Tag: democratic party

Mamdani’s Victory Not Enough to Make the Changes We Need

This past Tuesday, Election Day, Zohran Mamdani won the general election to become Mayor of New York City. He decisively defeated his chief rival, Andrew Cuomo, with 50% of the vote to Cuomo’s 41%. Much like his victory in the Democratic primary earlier this summer, this victory brought criticism and outrage from the right, and […]

Prop 50 Won’t Stop Trump—or the System That Created Him

In California, on November 4, voters are being asked to decide whether to approve a redistricting plan, Prop 50, in a special election, where it is the only statewide measure on the ballot. If passed, it would give the Democratic Party machine the right to redraw congressional voting districts in the state. That would give […]

Zohran Mamdani: A Real Hope for New York’s Working Class?

On July 1, it was announced that Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York State Assemblyman and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), had won the New York City Democratic primary election for mayor of New York City. He won decisively over his fiercest rival, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, by 12%. To […]

The Democrats Helped Bring Trump to Power — They Are Not a Solution to the Problems We Face

download {8.5×11} {as small booklet} Introduction Since Trump’s second term began, there has been a rapid acceleration of authoritarianism and an all out assault on working people and oppressed groups: firing federal workers, gutting social services, closing federal agencies, carrying out mass arrests of immigrants, shredding the human rights of LGBTQ+ people, and much more, […]

Event Video (June 22, 2025): Trump’s Program of Deportations and Border Militarization

An online discussion with Todd Miller Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings From Obama to Biden to Trump, the U.S. has carried out aggressive anti-immigrant deportation programs and border militarization. Now, Trump has accelerated these attacks into a full-scale militarized assault on immigrants and anyone who attempts to resist their authoritarian regime. Join us to discuss […]

They Have No Solutions for Us

Download pdf Since Trump became President, the reality of this so-called democracy has been on display for all to see. The Republicans in Congress have bowed to every demand. And the Democrats have barely expressed any opposition. Some judges have issued rulings opposing the most blatant disregard for laws. But the final word is left […]

Speak Out Now National Newsletter: March 31, 2025

Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) They Have No Solutions for Us Since Trump became President, the reality of this so-called democracy has been on display for all to see. The Republicans in Congress have bowed to every demand. And the Democrats […]

These Attacks are Meant to Stop Us. We Can’t Let Them!

Announcement after announcement about planned executive orders have been filling up our news feeds in the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. From education to healthcare to food access to queer, trans, and immigrant rights, Trump’s administration has asserted plans to cut federal support for programs that many of us rely on. […]

Their Elections Can’t Decide Our Future — We Can

Donald Trump has been reelected, winning both the popular vote and every swing state, with the Republicans likely gaining control of both houses of Congress. But despite what the media says, this is not some mandate from the population. Instead, the election results show this was a rejection of the Democrats and the status quo, […]

Project 2025 Doesn’t Mean We Should Support Democrats

Our readers have probably heard about Project 2025, the extreme right-wing blueprint for a future Trump administration. It was created mostly by the Heritage Foundation, one of the decades old mouthpieces of the capitalist ruling class in the United States, but received support and backing from numerous other reactionary organizations, including many individual right-wing activists […]

Kamala Harris: Supporting Workers in Words Only

Kamala Harris’ insistence that the Democrats are pro-labor and support the working class has been one of the campaign’s loudest messages, especially at the recent Democratic National Convention. The party convention saw endorsement speeches from United Automobile Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain as well as other major union presidents, including from the American Federation of […]

Who Do the Billionaires Support? Both Parties!

In recent months mainstream newspapers have featured stories about some of the divisions and potential conflicts among both individual capitalists and groups of capitalists in this 2024 election. It’s been reported that many tech billionaires are supporting Trump and the Republicans, especially if they’re invested heavily in crypto currency. Fossil fuel company leaders and owners […]

Tim Walz – The Reality

Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has introduced her Vice-Presidential candidate, current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The mainstream media is generally touting Walz, noting he’s from rural Nebraska, was a longtime teacher and National Guard member, then a Congressperson, and is now in his second term as Minnesota Governor. He has been called folksy and a […]

The Wrong Way to Stop the Right

Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made news last week by contributing, for the first time in her nearly five years in the House of Representatives, $260,000 to the campaign arm used by Democrats in the House of Representatives. For her first few years in office, she resisted contributing to the larger fund, choosing to use her […]

“Uncommitted” In A System That Is Committed To Genocide

People in the United States have continued to watch the ongoing slaughter in Palestine with horror and have looked for possible ways to halt the genocide. As one of the forms of protest that people have turned to, hundreds of thousands have been refusing to vote for current President Joe Biden in the ongoing Democratic […]

Fed Up With Politics? Whose Politics?

Recent reports in the New York Times are verifying what most of us already knew: millions of people in the United States, likely the vast majority, are fed up with politics and politicians. They are sick of the perceived drama, disfunction, unkept promises, conflict, and outright ineffectiveness of political institutions on all levels. This phenomenon […]

Dianne Feinstein: Everything That’s Wrong with Politics-as-Usual

Since long-serving U.S. Senator of California Dianne Feinstein died September 28, we have heard much praise for her career. She has been called a pioneer, a trailblazer, an icon. Her fight to ban semi-automatic weapons was praised, as was the report she helped bring to light about C.I.A. torture and intelligence gathering techniques in the […]

A Pitiful Reduction of Student Debt

If you were only reading the bombastic headlines from the past few weeks, you might believe that, despite the recent Supreme Court setback to student debt relief, Biden has still been able to cancel a titanic amount of student debt – $39 billion. The White House announced last week that it was going to erase […]

Biden Gives Green Light to Putting World at Risk by Expanding Alaskan Drilling

The Biden Administration has given the green light for the oil and gas company Conoco Phillips to drill for at least 600 million barrels of crude oil out of the North Arctic region. The site of the drilling, called the Willow Project, will border communities of the indigenous Inupiat people and will be the largest […]

Biden’s State of the Union: Lots of Empty Promises

On Tuesday, Feb. 7, President Biden delivered his State of the Union speech. And it was in line with how the Democratic Party and Biden’s administration have presented themselves since Biden took office. In short, there were a bunch of promises, most of which will likely never be fulfilled. Biden pronounced that his administration is […]

The Change We Need Won’t Come from the Ballot Box

As of this writing, the election results are not clear, but once again billions of dollars have poured into campaigns across the country for this year’s election circus. A record $7 billion has been spent on state-level candidates and ballot measures. This election took place as this system continues to throw our lives into chaos, […]

Republicans Use Immigrants as Pawns; Democrats Arrest and Deport Them

In the past few weeks, Republican governors in Florida and Texas have put migrants on buses and planes and shipped them off to Democrat-led cities and states in a sickening political stunt, using the immigrants as pawns in their attempts to make the Democrats look bad. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida paid an estimated $615,000 […]

Democrats Bail When Feet Held to the Fire!

Democrats may claim to care about social justice, but when they have the opportunity to take action on issues such as ending contracts with ICE, their true priorities are revealed.