Delaware Democratic Socialists of America

Today, we pay tribute to all the rights and benefits that were won by workers and to all those who were lost on the path to those victories.
From labor militants in the Americas, to anarchist revolutionaries in Europe, to trade unions across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, the global labor movement is responsible for so many of workers’ and human rights everywhere.

As a chapter, we also want to thank the Delaware AFL-CIO for inviting us to their festive show of solidarity at the Labor Day parade, as well as for co-endorsing Rep. Eric Morrison with us!

We also wanted to shout out all the amazing unions who are co-endorsing DE DSA candidates as well, and all the amazing candidates who have earned union endorsements so far this cycle!

Delaware State Education Association: Branden Fletcher Dominguez, Rep. Eric Morrison
Afscme Council 81-Delaware Public Employees: Rep. Eric Morrison
Delaware Building Trades: Rep. Eric Morrison, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, Wilmington City Councilwoman Shané Darby
Laborers Local 199: Branden Fletcher Dominguez, Rep. Larry Lambert, Rep. Madinah Wilson Anton, Rep. Eric Morrison, Coby Owens, City Councilwoman Shané Darby
UFCW Local 27: Rep. Eric Morrison
32BJ SEIU: Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton

Today, we pay tribute to all the rights and benefits that were won by workers and to all those who were lost on the path to those victories.
From labor militants in the Americas, to anarchist revolutionaries in Europe, to trade unions across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, the global labor movement is responsible for so many of workers' and human rights everywhere.

As a chapter, we also want to thank the Delaware State AFL-CIO for inviting us to their festive show of solidarity at the Labor Day parade, as well as for co-endorsing Eric Morrison for State Representative with us!

We also wanted to shout out all the amazing unions who are co-endorsing DE DSA candidates as well, and all the amazing candidates who have earned union endorsements so far this cycle!

Delaware State Education Association: Branden Fletcher Dominguez for State Representative , Rep. Eric Morrison
Afscme Council 81-Delaware Public Employees: Rep. Eric Morrison
Delaware Building Trades: Rep. Eric Morrison, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, Wilmington City Councilwoman Shané Nicole Darby
Laborers Local 199: Branden Fletcher Dominguez, Re-elect Rep. Larry Lambert, 7th District, Rep. Madinah Wilson Anton, Rep. Eric Morrison, Coby Owens for Wilmington City Council, City Councilwoman Shané Darby
UFCW Local 27: Rep. Eric Morrison
32BJ SEIU: Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton

Here is our list of endorsements for the 2024 election cycle! Please vote for them and donate to them at http://www.secure.actblue.com/donate/dedsa24-all so that we can keep growing leftist power in Delaware!

Branden Fletcher-Dominguez RD-3)
Terrell Williams (RD-9)
Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton (RD-26)
Rep. Eric Morrison (RD-27)
Val Gould (New Castle County Council President)
Coby Owens (Wilmington City Council, CD-1)
City Councilwoman Shane’ Darby (Wilmington City Council, CD-2)
James Dahlke (Wilmington City Council, CD-7)
Rep. Larry Lambert (RD-7, not pictured)

Here is our list of endorsements for the 2024 election cycle! Please vote for them and donate to them at http://www.secure.actblue.com/donate/dedsa24-all so that we can keep growing leftist power in Delaware!

Branden Fletcher Dominguez for State Representative (RD-3)
Terrell A. Williams (RD-9)
Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton (RD-26)
Rep. Eric Morrison for State Representative (RD-27)
Val Gould for New Castle County Council President
Coby Owens (Wilmington City Council, CD-1)
City Councilwoman Shané Nicole Darby (Wilmington City Council, CD-2)
James Dahlke for Wilmington (Wilmington City Council, CD-7)
Re-elect Rep. Larry Lambert, 7th District (not pictured)

We are proud to endorse one of the premier racial justice advocates in Delaware, who is also a past DE DSA endorsee and a former member of the chapter’s Steering Committee, Coby Owens, for Wilmington City Council District 1! Housing is the centerpiece of Coby’s agenda: he wants to implement the first municipal level rent stabilization in Delaware history, mandate at least 40% affordable housing be put into any new development, and help existing homeowners with repair costs: a stark contrast to the developer funded incumbent. Coby will also bring his passion for racial justice into the City-County Building: he already chairs Wilmington’s Reparations Task Force established by fellow DE DSA member and endorsee !

We are proud to endorse one of the premier racial justice advocates in Delaware, who is also a past DE DSA endorsee and a former member of the chapter’s Steering Committee, Coby Owens, for Wilmington City Council District 1! Housing is the centerpiece of Coby’s agenda: he wants to implement the first municipal level rent stabilization in Delaware history, mandate at least 40% affordable housing be put into any new development, and help existing homeowners with repair costs: a stark contrast to the developer funded incumbent. Coby will also bring his passion for racial justice into the City-County Building: he already chairs Wilmington’s Reparations Task Force established by fellow DE DSA member and endorsee Shané Nicole Darby!

We are excited to announce the first county-level endorsement in our chapter’s history, Val Gould for New Castle County Council President! A policy expert, teacher, and rank and file union member, they will prioritize bringing affordable housing, environmental justice, and open space preservation to the county that most Delawareans call home. If you live anywhere in New Castle County and are voting in the Tuesday 9/10 Democratic primary, you will have a chance to vote for and be represented by a democratic socialist!

Passing a bill in Delaware is a lot more complicated than Schoolhouse Rock made it seem... Join us and Delaware Working Families Party at 6pm on Wednesday, August 14th, to figure out exactly what's going on in our state's General Assembly!

This event will be held The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in Wilmington. Masks will be provided, and we are offering a hybrid option here: https://t.co/HKCqjgMTrz

DE DSA endorses Terrell A. Williams for State Representative of District 9! Terrell is hoping to move Delaware forward with an improvement in infrastructure and development, more clean energy, and better access to healthcare among other progressive reforms.

Delaware DSA is proud to re-endorse Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton for the Delaware House of Representatives! Madinah is one of the most principled legislators in the state, and we strongly believe in her mission to create a better, more progressive Delaware Way!

Delaware DSA is excited to announce its endorsement of steering committee member James Dahlke for Wilmington City Council of District 7! James's vision for Wilmington includes development without displacement, fiscal sustainability, and a city government that is transparent and accountable to its constituents.

We are proud to endorse an unabashed champion of the working class of Delaware for re-election! Eric has pushed for legislation raising the minimum wage, giving workers paid sick and safe time, and protecting asexual and pansexual Delawareans from discrimination, so it’s critical we make sure that we send him back to Dover another 2 years to keep fighting for us.

DE DSA opposes all mask ban legislation like those being considered in NYC and LA. Wearing a mask protects the lives and health of yourself and others and allows those most vulnerable to participate in society. We must not allow a mask ban to happen in Delaware!

Wishing all of Delaware’s LGBT community a happy Pride Konth from our chapter and endorsed member Eric Morrison for State Representative! May this Pride Month be full of q***r liberation, not pinkwashing!

We need socialist cash to take out the capitalist trash that rules Wilmington! Delaware DSA showed out for Councilwoman Shané Darby's re-election fundraiser last week— join us tomorrow to keep the momentum going!

Scenes from our Nakba Day Vigil in front of President Joe Biden's campaign headquarters

📸 Carlyle Adrian

This Memorial Day, we share our comrade Eric’s sentiments.

Our co-chairs Meghan & Jonathan wrote an oped for Delaware Online affirming our support for abolishing the death penalty, which “doesn’t achieve justice for victims’ families... it perpetuates the same cycle of violence it purports to end.” Read it here: https://buff.ly/44JfBdi

It's a no-brainer for us to re-endorse DE DSA member Councilwoman Shané Darby for Wilmington City Council. One of our most principled electeds, Shané is the reason Wilmington, DE passed one of the first municipal ceasefire resolutions in the country. She's also the founder of Black Mothers in Power, raising awareness about inequities in Black maternal healthcare, as well as an advocate for housing reform, protections for working class families, more accessible healthcare, criminal justice reform, and more.

Congratulations to our comrade, Dr. Amy Trauth, in her win by walkover onto the Christina School Board last night! Yet another democratic socialist winning a seat in the school district with the most corporations in the country proves a better world really is possible. We look forward to working with Amy and fellow DSA member Doug Manley for Christina School Board toward building a better, more empowered future for the students, faculty and staff at Christina School District.”

Please join us, Delphr - Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights, Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine– DE, Islamic Society of Delaware (ISD), Islamic Society of Central Delaware, humblyassistinghumanity, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, DE Middle East Task Force, Black Mothers in Power, Delaware Working Families Party, CAIR - Philadelphia Chapter, and more to honor . We will be gathering in front of President Joe Biden's campaign HQ to provide a place and space to mourn together amidst more than 75 years of grief in the face of genocide.

Delaware DSA’s own Doug Manley for Christina School Board passed a motion to denounce the ongoing genocide in Gaza and advocate for peace on May 7th— making Christina the second school board in the U.S. to pass such a motion. The motion intentionally uses the word "peace" instead of "ceasefire", as the U.S. government keeps redefining the latter to mean less and less in practicable terms. The call for peace is meant to be far reaching and permanent in nature.

We commend our comrade Doug and his fellow school board members Claire O’Neal, Alethea Smith-Tucker, Monica Moriak, and Y.F. Lou for standing with him on the right side of history... and express our deep disappointment in School Board President Don Patton and Naveed Baqir who both abstained rather than doing the bare minimum during a genocide.

None of us are free until all of us are free. End the genocide, end the occupation, and Free Palestine.

For more about the motion that was passed and the process through which it went, please check out Doug's blog where he keeps his constituents up-to-date on his activity with the school board in order to facilitate his own accountability: https://buff.ly/3QBI0fs

DE DSA endorses its own Branden Fletcher Dominguez for State Representative of District 3! Branden has been a tireless advocate for his Westside community, starting an Eviction Defense Project and helping to win basic tenant protections!

In addition to housing for all, Branden is determined to fight for an end to income inequality, safer streets, healthcare for everyone, criminal justice reform, and an end to the climate crisis. It is only with legislators like Branden that a better world is possible!

Good evening everyone! We hope you will join us on May 15th at 6:30 PM for the next Know Your Rights Tenant Workshop. To register visit: https://bit.ly/4a2KxGt

For questions please contact us at [email protected] we hope you will join us!

Happy May Day! In honor of , here's a Delaware Call article by DE DSA member & Delaware Working Families Party Political Director Karl Stomberg looking back at one of the greatest labor moments in our state: the Wilmington Morocco strike of 1886!

Wilmington’s First Great Strike | Delaware Call How one organization brought together the city’s workforce and almost shut down its biggest industry

On Thursday, President Joe Biden's home state House legislature unanimously called for a ceasefire. While clear in recognizing the crisis in Gaza and the need for an immediate, lasting ceasefire, the resolution is dehumanizing and shameful in its distortion of reality.

The very first line of the DE House resolution condemns Hamas, a framing not only incorrect and biased but deeply racist, as it centers Israeli lives 7 months after the fact in the midst of a full-blown genocide. At least 35,000 (an official figure far below the true death toll) Palestinians lay dead, a third of them children. Most stark among the countless omissions in this statement, however, is any mention of Joe Biden's name, let alone the culpability of his administration, which has accelerated aid to the far-right Israeli regime currently in power.

Comparing this to the one previously introduced by Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton's, it is clear to us that this final resolution is the result of pressure from colleagues more concerned with upsetting their donors and racist constituents than taking a stand against a genocidal apartheid regime that is committing its crimes with the full blessing/aid of our own dear ol' and U.S. tax dollars— tax dollars that could fund homes and healthcare for Delawareans, schools for our children, solar energy to our homes, cancel student debt, and much more. Instead of capitulating to threats from financial donors and entertaining smears against one of their most principled colleagues in the State of Delaware - Government (a Black Muslim woman, it should be noted), Delaware legislators need to follow Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton's example in both cooperation and compassion.

Both Delaware House Democrats and the Delaware Democratic Party must end their silence on the actions of Joe Biden— a man more reactionary on this issue than famous neocon Ronald Reagan who deemed Israeli PM Begin's actions in Beirut to be a "holocaust", successfully ordering an end to the same campaign that Biden cheered on at the time (leading Begin to chastise him for his disregard for civilian life). We have never had a President so proudly champion the racist ideology of Zionism or so uncritical in his support of Israel— silence on the matter is complicity.

If this is "the Delaware Way" that our politicians tout so much, then the Delaware Way must change. Delaware DSA seeks to ensure it will become the way of truth, justice, and solidarity with each other and oppressed peoples everywhere— not the way of Joe.

Delaware DSA would like to announce our re-endorsement of Eric Morrison for State Representative of District 27! Rep. Eric Morrison's platform is arguably one of the most politically progressive in Delaware history and his work in the state legislature backs it up— currently, he is sponsoring bills to guarantee paid sick leave, protect victims of sexual assault and child abuse, fight government nepotism, and recognize diverse sexual orientations... just to name a few! A dedicated member of our chapter, Eric is a proud democratic socialist whose full list of accomplishments is too long for this post but notably includes giving all Delaware public middle & high school students an excused absence every school year for civic participation, including protests!