I was in Sedona, AZ, two weeks ago when Jacob Morrison, the North Alabama Area Labor Council (NAALC) President and NADSA comrade reached out to ask for my assistance as a delegate to NAALC to present our proposal for a Raise the Wage campaign to Alabama Arise. Arise is, roughly, the 2nd largest progressive policy-advocacy nonprofit headquartered in the state, beaten only by the Southern Poverty Law Center (which is a national level organization, while Arise is not).

The recent primary election in Wisconsin has amplified a debate that has split DSA and the broader left. The controversy centers around “Woke 1”, a phrase being used by prominent members of DSA as a pejorative shorthand for the left’s demands and rhetoric during a period that roughly overlaps with Biden’s presidency and reached its peak during the George Floyd Uprising and its immediate aftermath...

Those of us organizing in Alabama understand that our state government is intentionally structured to concentrate power while eliminating local democratic control. Through the state's constitutional power of stripping any autonomy from the cities without their legal authority, communities are too often prevented from making decisions that directly affect their own lives. Outside of organized labor and grassroots community organizations, few institutions currently possess the militant or organizational power necessary to challenge that system...

We are witnessing the most egregious rollback of voting rights since the premature end of Reconstruction. Republican state legislatures throughout the former Confederacy are systematically disenfranchising Black voters with discriminatory congressional maps, adding to an autocratic arsenal that already includes restrictive voter ID laws and an outright refusal to accept election results they don't like.

Much has been made about the effectiveness of protests in general, and that of No Kings in particular. Socialists have a variety of opinions on this matter, and I do not intend to litigate the issue in extreme detail; many others have done so effectively. To summarize...

My name is Cate Blevins-Harris, a relatively new member of the DSA. I began my protesting journey in 2025 with the Hands Off and No Kings protests. No Kings 3 was the first protest where I had the privilege of witnessing the organizing that local activists do behind the scenes to pull off...