elections\/\">running again<\/a> for her <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Cori_Bush\">former seat<\/a>. The leftist magazine <em>In These Times<\/em> boasted in 2018 that Congress had more socialists than ever in U.S. history, thanks in part to the DSA, after Reps. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rashida-tlaib\/\">Rashida Tlaib<\/a> (D-MI) and Ocasio-Cortez won office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has taken notice of DSA candidates\u2019 rising popularity. He portrayed communism as a threat to America\u2019s freedoms in his Saturday night <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4636430\/trump-american-exceptionalism-condemns-communism-july-4-speech\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4636430\/trump-american-exceptionalism-condemns-communism-july-4-speech\/\">Independence Day speech<\/a> in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4632602\/mamdani-backed-candidate-billionaires-soros\/\"><strong>MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATE RAILS AGAINST BILLIONAIRES DESPITE HER CAREER BENEFITING FROM ONE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAmerica will never be a communist country, won\u2019t happen,\u201d the president told his audience. \u201cOur warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We\u2019re not going to let it happen. We\u2019d like to stop a threat like that immediately, and before it begins. Just like a cancer, you\u2019ve got to cut it out, you\u2019ve got to cut it out fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also dismissed notions last week that so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-anti-racist-training-expecting-people-of-color-to-teach-white-people-is-covert-white-supremacy\/\" title=\"Illinois \u2018Anti...Racist\u2019 Training: Expecting People Of Color To Teach White People Is \u2018Covert White Supremacy\u2019\">-called democratic socialists<\/a> are meaningfully different from communists in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4629347\/trump-communism-greater-threat-than-wwi-wwii-sept-11-pearl-harbor\/\">comments to reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey use the word \u2018Social Democrat\u2019 because it sounds so nice, but it\u2019s really communism you\u2019re talking about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSA surpasses 120K members, largest U.S. socialist group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1239,"featured_media":2625503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26184515046513_be943a-e1783351301920.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[81764,74849,7507,12428],"class_list":["post-2625502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-democratic-socialists","tag-dsa","tag-membership","tag-socialism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26184515046513_be943a-e1783351301920.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625506,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625502\/revisions\/2625506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}