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Democratic socialists achieved a fresh set of bragging rights after Melat Kiros unseated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado\u2019s 1st Congressional District \u2014 the latest sign that the party\u2019s left flank is increasingly willing to topple its own establishment.<\/p>\n

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The result wasn\u2019t even close. Ms. Kiros, 29, a first\u2011time candidate, beat Ms. DeGette Tuesday by almost 10 points, according to the latest tally. University of Colorado Regent Wanda James finished a distant third.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The outcome ends Ms. DeGette\u2019s three\u2011decade run in Congress and underscores how strong DSA\u2011aligned candidates have become in deep\u2011blue districts.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kiros used her victory speech to make clear she sees the win as a mandate for urgency.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenver voters of all ages, of all races, of all religions sent a clear message: We will not wait!\u201d she told supporters. Rattling off her priority list, she pledged to take the fight to President Trump and the \u201coligarchy,\u201d abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pass Medicare for All and reject corporate PAC money.<\/p>\n

That urgency carried directly into the campaign\u2019s sharpest policy divide: Israel and Palestine. She vowed to fight against the pro\u2011Israel lobby AIPAC and for \u201cending the genocide in Palestine.\u201d She said \u201cfundamental change can, and will, happen if we fight for it,\u201d saying Denver had sent that message \u201cto both parties, to Donald Trump, and to the entire country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victory in Denver also came a week after three democratic socialists won New York congressional primaries with a helping hand from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has become the movement\u2019s poster boy after bulldozing over the party\u2019s establishment a year ago.<\/p>\n

Voters in Washington also elected a new mayor aligned with democratic socialists: Janeese Lewis George, a D.C. councilmember and self\u2011described democratic socialist, who won the Democratic primary and is heavily favored in the deep\u2011blue capital.<\/p>\n

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Still, democratic socialists running in other Colorado races, with a more politically diverse electorate, did not fare as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. John Hickenlooper defeated state Sen. Julie Gonzales, with the latest vote count showing him leading by more than 10 points, and will face Republican state Sen. Mark Baisley in November.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kiros, a former lawyer and barista who is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Denver\u2019s School of Public Affairs, was raised in Aurora after her parents emigrated from Ethiopia when she was a baby.<\/p>\n

She was fired from the law firm Sidley Austin in 2023 after posting an open letter defending pro\u2011Palestinian student protesters in New York against charges of antisemitism and arguing that the \u201cIsraeli government has weaponized anti\u2011Semitism to defend its crimes against the Palestinian people and quell any resistance or critique against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the district\u2019s deep blue hue, she is all but assured of reaching Congress. Voters there have not elected a Republican since 1970. Ms. Kiros is set to face Republican Christy Peterson in November.<\/p>\n

Ms. DeGette was not endorsed by AIPAC. Pro\u2011Israel groups, however, did spend more than a million dollars on television ads against Ms. Kiros in the race\u2019s final weeks.<\/p>\n

The Israel\u2011Palestine issue was the clearest policy divide between the two candidates. Ms. DeGette called for a two\u2011state solution, while Ms. Kiros has said Israel should no longer be a Jewish state.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Kiros also called for a full U.S. arms embargo on Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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