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They claimed 600k to the The Guardian in December 2025.

It's plausible -- they charge $120/yr in dues and had $51 million in contributions in FY24 (midpoint is December 2024), which would be ~425,000.

(In reality, contributions is dues + extra dues + donations + grants.)
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
The main reason tankies suck on foreign policy: Glazing dictators

The main reason centrist Democrats suck on foreign policy: Sending bombs to genocidaires
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Ye shall be scooched right in v17
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I could've sworn I read an article in DSA Mass that leaned toward a dirty break

But that would've been like 3 years ago so 🤷‍♀️ idk
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
News Media Vouchers is an obvious solution for the underfunding of investigative journalism

So too should FOSS Vouchers solve the underfunding of public-serving free software.

In other words: Subsidize PAYING FOR IT!
bsky.app/profile/socd...
We can extend the Founder's vision -- a content-neutral, universal subsidy of news -- into the digital age.

It's called news vouchers. Every year, every American gets $150 to subscribe to any news producer they please.

Bonus: News freed from ad markets means less clickbait.
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Many such cases!
February 10, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Have I been rancorous? Genuine question, don't want to be an asshole
February 10, 2026 at 10:02 PM
DSA wins about 60% of its races and holds about 1% of legislative seats in the country.

Given that DSA has only 0.025% of the country as members, that should give you an idea of why dues-paying membership orgs punch above their weight.
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
A greater number of socialist electeds than any time since 1912? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
February 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I really need to write about why the two American "parties" are not, in fact, parties

So many people -- today, both communists and neoliberals -- get lost in the sauce because they don't understand that the Democratic Party is a left-of-center ballot line with a donation apparatus strapped on
February 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Their bio literally reads: "Neoliberalism was right all along."

The Center for New Liberalism, formerly the Neoliberal Project, is the largest neoliberal dues-paying org in the US.

A political party is funded by dues, personal donations, and labor/corpo/state donations.
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The Democratic Party is not a political party! It's chiefly a ballot line and candidate donor pool.

CPUSA, DSA, OR, WFP, and CNL are all (quasi-)parties competing to win that ballot line in the intra-Dem election. bsky.app/profile/socd...
You don't pay dues to the Democratic Party because **it is a ballot line, not a political party**.

It doesn't pick candidates. State-run primaries do.

The Democratic ballot line is the left-of-center option in a two-stage runoff election.
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
For another example: Zohran had 104k volunteers, 6x more than NYC DSA had members.
February 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Donating to candidates and paying dues are just fundamentally different categories. One is election time support, other is a membership buyin.

Bernie Sanders had over a million donors both times! Of those, only 5% at MOST joined a membership org. It's a "harder" level of support! :)
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
HE'S JUST LIKE ME FR FR
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
At Convention time!
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
In every other country, this is how parties work. They are dues-paying membership organizations.

US "parties" are a Frankenstein of:
1. A ballot line, selected by state-run primary
2. A coalition of candidate, who pool donations to boost other candidates (eg, DNSC)
3. Actual parties (eg, Dem clubs)
February 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Starting in the 1820s, unions made workers pay dues, so they could afford to pay for strikes & legal counsel. 1-2% of income.

Leftist parties copied that. Then, all across Europe, left & right parties copied that. Because *IT WORKS*.

People pay because they want their ideology to win.
February 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
For an immediate contrast: Local Democratic clubs DO endorse candidates.

Guess what else they do? (Not all, but most I know of.)

Charge dues. Because they are little (quasi-)parties. They need to pay for party activities & identify voters for internal votes on endorsement.
February 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
You don't pay dues to the Democratic Party because **it is a ballot line, not a political party**.

It doesn't pick candidates. State-run primaries do.

The Democratic ballot line is the left-of-center option in a two-stage runoff election.
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I think people also just don't understand that "dues-paying membership" implies higher activity levels

There aren't many big dues-paying organizations in the country! When the big NGOs talk about "millions of supporters", they just mean "millions on our mailing list"! bsky.app/profile/socd...
It's genuinely funny when *neoliberals* call DSA small

Your largest dues-paying organization is in the range as Trotskyists and Maoists!
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I think people also just don't understand that "dues-paying membership" implies higher activity levels

There aren't many big dues-paying organizations in the country! When the big NGOs talk about "millions of supporters", they just mean "millions on our mailing list". bsky.app/profile/did:...
It's genuinely funny when *neoliberals* call DSA small

Your largest dues-paying organization is in the range as Trotskyists and Maoists!
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It's genuinely funny when *neoliberals* call DSA small

Your largest dues-paying organization is in the range as Trotskyists and Maoists!
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The fact that this is a fancy website with merch, not an insane autistic Tumblrista, makes me dislike the flag lmao
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM