The Tennessee Star has obtained secret audio and video recording from a June 28 meeting by the far-left Democratic Socialist of America in Middle Tennessee (DS), and its plans to organize in the upcoming weeks and months.
The group is currently working on a campaign called Quilt, which describes Tennessee Republicans as “fascists,” while spewing other typical left-wing melodrama.
According to the Quilt website:
As transgender people lose their rights, all our rights become threatened. This state is becoming the base for fascists across the right-wing spectrum. More become emboldened by their successes and the lack of cohesion among the working class. We have a duty to organize and expand our fight. We know that we do not yet have all the answers as we do not even know all the questions or needs of our community. We cannot prescribe a solution other than to organize. We must go out among the people [and] learn what they need. While this campaign aims at organizing queer and trans workers, we must address those who are not in those communities to also rise up in solidarity.
The Quilt folks passed around buttons, one of which said “Death Before Detransition.”
The DSA meeting was held at Nashville Faith Meeting, a Quaker meeting space which describes itself as “a faith community called together to listen for and carry out what God/the Divine would have us do, individually and together.”
“We believe that we are all called to ministry,” Nashville Faith Meeting’s website says. “We do not have a pastor or paid clergy. We believe that gifts of the Spirit are given for the good of the community and strive to recognize, affirm, and encourage expression of those gifts in each of us, regardless of gender expression, racial or ethnic identity, sexual orientation, background, abilities, or history.”
During the meeting, the group shared its extreme agenda.
“The ultimate goal is class power building and all of that sort of stuff,” one female member of the group said. “So we’re trying to build a coalition of people to start meeting each others’ needs and start meeting more people.”
“The ultimate goal is full communism, but…” the woman said, trailing off her sentence with an enthusiastic laugh.
In differentiating the DSA’s goals from that of other leftists, the woman focused on organization instead of intellectualism.
“There’s a lot of avenues, there are currently organizing meetings happening hybrid – in south Nashville and Zoom – so once we’re through this big launch event we’re going to be turning our attention to like, smaller skill shares, social events, smaller instructional things where we wanna, like share knowledge, and teach skills and things like that with each other,” she said. “We’re trying not to do that leftist, ‘I’ve read all the books so I’ll just prescribe knowledge for people.'”
Later, a transgender person spoke, saying that Quilt is organizing because he feels left out of the organizing scene, even in other leftist groups. He said:
So, one of the things Quilt is working on right now is providing access to a lot of trainings and stuff like that. Because we need to have the skills in order to organize, to protect ourselves, to work towards a better future. So we have a few different [trainings] here. I’m gonna talk first about organizing training. So organizing, uh, is kind of what we’re doing here. Getting people together to talk about issues, to formulate strategies, to solve them, to build an organized force together, because we don’t have the cash, but we do have the people power.
So in August – the second Saturday in August – I and some other organizers are going to be hosting an organizer training. So this is for labor organizing, housing organizing, all these sorts of things.
A female speaker then took the microphone, and said she will hold a tailoring seminar, because “clothes are not made for people with bodies, and particularly with bodies that they don’t think … is a marketable audience.”
She also said she would be hosting an August group reading event focused on “lesbian-centered readings.”
“A lot of lesbian history was lost,” she said. “Or not lost, but buried. And telling women’s stories throughout history, and people who are lesbians but not women, all of those stories are essential to our survival.”
A third DSA member said she would be putting together a basic medic training, which will be held July 29. Another member said he is organizing a self-defense training.
Other organizational training will focus on topics like queer history for the DSA members to beef up their “political knowledge.”
“I want to emphasize this as hard and as often as I can,” one member said. “That the political education – understanding the world around you and your place in it is absolutely and totally essential if you want to equip yourself to make any change whatsoever. Do not let anyone tell you that it is inaccessible or unnecessary, because it is the most necessary part of doing what we’re doing. The first step in deciding to build a cupboard is to f****** figure out what a cupboard is made of.”
“So if we want to build a revolution, we’re going to have to figure out how to do that, and there are people out there that have the answers that we can access.”
The Star also obtained some video recordings of the training, which show mostly mask-wearing DSA members scheming among themselves.
Listen to the audio clips, Part One and Part Two:
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
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Won’t last 3 seconds in Miami. Make my day.
What do these people think will happen to THEM after implementing said ‘communism’?
there is no such thing as a trans kid, just a kid that needs mental health assistance.
If you love standing in lines waiting for government to allow you essentials, this is the group for you.
I think I will give The Naked Communist a read. Have been studying up on the Russian Revolution and Weimar Germany…plus many rabbit holes that tie into these times in history. Everything going on in the Western world today makes sense when you realize what the goals are, and why.
“We have a duty to organize and expand our fight.”
“Death Before Detransition”
Is that enough of a(nother) school mass-shooter threat from the tranny contingent to warrant one of Lockdown Lee’s communist red flag declarations?
I mean, that is the whole point of the sudden tranny onslaught in Tennessee isn’t it? Find some Trojan horse to usher in loss of rights?
William Delzell, why do you even view this page when your radical ideology is so apparent?
AKA Brownshirts.
AKA Nazis.
Allen Dulles and his CIA never should have been allowed to bring Nazis and Italian Fascists to America.
You are looking to the wrong people when you talk about Fascist. It’s the Left that pushes fascism. It’s the left that shuts down free speech. The Left that rules outside the Constitution. It’s the Left that pushes is governmental tyranny. Its the Left that weaponizes the government against the people.
As far as your ‘trans’ goes. Those are people with serious mental issues. They don’t need surgery, they need mental help.
I am sick of left-wing buffoons calling Republicans Fascists. Obviously, they have no knowledge of the history of actual Fascism. A primary tenant of Fascism is the unholy alliance between government and business. The Democrats have manipulated media, demonized parents and turned them into domestic terrorists, attempted to hire 78k IRS agents, arming government agencies that have no need to be armed, Implemented regulations telling us what to eat, how to cook, what to drive, send inflation through the roof, I could go on. No my friends, the Republicans are not doing these things. Any totalitarian government requires the corporation of the military and law enforcement, Biden already threatened Americans with F-15s and such, what next?
These are bitter godless people without any REAL hope…Suppressing the truth, they double down on delusional lies, which create false hopes they must constantly agitate for. Those delusions they insist that we must accept are not real. They will not stop voluntarily until we are hopeless like they are. Who wants to be like that? “See a man wise in his own eyes…there is more hope for a fool than for him”. Unless we surrender to the implications of our predicament and receive nonlinear Divine intervention, we are going to be destroyed. Reason will bring no longer bring them back to reality…
Sadly, we already know this…and we STILL allow it to continue.
everyone should read the book the Naked Communist.
outlines their goals and methods.
Although I am not a communist, there are far WORSE things than communism that Tennessee should worry about such as the extreme FASCIST bigotry of our State Legislature and Governor. They advocate the mistreatment of people who don’t fit their Republican outlook such as the bullying of trans-kids, hostility to organized labor’s goal of providing decent wages/benefits, and working conditions for Tennessee’s employees and small business owners, their hostility toward free inquiry, their desire for library censorship, and so forth. As for your audio tape, I could hardly make out what the participants were saying due to the extremely poor audio quality and echoes.
When your enemy (I would call these radical leftist loons, the Democratic Socialists of America in Middle Tennessee {the DSA}, the enemy of the overwhelming majority of the people of Tennessee and of our nation) tells you who he is, and what he will do if he comes to political power, you had better listen! (History is replete with totalitarians and political radicals who did just exactly that—Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical political manifesto, Mein Kampf, and Karl Marx’s political and philosophical thought in his 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and his three volume analytical work about capitalism, Das Kapital {1867 to 1894}, are among the obvious illustrations of this statement that immediately come to mind).
People should remember that only your enemy wants you disarmed. The Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution is NOT about hunting, or hobby shooting, etc., but it is a political right. As I have said before, the Second Amendment is THE ONE POLITICAL RIGHT that when all else fails, it exists to allow you to protect all of the other political rights set forth and guaranteed in our country’s Constitution (i.e., generally speaking, your rights of life, liberty and property). Tennesseans and their political representatives in the Tennessee General Assembly should remember this as the Special Called Session of the Tennessee General Assembly concerning our Second Amendment rights rapidly approaches just a little more than a month from now.