REVEALED: The DSA Takeover of the Democratic Party — And Its Goal to Take Down America
"The DSA is the heartbeat of the modern Democratic Party. The question is not whether Democrats are shifting left; the question is whether we should still call them Democrats at all."
What explains the surge of Zohran Mamdani, an Islamist-communist candidate who is making a serious bid to become mayor of America’s most populous and economically important city?
Why has Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries come out in full-throated support of a known communist?
Why is AOC so immensely popular, now poised to challenge Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his New York senate seat?
What we are witnessing is the culmination of the hard left’s “long march” through America’s institutions — and now its takeover of the fully radicalized “Undemocratic Party.”
So what explains the Democratic Party’s implosion into a left-wing extremist party with increasingly authoritarian tendencies? Look no further than the Democratic Socialists of America.
THE DSA’S HOSTILE TAKEOVER
The United States of America rose from a handful of fledgling British colonies and a band of brave patriots forged an independent nation that became the most powerful free nation on earth.
America was founded on the principles of constitutionally limited government and its Bill of Rights guaranteed civil liberties of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, the right to a speedy trial, and legal due process. These liberties reflected that philosophical view that our rights derive from God, and thus, all human beings have the right to life, liberty, and property.
Yet a movement has emerged that challenges those foundational ideals — the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — whose goals for America are far from “democratic.”
As its leaders admit, the DSA are not Democrats. They are a corrupting force that has infiltrated the Democratic Party to reshape it in their own totalitarian image.
Their stated goal? Capture the institutions of power, use the party’s credibility to implement Marxist policy, and ultimately replace America’s representative government with a revolutionary socialist tyranny.
Canary Mission has published a sweeping exposé tracing how the DSA merged with radical anti-American factions, including pro-Hamas groups, to launch a hostile political takeover. The report connects DSA leaders with campaigns to dismantle law enforcement, embrace censorship, defund Israel, normalize antisemitism, and support groups linked to foreign terrorist organizations.
It documents a multi-decade strategy of leveraging Democratic primaries, progressive caucuses, and grassroots activism to infiltrate every level of government. The outcome is visible today: a Democratic Party that not only tolerates radicalism but often elevates it to national prominence.
This is the true story of how America’s left became authoritarian.
THE TAKEOVER STRATEGY
The DSA’s model is infiltration, not competition. Rather than building a third party, they use the Democratic ballot line, branding, and voter base to field their own candidates, often hiding their affiliations until after victory. The long-term aim is to force a party realignment by replacing liberal Democrats with radicals loyal to DSA ideology.
From New York to Los Angeles, the DSA has executed this plan with stunning success. Their membership has surged from 6,000 in 2015 to over 80,000 in 2025. More than 250 DSA members now hold elected office — almost all as Democrats. Many occupy local seats, but several, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, hold national power.
Their strategy includes:
Coordinated primary challenges to moderate Democrats
Radical caucus formation within legislatures
Ties to anti-Israel and pro-censorship advocacy
Promotion of Marxist and anti-constitutional ideology
Political analyst John Rossomando points out that the DSA’s takeover of the Democratic Party has been a political operation at least 30 years in the making:
With this mish-mash of internal division, activists might and did argue that a third party was needed to advocate a pure progressive position. This was the position of the Socialist Party throughout the New Deal and the position of the Peace & Freedom Party and various Trotskyist and New Left groups by the end of the 1960s. On the other hand, other left activists (such as the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s and DSA in the 1970s and 1980s) would argue that with a little push, we could “realign” the parties and turn the Democrats into a representative of the progressive elements within the United States. […]The Left needs to build a mass-based organization to expand the ranks of the Progressive, Black and Hispanic Caucuses. […]
We should take some lessons from the Christian Right in order to create a disciplined mass organization that can take control of party machineries in states across the country, run our own candidates in the primaries, and force more conservative members of the Democratic Party to move to the left or forfeit their seats.
To accomplish this goal, we need all the elements that those advocating a third party argue is necessary: a structured organization in every state representing the diversity of the progressive movement, a large base of members who are active in both electoral and non-electoral battles, and an independent funding base from dues paid by individual members.
This will take a lot of work but, given the solid base of progressives and even socialists in important leadership positions within the Democratic Party, this will be a much more likely route to electoral victory.
This is no longer a fringe movement. It is now the dominant energy in the Democratic Party.
ZOHRAN MAMDANI AND THE NYC-DSA MACHINE
Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old DSA-backed Democratic nominee for NYC mayor, embodies both progressive hope and conservative dread. Born in Uganda to academic parents, he rose from Queens assemblyman to 2025 mayoral frontrunner, riding DSA’s 80,000-strong grassroots machine and a platform of bold socialism. His agenda is unapologetically radical: rent freezes, free childcare, city-run grocery co-ops, a $30/hour wage, and $10 billion in business taxes. This is the road to communism.
In a 2021 speech, he called “seizing the means of production” the ultimate goal. Critics—Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, Donald Trump—warn this would trigger mass exodus, crime surges, and fiscal collapse, likening it to Venezuela or 1970s New York. “NYC won’t survive,” Cuomo says. Mamdani’s criminal justice stance fuels the fire: decriminalize all misdemeanors, close prisons, and end “defund the police” rhetoric.
Nowhere is the DSA’s strategy more advanced than in New York City. In June 2025, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a self-declared democratic socialist and son of a pro-Hamas documentarian, won the Democratic mayoral primary. His win came with full backing from the NYC-DSA, the most powerful DSA chapter in the country.
Mamdani’s political rise mirrors the ascent of AOC in 2018. He gained traction through open calls to defund the police, boycott Israel, and restructure New York City around “anti-capitalist” and “anti-imperialist” principles. His campaign field organizers include former Palestinian Youth Movement leaders, DSA committee heads, and longtime pro-censorship activists.
Mamdani’s inner circle doesn’t hide its goals. In speeches and documents, they frame the United States as a settler-colonial empire, call for its dismantling, and treat American institutions as obstacles to liberation.
President Donald Trump has rightly called him a “100% Communist Lunatic.”
ANTI-DEMOCRATIC TACTICS: THE BIDEN COUP
The Democratic establishment’s increasing accommodation of DSA radicals culminated in what many are calling the 2024 “Biden Coup” — a term for the orchestrated removal of President Joe Biden during the 2024 campaign and his replacement by Kamala Harris.
While the corporate media insisted Biden “withdrew voluntarily,” behind the scenes, reports surfaced of pressure from party elites, donor threats, and a coordinated messaging pivot. Once Harris was installed as nominee, DSA-aligned operatives flooded her campaign. Harris echoed their language: pledging an “equity-first economy,” and celebrating the “reimagining” of public safety.
The maneuver was executed without a single primary vote. No delegate revolt. No democratic input. It was raw machine politics — with a progressive gloss.
THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS
How did this happen? For decades, left-wing intellectuals spoke of a “long march through the institutions” — the idea that to truly change America, radicals must seize control of cultural, educational, political, and economic systems from within.
The DSA understood this. They built their strategy around it.
They targeted teachers unions. Local newspapers. College boards. City councils. Prosecutors’ offices. Every institution they now influence was once seen as moderate, even apolitical. Today, they are levers of ideological enforcement.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the censorship industrial complex. DSA-aligned officials supported social media crackdowns on the Hunter Biden laptop story, demanded firings of dissenters from COVID orthodoxy, and applauded intelligence-agency collusion to suppress populist narratives.
They label dissent as “misinformation.” They brand opposition as “fascism.” They use power not to persuade but to punish.
The radicalization of the Democratic Party didn’t begin with Bernie Sanders, but he was the catalyst. His 2016 and 2020 campaigns normalized DSA language — Medicare for All, wealth taxes, democratic socialism — among mainstream Democrats.
The rigging of the 2016 primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton marked a turning point. Many younger voters saw the corruption and turned not rightward, but further left. They didn’t want moderation. They wanted revolution.
By 2020, progressives controlled the ideological future of the party. Even Joe Biden ran on Bernie’s platform, co-governed with AOC, and installed DSA-adjacent figures across the executive branch.
Meanwhile, establishment figures like Chuck Schumer drifted leftward out of fear. The anti-communist party of JFK had become the party of revenge posing as “equity,” and it was driven by critical race theory, LGBTQIA+ identity politics, and a deep nihilism that shuns basic morality in favor of total power.
The DSA’s trajectory is clear. With Mamdani on the verge of becoming mayor of New York, AOC preparing a 2026 Senate challenge, and its 2024 presidential nominee of choice, Kamala Harris, embracing far-left policies, the DSA is no longer scheming to make inroads into the Democratic Party — it is now running the show.
The DSA is the heartbeat of the modern Democratic Party. The question is not whether Democrats are shifting left; the question is whether we should still call them Democrats at all.