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The Electoral Priority Campaign is run by the Political Engagement Committee.

Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed Shayla Adams-Stafford in the 2025 Prince George’s County Council District 5 special election!

She’s a former teacher and union shop steward and currently a member of the Prince George’s school board. While on the school board Shayla has fought for project labor agreements and to replace the cops in our schools with mental health support and tutoring. School board member Adams-Stafford is running for the tiebreaking vote on a County Council divided between developer-backed conservative Democrats and a progressive bloc.

Sign up now at this link to support our electoral efforts and build power for working class communities in the DMV! You don’t have to be a member of DSA to join our canvasses and other activities, we’re open to anyone who wants to help.

Recently we also campaigned for the Maryland Reproductive Freedom constitutional amendment, Janeese Lewis George’s Ward 4 DC Council campaign, Uncommitted Maryland, and a rent stabilization bill in PG County, totaling 45,000 doors knocked in 2024.

Our campaigns face strong opposition from conservatives, lobbying groups, and moneyed interests. But with your help, socialist campaigns with a people-powered movement behind them can win. Our chapter members have knocked on more than 210,000 doors and made more than 61,000 phone calls to voters since 2017. We’ve helped elect candidates and pass laws with progressive and labor coalitions in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C. Our endorsed candidates have gone on to fight for legislation to build social housing, increase taxes on the rich, cap insulin prices, repeal anti-union “right to work” laws, create social wealth funds, ban revolving-door lobbying, close corporate tax loopholes, create a universal basic income, expose confidential police records, end for-profit migrant detention across the state, and much more.

Our *highest* priority is canvassing, because in person door-knocking conversations are proven to persuade people and ensure they vote or contact their representatives. But there are ways for everyone to contribute, including phone banking, research, communications, and administrative support. Sign up here to let us know what you’re interested in! We’ll contact you about current/upcoming campaigns, and keep you updated on MDC DSA’s activities. 

Please email pec@mdcdsa.org with any questions, visit our slack channel, or view our Linktree to get involved.

MDC DSA’s Abolition Working Group is organizing in coalition with Black-led and racial justice organizations to move toward prison abolition in DC, Montgomery County, and Northern Virginia. Short-term tasks include defunding the police departments to fund social services such as free public transit and social housing, redistributing funds to restore underfunded agencies such as public libraries and parks and recreation, replacing police in schools with supportive non-police staff, and freeing our neighbors from occupation and incarceration as a path towards abolition — a world without cops and prisons. As part of our vision for racial and economic justice, we demand that the funding removed from police and prisons be reinvested in real public safety: housing, schools, jobs, healthcare, and mental health services, community-based support programs, violence interruption, and other public goods and services.

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