“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice
We’ve been hearing a lot of panicky warnings lately after Democratic primary voters chose socialists and other leftists instead of “moderates” in several major elections.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has passed a pair of resolutions, to abolish ICE and to uphold one of the laws violated by weapons shipments to Israel. Now let's tell Democrats in Congress to walk the talk.
We’ve been hearing a lot of panicky warnings lately after Democratic primary voters chose socialists and other leftists instead of “moderates” in several major elections.
Representative Ro Khanna delivered the following remarks on August 15th, 2026 at the Summer 2026 DNC Meeting in Austin.
The Democratic National Committee today greenlighted resolutions that call for abolishing ICE and implementing “full and consistent enforcement” of two federal statutes known as the Leahy law .
RootsAction mourns the passing of activist/academic Johanna Fernandez, with whom we collaborated.

Destructive, dangerous, and deadly: this may be one of the dumbest ideas to emerge from this Congress. Tell your representative and senators: No!
AIPAC fell on its face in Michigan.
Is there a difference between trying to kill us and not caring if we live or die?
We know how this story goes because we’ve already lived it once.
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