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Socialists Now Run Or Are Fighting To Run Four Of America’s Biggest Cities

DSA politicians such as Lewis George, Mamdani, and Ocasio-Cortez are in the spotlight today because of the party’s increased mobilization efforts a decade ago.

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Janeese Lewis George all but clinched the office of Washington, D.C., mayor on Thursday, after winning the city’s Democrat primary — making her the latest of a slate of socialists who are either running or in contention to run America’s biggest cities.

On June 8, supporters chanted, “JLG!” outside the Prince Hall Masonic Temple as they came to vote early in the Washington, D.C., mayoral democrat primary. With more than 90 percent of expected ballots tallied, Lewis George has won 54 percent of the votes, earning the nominee spot after Kenyan McDuffie conceded the election. The Democrat Party has won every mayoral election in D.C. since 1967, after President Lyndon B. Johnson successfully backed a plan to reorganize D.C. government, making Lewis George’s succession to office almost a certainty.

Lewis George, however, is not simply a Democrat. She’s a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and D.C.’s probable mayor-elect, which means Washington, D.C., is about to join a growing list of America’s largest cities governed by DSA party members.

Socialists at the Helm

Perhaps most prominent on that list is New York City, where outspoken DSA member Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race decisively in November 2025. “What the purpose is about this entire project — it’s not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism,” Mamdani said in a 2021 speech for the Young Democratic Socialists of America. “We have to continue to elect more socialists. And we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.”

Mamdani made headlines with his plans to implement failed socialist ideas in NYC, including offering free child care, creating city-owned grocery stores, and cutting $22 million dollars from the NYPD.

About a week after Mamdani’s win, self-proclaimed socialist Katie Wilson secured her seat as Seattle’s mayor. Though not officially endorsed by the Seattle DSA chapter, Wilson modeled her campaign in a socialist spirit similar to Mamdani’s and embraced comparisons to him. She co-founded Seattle Transit Riders Union (TRU) in 2011........

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