Rashida Harbi Tlaib is an American lawyer and politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2019, representing the state's 12th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Dem
Official portrait, 2024
Tlaib at her campaign headquarters, 2018
Tlaib with Latin American socialists and activists at the 2025 Democratic Socialists of America national convention
The Democratic Socialists of America is a socialist political organization in the United States, and the largest such organization in US history, with more than 120,000 members as of July 2026. A big
Rashida Tlaib
…the United States House of Representatives in Michigan's 13th congressional district. She and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the first female members of Democratic Socialists of America to serve in Congress. Tlaib is a member of The Squad, an informal group of U.S. representatives on the left wing of the Democratic Party. As a U.S…
Michael Harrington was the first chairman of DSA and its most prominent public figure until his death in 1989.
Dorothy Ray Healey, a prominent member of the New American Movement
Barbara Ehrenreich, a socialist feminist and co-chair of DSA from 1983
DSA members marching at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, 2011