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Megan Romer

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Megan Romer

Type: person | Domain relevance: DSA national co-chair; the organization’s most on-the-record voice in this corpus.

Summary

National co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and member of its National Political Committee. In a long adversarial New Yorker Radio Hour interview she supplies the wiki’s best primary material on how DSA leadership defines its project: democratic control of workplace, housing, and politics — explicitly not “a kinder, gentler capitalism” and explicitly distinct from European Social Democracy. Answers most policy-specificity questions procedurally (“we decide it democratically”) and disclaims being “the one true arbiter of DSA thought.”

Key Facts

  • Affirms belief in social-ownership-of-the-means-of-production; near-term: public ownership of power, water, internet.
  • Defines working class by relation to capital; rejects Zohran Mamdani’s reported under-$1M definition.
  • Voted for the 2024 Harris non-endorsement as an NPC member; personally voted Clinton 2016 and Biden 2020 as “harm reduction.”
  • Called October 7 “largely inevitable”; opposes US weapons to Ukraine; describes Putin as a “right-wing oligarch.”
  • Confirmed (2026-08-13 ingest): Romer is the Red Star co-chair. “Megan R. (At-Large) (Red Star)… reelected as Co-Chair” per a DSA chapter’s own convention account (The Future Starts Now: An Account of the 2025 DSA National Convention), corroborated by the official tally roster (What is to be done? What is our future? 2025 DSA National Convention Results). She has held the seat since 2023, when Red Star won all three of its NPC races (Communists Belong in DSA).
  • Reading note for the New Yorker interview: her procedural “we decide it democratically” answers came from a member of a self-described Marxist-Leninist caucus whose stated goal is winning hegemony within DSA — context the interview itself never surfaced.

In the Sources

SourceContext
How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer ExplainsSubject of the interview; all facts above

Entities: Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Zohran Mamdani, Red Star Caucus Concepts: Democratic Socialism, Social Democracy Debates: Is democratic socialism actually different from socialism?, Is the DSA taking over the Democratic Party?