Twenty-nine-year-old beat representative Diana DeGette in deep-blue Denver district

The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.

The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        13·
        5 days ago

        It’s The Guardian, they operate on reader donations so that they’re not beholden to billionaires.

        The word choice here is somewhat poor, but I don’t get the sense that this article is lamenting…

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            5·
            4 days ago

            Gee, I don’t know. Why don’t you click on the link and see if there’s any ads? I sure didn’t see any, but maybe your eyes are better than mine…

                  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                    4·
                    4 days ago

                    No, that’s not what I said at all. Where the fuck did you pull that out of?

                    You snarkily said “they don’t run ads?” As if that backs up your point that they’re captured by billionaire interests after I told you that they run on reader donations.

                    I’m telling you there’s no ads when I read their articles, and you’re acting like there are. Well I don’t see any.

                    I’m not complaining that they don’t run ads. I’m telling you you’re wrong for insinuating their primary source of funding is from ad revenue.

                    This is a pancakes and waffles situation.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      5 days ago

      They’re trying to make these people look radical, when their platforms are centrist stuff most other western nations have done for decades. Her platform is universal healthcare, universal pre-k, building homes, not funding wars in the Middle East, and not taking money from big corporations and billionaires.

      How is that radical?

      • teslekova@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        5 days ago

        In America, that is incredibly radical.

        However, this is one of a string of incredible wins for the DSA, and I am very glad. As someone who has for a long time been despondent about electoral political change, it is a sign that the alternative - armed resistance and civil war - will not be necessary.

        We should all support the DSA as much as we can if we do not want to see entire neighbourhoods on fire, civilians being slaughtered by the thousands, or all the other horrible shit that is inevitable in war.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          8·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, this is why so many of us have been saying stuff to the effect of “Wait till after midterms to see if democracy can prevail. If they cheat, or ignore the results, then all bets are off and anything goes. Until then, all is not yet lost, but if we resort to violence when there’s still hope of peace, all will be lost.”

          There’s still hope in a peaceful way out of this. The fascists want us to believe there isn’t, but clearly they’re nervous about this election so apparently they haven’t rigged it as bad as they want us to think they have.

          The people advocating for open revolt are not only jumping the gun, but they’re feeding right into the fascists’ plans. Some of them may even be fascists in disguise. Be very wary.

      • BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
        3·
        5 days ago

        Healthcare AND Childcare AND Taxdollars being Used on AMERICANS and their CHILDREN? That is UNAMERICAN!

        -People voting to Give your ID to Epstein’s Associates to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 days ago

      I don’t think that came across as intended. This is the Guardian, the US left is basically right in the UK.

      I think what they mean is the Democratic Socialists are insurgent from the standpoint of a small group growning quickly. The negative connotation might not have been intended.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 days ago

        The negative connotation might not have been intended.

        Yeah the Guardian isn’t good with words. Probably just fucked it up on accident.