Wisconsin’s DSA Threat Takes Root in Governor’s Race
Yet another radical member of the Democratic Socialists of America got top pick in a recent poll.
Like fat in the milk bucket, candidate members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) always seem to float to the top when the base voters decide in Democratic primaries.
For example, Wisconsin State Rep. Francesca Hong, a DSA candidate for governor in the state’s Democratic primary, had top showing in a recent Marquette Law School Poll with 11 percent of Democratic primary voters favoring her campaign. The only other candidate receiving double digits was Mandela Barnes with 10 percent support. The other six candidates had six percent or less.
In every election with a DSA candidate, voters must decide whether they will allow the nation to continue creeping toward a socialist takeover, or if they will stop every DSA threat that appears on a ballot—because with every high-profile win, the extremist DSA gains power and mainstream legitimacy.
Time to Decide the Direction of Wisconsin
Voters are not much thinking about Wisconsin’s governor’s race yet—the primary is not until August 11. Please. We’ll think about the primary once the snow blower is stashed away for the season.
Marquette’s late February poll found that most Democrats and Republicans asked (93 percent) said they had heard little or nothing about the election yet, and 65 percent of Democratic voters are undecided on the governor’s race.
Although support for all Democratic candidates is minuscule for now, it should raise alarm bells that in the field of eight candidates, Hong, a radical member of the DSA, got top pick.
Hong, 37, is the daughter of Korean immigrants. She wants you to know she is a struggling single mother. As a Wisconsin legislator, she earned at least $60,924 last year, plus per diem allowance paid for food and lodging while on legislative business.
She worked as a bartender/chef before taking office in 2020. Hong advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana, banning state cooperation with ICE, and “transgender rights” for children, having vehemently opposed a bill banning teachers secretly calling kids by a name of the opposite sex without telling the child’s parents.
Hong introduced the “Reproductive Freedom Act,” in 2023 to repeal most state abortion restrictions and force pregnancy resource centers, that exist to help pregnant women keep their babies, to counsel women that abortion is an option, as if they were unaware.
Perhaps her most radical stance: Hong uses the degrading term “birthing bodies” to refer to women.
Literally straight out of the DSA handbook, Hong rallied behind a 2023 Dane County resolution making it a sanctuary county for “trans and non-binary individuals.”
Dane County should just concentrate on fixing potholes.
Of course, Hong is apoplectic with hatred for President Donald Trump.
“We have an authoritarian regime that endorses mass suffering, gutting food from children and gutting health care from working people and dismantling public education and programs,” Hong said when launching her gubernatorial campaign as a lowly “working class” gal, despite her status as a lawmaker.
While Democrats Sleep
Traditional Democrats should realize by now the DSA playbook has completely transformed the party. DSA puts up a nice-looking, young, implausible minority candidate, usually non-white, often non-Christian, with a heart-tugging, rags to riches life story and radical anti-American views.
The media is fascinated and the chatter goes, “There is no way this candidate can win,” underestimating the candidate all the way until Election Day, when a lot of times, the candidate wins.
That was roughly the pattern for DSA members now holding influential seats across the United States, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani; U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.); and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (R-Minn.) runs with the DSA congressional Squad and is endorsed by DSA but not formally a member. A host of mayors and state legislators across the U.S. are DSA members too.
Counting Hong, Wisconsin has four DSA legislators — Ryan Clancy, Darrin Madison, and Christian Phelps round out the contingent.
Instead of running as a third party, the Socialists parasitically infect the Democratic Party. DSA’s website describes itself as “a political and activist organization, not a party.” But they act like a distinct party. Their targets for destruction often include crotchety, old, white, liberal lawmakers like Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.) or Rep. Nancy Pelosi, (D-Calif.). DSA has, however, endorsed old-white-guy Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), who serves as sort of the Democratic Socialist godfather.
Traditional Democrats should stop hosting DSA within their tent and make them build their own party. Instead, trad-Dems are napping and letting the socialist kids commit a creeping coup.
DSA candidates use low voter turnout to their advantage. Once a radical DSA candidate wins the primary, traditional Democrats who would never consider voting Republican get stuck with a socialist candidate. Before long, the local Democratic Party is infected with a full-blown case of socialism. Attend their internal meetings and you will see the infighting between the remaining traditional Democrats and DSA.
Trusting A Radical
Hong would be the first DSA governor in the country, proving socialists can sell radicalism to Americans at every level of government. That is because free stuff always sounds like an unbeatable deal.
Hong supports free school breakfasts and lunches for every student. It does sound like it would help low-income parents. But children from low-income families already get free or reduced-price lunch through the USDA National School Lunch Program. Plus, those in need already have SNAP and in some cases WIC as available benefits. Why should taxpayers buy meals for kids from wealthy families too?
After charming voters in New York with campaign promises of free bus rides and free grocery stores that are unlikely to permanently materialize, Mamdani just proposed a $30 minimum wage that will hobble or even kill businesses.
Hong demands a jump for Wisconsin from $7.25 an hour to $20 by 2030.
Seventeen years.
— Rep. Francesca Hong 홍윤정 (@StateRepHong) March 2, 2026
That’s how long Wisconsin has kept the minimum wage frozen at the federal floor of $7.25 an hour.
In those same seventeen years, groceries have gone up. Rent has gone up. Healthcare costs have gone up. pic.twitter.com/NO4n19Ec6p
One only needs to recall COVID era restrictions like masking toddlers and limiting the gathering of people, to be reminded of how much power governors wield in times of emergency. It is not a position to entrust to a radical with little understanding of economics or the constitutional structure of government.
If Wisconsin Democrats don’t stop Hong in the primary, it will be up to Republicans and non-affiliated voters to flood the polls in the Nov. 3 general election to save Wisconsin and prevent another high-profile seat from spreading socialism.
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