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The candidate's own statement
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The Democratic Socialists of America endorse candidates for federal, state, and local office. Those candidates have stated their beliefs publicly, for years, at length. So has the organization that endorsed them.
We quote both accurately, cite the source on screen, and invite anyone to check. No editing tricks. No paraphrase. No inference. Voters reach their own conclusion — our only argument is that they should get to see it first.
How we handle sources
Three kinds of fact. We never let one stand in for another.
This is the rule that does the most work, and the one most often broken by campaigns on every side. An organization is not a person. A person is not an organization.
Source type BMethod
The endorsement itself
That a DSA chapter or national body endorsed a candidate is a checkable fact, cited to DSA's own announcement. We report the endorsement. We do not infer from it.
Source type CMethod
The organization's platform
DSA's published planks, resolutions, and convention documents, quoted and cited to DSA. Labeled as the organization's position — never as any individual candidate's.
The line we do not cross
A candidate endorsed by an organization has not thereby said everything that organization has ever said. If we want to attribute a position to a candidate, we quote the candidate. Otherwise we label it as what it is: the platform of a group that endorsed them.
Blurring A, B, and C is the easiest attack to make and the fastest way to lose the credibility this entire operation runs on.
The record
One card per candidate. One position. One citation.
Twelve candidates. One statement each on U.S. policy toward Israel, with its source and date. Every other statement we hold — and the DSA platform documents, kept separate — is in the full archive.
The line under each name is that person’s verified relationship to DSA, which is not the same for all of them. Two are on this page because of what they said about U.S. aid, not because DSA endorsed them — their cards say so.
ZM
“The occupation and apartheid must end”
CBS News2025-10-07Source →
Full record →Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — unmodified
DSA
Member
RT
“The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians”
@RashidaTlaib on X2024-07-24Source →
Full record →Photo: U.S. House of Representatives official portrait, 119th Congress — public domain
DSA
Endorsed
CV
“… a ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Gaza”
Valdez campaign site2026-06-14Source →
Full record →Photo: [ author ], CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — unmodified
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Endorsed
DA
“Stop all funding to the Israeli government”
Newsweek2026-06-25Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAEndorsed
AE
Abdul El-Sayed
Democratic nominee · U.S. Senate, Michigan
DSA-organised volunteer support — not a DSA endorsement [ source ]
“We’ve been talking about an illegal apartheid regime for a very, very long time”
Washington Monthly2026-08-06Source →
Full record →Photo: [ author ], CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons — unmodified
DSA
Supported
MK
Said U.S. defensive weapons “give Israel the cover” to continue what she called “genocide” in Palestine.
The Forward2026-06-30Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAEndorsed
DM
“I can’t in good conscience … [send] bombs and weapons to kill families”
Jewish Telegraphic Agency2026-08-05Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAMember
CR
“We have to acknowledge our complicity in an ongoing genocide in Gaza”
The Philadelphia Inquirer2026-04-30Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAMember
WL
William Lawrence
Democratic nominee · U.S. House MI-7, Lansing
“The answer you haven’t heard up here is yes”
Asked at a Lansing forum whether Israel’s action in Gaza constituted genocide. Both opponents declined to use the word.
Lansing City Pulse2026-06-17Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAPast Member
AN
“I do not support sending any money or any weapons to Israel at this moment”
Asked directly on air whether that meant cutting off all military aid to Israel. The qualifier is hers.
MSNBC, Morning Joe2026-08-19Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAMember
MV
“In 2024, while Doris was cashing checks from AIPAC, I was in City Hall passing Sacramento’s ceasefire resolution”
From her campaign platform. “Doris” is Rep. Doris Matsui, the 20-year incumbent she faces again in November.
JNS2026-06-11Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAEndorsed
RF
Richie Floyd
City Council · St. Petersburg, Florida (District 8)
“I’ll support a resolution that’s written with peace and an end to violence in mind, but this resolution is not that”
The lone vote against a council resolution backing Israel and condemning Hamas and Iran. His stated objection was the inclusion of Iran, which he said had no established link to the Oct. 7 attacks.
Orlando Sentinel2023-10-21Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
DSAEndorsed
AW
Aisha Wahab
U.S. Representative · California 14th
Not DSA — recommended, not endorsed, in the California DSA voter guide
“Yes” — asked on a livestream whether she favours ending all U.S. aid to Israel
She added in the same answer that “humanitarian aid is important to me, too.” The Gaza resolution she introduced in the California Senate was co-authored with Jewish state Sen. Scott Wiener, condemned Hamas, demanded the release of all hostages, and was signed by members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. The liberal pro-Israel group J Street spent $108,000 supporting her campaign.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency2026-08-21Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
CA DSARecommended
RV
Randy Villegas
Democratic nominee · U.S. House CA-22, Central Valley
DSA link unverified — listed in the California DSA voter guide
Has called Israel a “genocidal regime.”
The Forward2026-06-11Source →
Full record →Photo: [ pending ]
AO
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. Representative · New York 14th
Pledged at the NYC-DSA endorsement forum to vote against all U.S. military aid to Israel, including defensive systems.
City & State New York2026-04-01Source →
Full record →Photo: U.S. House of Representatives official portrait, 116th Congress — public domain
DSA
Member
The organization, kept separate
DSA
Democratic Socialists of America
National membership organization
Record type C — the organization’s own position
Resolution 22, adopted at the 2025 national convention by 675 votes to 524, makes stating that “Israel has a right to defend itself” grounds for expulsion from the organization.
Washington Examiner2025-08-15Source →
All platform documents →Logo: Takachiko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons — unmodified
This card records what the Democratic Socialists of America has adopted as an organization. It is not attributed to any candidate above. A candidate who accepted a DSA endorsement has not thereby adopted this resolution — to attribute it to an individual, we would have to quote that individual saying so.
The full file
Read the whole record, one candidate at a time.
The cards above carry one statement each. The archive holds every statement we hold — sorted by candidate, each with the outlet that reported it, the date, and a link to the original. Pick a name and read only that person’s record.
Every entry can be downloaded as a share graphic: a square image carrying the statement, its source, and the required disclaimer, ready to post. The citation travels with the fact, which is the whole point.
State the fact. Cite the source. Invite verification.
This is not about anyone's faith.
Not liberal Jews, not Jews of any political stripe. Religion is not a political position, and we will never treat it as one. Our subject is stated policy positions and nothing else.