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The Democratic Socialists of America have released an updated platform that calls for a sweeping remake of the political system \u2014 including eliminating the U.S. Senate \u2014 and, for the first time, abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

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The platform says the country\u2019s political institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up, arguing it\u2019s time to scrap the Senate, eliminate the Electoral College and replace the presidency with a prime minister\u2011style executive chosen by Congress \u2014 changes the socialists argue would curb concentrated power in Washington and create a more democratic system.<\/p>\n

The revised \u201cWorkers Deserve More\u201d platform comes as DSA\u2019s membership continues to soar and its candidates secure high\u2011profile primary victories, rattling the Democratic establishment, which the \u201ccomrades\u201d at DSA have deemed asleep at the wheel.<\/p>\n

The DSA\u2019s leaders say they\u2019re trying to convert that momentum into a broader influence on national debates and say that any candidate the group endorses must support the platform.<\/p>\n

The updated platform opens with warnings about war zones across the Middle East, the spread of detention camps and data centers, rising temperatures and soaring costs of basic goods, arguing that a \u201cbillionaire class\u201d is dividing workers and fueling desperation.<\/p>\n

It describes a world where \u201cthe bosses\u201d are carrying out a plan visible in images of conflict abroad, in the construction of detention facilities at home, and in the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n

The party says workers are being pitted against one another and displaced by artificial intelligence, leaving people \u201cdesperate and miserable\u201d as capitalism turns toward right\u2011wing authoritarianism and both major parties serve \u201cthe same criminal class of billionaires and war profiteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DSA vision also includes a significant expansion of the House.<\/p>\n

Michaela Brangan, a DSA member from New Jersey who helped write the platform, told members on a Tuesday conference call that the Senate is \u201cmore loyal to itself and their donors than their own constituents,\u201d plus argued that enlarging the House would move the country closer to what she described as a more representative democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Senate is an anachronism, and it\u2019s completely idiosyncratic to the United States,\u201d Ms. Brangan said. \u201cThis has been around for over 200 years, and it\u2019s not working.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said expanding the House would be a step toward \u201ca true democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frances Gill, a co\u2011author from DSA Los Angeles, told members that the organization\u2019s structural proposals may sound dramatic but resonate strongly with people \u2014 thus scare both major parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese ideas, like, they sound so radical, but they\u2019re not that radical,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re radical in the sense of being really cool, but actually they resonate with people like crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ms. Gill said frustration with presidential power is widespread and has intensified under the current president.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody sees that Trump is super evil. I mean, every president since the founding of the country has been super evil, but somehow we have one that is even more evil, and people get that,\u201d she told members.<\/p>\n

She added that even \u201cnormie Democrats\u201d recognize the dangers she associates with President Trump and argued that the moment lets DSA make the case that \u201cit\u2019s this political system that we\u2019ve created that is concentrating power in the hands of the presidency, and that is a huge problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

That argument underpins the platform\u2019s call to replace the presidency and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary selected by, and subordinate to, Congress. DSA leaders frame the shift as a move toward a system that would reduce unilateral decision\u2011making and prevent future presidents from steering the country into conflicts they view as unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Beyond institutional reforms, the platform lays out a broad set of policy goals: wealth taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, canceling student debt, establishing a 32\u2011hour workweek, blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants, Medicare for all, universal childcare and a pledge to position the organization at the forefront of the fight for trans rights.<\/p>\n

On foreign policy, it calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to U.S. military and economic aid to Israel.<\/p>\n

The platform also includes a \u201cfeminism for all\u201d plank that calls for queer liberation, an end to gender\u2011based violence and bans on sex discrimination. It opposes restrictions on abortion, childbirth, gender expression and gender transition.<\/p>\n

The document casts DSA\u2019s mission as building a working\u2011class political force capable of drafting a new constitution and creating what it describes as a democratic socialist republic.<\/p>\n

It says some demands may be achievable under the current system, but that \u201ccomplete victory\u201d will require building a new society from the ground up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe push these demands to their furthest extent today, so we can fight for their fullest realization in a socialist future,\u2019\u2019 it says.<\/p>\n

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