Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America

Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America
AbbreviationDSA-LA
Governing bodySteering Committee
Membership (July 2026)Increase 5,984[1]
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationDemocratic Socialists of America
Website
dsa-la.org

Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America (DSA-LA) is the Los Angeles County chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). In the late 2010s and early 2020s, DSA-LA became a significant force in LA politics through Los Angeles City Council campaigns and labor organizing.[2][3][4] DSA-LA is the 2nd-largest DSA chapter, below NYC-DSA and above Metro DC DSA.[5][3]

Notable DSA-LA members and endorsees include Nithya Raman[a], Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, and Ysabel Jurado.[3][6]

Structure

In 2026, DSA-LA had over 5,000 dues-paying members,[5] up from 1,000 in 2018.[7] DSA-LA has five branches: Central, Eastside/San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, Westside, and South Central/Inglewood.[5]

Since 2018, DSA-LA holds an annual convention at which members set chapter priorities.[8] Leadership elections to the DSA-LA Steering Committee and Branch Coordinator positions are held near the end of the calendar year, with elected leaders starting their positions in January of the new year.[9] Hugo Soto-Martinez was an elected leader within DSA-LA, though he stepped down to seek DSA endorsement in his run for city council.[10][11]

History

In 1982, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) formed as a merger of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the New American Movement.[12][13] In the 1980s, DSA had two local chapters: One in Los Angeles, one in San Fernando Valley.[14] In 1989, the LA chapter had about 400 local members and supported a stronger labor movement, rent control, and social spending for disadvantaged communities.[15] DSA-LA hosted the 2005 DSA National Convention.[16]

In 2016, DSA-LA grew dramatically, alongside national DSA, after Bernie Sanders' first presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump.[17] DSA-LA's membership tripled,[18] as members organized around anti-deportation politics and other local campaigns.[18]

By the mid-2020s, DSA-LA had become one of the most electorally successful DSA chapters in the country,[3][19][4] based on extensive voter outreach and canvassing work.[20] In 2024, DSA-LA endorsees held 4 of 15 Los Angeles City Council seats,[3] among the highest concentration of DSA officeholders in any major American city.[21] City Journal called the 2022 primary results evidence of "the expanding political might of L.A.'s socialist Left".[22] In 2024, the Los Angeles Times described DSA-LA's city council wins as having broken the "near-invincible aura" of the LA "establishment", giving progressive groups sway in LA government.[2]

Electoral campaigns

Unlike most political parties, Los Angeles DSA does not have a ballot line. Instead, DSA-LA acts "like a party" or a "party surrogate" by endorsing and canvassing for candidates it supports.[4][3]

Los Angeles city council

In the 2020 Los Angeles elections, DSA-LA endorsed urban planner Nithya Raman against incumbent council member David Ryu.[23][24] Raman joined DSA shortly before seeking DSA-LA's endorsement.[6] Raman received extensive DSA support,[25] and had a "volunteer army" of 600 DSA & other progressive canvassers who knocked 83,000 doors.[26][27] The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) strongly opposed Raman and spent over $200,000 in support of Ryu.[28][29] Raman won their top-two runoff election with 70,317 votes (52.9%). Raman was the first challenger to unseat a sitting Los Angeles City Council member in 17 years,[2][30] and won the most votes of any city councilor in history,[2] representing a progressive challenge to City Hall.[30]

In 2022, DSA-LA endorsed labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez in Council District 13, against incumbent Mitch O'Farrell, and abolitionist organizer and La Defensa co-founder Eunisses Hernandez in Council District 1, against incumbent Gil Cedillo.[31][24][32][33] Hernandez and Soto-Martinez were DSA members for a long time before endorsement, though only Soto-Martinez has been described as a "cadre" (highly involved) member.[6] Soto-Martinez linked his campaign to both DSA-LA and UNITE HERE Local 11, where he had organized for fifteen years.[34][35] DSA-LA members had knocked on some 35,000 doors for Soto-Martinez,[34][22] and his electoral coalition represented democratic socialists, progressives, and organized labor.[34][10] Soto-Martinez and Hernandez both supported shifting funding from police to housing, child care and other social services. Soto-Martinez marked himself as an "abolitionist" on DSA-LA's candidate questionnaire.[36] Police unions, including the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS) and LAPPL, sharply criticized Hernandez and Soto-Martinez, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to oppose their election.[37][38] Both DSA candidates won their top-two runoff elections: Soto-Martinez won 37,800 votes (57.7%), Hernandez won 16,108 votes (53.89%).[2][19]

In 2024, DSA-LA re-endorsed Raman and endorsed tenant rights attorney Ysabel Jurado in Council District 14 against incumbent Kevin de León.[39][40][41][3] Jurado formally joined DSA soon before endorsement, but had organized with DSA's "Power Mass Transit" campaign for two years before.[42][6] de León's election mailers called Jurado "a DSA puppet".[6] DSA-LA volunteers door-knocked extensively for Jurado.[43] In January, centrist LA megadonors formed Thrive LA PAC, which announced a seven-figure campaign to unseat Raman.[44] de León and LAPPL attacked Jurado over support for police abolition and shifting city spending from LAPD to social services.[45][46] During the campaign, DSA-LA censured Raman for accepting an endorsement from Democrats for Israel Los Angeles. DSA-LA maintained its endorsement of her reelection campaign.[47][48] Raman won re-election in the nonpartisan primary with 32,562 votes (50.7%). Jurado won the top-two runoff with 46,007 votes (57.17%).[49][50]

In the 2026 elections, DSA-LA ran a municipal slate under the "Shake Up LA" banner.[51] In February, Raman launched a surprise mayoral campaign against incumbent Karen Bass.[52][53][54] After considering whether to endorse Raman or fellow DSA member Rae Huang, DSA-LA voted not to endorse in the mayoral race.[48][55] However, DSA-LA recommended voting for Nithya Raman in their primary voter guide.[56] In the mayoral campaign, the Los Angeles Police Protective League spent heavily against Raman.[57] Pro-Israel political groups strongly opposed Raman's campaign, which they saw as anti-Israel.[58] In an interview with Hasan Piker, Raman said that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.[59]

Nearby municipalities

In 2020, DSA-LA endorsed Konstantine Anthony for the Burbank City Council.[60] In the election for two seats, Anthony won, placing 1st with 17,529 votes (20.4%).[61] In 2024, DSA-LA re-endorsed Anthony and endorsed challenger Mike Van Gorder.[62][63][64][65] In the election for two seats, Anthony won, placing 1st with 18,694 votes (23.4%), and Van Gorder lost, placing 4th with 8,843 votes (11.1%).[66]

In 2022, DSA-LA endorsed Ricardo Martinez for La Puente City Council.[67][31] Martinez ran a progressive campaign focused on workers' rights.[68] Martinez lost, placing third in a two-seat election with 1,853 votes, behind incumbents Valerie Muñoz and Charlie Klinakis.[69]

Other elected offices

In the 2020 California State Assembly election for AD-64, DSA-LA endorsed Fatima Iqbal-Zubair against incumbent Mike Gipson.[42][70] Both Iqbal-Zubair and Gipson ran as Democrats. Iqbal-Zubair lost the general election with 56,875 votes (40.5%).[71] In 2022, DSA-LA again endorsed Iqbal-Zubair,[42] who lost again with 26,719 votes (38.3%).[72]

In the 2021 special election for SD-30, DSA-LA endorsed Culver City mayor Daniel Lee against Sydney Kamlager,[42][73][74][75] citing his support for California-wide Medicare For All.[76] Both Lee and Kamlager ran as Democrats. Lee lost the top-two partisan primary, coming second with 9,458 votes (13.4%).[77]

Ballot measures

In 2017, DSA-LA canvassed in support of Los Angeles County Measure H, a sales-tax measure to fund homeless services, and in opposition to Los Angeles Measure S, an anti-development ballot initiative backed by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.[78][79]

In 2020, Proposition 15, which would have partially reversed 1978 Prop 13 and raised property taxes on large commercial properties to fund public schools and community colleges, was endorsed by many DSA chapters.[80] Endorsing chapters included DSA-LA,[81] East Bay DSA, Inland Empire DSA, and San Francisco DSA.[82][83][84] Prop 15 failed with 8,213,054 votes (48.0%).[71] The cross-chapter effort to pass Prop 15 yielded a statewide DSA organization, California DSA.[85]

In 2022, DSA-LA endorsed and canvassed for Measure ULA,[31][86][87] a "mansion tax" that funded affordable housing and tenant assistance. Measure ULA won with 512,808 votes (57.8%).

Other campaigns

Healthcare

In February 2025, DSA-LA helped organize protests outside Children's Hospital Los Angeles after the hospital paused gender-affirming care for most patients under 19.[88]

Housing

In 2018, DSA-LA organized alongside Burlington Arcade tenants and brought their protest to the home of City Council member Mitch O'Farrell.[89]

In 2022, Street Watch L.A. (SWLA), an anti-gentrification group founded by DSA-LA and the Los Angeles Community Action Network,[90] organized protests against the opening of the high-end Dunsmoor restaurant in Glassell Park.[91]

In 2025, with inspiration from Zohran Mamdani, DSA-LA pushed for new limits on rent increases and other reforms in the city's rent-stabilized apartments.[3][92]

Immigration

In March 2017, DSA-LA members protested outside Mayor Eric Garcetti's reelection-night event, demanding that Los Angeles take a harder line against deportation and adopt a stronger sanctuary-city stance.[78][93]

In April 2026, DSA-LA hosted an panel titled "ICE Out of Our Cities" with DSA elected officials, who spoke about how to prevent Trump's "white nationalist, patriarchal, MAGA, fascist project" and oppose ICE deportations.[94][95]

Labor

In 1989, DSA-LA members supported striking Catholic cemetery workers during a unionization drive,[15] who later voted to unionize.[96] In 1991, the workers voted 92-43 to disband the union.[97]

In 2019, during the 2019 United Teachers Los Angeles strike, DSA-LA launched the Tacos for Teachers solidarity effort and mobilized hundreds of members onto picket lines.[98][99][100][101]

In 2023, during the UAW's "Stand Up strike", DSA-LA members joined picket lines in Rancho Cucamonga and Ontario. DSA-LA members also gave tacos to strikers.[102][103][104]

Since 2023, DSA-LA has supported organizing and strike activity among Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) baristas.[105] In late 2025, Los Angeles baristas had joined SWBU's "Red Cup Rebellion" strike wave. Picket line baristas were being supported nationally by DSA chapters, including DSA-LA.[106][107][108]

Palestine

In October 2023, as the War in Gaza began, DSA-LA declared its "solidarity with Palestine". This became a flashpoint in Los Angeles politics,[109] with Raman's opponent Ethan Weaver calling on her to reject DSA-LA's endorsement.[109] LA mayor Karen Bass described the statement as "antisemitic", "reprehensible, disgusting, and dangerous".[110] In 2024, DSA-LA and its endorsees supported a municipal ceasefire resolution on the LA City Council,[110] which was unsuccessful.[111] DSA-LA has supported local pro-Palestinian protests. In March 2024, DSA-LA organizers rallied with IfNotNow Los Angeles and several unions to organize a "Not Another Bomb" rally on the steps of City Hall.[112][113] In 2025, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles argued that DSA-LA supported "hate and violence aimed at Jews", noting that DSA-LA had condemned Israel and opposed US weapon shipments to Israel.[110]

Election results

DSA-LA has endorsed candidates in statewide, state legislature, and local elections, but not in federal elections to Congress.

Statewide

Year Name Office Stage Votes % Result DSA Notes Ref
2018 Gayle McLaughlin Lieutenant Governor Primary 263,364
4.0%
 Lost endorsee [114][115]

State legislature

Year Name Office District Stage Votes % Result DSA Notes Ref
2022 Fatima Iqbal-Zubair Assembly AD-65 General 26,719
38.3%
 Lost member, endorsee [67][72]
2022 Fatima Iqbal-Zubair Assembly AD-65 Primary 13,162
31.1%
 Advanced member, endorsee 2nd of 3; advanced to general [116][117]
2021 Daniel Lee Senate SD-30 Primary 9,458
13.4%
 Lost member, endorsee special election to succeed Holly Mitchell [118][77]
2020 Fatima Iqbal-Zubair Assembly AD-64 General 56,875
40.5%
 Lost member, endorsee endorsed in general [119][71]
2020 Fatima Iqbal-Zubair Assembly AD-64 Primary 18,469
32.52%
 Advanced member 2nd of 2; advanced to general [120][121]
2020 Godfrey Santos Plata Assembly AD-53 General 49,580
43.7%
 Lost member [119][71]
2020 Godfrey Santos Plata Assembly AD-53 Primary 20,923
37.1%
 Advanced member 2nd of 2; advanced to general [120][121]
2018 Steve Dunwoody Assembly AD-54 Primary 6,409
8.5%
 Lost endorsee write-in candidate [114][115]

Local executive

Year Name Area Office District Stage Votes % Result DSA Notes Ref
2026 Nithya Raman Los Angeles Mayor At-large General TBD TBD TBD member not endorsed, but recommended by voting guide [122]
2026 Marissa Roy Los Angeles City Attorney At-Large General TBD TBD TBD member, endorsee [122]
2026 Nithya Raman Los Angeles Mayor At-large Primary 247,781
29.0%
 Advanced member not endorsed, but recommended by voting guide [122]
2026 Rae Huang Los Angeles Mayor At-large Primary 25,220
3.0%
 Lost member not endorsed [122]
2026 Marissa Roy Los Angeles City Attorney At-Large Primary 320,747
43.1%
 Won member, endorsee [122]

Local legislature

Year Name Area Office District Stage Votes % Result DSA Notes Ref
2026 Anthony Bryson Long Beach Council District 1 General TBD TBD TBD member not endorsed, recommended [122]
2026 Estuardo Mazariegos Los Angeles Council CD-9 General TBD TBD TBD endorsee [122]
2026 Anthony Bryson Long Beach Council District 1 Primary TBD TBD TBD member not endorsed, recommended [122]
2026 Eunisses Hernandez Los Angeles Council CD-1 Primary 21,712
57.69%
 Won member, endorsee [122]
2026 Henry Mantel Los Angeles Council CD-5 Primary 18,022
25.59%
 Lost member not endorsed [122]
2026 Estuardo Mazariegos Los Angeles Council CD-9 Primary 5,340
26.25%
 Advanced endorsee [122]
2026 Faizah Malik Los Angeles Council CD-11 Primary 34,3123
39.77%
 Lost endorsee [122]
2026 Hugo Soto-Martinez Los Angeles Council CD-13 Primary 38,748
68.5%
 Won member, endorsee [122]
2024 Konstantine Anthony LA County Supervisor District 5 Primary 39,801
11.42%
 Lost member 3rd of 5 [123][124]
2024 Mike Van Gorder Burbank Council At-large General 8,843
11.1%
 Lost member, endorsee 4th of 4; 2 seats available [125][64][66]
2024 Konstantine Anthony Burbank Council At-large General 18,694
23.4%
 Won member, endorsee 1st of 4; 2 seats available [125][64][66]
2024 Jillian Burgos Los Angeles Council CD-2 General 38,185
46.2%
 Lost member, endorsee [125][64][66]
2024 Nithya Raman Los Angeles Council CD-4 Primary 32,562
50.7%
 Won member, endorsee Won outright; no general election [123][124]
2024 Ysabel Jurado Los Angeles Council CD-14 General 46,007
57.2%
 Won member, endorsee [125][66]
2024 Ysabel Jurado Los Angeles Council CD-14 Primary 8,618
24.5%
 Advanced member, endorsee 1st of 8; advanced to general [123][124]
2022 Ricardo Martinez La Puente Council At-large General 1,853
20.82%
 Lost endorsee 3rd of 4; 2 seats available [67][126]
2022 Eunisses Hernandez Los Angeles Council CD-1 Primary 16,108
53.9%
 Won member, endorsee Won outright; no general election [116][117]
2022 Hugo Soto-Martinez Los Angeles Council CD-13 General 38,069
57.8%
 Won member, endorsee [67][126]
2022 Hugo Soto-Martinez Los Angeles Council CD-13 Primary 19,196
40.6%
 Advanced member, endorsee 1st of 5; advanced to general [116][117]
2022 Bryant Odega Los Angeles Council CD-15 Primary 4,137
15.76%
 Lost member 4th of 4; not endorsed [116][117]
2020 Konstantine Anthony Burbank Council At-large General 17,529
20.4%
 Won member, endorsee 1st of 4; 2 seats available [119][61]
2020 Nithya Raman Los Angeles Council CD-4 General 70,317
52.9%
 Won member, endorsee [119][61]
2020 Nithya Raman Los Angeles Council CD-4 Primary 31,502
40.8%
 Advanced member, endorsee 2nd of 3; advanced to general [120][121]

Other local seats

Year Name Area Office District Stage Votes % Result DSA Notes Ref
2026 Rocío Rivas LAUSD Board District 2 Primary 64,424
64.36%
 Won endorsee [122]
2024 Karla Griego LAUSD Board of Ed District 5 General 99,930
61.0%
 Won endorsee [125][66]
2024 Karla Griego LAUSD Board of Ed District 5 Primary 24,065
36.7%
 Advanced endorsee 1st of 4; advanced to general [123][124]
2024 Kahllid Al-Alim LAUSD Board of Ed District 1 Primary 16,382
20.1%
 Advanced endorsee 2nd of 7; advanced to general; un-endorsed for general [123][124]
2022 Estefany Castañeda CVUHSD Board of Ed Area 5 General 9,705
61.57%
 Won endorsee [67][126]
2022 Rocío Rivas LAUSD Board of Ed District 2 General 55,230
52.5%
 Won endorsee [67][126]

Local conventions

# Date Location Notes Voter guide
9 18 July 2026 TBD
8 13 April 2025 UAW Region 6 Hall
7 20 April 2024 UAW Region 6 Hall
6 22 April 2023 Los Angeles City College
5 16 July 2022 Los Angeles Trade Technical College
4 16 October 2021 online (Zoom) Remote due to COVID-19.
3 12 September 2020 online (Zoom) Remote due to COVID-19.
2 19 October 2019 Immanuel Presbyterian Church
1 28 April 2018 Friendship Auditorium Over 200 attendees.[127]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Raman is a member of DSA-LA, which endorsed her 2020 and 2024 city council campaigns. DSA-LA has not endorsed her ongoing 2026 mayoral campaign, but their voter guide for the 2026 primary election did recommend voting for her.

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