The Constitutional Case for Keeping DSA Members Out of Office

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Daniel Greenfield , Bio and Archives--July 4, 2026

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After the New York and New Jersey Democratic primaries, it now seems likely that the next freshman class of the House will include Dariazila Avila Chevalier, a Muslim convert who co-founded an organization that tweeted “Death to America” and who bragged, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag” as well asHisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy: an associate of the Blind Sheikh terrorist leader who testified on his behalf at his terror trial.

Socialist Party of America splintered into two parties:  Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee,  Democratic Socialists of America or the DSA 

The success of DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) candidates with Marxist and Communist views (Dariazila appears to have also praised Stalin) has captured headlines even as most people, including those in Congress, have forgotten what happened the first time a socialist won a House seat.

In 1919, the House voted 309-1 not to seat Rep. Victor L. Berger, the first socialist congressman, based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress” if they “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

It was WWI and Berger’s Marxist rag was anti-war. “The one and only issue in this case is that of Americanism,” the House Special Committee that excluded Berger found. “It is whether a man who in 1911 took an oath as a member of the House to support the Constitution of the United States and who, when this country declared war against the Imperial German Government, became the head and front of an organized conspiracy to hinder, obstruct, and embarrass the Government in its fight for........

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