The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South

Zohran Mamdani was not the only Democratic Socialist who just won a citywide election. In Atlanta, 31 year-old DSA member Kelsea Bond (who uses they/ them pronouns) handily won a race for City Council. That makes them the only socialist to win an election this year in the South, and just the second DSA candidate to win elected office in Georgia, after Gabriel Sanchez was elected to the statehouse there—in a campaign that Bond managed.

We spoke to Bond about their priorities, building socialist power down South, and the prospects for a glorious DSA political wave in the USA.