Enforce the Communist Control Act — Citizen Declaration

Preamble

We, the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, hereby petition the Trump Administration, the United States Congress, and the Department of Justice to enforce the Communist Control Act of 1954 — a law that has never been repealed — against any organization, candidate, or officeholder who meets its statutory definition of a communist action group. The Democratic Socialists of America is that organization. The time for enforcement is now.

Whereas

I.Zohran Mamdani, a self-declared democratic socialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has been elected Mayor of New York City — the largest city in the United States — on a platform of rent control, wealth redistribution, and the dismantling of free market economic activity.
II.Multiple candidates openly affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America — the organized Marxist wing of the Democratic Party — have won congressional primary elections in New York City, placing avowed socialists on a path to Federal office.
III.The Democratic Socialists of America openly advocates for the abolition of capitalism, the collective ownership of the means of production, and the fundamental restructuring of American society along Marxist lines — goals that align with the statutory definition of communist action under Federal law.
IV.The Communist Control Act of 1954, 50 U.S.C. § 841 et seq., passed with bipartisan support and championed by Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, explicitly declares organizations engaged in communist action to be a clear and present danger and strips them of the rights and privileges afforded to lawful political bodies.
V.The Communist Control Act of 1954 has never been repealed by Congress nor struck down by the Supreme Court. Although parts of its enforcement apparatus were later removed, the Act's central provisions remain valid federal law and should be fully restored and enforced.
VI.The Democratic Party, having allowed the DSA to seize control of its primary apparatus in America's largest city, has demonstrated that it is neither willing nor able to suppress the anti-American elements operating within its own ranks — and therefore the responsibility falls to the Federal government.
VII.Wherever Marxist and communist ideology has been implemented, it has produced mass confiscation of private property, the abolition of individual rights, the destruction of free enterprise, and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people — and no electoral victory changes the nature of the ideology being imposed.

Therefore, be it resolvedWe call upon President Donald J. Trump, the United States Congress, the Attorney General of the United States, and all relevant Federal agencies to investigate and enforce the Communist Control Act of 1954 against the Democratic Socialists of America and any affiliated candidates seeking Federal or municipal office — applying the law that the Democratic Party itself wrote, because its authors understood what we are now witnessing.

Background

The History of the Communist Control Act of 1954

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What the law actually says

The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, codified at 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) outlawed the Communist Party of the United States and criminalized knowing membership in or material support for it. Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, it declared the Party "an agency of a hostile foreign power" and "a clear, present, and continuing danger to the security of the United States," and stripped it of "the rights, privileges, and immunities of a legal body."

The Democrats wrote it

The Act was championed by Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota — later Vice President of the United States — who called the Communist Party the "root of evil." It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support: 85–0 in the Senate and 305–2 in the House, and was signed by a Republican president. In Humphrey's own words, the goal was "to remove any doubt… as to where [Democrats and liberals] stood on the issue of Communism."

Why it was passed

Written at the height of the Cold War, the law was a direct response to an ideology whose openly declared aim was to overthrow constitutional government and abolish private property — an aim its authors believed should be unlawful even when pursued by peaceful or electoral means. As one writer of the era put it, there is "no place in democracy for those who want to abolish it even with a peaceful vote."

Has it ever been repealed?

No. Congress has never repealed the Communist Control Act, and the Supreme Court has never struck it down in its entirety. The law was rarely enforced, and some of its Cold War-era machinery — such as the Subversive Activities Control Board — was later dismantled, with several provisions criticized on constitutional grounds. But its central provisions were never overturned and remain valid federal law to this day.

Why it matters now

The Democratic Socialists of America openly advocates the abolition of capitalism and the collective ownership of the means of production — and its candidates are now winning elections in America's largest city. This petition calls on the federal government to apply the law the Democratic Party itself wrote, against the organized movement its authors built it to confront.

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