A Democratic congressional candidate in New York told an interviewer she is "very excited" to build "black socialism" within the Democratic Socialists of America, the latest in a pattern of openly Marxist rhetoric from insurgent left-wing candidates heading into the midterms.
Darializa Avila Chevalier made the remarks during a Friday interview on ELR News with host Kevin Ortega-Rojas. Breitbart News reported on the exchange, which was also flagged by RNC Research on X. In the interview, Chevalier did not hedge or soften her language. She laid out a deliberate strategy to tie socialist ideology to racial politics inside her New York district.
Her own words leave little room for ambiguity. Chevalier told Ortega-Rojas:
"I think with DSA specifically, something that I'm very excited to do is to build black socialism within the caucuses of DSA. And something that my team and I were very intentional about we're making sure that we weren't just talking about socialism broadly, that we were talking about the legacy of socialism in our district, right? A legacy of black socialism, Latino socialism, that focused on racial justice as economic justice."
She described the effort as "very intentional", not a slip, not a hot-mic moment, but a campaign strategy her team planned and executed. The candidate framed socialism not as a policy preference but as a racial inheritance, something rooted in her district's identity and history.
The ELR News interview is not the first time Chevalier's ideological commitments have surfaced. In June 2026, Breitbart News reported that she had promoted communism, Marxism, and Soviet figures on social media, posts she later deleted. The removal suggests awareness that the content could damage her candidacy, even as she continued to voice the same ideas on camera months later.
By August, Chevalier was touring Uruguay and meeting with left-wing political figures abroad, all while telling voters back home she was focused on the general election. The gap between what she told her district and where she actually spent her time is worth noting. Candidates focused on winning general elections in competitive districts do not typically spend August traveling to South America for ideological fellowship.
Taken together, the timeline runs in one direction. Social media posts celebrating Marxism in the spring. A foreign trip with ideological allies in August. And by the end of the month, a recorded interview where she outlined a plan to build socialism organized explicitly along racial lines inside DSA's caucus structure.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has been sounding the alarm about candidates like Chevalier for weeks. In mid-August, Johnson told Breitbart News that socialist-aligned Democrats winning primaries across the country represent a serious threat to American governance.
Johnson connected the movement directly to its intellectual roots:
"So Karl Marx believed and he taught and said, socialism is a step toward communism. It's a process. They thought communism would be the utopia, the perfect society. But it begins with the wrong premise. Communism is anti-American. It's the opposite of our ideals. We're one nation under God. Communism begins with a premise that there is no God. The state is the god effectively."
He pointed to a historical record stretching from Soviet Russia in 1918 through Communist China, Venezuela, and the Eastern Bloc, every experiment ending the same way.
"It never works and it ends in poverty, destruction, political violence, human suffering. That is the story of communism. So when you go out on the campaign trail and you promise free stuff to people, young people, that's a siren song to them. That sounds great to them. No one is telling them they have to give up their freedom in exchange."
Johnson's sharpest line landed on the state of the Democratic Party itself. "These insurgent left candidates are winning the Democrat primaries all across the country," he said. "The barbarians are inside the gate. It's very, very serious stuff."
Chevalier is not operating in a vacuum. A CBS News/YouGov poll reported in August 2026 found that more than half of Democrats hold a more positive view of socialism than capitalism. That number helps explain why candidates like Chevalier feel comfortable saying what they say on camera. The Democratic base is not punishing this rhetoric. It is rewarding it.
And that is the core problem Johnson identified. When a party's primary voters prefer socialism over free markets, the candidates who emerge from those primaries will reflect that preference. Chevalier is not an outlier. She is a product of the incentive structure the Democratic Party has built for itself, one where openly advocating for Marxist-derived ideology organized along racial lines is not a liability but a credential.
Her language about building "black socialism" and "Latino socialism" adds another layer. She is not simply arguing for government-run health care or higher taxes. She is proposing a socialism defined by race, an ideology that sorts Americans into racial categories and assigns them separate socialist traditions. That framing contradicts the foundational American principle that rights belong to individuals, not to racial groups.
What makes the ELR News interview significant is not that Chevalier holds these views. Prior reporting on her deleted social media posts and her Uruguay trip had already established the pattern. What stands out is the deliberateness. She used the word "intentional" to describe her team's strategy. She named the organization, DSA, and the mechanism, caucuses. She specified the racial framework. This was not an off-the-cuff remark. It was a plan, delivered on the record.
Voters in her New York district will have to decide whether a candidate who campaigns on racially organized socialism represents their values. But the rest of the country should pay attention too. Johnson's warning about insurgent left candidates winning Democratic primaries is not speculation. It is a description of what is already happening.
When a congressional candidate tells you she wants to build socialism organized by race, and she tells you her team planned it that way, and she says it on camera with a smile, believe her. The only question left is whether enough voters are listening.
