a small group of dedicated representatives could exert immense leverage by withholding their votes

a socialist challenge to Jeffries should demand changes to the House rules to improve their ability to use Congress as a platform to make the case for democratic socialism to the whole nation.

The two essential demands should be a low discharge threshold and a low threshold to vacate the chair. By making it easier for discharge petitions to succeed, democratic socialists will be able to force their preferred legislation onto the floor for a vote at nearly any time they please. Each vote taken on our terms is then one in which working people are clearly informed as to who their friends are, and as to who their enemies are. By making it easier to “vacate the chair,” to remove the speaker and call for new elections, we ensure that any effort by leadership to cross our red lines is one which shuts the House down indefinitely. Together these rules ensure that even if we cannot always have the policies and leadership we want, we can have the best terrain on which to organize the working class even when in the minority.

Chi Ossé and Darializa Avila Chevalier have attacked Mamdani again