Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is back in the Democratic Socialists of America, formally renewing a membership she first held in 2018 but let lapse the following year. The organization publicly disclosed the news amid intensifying talk about the congresswoman as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, a conversation that has already made headlines and drawn attention from within the party’s left flank.
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From Breitbart:
“Democratic Socialists of America confirms Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a member in good standing of our organization, having recently rejoined in August 2026,” DSA said. “Previously, the representative joined DSA in 2018 with a one-year membership, which DSA’s national leadership recently noticed had lapsed, in 2019. She has since renewed her membership as of this month.”
Ocasio-Cortez originally joined DSA in 2018, the same year she defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democrat primary for New York’s 14th Congressional District. Although her original membership lasted one year before lapsing in 2019, DSA continued to refer to Ocasio-Cortez as a “member” on multiple occasions during the following seven years, according to NOTUS.
“While it is atypical for DSA to address the membership status of individuals, ongoing discussions about the 2028 presidential campaign have prompted this release,” DSA said.
The disclosure comes on the heels of a primary season that saw DSA-affiliated and DSA-endorsed candidates notch several victories, including against incumbent Democrats. Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York and Melat Kiros in Colorado, both DSA-endorsed, won their Democrat primaries this year, while other candidates linked to the organization also experienced electoral success, according to NOTUS. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s DSA-backed victory last fall raised the group’s national profile, though he sought during his campaign to distinguish parts of his platform from the organization’s national policy positions.
Ocasio-Cortez’s relationship with DSA has not always been politically smooth. DSA withdrew its endorsement of her 2024 House campaign before conditionally reinstating it, pointing to her vote for a resolution that equated the “denial of Israel’s right to exist” with a form of antisemitism. Earlier this year, she appeared at a private DSA meeting where she said she would not authorize any military aid to Israel. “The Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves,” she said, according to an April report from City & State New York.
Ocasio-Cortez has been actively defending her socialist convictions on the national stage. Earlier this month she said on ABC’s This Week that Democratic Socialists are “fundamentally pro-democracy,” “believe in the ballot box,” and believe in “respecting the outcomes of elections,” comparing the New York City chapter to “your local union chapter.” In May, she told Democrat strategist David Axelrod that her ambitions go beyond the presidency: “my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.” She added that “Presidents come and go,” but described priorities such as “single payer healthcare,” “a living wage,” “worker’s rights,” and “women’s rights” as “forever.”
Scripture warns that a nation’s leaders shape the moral and spiritual direction of the people they govern, and that those who abandon truth for deception invite God’s judgment. Isaiah 5:20 issues a woe to those who “call evil good and good evil.” The rise of a political movement that explicitly rejects Israel’s right to exist, pursues policies hostile to the sanctity of life and the family, and seeks to reshape the economy on socialist lines should concern every believer. This is not merely a matter of partisan politics; it is a question of which values will govern the nation. Let us pray for justice and righteousness to prevail in America, for believers to be vigilant and engaged in the public square, and for those who hold positions of influence to be convicted of the truth and turn toward the God who established the boundaries of good and evil.
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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images).
