The Democratic Socialists of America call it McCarthyism every time someone asks where their money comes from.
Florida's attorney general just issued a subpoena to get the actual answer.
What investigators will find when they open those books is something the DSA put in writing themselves.
The Democratic Socialists of America run something called the Venceremos Fund.
Its own fundraising materials describe its purpose as "support the struggle to dismantle U.S. empire" – and it routes donations directly to Cuba.
An American organization soliciting donor money to send to a communist regime is not a campaign finance gray area.
This week, it got worse.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced his office had issued an investigative subpoena to the DSA under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and the state's charitable solicitation laws.
Uthmeier's subpoena covers both the Cuba delegation – where senior DSA leaders sat down with Cuban regime officials – and a separate trip to China.
Investigators are also examining fundraising campaigns that sought tens of thousands of dollars to cover the cost of those trips.
Uthmeier said Florida donors deserve to know exactly where their money goes and whether foreign regimes are directing any of it.
https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/2120191720780407245
The DSA dramatically deepened its commitment to the Cuban communist project in recent years, announcing plans in 2019 to formally join the National Network on Cuba.
That coalition includes Code Pink and the Communist Party USA.
Communist regimes do not fly Americans to Havana out of generosity – they do it because they expect something in return, and under Florida law that return value counts as a foreign contribution even when no money changes hands.
The Federalist reported in January that leaked internal DSA documents showed members cultivating direct relationships with Chinese Communist Party officials, including carefully scripted trips to CCP party schools.
Congressional investigators are already watching the same network – a House committee subpoenaed the Tricontinental Institute, a Maoist think tank with documented China ties, after alleging it was using America's tax code to advance the interests of foreign adversaries.
Congress heard testimony this year formally recommending a DOJ investigation into whether the DSA qualifies as an unregistered foreign agent.
The Capital Research Center compared the DSA's name to the Holy Roman Empire – famously, none of the three words applied – and concluded the group is "neither particularly democratic, nor socialist, nor American."
Cuba's interest in American radical movements did not start with the DSA.
It goes back to 1968, when members of Students for a Democratic Society – the ideological predecessor to today's radical Left – were first invited to Havana for revolutionary access to Castro regime officials.
The DSA did not build its communist relationships from scratch – it inherited an infrastructure cultivated over decades by people who openly wanted to bring America down from the inside.
Uthmeier said he would not allow foreign adversaries to influence Florida "through the back door of nonprofit fundraising."
Why the DSA Subpoena Could Mean Unregistered Foreign Agent Charges
Florida is the first state attorney general's office to use consumer protection law to force a radical political nonprofit to prove its foreign funding is clean.
That is a blueprint every Republican AG in the country can now follow.
If those DSA financial records show the Cuban or Chinese governments provided anything of value – hotels, transportation, meals, coaching sessions – Florida law treats that as an illegal foreign contribution.
The DSA has 40 members on record sitting down with Cuban regime officials as recently as last fall, and the Venceremos Fund is on those books.
Their internal documents show years of cultivated ties to CCP officials – ties built inside the same DSA chapter that put Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor's office.
AOC has carried the DSA endorsement since her first day in Congress, and last week's midterms sent another class of DSA members to Capitol Hill.
James Uthmeier just demanded the receipts.
The people most interested in those records never seeing daylight are now making laws.
Sources:
- Andie Valdes, "Communist Getaways On Whose Dime? What Democratic Socialists Must Hand Over," Daily Wire, November 10, 2026.
- Rusty Weiss, "Florida's AG Just Tightened the Screws on the Democratic Socialists of America," RedState, November 10, 2026.
- Fox News Staff, "Florida AG Subpoenas DSA Over Potential Illegal Funding From Cuba and China," Fox News, November 10, 2026.
- National Review, "How Cuba Is Covertly Boosting America's Radical Left," National Review, 2026.
- The Federalist, "Inside the Alliance Between American Marxists and Communist China," The Federalist, January 28, 2026.
- Capital Research Center, "Communism and the Democratic Socialists of America," Capital Research Center, 2023.
