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In the last congressional election, millions of Americans cast votes for socialists in their respective districts. No, they didn't actually vote for a socialist party slate. But they might just as well have. The effect was the same. Instead, they unwittingly cast votes for Democrats--and several independents--who are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. These 58 Representatives have adopted and are working toward implementation of a platform developed and pursued by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), one of the most influential Socialist groups in America. The platform of the DSA, while seemingly benign, has major implications for how we...

WASHINGTON — It's all in how you interpret the words: Is it a little campaign help or "one of the most transparent attempts to steal an election since the Daley machine ran Chicago politics"? The national director of the Democratic Socialists of America says a press release about the group sending as many as two dozen young people to Minnesota this month to help the campaign of Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., has been misinterpreted. The group says it intends to register young Minnesotans to vote, and to get them involved in the political process. Here's how it describes the Minnesota...

As most readers of this newsletter know, we believe in calling things what they are, in plain English, and in such a way that there is no doubt in what we mean. So we haven't been using words like duplicitous, deceitful and devious when describing the Democrats in Congress. Instead, when they act like socialists (as do some Republicans), socialists is what we call them. There is a very good reason for this socialist tag, too. We are far from being alone in this assessment. Specifically, we find the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in total agreement. First, though, a...