DSA has a purity problem. Its endorsement debate has been sequestered into the narrow binary of deliverism and sectarianism. In this ambitious explication, Geese Senior Editor T. E. Moon attempts to clarify the magazine's position in relation to DSA electoral strategy, arguing that it is systematically misconstruing the real task: turning the mass left-populist insurgency into an organized force capable of taking power.

Nithya Raman has won the official endorsement of DSA-LA following weeks of contentious yet constructive debate in Geese by both sides of the question. J. Ryder argues that the entire chapter should now mobilize and unite under a permanent campaign to build a socialist pole in LA and defeat Karen Bass to meet the crucial challenges ahead against the establishment.

DSA has a historic opportunity to disrupt the corporations that have hijacked LA politics by endorsing Nithya Raman for Mayor and Marissa Roy as City Attorney—intervening on the side of labor. That’s the case made by UNITE HERE Local 11 leaders and DSA-LA members Juan Muñoz-Guevara & Mary Entoma, UAW leader & DSA-LA member Aya Konishi, and Socialist in Office Estefany Alejandra Castañeda. In this Geese exclusive, this collective of electeds and union leaders make the case that the Raman endorsement is an opportunity for DSA-LA to become a serious force in labor’s biggest fight yet — the 2028 moment.

If you want to find actual terrorists, look at politicians like Randy Fine, Max Miller, and Claudia Tenney. As these blood-soaked congresspeople push to ban Calla Walsh, Jackson Hinkle, and Christopher Helali from the US, Finn S. calls on the left to abandon factionalism in the face of the far-right, to defend one another, and to understand our primary duty: to put an end to American imperialism.

Is left populism the answer to the revolutionary impasse of the 21st century? In his latest, Matthew Hunter takes on Chantal Mouffe’s theory expounded in her work For A Left Populism, interrogating its Eurocentric and reformist characteristics. He writes that until this milieu becomes more inclusive and audacious in leading the diverse demographics it claims to represent, it will always fall short.