Report from the Exploratory Committee for the

2020 Presidential Primary

Submitted Friday January 18th

From the 2020 Exploratory Committee:

● Maria Svart, National Director
● Jeremy Gong (NPC)
● Jack Suria-Linares (NPC)
● Chris Riddiough (NPC)
● Renée Paradis (NEC)
● Tascha Van Auken (NEC)
● Paul Prescod (DSLC)
● Chance Walker (YDSA)
● Megan Svoboda (M4A)

Part 1: 2020 Presidential Primary Endorsement

Process Proposal

Context

In October, 2018, the NPC formed the Exploratory Committee for the 2020 Presidential Primary
(2020 Exploratory Committee, for short), to draft recommendations to the NPC’s January, 2019
meeting. This committee is meant to have representatives from the NPC, YDSA NCC, NEC,
M4ACC, and DSLC to look into the possibilities for an endorsement in the 2020 presidential
primary as well as develop a high level campaign plan for a potential 2020 presidential
campaign.

This current document is meant to lay out a high-level proposal for how DSA should
address the question of endorsement in the 2020 primary. While many of the details of the
process are elided, this document should be used as guidance for how the process will
proceed in general.

Starting in 2014, DSA ran a “Draft Bernie” campaign pushing for Bernie Sanders to run for
president. Once Sanders’s campaign was officially up and running, DSA endorsed Sanders

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and ran an independent, socialist campaign supporting his candidacy. Thanks in part to this
campaign, DSA has grown about 11 times over since 2015, from 5,000 members to 55,000.
DSA will most likely want to endorse Sanders again, were he to run in 2020.

Since DSA has been transformed into a “mini mass” organization after 2016, we have made
many electoral endorsements in local and state races, but have not had the opportunity to
endorse a presidential candidate. Therefore, we must develop a process for endorsement that
takes into account where the organization is at now and what direction we expect or hope it
will be moving over the coming months.

We expect most 2020 presidential candidates will likely announce by middle of next year or
sooner. Bernie Sanders seems to be almost certainly running at this point and could announce
as early as January and as late as March 2019. If DSA is to play an important role in Sanders’s
campaign — both growing DSA as a serious, independent, socialist pole in the broader
Sanders movement, and helping Sanders win the Democratic Party primary and go on to
defeat Trump in the general election — then it is essential that DSA get involved in this
campaign as early as possible.

Since it can take months to develop new programming of any kind in a large, decentralized,
and mostly volunteer-run national organization, we should begin planning what this campaign
would look like now. Additionally, we should not wait more than one month after Sanders
announces his candidacy before we make an endorsement. Otherwise we risk starting late and
playing only a background role in the larger mobilization behind Sanders and his program.

Since 2017, the NPC has worked with the NEC to make endorsements at the
recommendations of chapters, largely without input from the broader membership besides the
guiding 2017 Priorities Resolution. However, in the case of a presidential primary endorsement,
we should aim to incorporate a much broader layer of DSA’s membership in the deliberation
over a presidential candidate’s endorsement. This is especially important given that the
success of this campaign will largely depend on how active and energized our members are in
the campaign. In order to achieve that, our endorsement process should seek to get maximum
input from members informing the decision (and informing a future campaign), and seek to get
maximum buy-in for whatever we end up deciding.

Goals

This proposal is written with the following goals in mind:

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 ● The NPC should vote on whether or not to endorse Bernie Sanders for president in
2020 within a month following Sanders’s announcement in early 2019.

● Through an inclusive and democratic process, DSA should achieve a maximum level of
input and buy-in through the process of debate and decision-making.

Proposed Endorsement Process

The process for endorsement will involve the following key elements, roughly chronologically:

1. At the January 26-27 NPC meeting, the NPC adopts the recommendations from the
2020 Exploratory Committee, including this process, and announces as much to the
membership. Included in this announcement will be a political rationale for why we are
considering Bernie Sanders and no other candidate in the Democratic primaries. This
rationale will make clear that we are not rubber-stamping Sanders, but instead that we
have high demands on him politically, and that we will push Sanders towards our
positions as much as possible.

2. During the February and March Regional Conferences, there will be time on the agenda
for debating whether or not to endorse Bernie Sanders, and if so what such a campaign
should consist of.

3. During February and March, the NPC or some body thereof will encourage chapters to
engage in in-person discussions about a possible Sanders endorsement. These ideally
would take the form of resolutions to be debated at general membership meetings,
allowing chapters to vote on whether or not to recommend the endorsement to the
NPC. Many chapters, however, have not developed strong parliamentary practices of
debating resolutions, or are too small for this to make sense, so they should be assisted
in carrying out this discussion in whatever way is most useful in their context.

4. If and when Sanders announces his candidacy, an endorsement process is immediately

triggered:
a. The NPC will immediately send an announcement to the membership alerting
them to the following process.
b. The NPC will schedule an emergency NPC meeting via Zoom to consider the
question within one month or less. If Sanders’s announcement comes late
enough in the month of March, then the in-person NPC meeting in April will be
used to make the decision.

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 c. Within two weeks after Sanders announces, the NPC will send out an advisory
online poll to the entire membership. This poll will ask if the members support an
endorsement of Sanders by the NPC. The members will have about one week to
complete the poll once they receive it.
d. Once the NPC has received the poll results, they can move forward with
debating a motion to endorse a Sanders campaign. Such a motion or an
additional motion should include language on how DSA should conduct a
campaign.

If Sanders doesn’t run

While it seems all but certain that Sanders is planning on running at this point, it is reasonable
to make preparations in the event that he does not. In such an event, we propose a much
simpler process. If Sanders makes clear that he will not run (which should happen early in
2019), then the NPC — likely at their April 2019 meeting — in consultation with this committee
should develop a plan to encourage debate among the membership about which if any
Democratic Party candidate to endorse in the primary, and then put forward a debate and a
resolution or multiple resolutions on this question at the 2019 National Convention. Related
questions that DSA should consider between when Sanders makes clear he is not running and
through the August convention include:
- How high a priority is defeating Trump?
- If Sanders endorses a candidate, how should DSA react?
- Should DSA compile “dossiers” on the other candidates so that even if we don't
endorse, we can provide information to members?

Other Considerations

DSA should also be prepared to discuss, at our 2019 National Convention, what our strategy
will be in relation to the 2020 general election. If Bernie Sanders is not the Democratic Party
nominee, there will likely be very heated debates among DSA members about whether or not
to back a different Democratic nominee, or an independent candidate, against Trump. Since
there will not be a DSA national convention in 2020, and DSA will likely be heavily involved in
multiple electoral campaigns across the country throughout 2020, having a serious, full-
membership debate about this question after the primary ends will be difficult. Therefore, it
would be best for DSA to start to develop our approach to this problem in 2019, knowing that
there will be limited time for a membership-wide debate in 2020.

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The NPC should therefore consider putting forward a resolution for debate at the 2019
convention addressing the question of whom to support in 2020 if Sanders is not the nominee.
This question can be taken up again at the April 2019 NPC meeting.

Additionally, DSA should consider the relation of the 2020 presidential race to important
House, Senate, and state races.

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Part 2: Initial Bernie 2020 Campaign Plan Proposal

Introduction

The following document describes key features of a potential “DSA for Bernie” campaign.
While some elements would likely have to be put in motion before endorsement, such as a
compliance research, such a campaign would begin immediately after we endorse Sanders, if
that is what happens, likely in Spring 2019. If adopted by the NPC at their January meeting, the
document lays out key next steps and a broad direction for action. It is not intended to
prescribe every detail of such a campaign. Instead, the goal is that many of the major initial
questions are answered and problems solved before an endorsement happens or soon after,
making it easier for us to launch a campaign in a timely manner.

Without having key questions about compliance and fundraising figured out, we can only draw
up hypothetical plans for what the campaign will likely look like. That is why settling questions
around election law compliance is probably the most urgent priority.

However, at the highest level, we know that the campaign will have several key features.

First, DSA will have an independent political identity, with a name like “Democratic Socialists
for Bernie.” This campaign shall be centered around core demands of Sanders’s platform —
not merely the candidate himself — such as Medicare for All, College for All, Green New Deal,
end cash bail, $15 minimum wage, etc.

Second, DSA will have its own national campaign infrastructure, independent from Sanders’s
official campaign. The degree to which our infrastructure will coordinate with the official
campaign, or if we have multiple national (and/or local) campaigns, independent and
coordinated, will have to be determined by compliance constraints. However, to begin with we
should assume a maximum level of independence and a minimum level of coordination.

Third, in addition to developing propaganda and other national-level political interventions, a

primary task of the national DSA Bernie campaign will be supporting the growth of local and
state-wide Sanders campaigns. This will primarily happen through facilitating the growth of
DSA chapters, training and support of chapter activists, systematization and possibly
centralization of key operations including data and fundraising. DSA’s national campaign
should also, to the highest degree possible, involve DSA chapters in various organizing
activities, such as putting on town halls, virtual phonebanking, or connecting down ballot DSA-
backed candidates to DSA-for-Bernie efforts.

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Finally, DSA’s campaign for Bernie will intimately involve the efforts of DSA and non-DSA
activists in the labor movement (through the DSLC and the Labor for Bernie network), on
campuses (through YDSA), and in the fight for Medicare for All (through DSA’s Medicare for All
campaign).

National Infrastructure

DSA shall develop an independent national campaign infrastructure supporting Sanders in the
event that DSA endorses his candidacy. Such a national infrastructure shall include the
following major elements:

1. The 2020 Exploratory Committee will continue to serve on an interim basis until the
endorsement vote and/or the appointment of a new committee. If DSA endorses
Sanders, the NPC should establish a DSA Bernie 2020 Committee (hereafter the
“Committee”) by appointment.

2. The Committee shall work with the Personnel Committee and the National Director to
design and hire the following positions as soon as possible:

a. An experienced, full-time or part-time compliance officer who will be tasked first

with developing compliance guidance for national DSA and DSA chapters, and
then with offering advice to DSA’s national campaign for Sanders, the NEC’s
other activities, and chapters throughout the 2019 and 2020 election seasons;
and

b. One or two lead campaign organizers who will initially be tasked with helping the
Committee carry out all of its activities, including developing a campaign plan
and helping the Personnel Committee and National Director hire additional
campaign-related staff.

3. In consultation with the NPC, the Committee shall establish an organizational and
political identity independent of Sanders’s official campaign, such as “Democratic
Socialists for Bernie.” This shall involve a subdomain and social media accounts, similar
to https://medicareforall.dsausa.org.

4. The Committee shall work with staff to develop a comprehensive data management
plan, including deciding upon software and related hiring. Such a plan should be
focused on guaranteeing chapters are able to develop their own robust data
management systems that can be used for all chapter work going forward.

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 5. The Committee shall establish an Organizing Subcommittee, tasked with developing a
network of regional organizers, as volunteers or paid staff, who can help interested
chapters to develop their own campaigns. Early on, this Subcommittee shall also
develop organizing guides, similar to the DSA Medicare for All organizing guide, to send
out to interested chapters and other activists. The Organizing Subcommittee shall also
explore options for creating a system for virtual phonebanking and textbanking,
allowing DSA to host such activities throughout the primary season while capitalizing on
the momentum around Sanders to increase outreach on behalf of down ballot DSA-
backed candidates in primary states. The Committee shall make recommendations for
hiring organizing staff, either dedicated entirely or in part to this campaign.

6. The Committee shall establish a Communications Subcommittee to manage all

national“Democratic Socialists for Bernie” related communications, including traditional
and social media, audiovisual content, and supporting chapters in developing their own
communications activities. This Subcommittee shall a related blog or publication, as a
newsletter or website. See for comparison the DSA Medicare for All blog and
newsletter. The Committee shall make recommendations for hiring communications
staff, either dedicated entirely or in part to this campaign.

7. The Committee shall, in conjunction with relevant chapters, plan major actions
coordinated across DSA chapters to raise awareness about the campaign and give
chapters valuable organizing experience. This could include a day of action in which
chapters host speaking tours, town halls, canvasses, or watch parties; coordinated
social media activities, like selfie videos or hashtags; or lobby days or direct actions
where activists raise demands that are core to Sanders’s platform, like Medicare for All,
College for All, or Green New Deal.

Compliance

The Committee shall develop comprehensive compliance plans for DSA’s national Bernie
campaign(s) and for DSA chapters’ and regional bodies’ campaigns.

DSA shall hire a full-time national compliance officer ASAP after January NPC meeting to
advise DSA national and ultimately chapters on developing compliance plans for 2020 electoral
campaigns, e.g. whether and how much we can coordinate with the Sanders campaign,
fundraising, etc. This officer can also help with compliance for all other election campaigns in
2019-20.

This compliance officer will develop a plan for ensuring (1) DSA works within the law both to
maximize its impact on this race and to use this work to build DSA; (2) chapters know how to

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follow the law in doing their Bernie work and where and how to get their questions answered;
and (3) an efficient method for tracking and reporting expenditures by locals.

Chapter Support

The Committee shall develop a robust system of support for DSA chapters’ local and statewide
campaigns for Sanders.

One of the most urgent and valuable roles National can take on is to put into place an
infrastructure comprised of specific resources chapters can tap into when starting Bernie
organizing. The combination of resources and training will help chapters — especially those
who haven’t participated in electoral work yet — develop the systems and institutional
knowledge necessary to effectively build campaigns around the presidential race, as well as
grow their own chapters through this work. This chapter support plan lays out the specific
resources (a national voter database that is up and ready to go soon, a volunteer management
structure that chapters can use if they need, a clear process put into place to activate new
DSA members or DSA-curious Bernie volunteers and trainings, so that DSA chapters can
quickly demonstrate through regular collection and reporting of voter contact, voter registration
and volunteer metrics, its effectiveness on the ground. Trainings will help the thousands of
potential new organizers in DSA learn the necessary skills to talk to voters about the many
issues chapters are working around, how to identify supporters, how to track support, how to
register new voters and engage them further, how to recruit and retain new volunteers and how
to use Bernie’s campaign as an opportunity to further develop and grow all the other
campaigns a chapter might be involved in. It is important that these tools be put into place
immediately so that there is time for trainings to happen around the tools and for the chapters
to adapt to the use of them.

1. In the immediate (February, March 2019) the committee shall put into place tools and
trainings, building a national infrastructure which chapters can tap into once they begin
organizing work around Bernie. The committee’s goal shall be to set up these systems,
even before there is an announcement from Bernie or an endorsement from National,
so that when these events happen, chapters can hit the ground running. The
infrastructure put into place by National can be used by chapters not just for Bernie
organizing but for other campaigns both during and beyond the 2020 presidential
election cycle. The committee shall coordinate a number of tasks, including but not
limited to the following:

a. The distribution of the organizing plan to all chapters.

b. Support for chapters to engage in discussion and debate around the
endorsement and work Bernie’s campaign may trigger.

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 c. Identifying lead chapters ready to launch work immediately and be visibly doing
work.
d. A process for supporting chapters as they navigate issues of compliance,
including an accessible FAQ with a clear path for chapters to get questions
answered.
e. Identify, share, and train chapters on voter management tools that national
purchases.
f. Develop a process for connecting volunteers with chapters.
g. Develop a path to work for members not in chapters.
h. Develop broad comms strategy, including talking points for chapters to build
their own comms strategies.
i. Develop a list of political education resources for chapters to include in
campaign work.
j. Plan for a centralized DSA/Bernie website which will include an events structure
volunteers can easily connect to chapter work through.

2. In the next 6 months (April - September 2019) the committee shall focus on helping
chapters build capacity, develop leadership, meet chapter goals, train members in a
variety of skills, and keep chapters connected to each other through regular calls and
meetings designed to increase overall institutional knowledge. This is a make or break
moment where DSA can demonstrate its effectiveness and value to a national
campaign. The committee shall prioritize and support chapters’ collection of all voter
and volunteer contact metrics, so that work chapters are engaged in can be accurately
assessed, supported and further developed through chapter leadership. During this
time the committee will coordinate a number of tasks, including but not limited to the
following:

a. Launch an organizer program to help train new organizers in chapters

b. Launch comms strategy and training for chapters.
c. Campaign in a box
d. Launch website with centralized event calendar, volunteer opportunities, etc.
e. Launch and assist with data and/or voter management.
f. Establish regular calls and check-ins
g. Conduct regular trainings
h. Encourage and support chapters to establish campaign goals that are
measurable, including but not limited to the following:
i. Voter contact goals
ii. Leadership development goals
iii. Volunteer recruitment
iv. DSA membership

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 v. Coalition partners (labor in particular)
vi. Voter registration goals

3. The longer term goals for DSA are to demonstrate and document the work DSA carries
out, to be a significant factor in the success of the the Bernie Sanders campaign and to
grow DSA chapters, leadership and knowledge through the work. The committee will
continue coordinating prior support for chapters and will revise and adapt in a way that
best supports the work that chapters are doing and wanting to do around the Sanders’
campaign. The committee shall coordinate what is needed to support chapters
continued work, including but not limited to the following.

a. Continuation of work launched previously, adapted based on reaching new

growth goals.
b. Support for chapters navigating nuanced political environments

How the Bernie campaign relates to DSA’s Medicare for All Campaign

DSA’s Medicare for All campaign spent the last year developing a national organizing
infrastructure that could provide a strong base for a DSA Bernie 2020 campaign. In particular
two subcommittees of the campaign should be used as a foundation to help launch a potential
Bernie 2020 campaign: the Organizing Subcommittee and the Communications Subcommittee.
In many DSA chapters, the Medicare for All campaign or Health Justice Working Group
represents a good springboard for Bernie 2020 work: these chapters have been involved in
mass outreach and canvassing work around a proposal so closely associated with Sanders’
name. The DSA M4A Organizing Subcommittee and Regional Organizers have built solid ties
with chapter leaders working on Medicare for All and are well positioned to support many of
these leaders as they develop Bernie 2020 campaigns.

The fight for Medicare for All will extend beyond the 2020 elections, regardless of the outcome.
For this reason the Medicare for All campaign should not fold completely into a Bernie
campaign. It should continue to support Medicare for All chapter organizing as well as maintain
it’s existing communications channels: Twitter, Facebook, and the Medicare for All newsletter.
However, since a Bernie Sanders presidency represents the mostly likely scenario in which a
true Medicare for All program is realized, the M4A Steering Committee supports turning a good
deal of the Medicare for All campaign infrastructure toward a DSA Bernie 2020 campaign when
and if DSA endorses.

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Recommendation developed by M4A Steering Committee in collaboration with Political
Subcommittee, Organizing Subcommittee, Communication Subcommittee, and DSA chapter
activists. Full report included in the M4A NPC report, can be read here.

Building Labor Support and “Labor for Bernie”

The DSLC has a significant role to play in a potential Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential
campaign. We can help to substantially expand the Labor for Bernie network and get more
unions to endorse him. This process involved rank-and-file agitation over the democratic
procedures involved in unions giving such endorsements. This provides an occasion where
DSA chapters can develop closer ties with the labor movement. This is also an opportunity to
bring up broader political demands within unions such as Medicare for All, Green New Deal,
Jobs Guarantee, criminal justice reform, and free public education.

Building Campus Support for Bernie

At YDSA’s most recent convention the organization overwhelmingly passed a resolution in

support of preparing to support a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign in 2020. This effort is
intended to help imbue the campaign with an organized socialist, anti-racist, and anti-
imperialist contingent as well as connecting YDSA militants to a genuine mass movement
through which they can organize alongside a broader layer of progressive and working class
youth.

The YDSA National Coordinating Committee recently passed a proposal forming a national
YDSA Bernie 2020 Campaign Committee to be made up of representatives from all our current
priority committees as well as the NCC. This committee will develop a list of point persons for
the Bernie campaign at every chapter and each member of the committee will be responsible
for having one on one conversations with each point person in order to keep them up to date
with our campaign plans and take feedback from the chapters about what kind of resources
chapters need. Seeing as the kind of work each chapter will be doing for the Bernie 2020
campaign will vary greatly depending on geography and local DSA initiatives, we believe this
structure will allow national YDSA to coordinate efforts around the campaign while still giving
chapters control over their exact strategy. YDSA will also be holding a workshop and a plenary
about socialist efforts around the Bernie campaign at our Winter Conference in February.

For more information, see YDSA’s Initial Campus Campaign Plan passed by the National
Coordinating Committee

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Cosigners

Benjamin Y Fong, Phoenix DSA

Jack Jackson, Walla Walla DSA Organizing Committee
William Martin, DSA Metro Atlanta / YDSA Georgia Tech
Sumter Alton, MADSA/YDSA GT
Cameron Towne, Rank and file member Los Angeles DSA
Oren Schweitzer, NYC DSA
Ash Clark, Seattle DSA
JP Kaderbek, Chicago DSA and DSLC Steering Committee
Kristin L., NYC DSA
Frances Reade, Vice Chair East Bay DSA
danny noest, North Brooklyn DSA
Rick Belliveau, Portland DSA
Hannah Ehrlinspiel, East Bay DSA
Devin McManus, NYC DSA & member of NEC
Carolyn Weaver, Central Brooklyn DSA
Ryan H, DSA North Texas
Bryan B., Portland DSA Member
Robbie N., East Bay DSA
Matt S, East Bay DSA
Patrick T. Shepherd OC Member, NYC-DSA Labor Branch
Nick Conder, Louisville DSA
Sam Ghitelman, NYC DSA
Abigail Gutmann-Gonzalez, East Bay DSA
Ethan G., Seattle DSA
Micah Uetricht, Chicago DSA
Joanna M, Seattle DSA
Judith Lienhard, Portland DSA
Stephen G., NYC DSA
Sandy B, Co-chair, Electoral Committee, East Bay DSA
Max L, East Bay DSA
Taylor Hines, Phoenix DSA
Alex Salta, NYC DSA
Chris Middleman, Seattle, DSA for Medicare for All
Chuck McKeever, Seattle DSA
Andrew Porter, Columbus DSA
Andrew R., East Bay DSA
Paul Alexander, Seattle DSA
Kathryn Dale, Queens DSA
Cole, Everett DSA
Andrew Hudson, Phoenix DSA
Leslie Roeder, NYC-DSA Lower Manhattan
Jamie Munro, Capitol District DSA
Christopher McLaughlin, Portland DSA
Max Lewis, Seattle DSA
Christie O, NYC DSA
John S, Seattle DSA

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Emily Comer, Kanawha Valley DSA
Daniel Stevens, At-large Northeast Texas
Sean M, East Bay DSA
Miguel Duarte, East Bay DSA
Susan Kang, NYC DSA member of citywide leadership committee
Ryan Bruckenthal - North Brooklyn, NYC Labor Branch, and DSA Teachers
Will Bloom, Chicago DSA Northside Steering Committee, Labor Working Group Steering Committee
Zach McDonald, Co-Chair, East Bay DSA
Dan Lutz, Secretary, Hudson Valley NY DSA
Jason Farbman, Central Brooklyn DSA
Jonah F, Central Brooklyn DSA
Lichi D’Amelio, NYC DSA
David Makofsky, SF East Bay DSA
Tim Higginbotham, Anchorage DSA
James Cole, Austin DSA
MV Watson, East Bay DSA
Anthony Downing, Lehigh Valley PA DSA
Carl Goldman, Metro DC DSA
Tom Coombe, Lehigh Valley DSA
Andrew Yale, Chicago DSA
Emily H, Lehigh Valley DSA
Matthew Fertel, Queens DSA
Andrej Markovčič, Seattle DSA
Zac Bears, Boston DSA
Diane I, NYC-DSA
Matt Hoffmann, Chicago DSA
Stephen Thompson, Baltimore DSA
Sam Lewis, NYC DSA
Eric Pierce, DSA Los Angeles
Karen Narefsky, NYC-DSA
Halsey Hazzard, NYC DSA, NYU YDSA Organizing Committee
Danya Lagos, NYC DSA
John Pearson, East Bay DSA
Ari Marcantonio, East Bay DSA
Barry Eidlin,DSA Los Angeles
Russell Weiss-Irwin, Boston DSA
Abdullah Younus, Co-chair NYC DSA
Max Crema, Metro DC DSA
Eric Blanc, NYC-DSA
Hannah Klein, East Bay DSA
Amelia Dornbush, Lansing DSA
Duncan Bryer, North Brooklyn DSA
Beth Huang, Co-chair Boston DSA
Laura Gabby, NYC DSA
Scott L.K., NYC DSA
Cori M., Hudson Valley DSA
Janet Tucker, Steel Valley Organizing Committee
Daniel Lynch, NYC DSA
Eileen Jones, East Bay DSA

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Matt Miller, Boston DSA
Jared Abbott, Boston DSA
Liz Henderson, Boston DSA
Stephen M., Boston DSA
Molly Niedbala, Boston DSA
Louise Parker, Boston DSA Electoral and Health Working Groups
Jared Hicks, Boston DSA
Ben T. Boston DSA
Trent Parker, Boston DSA
Jared Abbott, Boston DSA
Anna Callahan, Boston DSA
Stuart Karaffa, Metro DC DSA (Steering Committee member)
Ben D., Metro DC DSA
Nate S., Secretary, Metro DC DSA
Charlie Keller, Boston DSA
Brian Wivell, Metro DC DSA
Richard F., Dubuque DSA Member
Drew Shannon, Metro DC DSA
Ryan Mosgrove, Metro DC DSA
Jake W., Metro DC DSA
Brad C., Metro DC DSA
B. Hinke, Metro DC DSA
Liam B, UNC YDSA co-chair
Jay C., Metro DC DSA, National Electoral Committee
Coleson Breen,Metro DC DSA
Nina Svirsky, NYU/NYC YDSA
Jamal A, Chicago DSA
Luke Peters, Boston DSA
Don McIntosh, Portland DSA
Marianela D'Aprile, Chicago DSA
Lillian Osborne, Chicago DSA
Isabel Anreus, North Brooklyn DSA
Olivia Gamboa, DSA Los Angeles
Kenzo Shibata,Chicago DSA
Rachel Zibrat, Chicago DSA, Northside Steering Committee Member and Socialist Feminist Working
Group Co-Chair
Coleman Lukas, Chicago DSA
Abby Agriesti, Chicago DSA
Steven Spires, Boston DSA
Jacob Kramer, Boston DSA
Ben Bradlow -- Boston DSA
Hailey Loomis, Austin DSA, Labor Committee
Ashley Payne, EBDSA Labor Committee Co-Chair
Zelig Stern, NYC-DSA (Labor Branch)
Eric Broder, East Bay DSA
Pennie Taylor, member Boston DSA
Laura Wadlin, Portland DSA
Carolanne Fry, Portland DSA
Amittai Aviram, Boston DSA

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John Heppen, Twin Cities DSA
Adam M., Portland DSA
Evan George, Boston DSA
Nancy Stenberg, Pioneer Valley DSA
Douglas J, Seattle DSA
Peter G. Simon, Denver DSA
Nate Clauser, Boston DSA
D Sebastiani, Denver DSA
Cale Brooks, NYC DSA
Aimee Dupont, Co-Chair, Worcester DSA

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