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==History==

==History==

[[Michael Harrington]], founder of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is also credited with inspiration of [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s [[War on Poverty]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 }}</ref>.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book ''The Other America'' (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda"}}</ref>

[[Michael Harrington]], founder of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is also credited with inspiration of [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s [[War on Poverty]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 }}</ref>.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref>

 

===1982–1992===

===1982–1992===

DSA helped form and continues to work closely with the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]]: {{quotebox|"Since 1982, DSA has been working for progressive change. As a national organization, DSA joins with its allies in Congress' Progressive Caucus and in many other progressive organizations, fighting for the interests of the average citizen both in legislative struggles and in other campaigns to educate the public on progressive issues and to secure progressive access to the media."<ref>http://kincaidsite.com/dsa/</ref>}} According to the DSA website: {{quotebox|"No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, [[civil rights]], religious, and [[community organizing]] movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the party’s [[left wing]], represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus...Maybe sometime in the future, in [[coalition]] with our allies, an alternative national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats."<ref>http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf</ref>;}} DSA, the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the [[Institute for Policy Studies]] formed a triple alliance.

DSA helped form and continues to work closely with the [[Congressional Progressive Caucus]]: {{quotebox|"Since 1982, DSA has been working for progressive change. As a national organization, DSA joins with its allies in Congress' Progressive Caucus and in many other progressive organizations, fighting for the interests of the average citizen both in legislative struggles and in other campaigns to educate the public on progressive issues and to secure progressive access to the media."<ref>http://kincaidsite.com/dsa/</ref>}} According to the DSA website: {{quotebox|"No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, [[civil rights]], religious, and [[community organizing]] movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the party’s [[left wing]], represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus...Maybe sometime in the future, in [[coalition]] with our allies, an alternative national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats."<ref>http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf</ref>;}} DSA, the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the [[Institute for Policy Studies]] formed a triple alliance.