For decades, Americans were warned that communist regimes wouldn’t just threaten with missiles and armies—they’d burrow into institutions, cultivate ideological allies on domestic soil, and weaponize freedoms against them. Most dismissed these warnings as Cold War paranoia. But the Cold War never ended for enemies; it simply went underground.
A devastating new report from the U.S. State Department has confirmed what many patriotic Americans long suspected: a hostile foreign dictatorship has been nurturing a network of willing partners inside the United States. Organizations and politicians operating openly, freely, with growing influence. The findings should stop every American cold.
The State Department warned Monday that the Democratic Socialists of America serves as a willing vector for Cuban Communist influence in the United States, bolstered by a network tied to Cuban intelligence. In its 64-page report detailing Cuba’s decades-long effort to “make the revolution” here, the department highlights the DSA’s deep connections to organizations linked to Cuban intelligence, including at least one sanctioned by U.S. authorities.
The Democratic Socialists of America—a political organization that endorses candidates, elects mayors, and shapes policy in Congress—has been formally identified by the State Department as a willing vector for Cuban Communist influence. Not an unwitting dupe; not campus idealists. A willing partner of a communist dictatorship ninety miles off the coast.
According to the report, the DSA joined the National Network on Cuba in 2019, an umbrella group that coordinates directly with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP). Last month, the State Department sanctioned ICAP for supporting Cuban intelligence and counterintelligence activities. ICAP is headed by Fernando Gonzalez Llort, a convicted Cuban spy who spent 15 years in American prisons.
After joining NNOC, the DSA created a Cuba Solidarity Working Group, launched formal lobbying efforts on Havana’s behalf, and sent official delegations to Cuba. In 2023, DSA delegates traveled to Cuba with the stated goal of establishing “formal channels of communication” with the Cuban government. They met Vice Foreign Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and officials serving under Cuba’s armed forces. One attendee noted in a blog post they held a meeting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel for more than two hours.
The DSA also solicits donations through the “Venceremos Fund”—a name co-opted by U.S. intelligence agencies and Cuban defectors as linked to Cuban intelligence. This fund connects to the People’s Forum, an organization with financial ties to Neville Singham, a wealthy Marxist businessman based in Shanghai with links to Beijing.
The report reveals that DSA-backed politicians wield significant influence: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran on a socialist platform with full DSA backing and won. Earlier this summer, DSA-backed challengers ousted incumbent Democratic members of Congress. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gained national prominence as a DSA-endorsed candidate.
The State Department report situates Cuba at the center of an anti-American coalition alongside Russia, China, and Iran, labeling it “the ideological capital of the modern radical left.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated: “The Cuban regime’s sprawling intelligence and ideological networks helped build the far-left in our country and in our hemisphere.”
Cuba’s intelligence apparatus is described as “far more skilled and sophisticated” than the Soviet KGB. The National Network on Cuba maintains a “National Rapid Response Plan” for coordinated protests at federal buildings, military bases, and ICE facilities nationwide—prepositioned chaos, ready to deploy.
The DSA has been unmasked not by partisan opponents but by the U.S. Department of State. Its silence in response is telling. Americans must demand that an organization functioning as an instrument of a foreign communist regime be investigated, exposed, and disbanded. Every DSA-backed politician from city hall to Capitol Hill owes the American people one simple answer: whose side are they on?
