🚨 Inside DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” Socialism 2026 Panel: Abolish the Senate, Build “Militant” Unions, and Use a “Roadmap” to the “Big Thing”
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) September 5, 2026
Not everyone is going to have time to sit through the full Hasan Piker panel on DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program at Socialism… pic.twitter.com/qLpJ3he0SK
Not everyone is going to have time to sit through the full Hasan Piker panel on DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program at Socialism 2026, so here are some of my favorite moments that really hammer home what DSA’s national leaders, with Hasan as hype man, say they are trying to build.
DSA national co-chair Megan Romer says, “we know we’re not abolishing the Senate tomorrow.” Instead, the program is a “roadmap” for DSA politicians, chapters, and union organizers to push toward goals like social housing, moving “a little policy here and a little policy there” that can “eventually build up to this big thing.”
Fellow national co-chair Ashik Siddique says DSA is “not formally a party, although we are functioning more and more like one,” while describing an internal debate ranging from formally breaking away and creating a new party to trying to “realign the Democratic Party.”
Michaela Branagan, co-chair of the Workers Deserve More Program Committee, casually says, “we also talk about abolishing the Senate because who needs a Senate, right?” She also points to “powerful militant democratic unions” as part of DSA’s vision of what “real democracy” should look like.
And when labor power comes up, Siddique points to the historical ability of organized workers “to shut down the economy” and says, “we need to rebuild labor power.”
Are you ready to #TrySocialism yet? So is “the big thing” just DSA-speak for the revolution?
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