DSA North Star Caucus NPC Candidate Endorsement of Alexander Hernández

​DSA North Star Caucus NPC Candidate Endorsement of 
Alexander Hernández
 
We are pleased to endorse our comrade Alexander Hernández who is running for a seat on DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC). We encourage delegates to rank him #1 on their ballots. While North Star has made recommendations for NPC candidates in the past, this is the first time we are endorsing one of our own.  We believe that Alexander will bring a much-needed perspective to national DSA and contribute hard work to strengthen our organization..
 
Alexander agrees with North Star’s central political position: defeating the ultra-right and the MAGA Republican agenda is the most pressing political priority facing the U.S. Left today.  We believe that electing Alexander to the NPC is crucial because DSA today lacks an agreed-upon political strategy to expand the power of the Left, to defend democracy, and build a viable governing majority.
 
Alexander’s background in the labor and immigrants’ rights movements and his work in DSA is valuable experience. He will increase representation of DSA’s core political constituencies in the socialist movement, the membership, and chapters both big and small.  
 
Alexander grew up In the immigrants’ rights movement. He is the child of Mexican parents. Living in Chicago, Alexander and his family heard from Dolores Huerta at church, and participated in the immigrants rights demonstrations in 2006 along with 100,000 others in Chicago and millions more nationally.
  
Alexander also grew up in the labor movement. His father is a retired ILA Local 1969 member. Having been active around labor issues growing up, he organized his own workplace and joined IATSE Local 44, where he was elected to leadership in his union. Alexander is now on staff as a union representative in the entertainment industry. 
 
Upon joining DSA, Alexander continued this work by organizing for immigrants’ rights in Atlanta and as a co-chair of the national DSA Immigrants’ Rights Working Group (IRWG). Including serving as national IRWG coordinator for a time, working with staff and other national leadership. 
 
Our comrade Alexander has also helped build a new DSA chapter in a rural Florida community where one did not exist. 
 
Alexander’s pledges are to: 

1. Invest in and Expand DSA Publications and Media;
2. Build More On-Ramps to DSA, Bring More People to DSA;
3. Fill Staff Vacancies and Empower Members; and
4. Focus on Latinx Communities to Grow DSA Latino/a  and People of Color Membership.  

 
We believe Alexander will work towards a stronger and more united DSA to win the world we all want to see.  Our caucus goal for this convention is to add democratic socialist political maturity, common sense, and respect for a diversity of viewpoints to all NPC discussions and decisions. Alexander will help ground our organizing in struggles where democratic socialists are winning today, struggles that can honor the different tendencies in DSA.  He made the argument for this position clearly in his Socialist Forum article, “The Case for Realignment.” https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2022/the-case-for-realignment/.
 
This North Star Caucus goal is also expressed through our proposed convention resolutions “Unite Against the Ultra-Right,” and the resolution to “Defend Immigrants and Refugee Rights.”
 
We encourage delegates to advance these goals by electing Alexander Hernández to the National Political Committee of DSA. 
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The North Star Caucus is a group of DSA members and democratic socialists who share a broad outlook around the political questions that face DSA and the wider US left. We are not a faction or a group wanting to take over DSA and remake it in our own image. (See our statement of principles.

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