The State Department released a report identifying the Democratic Socialists of America as a willing vector of Cuban government influence inside the United States. The finding names the DSA's Cuba Solidarity Working Group, its official delegations to Havana, and its formal membership in a network the feds have linked directly to Cuban intelligence.
A U.S. government agency just called a wing of the Democrat coalition a foreign influence operation.
The State Department's language wasn't subtle. The report states that "the DSA has built a national infrastructure dedicated to moving extreme-left politics from the margins into the mainstream — and with it, a deep and abiding devotion to the Cuban regime." The DSA joined the National Network on Cuba in 2019. By 2022, it was sending official delegations to the island. By 2023, those delegations were meeting directly with Cuban government officials, including Vice Foreign Minister Carlos F. de Cossio and Deputy Minister Adianez Taboada.
The stated objective of those trips, according to the report, was to "establish formal channels of communication between various Cuban organizations, ministries and the DSA." Not cultural exchange. Not academic research. Formal channels of communication with a hostile foreign government.
One DSA delegate named in the report is Maria Franzblau, a member of the organization's Marxist Reform & Revolution caucus. The delegations met with officials up to and including Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. The DSA's 85,000-member organization wasn't freelancing. It was building infrastructure.
The pipeline runs through the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples, known as ICAP. The State Department describes ICAP as "a Cuban organization founded by Fidel Castro in 1960 that supports Cuban intelligence and counterintelligence activities." The U.S. sanctioned ICAP in June 2026. The DSA's parent network — the National Network on Cuba — is directly linked to ICAP, alongside organizations including Code Pink, the Communist Party USA, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Venceremos Brigade.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly accused the Cuban government of running one of the most sophisticated infiltration operations targeting U.S. domestic politics. The report backs that accusation with a paper trail: membership rosters, delegation itineraries, stated objectives, and named officials on both sides of the table.
The DSA will likely frame this as McCarthyism. That's the reflexive play. But the State Department report is careful to note something important: the DSA's alignment with Cuba isn't coerced. The report says the organization "testifies to the extent to which the native and organic ideological commitments of the American far left now mirror the interests of the Cuban regime" — without direction from the regime itself. They're not being tricked. They agree with the communists on purpose.
The report also flags Neville Singham, a wealthy Marxist businessman who now resides in Shanghai, as connected to organizations in the same influence ecosystem, including the People's Forum. The network isn't a handful of college kids with Che Guevara posters. It's funded, structured, and internationally coordinated.
This is the same DSA that produced some of the most prominent voices in the modern Democratic Party. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, to name a few. The same organization whose New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani won office running on its platform. The same group that endorses candidates, runs phone banks, and shapes primary outcomes across the country.
They joined a Cuban intelligence-linked network in 2019. They sent delegations to meet Diaz-Canel. They built formal communication channels with Havana's ministries. And the State Department put all of it in a report that anyone can read.
The word for that used to be "foreign agent." Now it's "progressive organizing."