Socialists are sweeping Democrat primaries from New York to Colorado and nobody inside the party is stopping them.
Now a former Democrat insider is pulling back the curtain on exactly how they did it.
What the DSA used to quietly force Democrat candidates into socialism for years is finally coming out.
How the DSA Questionnaire Forces Democrat Candidates to Adopt Its Socialist Platform
Lindy Li spent years raising money for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the highest levels of the Democrat Party.
In 2020, she went on Fox News and filmed a documentary warning that the DSA was eating the party alive from the inside.
Nobody listened.
She watched Biden's decline in real time during the 2024 campaign, sounded the alarm inside the party, and was ignored again.
Now with Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates winning 35 primary races across the country and a socialist sitting in the mayor's office of New York City, Li is laying out exactly how the takeover happened – and it starts with a piece of paper.
In 2018, Li ran for Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District.
The DSA showed up with a questionnaire.
"These over-educated bums basically forced me to adopt its platform by handing me a questionnaire and saying, 'everyone in this congressional race must fill out this questionnaire,'" Li told Fox News Digital.
She filled it out.
So did the other candidates in the race.
The answers went straight onto her Wikipedia page, permanently labeling her as a left-wing radical – positions she never actually held.
"I said none of that," Li said. "They just grabbed it from the questionnaire."
That is the DSA's playbook.
Force candidates to sign onto socialist positions early, attach those positions permanently to their public record, then use that record as leverage for endorsements, money, and primary support down the road.
It is not a grassroots movement.
It is a compliance machine.
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DNC Broke as Socialists Win 35 Democrat Primaries in 2026
The reason the DSA is winning is not just the questionnaire.
It is the collapse of everything that should have been stopping them.
The DNC entered the 2026 midterms $2 million in debt – $16 million in cash against $18.5 million owed.
Chairman Ken Martin quietly used the DNC's Washington headquarters as collateral for a $15 million loan just to keep the lights on.
The Republican National Committee has $128 million in cash and zero debt.
Li did not hold back on Martin.
"We need a Democratic leader who is unforgettable, dynamic, vigorous, who can launch a compelling argument to the American people," she told Fox News. "Instead, we have this milquetoast man, who nobody remembers."
"Ken Martin is a joke," she added.
Internal reports describe a chairman so paranoid about leaks that he has warned his own staff: "My success is your success" – as vendors wait unpaid in the background.
Meanwhile, the DSA keeps winning.
A 29-year-old socialist named Melat Kiros knocked off Diana DeGette – a Democrat who held Colorado's 1st Congressional District for nearly three decades.
Abdul El-Sayed won the Democrat Senate primary in Michigan.
It is happening in state after state – and the general elections have not even happened yet.
The movement now has over 100,000 members, up from 6,000 before Bernie Sanders ran in 2016.
And Li says they are already talking about 2028.
"There's no one there," she told Fox News, describing the vacuum at the top of the Democrat Party.
That is the point.
When a party collapses this completely – broke, leaderless, and running from its own shadow – something always fills the space.
The DSA has been waiting for exactly this moment since 2016.
Joe Biden handed it to them.
By the time Democrats figured out what was happening, the questionnaires were already signed.
The primaries were already won.
The socialist wing of the party already had a mayor in New York City and its eyes on the White House.
Sources:
- Leo Briceno, "Ex-Dem fundraiser traces socialist surge to Biden-era leadership vacuum: 'There's no one there,'" Fox News, September 1, 2026.
- "Ex-Dem insider reveals she will expose Democrats who covered up Biden's cognitive decline in new book," Fox News, June 22, 2026.
- "Over 30 socialists have won primaries this year," Washington Examiner, June 25, 2026.
- Mike LaChance, "Former DNC Fundraiser Blames Joe Biden Presidency for the Rise of the DSA Socialists in the Party," Gateway Pundit, September 2, 2026.
- "DNC Drowns in Debt While Ken Martin Faces Revolt," American Almanac, July 29, 2026.