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Your Seats. Your Vote.
The Democratic Socialist front door onto We The Citizens. It asks you for nothing up front and shows you one thing: your own seats, the people holding them right now, what they actually voted for, and who could replace them.
I am a democratic socialist. Is this site for me?
Yes. This is the room where democratic socialists do the work — and this community is addressed as democratic socialists, never as “socialists”. The center of this door is economics: building this community's own package for removing the rigged layer and getting to an economy that is ethical and ideal for workers.
The main app asks a citizen to reason from first principles about the social contract. That is the right ask, and it is a big one for somebody who arrived from an argument thirty seconds ago. This door lowers the first ask to one sentence.
Here are your elected officials. Here is what they actually voted for. Here is who could replace them.
Merit here is judged on the basis this community chooses for itself. The test for an officeholder is whether their votes track special interests or the people who elected them — and that is a question the roll-call record answers, not a slogan.
A stack of seat blocks — one for every seat you vote on.
Your two US senators, your US House seat, your governor, your state assembly seat. Every block carries the same three columns, in the same order, every time.
In office
The person holding the seat right now, with their record — their Monkey Award and Llama Award, and the specific sourced votes underneath each number.
Democratic Socialist challenger
The leading challenger on your own side — a primary challenger when the incumbent also runs with this community's support — with Qualified and Vetted bars.
Challengers from other parties
The strongest challenger for this seat who is not from your side, whatever party that turns out to be — same photo size, same arithmetic, same bars. It is always present, because a page that only ever showed your own team would be a campaign tool rather than a citizens' tool.
An empty column stays a column. You get an honest "no vetted Democratic Socialist challenger yet for this seat" and a way to recommend somebody — never a quietly collapsed grid.
Voting records →The planks this community actually builds on.
Written by democratic socialists, in this community's own language, on this door and nowhere else. The .io stays neutral; everything partisan lives here.
Challengers not controlled by special interests
The trigger is the voting record: when an incumbent's votes track their donors instead of their constituents, this community backs a challenger.
Merit on this community's own basis
The same engine as every other door, run on the criteria democratic socialists choose for themselves — published, open, and re-runnable by anyone.
Economics that work for workers
Wages, hours, healthcare, housing, childcare, debt — the ordinary economics of a working life. Every plank gets the same test: does it work for the worker.
An economy ideal for workers in the era of AI
Who captures the gains from automation — the citizen base, or the same concentrated money that rigged the last economy? This community wants the answer before the disruption lands.
Ending the new colonialism
A new layer gets added every year when foreign money buys influence over US politicians and citizens pay for it. Foreign leverage on an officeholder is disqualifying.
The Democratic Socialist rigged-economy package
Built by this community through voting and collaboration, not handed down. The healthy economy stays; the rigged layer on top of it comes off. An economy ideal for workers is the headline here, not a footnote.
Two things this door does not do, whatever the plank. It never characterizes another party or attributes motive to one — the unit of judgement is a person and a vote. And it never re-weights an award: the Monkey, Llama and Flamingo numbers are computed once, party-blind, and no edition re-rounds or re-thresholds them.
Words we use and words we avoid →The same web app, the same data, the same admin-approved records.
Four doors, four audiences, four sets of priorities. They share the corpus — roster, awards, roll-call evidence, proposed laws — and nothing else. No door is another door's mirror, and none of them owes its content to any of the others.
We The Citizens S
The Democratic Socialist front door at WeCitizensSocialism.com. Written for Democratic Socialists, from marketing/messaging/socialism.md.
We The Citizens R
The Republicans front door at WeCitizensR.com. Its own audience, its own priorities, its own pages — read it if you want to, but nothing here is written to match it.
We The Citizens D
The Democrats front door at WeCitizensD.com. Its own audience, its own priorities, its own pages — read it if you want to, but nothing here is written to match it.
We The Citizens L
The Libertarians front door at WeCitizensL.com. Its own audience, its own priorities, its own pages — read it if you want to, but nothing here is written to match it.
Reading here is wide open — no account, no sign-in, nothing recorded about you. Every action hands you to the app to join, and brings you back to the seat you were looking at.
Enter App →The rest of the movement, from here.
Words we use and words we avoid
The language of this door, written down: what belongs here, and what was deliberately left to another audience.
Find your seats. See the record. Pick the replacement.
Your two senators, your House member, your governor, your assembly seat — each with the person in office, the challenger on your side, and the strongest challenger from anywhere else. No account, no sign-in, nothing recorded about you until you decide to act.
Go to WeCitizensSocialism.com →