By The Democratic Socialists of America is reportedly moving forward with a radical political platform that calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate and replacing America’s constitutional system with a government dominated by a single national legislature.
This is not a proposal to adjust Senate rules, eliminate the filibuster, or change how senators are elected.
It is a proposal to eliminate the institution entirely, a direct attack against the United States Constitution.
The reported platform would also replace the independently elected president and the current Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary selected by and subordinate to Congress. DSA’s existing program calls for a “new democratic constitution” intended to place workers in control of the government and economy.
The result would be a fundamentally different form of government, with power concentrated in one legislative body rather than divided among the House, Senate, presidency, and courts. Without checks and balances, they’d be able to institute their plans to overthrow the United States.
That’s not an exaggeration. It’s what they explicitly say they want to do:
DSA Members: Our goal is to ultimately overthrow [America] pic.twitter.com/JkxNKagI4U
— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 13, 2026
DSA has not hidden its hostility toward the constitutional structure. The organization has published arguments for abolishing the Senate for years, describing the chamber, presidential veto, and Supreme Court as “undemocratic institutional checks and balances.”
Its current platform also supports extending voting rights to noncitizens, replacing the two-party system with proportional representation, and adopting a new constitution.
Taken together, these are not ordinary progressive policy demands. They represent an effort to rewrite the basic rules of American self-government.
That matters because the DSA is no longer a fringe campus organization shouting from the sidelines.
The organization has endorsed and supported prominent Democratic politicians, including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. A new group of DSA-backed candidates also won Democratic congressional primaries this year, positioning several socialists to enter Congress from heavily Democratic districts.
Mamdani’s administration has provided a particularly revealing example of what socialist governance can look like once activists gain control of a major American institution.
His commissioner for international affairs, Ana María Archila, recently scheduled a meeting with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, while the United States and Iran were locked in a period of renewed military confrontation.
The State Department intervened, and the meeting was canceled.
Archila’s office reportedly did not notify federal officials in advance. Internal communications obtained by City Journal also indicated that the administration had instructed staff to prioritize diplomatic outreach partly according to whether foreign officials were in “political alignment/leftist.”
Mamdani said he had not known about the planned meeting and called it an error. His office said new procedures would be adopted to prevent a similar incident.
But the episode reinforced the impression that Mamdani’s City Hall believes DSA-controlled New York should conduct something resembling a foreign policy of its own with a country that the United States is currently at war with.
The traditional function of the city’s international affairs office has been to assist the diplomatic community, encourage business relationships, and share municipal practices with other global cities. It was not created to conduct ideological diplomacy with governments opposed to the United States.
Under Mamdani, however, the office has reportedly pursued closer relationships with foreign leaders who share the administration’s political worldview to undermine the United States. Mamdani also previously sought a meeting with left-wing Colombian President Gustavo Petro and has repeatedly used his mayoral platform to attack American foreign policy.
The pattern mirrors the DSA’s broader governing philosophy: Existing institutions are legitimate only when they advance the movement’s political objectives.
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, another prominent DSA figure, expressed a similar view during a recent speech in Detroit.
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf******. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and every corner of the United States.” pic.twitter.com/GEJ96VhU41
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 12, 2026
“The political structures that I have to work in, that we all are surrounded by, was built on slavery and genocide and rape and oppression,” Tlaib declared.
Such rhetoric supplies the ideological justification for dismantling institutions rather than reforming them. If the Senate, presidency, courts, immigration system, and other constitutional structures are inherently oppressive, then abolishing them can be portrayed as liberation rather than political extremism.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of the few nationally prominent Democrats willing to confront the party’s socialist faction, has argued that its candidates should stop presenting themselves as Democrats.
“That’s a wing of the party, without a doubt. But they’re not Democrats, they’re not socialists. Several of—many of them … are an avowed communist. So between P-Hustle in Maine and some of the other winners, you know, in New York, that’s—you know, they should form their own party and run on all the things that they’ve had to delete on social media.”
Fetterman has separately warned that the Democratic Party is becoming increasingly disconnected from the American public as socialist candidates openly support abolishing prisons, immigration enforcement, and other institutions.
The new DSA platform makes that divide increasingly difficult, and dangerous, to ignore.
Abolishing the Senate would erase equal representation for the states and would undo the Constitution itself, especially since doing so without the unanimous consent of the states is directly prohibited in the document. Subordinating the presidency and judiciary to Congress would eliminate two principal checks on legislative power. Replacing the Constitution would place nearly every established institution and protection on the negotiating table.
DSA activists may continue running through Democratic primaries, but their objective is no longer simply to move the party leftward.
It is to replace the American political system itself.
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