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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 4d

10/29 5 PT/8 ET, join NPEC for our Socialist Archiving 101 workshop! All comrades welcome📜🌹🤓
RSVP here⤵️
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10/29 DSA Archives Project: Socialist Archives 101

We are excited to offer our "101" archiving course once again before year's end! Whether you're a chapter chair or secretary wondering how best to approach records, a comrade with a lot of socialist s...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 7d

Super fun CRG kickoff last night, and now we're coming back...for Commodities.
10/13, we start Chapter One 🧵🧥
It's not too late to join this year's Capital Reading Group, comrades--RSVP below. See you soon!
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CAPITAL READING GROUP: FALL SEMESTER 2025

Dear comrades, Welcome to Capital Reading Group 2025! Our group will meet every Monday from 10/13 until mid-December, with a break for Thanksgiving, and then resume in the new year. When you RSVP fo...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 8d

...and RSVP for Part 1 of the Talking to Non-Socialists training on Thursday October 9th here! ⤵️
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Talking to Non-Socialists Training - Fall 2025

Join NPEC for our Fall Session of Talking to Non-Socialists! As we organize toward a better world in a second Trump term, our encounters with non-socialists of many stripes--from the socialism-skeptic...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 8d

Listen to NPEC's Michaela and Guy chat about Talking to Non-Socialists here ⤵️ ...
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Class: The NPEC Podcast – DSA Political Education

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 8d

Listen to Class HERE ⤵️
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Class: The NPEC Podcast – DSA Political Education

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight!

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Sep 5

It's happening...AGAIN.

NPEC is running a national Capital Vol. 1 reading group! Sign up for our kickoff on Monday October 6 HERE ⤵️

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NPEC Capital RG 2025 KICKOFF

NPEC is excited to restart our Capital Reading Group for another year--Volume 1 'til we're done, comrades! We're planning a few changes from 2024-25, including more frequent meetups with shorter exc...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 14d

TONIGHT! Join us at 4 PT/7 ET!
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What Should the US Left Say About the Constitution?: With Aziz Rana & Matt McManus

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Aziz Rana and Matt McManus on the past, present, and future of the Constitution and its meaning for left politics. Together, we’ll ask: How should the left...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 15d

NPEC's own Guy (Charlotte DSA) and Michaela (North NJ DSA) talk about Talking to Most People, aka "non-socialists" on this week's episode of Class!

Listen here or on a handy platform ⤵️
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Talking to Non-Socialists - Class

Since at least 2015 in the US, American Socialism has been growing again, and DSA is currently the largest organized socialist formation in the country, by far. But what about the vast majority of… we...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 17d

Don't miss us this Tuesday 09/30 at 4 PT/7 ET with Aziz Rana & @mattpolprof.bsky.social on the left view of the Constitution!

RSVP for this online event here ⤵️
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What Should the US Left Say About the Constitution?: With Aziz Rana & Matt McManus

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Aziz Rana and Matt McManus on the past, present, and future of the Constitution and its meaning for left politics. Together, we’ll ask: How should the left...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 23d

Last week, Class interviewed NPC leader Ella T on socialist librarianship, public knowledge, and the contradictions of libraries as the last common goods we have left. Enjoy! And don't forget to subscribe to Class 📚🌹

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Socialist Librarianship - Class

Libraries are quintessentially public goods and common spaces in the US, and are generally appreciated, if not beloved, by the vast majority. As a store of human knowledge and a free site of learning ...

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · Sep 12

Looking forward to this

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Sep 10

Tuesday 9/30 4 PT/7 ET, an NPEC panel event:
"What Should the US Left Say About the Constitution? With Aziz Rana & Matt McManus"
RSVP HERE ⤵️
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What Should the US Left Say About the Constitution?: With Aziz Rana & Matt McManus

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Aziz Rana and Matt McManus on the past, present, and future of the Constitution and its meaning for left politics. Together, we’ll ask: How should the left...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Sep 10

Tuesday 9/30 4 PT/7 ET, an NPEC panel event:
"What Should the US Left Say About the Constitution? With Aziz Rana & Matt McManus"
RSVP HERE ⤵️
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What Should the US Left Say About the Constitution?: With Aziz Rana & Matt McManus

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Aziz Rana and Matt McManus on the past, present, and future of the Constitution and its meaning for left politics. Together, we’ll ask: How should the left...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Sep 5

It's happening...AGAIN.

NPEC is running a national Capital Vol. 1 reading group! Sign up for our kickoff on Monday October 6 HERE ⤵️

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NPEC Capital RG 2025 KICKOFF

NPEC is excited to restart our Capital Reading Group for another year--Volume 1 'til we're done, comrades! We're planning a few changes from 2024-25, including more frequent meetups with shorter exc...

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Metro DC DSA @mdcdsa.org · Aug 21

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 20

Hey DSA comrades!

Could you use some guidance on "doing Poli Ed" in your chapter? Do you need to start a Poli Ed committee, learn how to facilitate sessions, need a refresh?

TOMORROW 8/21 at 5 pt/8 et, join our training!
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NPEC Facilitation and Setting Up a Political Education Committee - Summer 2025

Join NPEC for a Facilitator and Setting Up a Political Education Committee training on Thursday, August 21st, at 8-9:30 pm ET/5-6:30 pm PT. For the first part of our training, learn how to run meeti...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 8

@demsocialists.bsky.social convention 2025 -- our consensus resolution PASSES on the consent agenda this am! Thanks for supporting us delegate comrades, get ready for more political education than EVERRRRR 🔥🌹

READ OUR PLAN for 2025-7 ⤵️

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National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- 2025

National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- submitted by NPEC SIGN HERE! Whereas: NPEC was founded in 2019, with a mission to “invest”--organize and expand--political education wi...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 8

@education.dsausa.org Did it folks! Our first consensus reso!! I’m personally excited to start working on the Party School and Socialist Sprouts’(Children’s) Curriculum

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 8

@demsocialists.bsky.social convention 2025 -- our consensus resolution PASSES on the consent agenda this am! Thanks for supporting us delegate comrades, get ready for more political education than EVERRRRR 🔥🌹

READ OUR PLAN for 2025-7 ⤵️

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- 2025

National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- submitted by NPEC SIGN HERE! Whereas: NPEC was founded in 2019, with a mission to “invest”--organize and expand--political education wi...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Starting in a hour 📚

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Tonight's Gathering the Masses, 8 pm ET! We are excited for this. If you haven't RSVPed yet, do that here and get the materials:

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If you haven't read, still come by! ...but, if you can get a little time today, here's what you can do in 30-40 min --

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Gathering the Masses: an NPEC Pre-convention Gathering

Calling all DSA convention delegates, political educators, and comrades who gather... NPEC invites you to a preconvention gathering to discuss socialist and working class mass gathering, as we prepar...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Folder 3
Dean, Comrade, bottom of page 2 - 4; 7 (2.5 pages)
Inouye, Intro (page 1 - top of 3); multiracial organizing (10-12); organizing without permanence (16-18) (~8 pages)
Austin (2.5 pages)

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Folder 2
Port Huron statement, “Values” subheading through “participatory democracy” section (bottom 240-top 243, 2 pages)
Hayden, “What Participatory Democracy Meant” subheading (pages 6-7, ~1 page)
Brown, “April 1968” to “…Mark Rudd” (3 pages)

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Folder 1
Haywood and Trotsky excerpts (2.5 pages, 1 document)
The EG Flynn (6 short pages)

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Tonight's Gathering the Masses, 8 pm ET! We are excited for this. If you haven't RSVPed yet, do that here and get the materials:

actionnetwork.org/events/gathe...

If you haven't read, still come by! ...but, if you can get a little time today, here's what you can do in 30-40 min --

🧵1/4

Gathering the Masses: an NPEC Pre-convention Gathering

Calling all DSA convention delegates, political educators, and comrades who gather... NPEC invites you to a preconvention gathering to discuss socialist and working class mass gathering, as we prepar...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 1

Just a couple more days to go! Join us on Monday to dish about working class and socialist mass gatherings, and get psyched for convention!

RSVP NOW ⤵️

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Jul 25

Calling all DSA delegates and comrades who love to gather...Come read and discuss mass left gathering with us in our lead-up to our big convention!

Event: Monday 08/04

RSVP HERE: actionnetwork.org/events/gathe...

Gathering the Masses: an NPEC Pre-convention Gathering

Calling all DSA convention delegates, political educators, and comrades who gather... NPEC invites you to a preconvention gathering to discuss socialist and working class mass gathering, as we prepar...

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