Election wrap-up: Rosa Pepper-Macias put forward a socialist program for Connecticut
A Democratic Party “Blue Wave” has swept across the U.S. in a serious rebuke to the Trump regime’s MAGA agenda that ushered in increased ICE terror, attacks on civil liberties, and war. Working people, even in Trump strongholds like Texas, have flipped to the Democratic Party. Many even cast votes in favor of Democrats endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, signaling a progressive shift in a section of the working class.
The midterm elections have come to a close, but the brutal attacks from the Trump regime will not end. In fact, Trump, and his friends and officials (like newly appointed Chief of Staff Stephen Miller) have vowed to more viciously seek harm against immigrants and leftists. This is not a time to pause our political struggles, independent of the Democratic Party, but to redouble them. Rosa Pepper-Macias's campaign for state senate in Connecticut was an example of how an independent campaign can provide an opportunity to articulate a vision for working-class politics and cohere a base for it in a way that lays the groundwork for mass organizing, and not just the groundwork for a politican's career
