LSC 2025 National Political Committee Candidates
LSC is proud to announce our slate for the National Political Committee at the 2025 National Convention: C.S. Jackson, David Jenkins, and Byron L..
Our three candidates are active organizers who have consistently engaged in DSA projects at both the national and local levels. They've led and participated in working groups, led chapter and branch organizing, and facilitated grassroots campaigns and actions. Their candidacies represent multiple intersections of identity and experience within our caucus. They each emerged from specific local political conditions yet hold the same belief in DSA as a multi-tendency mass organization. This does not simply represent an ideal, but instead reflects an active practice designed to foster unified democratic organization, independent working class institutions, and autonomous and bottom-up responses to reactionary forces
All three NPC candidates from LSC are organizing veterans. They each represent the core values of our caucus, striving for a culture of horizontalism, non-sectarianism, good faith, and genuine member-led democracy. As we approach the 2025 National Convention, LSC is focused on preventing future budget crises while also promoting electoral discipline, principled anti-Zionism, and the power of working groups as member-led bodies and vehicles of serious material change. These are not simply convention priorities but persistent and deeply-held values for our organizing, reflected both in the resolutions our caucus has put forward and in our slate of candidates.
C.S. Jackson joined DSA in 2018, seeking a political home in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election, a president who, to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, embodies what their ancestors referred to as a "Town Destroyer”— not an aberration but a continuation of settler-colonial violence. For three of his seven years in DSA so far, he served as Treasurer for the San Diego chapter. As a disabled Native organizer, C.S. centers anti-fascist and Indigenous resistance in the fight for socialism. He currently serves on the steering committees of both the Queer Socialist and Disability Working Groups as part of his ongoing commitment to advance intersectional solidarity in DSA and the American Left. For C.S., DSA must stand unflinchingly against fascism, rooted in collective struggle and the belief that another world is possible.
David J. is an abolitionist, tenant organizer, anti-fascist, and mime. He joined DSA in 2020 after meeting members in South Carolina while volunteering on a six-state Bernie road trip through the South. He took root in the Racial Justice Working Group and the DefundNYPD campaign before organizing with his neighbors and serving on the founding Organizing Committee of the Flatbush branch of NYC-DSA. He has also contributed to five of NYC-DSA’s Socialists in Office campaigns, several legislative efforts, countless protest actions, and is unbearably earnest. His radical optimism is fueled by a belief in DSA's big tent potential and his experience facing fascism on the ground, from NYC's City Hall to the Capitol Riot on January 6th.
Byron L. is a proud Anarchist, DSA-LSC co-founder, and sign maker. He has been an active DSA member since 2017 and helped found Orange County DSA, having served in multiple positions including organizer, Secretary, and Co-chair. Byron got his start organizing anti-fascist actions with OC DSA against the OC branch of the Proud Boys and Rise Above Movement, helping drive those organizations out of the area by 2019. He then moved onto chapter administrative roles with the primary goal of creating a healthier and safer organizational culture. He was also the primary OC DSA organizer on the successful Rise Up Willowick campaign to fight the city of Garden Grove’s gentrification of immigrant and low income renters of Santa Ana. A firm believer in DSA's political pluralism, he has dedicated his entire adult life to DSA's struggle to bring about socialism in our times.
LSC remains committed to promoting a vision of DSA that is led by its members and not its elected leadership. We welcome all DSA members to join LSC’s vision for freedom, solidarity, and democracy in DSA and lend their support to our NPC slate this August.
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If you like our candidates, and agree with our points of unity, join LSC to help us ensure an NPC that stands for our values: https://dsa-lsc.org/join/. We also encourage you to sign on to our convention resolutions on the forums here; resolutions must reach 250 signatures by May 11 to be heard at convention.