My draft SDA July newsletter
Dear Comrades,
Global Warming, Anyone?
It’s hot—and it feels hotter than last year.
It’s palpable, visible to the naked eye, and just as palpable is the Liberals’ inability to remedy the situation. The solution is political, but it requires winning political office.
In this month’s newsletter, we’ll cover:
Why SDA Doesn’t Organize or Participate in Radical Events
An Article Accusing Us of “Infiltrating” the Democratic Party
The Left/Right Divide in the United States
Houston SDA Branch – August 20th Meeting
Paperboy Love Prince for New York State Assembly and Theo Chino for US Congress
Jeremy Corbyn Launches a New Mélenchonist Party in England
Why SDA Doesn’t Organize or Participate in Radical Events
When we say political, we mean getting serious about electing Socialist officials in the United States. But what does that even mean? That’s what SDA is about: teaching 21st-century Socialism in the United States and explaining what it means within the Right/Left divide.
That’s why SDA doesn’t organize radical events such as protests—we refuse to risk losing our First Amendment rights that protect our fundamental freedoms: speech, assembly, and petitioning the government.
We’ve developed a 30-second elevator pitch to define Socialism:
A Socialist society is one in which the government provides free education and universal healthcare, opposes the death penalty, supports abortion rights, ensures a universal basic income, upholds the right to unionize, protects the separation of church and state, and affirms that its fundamental role is to make life bearable for all while safeguarding individual liberties.
It’s slowly working. And if someone asks about Marx or the collectivization of the means of production, I simply invite them to join our Monthly Onboarding Meeting, held on the first Wednesday of each month at 9 PM.
As highlighted in the Dallas Express article below, SDA is an open organization, but we remain vigilant about preventing bad-faith actors from infiltrating our events or pushing members toward illegal or violent activities.
We’re just a group of committed Socialist activists, sitting around a table, brainstorming ideas for building a better society once we’ve earned the right to govern. History has shown that agencies like the CIA and FBI have infiltrated radical groups to provoke illegal acts, using them as a pretext to shut those groups down—we refuse to fall into that trap.
That’s why we stick to our strategy: hosting Socialist Salons, where we discuss what a Socialist platform should look like in our neighborhoods. We leave organizing protests to other groups like 50501 and are proud when our members sit on their steering committees. But as an organization, SDA does not organize protests.
This is the best way to safeguard our First Amendment rights, ensuring that we can freely bring even the most taboo or far-fetched ideas to the table—without fear of reprisals.
An Article Accusing Us of “Infiltrating” the Democratic Party
Likewise, we do not endorse political campaigns directly; our work happens entirely within the Democratic Party.
The Dallas Express article highlighted a reality we must always keep in mind: yes, we are infiltrating the Democratic Party.
The party is so large that when one of its members does something wrong, it gets shielded by sheer size. In a small organization, a single bad action taints the entire group.
To avoid that, SDA doesn’t organize anything outside of training candidates for office.
The Left/Right Divide in the United States
U.S. politics is divided into two major parties—neither has a defined ideology, just a Left/Right divide.
The GOP is the party of the Right, and the DNC is the party of the Left—but how does that stack up against the rest of the world?
SDA’s goal is to infiltrate the Democratic Party, establish a clear Left boundary, and push Liberals toward the Republican Party, where they can define the Right boundary.
Globally, over the last 50 years, the political spectrum has been framed with the Liberal International defining the Right and the Progressive Alliance, Social Democrats, and Socialists defining the Left.
That’s why we run for Democratic Party Precinct Captain positions across the country.
Over time, we will build the strength to push Liberals out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party—just as Greens, Communists, and Anarchists were once forced out of the Party’s left flank, leaving them with nowhere to organize and ultimately self-destructing.
This is why SDA exists: to unite everyone on the Left and organize collectively within the Democratic Party—without losing their own organizing methods. They simply need to adjust their organizational status to 501(c)(4) to operate effectively within the Democratic Party structure.
Michael Harrington was a genius for recognizing this pathway decades ago. And the formula is working. Since we switched to Mobilize, over 1,000 people have signed up, with 154 verified users and counting.
Paperboy Love Prince, who once ran for Mayor of New York, got elected as a Judicial Delegate in Brooklyn: https://www.newkingsdemocrats.com/judicial-delegates-explainer.
Except for me, every SDA member who ran was elected to positions in the Democratic Party: County Committees, Judicial Conventions, and, in some cases, District Leaders. New comrades who ran for office have also secured Democratic Party positions.
Houston SDA Branch – August 20th Meeting
In 2026, five SDA comrades are already preparing their campaigns and branch are starting to pop up across the United States with the first in person branch meeting in Houston, Texas on August 20th.
Paperboy Love Prince for New York State Assembly
We must thank Paperboy Love Prince and others who have run multiple times as we learned the ropes of political campaigns, developed tools like Rep My Block, and pushed the boundaries of what’s possible.
With the work of our five New York members and countless allies, we’ve built a system that trains members nationwide. We now call on every dual-citizen American Socialist around the world to join us and help strengthen our movement.
Paperboy’s recent win as Judicial Delegate sent ripples through the community because it proved that, without a traditional campaign, Paperboy had earned the recognition and credibility needed to win one of New York City’s most obscure elections.
As is customary in Kings County, when Paperboy Love Prince runs for Assembly, they will also run for District Leader alongside a large slate of County Committee members. Over the past five years, Paperboy Love Prince has been steadily building that team in the neighborhood through grassroots actions, including extensive mutual aid efforts.
If you know people in Brooklyn, they can join Paperboy’s Salon here: https://www.mobilize.us/socialists/event/819716
Theo Chino for U.S. Congress
Meanwhile in Upper Manhattan, where the musical genra Salsa in Spanish Harlem and Bachata in Spanish Harlem, and Jazz in Sugar Hill, I am running against corrupt congressman Adriano Espaillat.
My neighborhood in New York is home to nearly 1/4 of the Dominican diaspora. For many Dominican immigrants, their time in the United States is viewed mainly as an economic opportunity, while they remain deeply connected to the Dominican Republic—often sending remittances home with the dream of retiring on the island one day.
That is also my story. Politics in my district and politics in the Dominican Republic are deeply intertwined.
The Dominican Republic even has overseas representatives in its Parliament, many of whom are members of the Progressive Alliance. This means that numerous dual-national Dominicans are part of the Progressive Alliance and the Socialist International—groups that Adriano Espaillat has long associated with as the most powerful Dominican in the U.S. House of Representatives.
At my first Progressive Alliance meeting in 2023, I laid out what would be expected from Socialists around the world for this U.S. congressional campaign in NY-13 to succeed.
With all the work of our five New York SDA members and countless allies, we’ve proven that our system works. We can train Socialist candidates all over the United States—and now we are calling on every dual-citizen American Socialist, wherever they are in the world, to join us.
If you know people in Upper Manhattan, they can join my candidate Salon here: https://www.mobilize.us/socialists/event/819490
Jeremy Corbyn Launches a New Mélenchonist Party in England
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has launched a new party aligned with Bernie Sanders’ Progressive International and the Democratic Socialists of America. Corbyn remained in the Labour Party, which belongs to the European Socialist Party and the Progressive Alliance.
By stepping away to form his own Mélenchonist-style party in England, he’s clarifying ideological lines, allowing SDA, DSA, and Liberals to organize more clearly.
Join SDA!
At our last call, a reporter of the Dallas Express join our intro call and wrote a pretty good article about our plan, but made two erroneous references.
If you feel like terrorizing the Liberals Democrats, feel free to join us by becoming a $40 Non Voting SDA member, https://www.socialists.us/newsletter/signup/join.
If you like what you see, you’ll have the opportunity to exchange it for a Voting SDA card.
In solidarity,
Hasta la victoria, ¡siempre!
Theo