Elect Socialists to Win Our Agenda

Zohran just united a historic coalition demanding the affordable city we deserve. 

Now, it’s time to deliver on this mandate — and our movement will need socialist champions in Albany to make it happen. 

NYC-DSA is proud to endorse proven fighters who will build on the momentum we developed with Zohran and take our fight to the Albany establishment. 

With the same MAGA billionaires who tried to stop Zohran’s election committed to killing his agenda, we’ll need an army of small donors and volunteers to power these campaigns and bring real change to New York City.   

Donate today to send an undeniable message to the billionaires: our movement for an affordable city is just getting started. 

For Congress:

Assemblymember Claire Valdez is a union organizer, artist and proud democratic socialist. A dual citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Nation and the United States, she worked low-wage customer service jobs through high school, college and after. As a worker at Columbia University, she joined UAW Local 2110, was elected to the bargaining committee, and organized to democratize her union. A longtime leader in NYC-DSA, Claire serves in the New York State Assembly, where she has fought to tax the rich, protect tenants, and empower working people.

Claire is running:

1. Because workers and tenants need a champion in Congress who will fight for unions
2. For Housing and Medicare for All
3. To end U.S. complicity in genocide and apartheid.

Darializa Avila Chevalier is a working-class Afro-Latina organizer, UAW member, and the daughter of Dominican immigrants who has spent years fighting for her community in upper Manhattan. Seeing her family navigate immigration issues, economic hardship, and structural racism shaped her commitment to justice. 

Darializa is fighting for:

1. Housing for All
2. To Abolish ICE
3. Babies, not bombs

For State Legislature:

Conrad Blackburn is a Harlemite, public defender, union member, and democratic socialist running for New York State Assembly District 70 to put the people of Harlem first. Grounded in Harlem’s long tradition of Black radical politics, he believes socialism is simply community in action. Conrad is running to:

• Fight for a Dignified Life in Harlem: livable wages, access to childcare/healthcare, and safe housing for all. 
• Protect Harlem from Displacement: stop rent increases and keep families in their homes. 
• Keep Harlem Safe: protect the community by investing our collective resources back in the community. 

Christian Celeste Tate is a community organizer and democratic socialist running to represent parts of Bushwick and East New York (including Cypress Hills and City Line) in State Assembly District 54. Christian is running to: 

• Keep people in their homes
• Defend our neighbors from ICE
• Invest in public safety through community investment.

Eon Huntley is a working dad, former PTA president, renter and community organizer running to represent Assembly District 56 (Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Crown Heights). Eon is running to:

• Stop Big Real Estate from tearing his neighborhood apart
• Ensure an excellent education for every kid in Brooklyn from cradle to college
• Fight for the affordability agenda New Yorkers deserve in Albany.

Aber Kawas is a Palestinian community organizer and democratic socialist born and raised in New York City who is running to represent Queens in Senate District 12. Aber is running to: 

• Fight for affordability for all New Yorkers.
• Protect immigrant families and stand up to ICE.
• Fund public transit to make buses fast, safe, and free.

David Orkin is a workers' rights attorney who has been organizing in the immigrant rights movement for over a decade. He's dedicated his life to fighting for immigrants and workers, and is running in Assembly District 38 in Queens to take that fight to Albany by:

• Taxing the rich to fund universal childcare, healthcare, and fast and free buses,
• Doing everything we can on the state level to protect our communities from ICE
• Raising labor standards for all workers, in particular gig, cash economy, and freelance workers

Samantha Kattan is a tenant organizer, working parent and democratic socialist running to represent District 37 in the New York State Assembly. In Albany, Samantha will fight to:

• Tax the rich to pay for a fairer and more affordable New York
• Deliver well-funded, universal childcare available to working families
• Stand up for tenants by protecting rent stabilization and building social housing

Illapa Sairitupac is a tenant organizer running to represent the Lower East Side and Chinatown in Assembly District 65. He is a proud democratic socialist and son of immigrants, running to bring socialism back to Lower Manhattan and:

• Tax the rich to fund universal childcare, healthcare, and social housing
• Get ICE out of our state
• Empower tenants through TOPA, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act

State Senator Jabari Brisport is running for re-election in District 25 to continue the fight for working-class people in Albany.

Jabari Brisport is the State Senator for New York’s 25th District. He is a third-generation Caribbean-American Brooklynite, child of an immigrant, and former public school teacher. Since he took office in 2021, he's stood up against powerful interests in Albany who only want to protect corporations and the wealthy. He’s fought for the funding, services, and policies that New Yorkers need to survive and thrive.

Jabari is running for re-election because he knows that we don’t have to accept bread crumbs and inaction from our government. Real change is possible when we demand that big issues are met with big solutions. When we fight, we win.

Adam Bojak running for election to NYS Assembly District 149 to fight for working-class Western New Yorkers.

Adam is an attorney who has spent almost a decade helping countless tenants facing legal disputes with their landlords. He also serves families across the region as an assigned counsel in Family Court. A son of blue-collar parents and a father of two, Adam knows firsthand that wealth inequality and greed are crushing all of us -- weakening labor union power, making housing and healthcare unaffordable, and turning our basic needs into luxuries reserved only for the rich.