Melat Kiros ousts Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado primary
An anti-establishment avalanche buried two top Dems in Colorado, revealing the depth of the base's frustrations with Washington. Here's what democratic socialist Melat Kiros told us after toppling 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette to win the nomination👇 🔗 politi.co/3QQ6qoY
omg-a-dude.bsky.social85People r tired of dems not fighting against maga & their support of israel
tFrUuCmKp52Establishment Dems are republicans in blue.
frannybananny.bsky.social41Then the Dems, if they win a majority, better end Citizens United immediately and put a donation limit across the board. You can’t have the Right raking in unlimited funds while the Left takes in next to nothing.
🛴scootycutie🛴28The dems have done nothing but beg for our money and capitulate to fascists and our tolerance has run out. Every establishment dem needs to go.
percent200pl.bsky.social23Blame it on the governor who forgave and forgot the election denier/cheater.
R. Souissi18So they won primaries in Deep Blue Districts, how's their message polling Deep Red Districts?
CUDDY4We need to rewire our candidate selection process… How are they financing their campaign?…Corporate…PAC…DNC…Disqualifying
Pauline - proudly Antifa2I'm willing to bet that the mind numbingly stupid decision to pardon the election denier Tina Peters by the exiting Governor Jared Polis had something to do with this. bsky.app/profile/poli...
Dollyanna2NY ADOPTED THIS ATTITUDE: #NoIncumbents #VoteNewBlue
melindamosheim2i am so glad to see this in some of the states! it's so awful being in fascist Texas...
intlguy56.bsky.social2AMEN!! Tell it like it is, sister!!
Melat Kiros is a refugee from Ethiopia who become a lawyer in the USA. Her law firm fired her because she condemned Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Tonight she won the Democratic nomination in deep blue CO-1 against a 15-term AIPAC entrenched corporate Democrat This is how we make America great❤️
DrRamblings43Love to see it!! Corp Dems all need to be primaried and booted bc they have enabled so many bad policies over the years.
Joanne Belknap21Kiros is the real deal. DeGette had big dark $$ and hateful racist ads against Kiros were probably AIPAC. And still she rose and won! She has a huge heart and is brilliant!!!!
CLE13Vote for candidates with proven records for empathy & social conscience. Otherwise,America is doomed to evil Fascism & authoritarians stealing your freedoms & future. Truth time. America has seen enough & lived through the flood of Republican lies, deceit & PROJECT 2025 democracy killing agenda.
Ensign D6well this upset a lot of pro-establishment
Lynda..Hopeful Human🇦🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 🐨🦘✌️🦉🦉6I've said it before and I'll say it again. Women are going to fix everything!
Ben There 26Gaza purity test wins again!
Simon Rosenberg158Fabulous. The tide has turned in the US. Democrats who call out Israel's crimes are getting nominated and will be elected in November. Democrats who are still taking AIPAC bribes are toast. Time to ensure Australia's Israel lobby loses their inordinate influence on our politics. #auspol
marque lawyers105It'd be difficult to overstate how significant a blow these developments in the US are to the power of the pro-Israel lobby, most especially in its stronghold of NY Democratic politics. Absolute sea change.
Fuck with fire 9A 29 year old Ethiopian American DSA candidate that ran on abolishing ICE just mopped the floor with a 30 year incumbent here.
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD9I’m not sufficiently informed to make a normative judgement, but it is striking to me how the rise of DSA and similar coincides with activation of newer immigrants who as a bloc haven’t engaged in politics, possibly from fear of retaliation
JohhnyKev9AIPAC is EVIL!!! Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is EVIL!!!
Patrick Canning 🇨🇦8Fantastic. The future if there is one.
If We do not Own Ourselves, We Own Nothing4Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
🏳️⚧️Manticorn☸️3Stand by your principles, and you will achieve greater things in the long term.
Alice Woolley2This is what hope feels like! 🇺🇸
Gabe2Let's go!!! Also, let's keep making AIPAC irrelevant and waste their donors money, as a treat
If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...
Lame Duck Watcher472If they don’t understand why a progressive district is suited to targeting from the left then they are too obtuse to be in politics.
Charlie Close249That "urban" wasn't random either.
Gilbert167Well it's Axios so these quotes are from some chud like Gottheimer
Tim129“With seniority” Really the only two words that matter in that. That is all the democratic establishment cares about. Whose turn it is. Who gets deferential treatment and who gets sidelined and made to wait.
A. Doofus91Their definition of “staunch progressive” is regular people’s definition of moderate centrist. Their definition of “moderate centrist” is “Reagan Republican.” Really, we should primary every Dem from the left. Leave no incumbent in office at all.
dimagic66The earth is dying and trillionaire nazis are exploring new ways to genocide. The youth are allowed to be outspoken
Max Kennerly185It sure was "performative politics," in the sense of "you're underperforming" and "we want you to perform your job." If you are not doing a good job "performing" in front of your base and showing them you share their values and beliefs, you can and should be replaced by someone who will.
Eric Blair147The “motivated urban left voters” are a major core of the Democratic party and if Democrats like Jared Golden, Janet Mills, MGP, Schumer, Bennet, and Klobuchar can’t figure out how to harness their energy to advance the party they are going to keep losing.
Perry Bacon98The "performative" party is particularly galling. What many congressional Dems in safe districts like DeGette do is wait for a cause (like a ceasefire in Gaza or abolishing ICE) to gain traction and mass support and then sign onto it. They are performing leadership, but never actually lead.
Greg Greene (he/him/his)35"One more case in the growing dynamic of performative politics": my gosh, POLITICS IS PERFORMATIVE. Voters need to see their representatives working on their behalf, and that's a performative act. If this is a common level of cognitive failure among Dem incumbents, no wonder they're getting beaten.
unhinged eldritch abomination22it's stuff like this that really makes you realize that the democratic machine is not particularly interested in moving forward, just standing still
A.P. Brown13Hear me out... maybe Millennials and Gen Z'ers want a seat at the table for the party they primarily vote for?
surasshu12if its a wake up call maybe stop fucking sleeping
Bi-stachio 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙10Use it or lose it. Can’t just occupy a seat for thirty years and hope inertia keeps you there
thank u, hexed7DeGette is a "staunch progressive" only if your version of progress includes razing Gaza. Yes, she's been solidly center-left on most social issues, but supplying the weapons for a genocide is not a rounding error.
Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD6This is because what we call "performative (derogatory)" accidentally captures the other thing about "performance" which is its role in the creation of reality via reputation management. Yeah, of COURSE we prefer people who seem like they care vs people who make a performance of apathy.
JUST IN: In a stunning upset, democratic socialist Melat Kiros has unseated 30-year incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Colorado House primary www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
hatcherogaming.bsky.social71Crazy any politician can hold a seat for 30 f$^King years. No wonder literally nothing gets done.
Mark (reluctant scrivener)37I’m happy that I am not the only one disgusted with status quo dems pretending they aren’t almost as bad as their opponents. More candidates like this please.
David Overton26A socialist being someone who is anti corruption and pushes to stop rapists and paedophiles being pardoned by “Christian” fundamentalists.
Mistress Matisse1730 Years? damn we need term limits
Story of bas Monde14Not stunning in the least too complacent and if one votes for bombs not babies, the young will turn on you And she voted to get Bibi the thug more bombs that was the clincher, as it will be for even progressives or centrists that support that horror in Gaza
Story of bas Monde10Not stunning when the incumbent is shown on tape defending her vote to send bombs to that thug Bibi If 'babies, not bombs' doesn't resonate with one, it should
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats944So… at some point elected Democrats are going to realize that their constituents have moved left of them and want said electeds to either represent them or get the fuck out of the way, right? Right? …RIGHT???
Crystal Fincher648“…She campaigned on a message of affordability, Medicare for All, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and supporting universal childcare.”
Zack Ford124It's not just in northeastern cities, y'all. Democrats are facing a reckoning where people actually want their party to stand for something.
bob barker 🍸37we can dither about a lot of things but DSA is taking fuckin scalps
Ben Miller30oh but it’s only happening in New Yo—
Susan Rinkunas24DeGette is also the co-chair of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus (formerly Pro-Choice Caucus) reproductivefreedom.house.gov/about-rfc/le...
Timothy15I am honestly so interested in seeing how many socdems will make up the Democratic Party by time generals end
Taka Hanazawa14and she didn't just win she won by almost 10 points
arcadus ☭ and 8,549,176,320 others11it’s a big year for socialism
Grimm9Someone get a camera on Carville 24/7 so we can actually see the moment where half his brain explodes out of his eye socket.
"They said you cant win without corporate PAC money. They said you can't beat a 30 year incumbent," Melat Kiros tells her supporters. "You are the proof that the power of organized people beats the power of organized money."
Bea13...which is why the moneyed dems are panicking, too.
🌄𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣 🤓🌿9Let all those old Dems hear this. Even the not so old ones. PACs and pro-Israel $$ sources are the next hill to die on. We're serious. Take a clue.
scoutpaint.bsky.social7Never vote for a republicun. Supreme Court just gave them the right to throw money at us. Never vote for one of them. Very simple.
Wise woman6Now hopefully these candidates can actually win in the General. If they can’t, we are screwed cause we won’t win back Congress. No need to scream back at me.
chloe-monster.bsky.social3I think its more about people being fed up With DeGette than anything else
Flibby3Thank you, we're trying to watch the feed from TrashHawk but the sound isn't great in here 😅
Buy Mass Effect The Board Game!19she was outspent 2-1, americans are pissed the fuck off bsky.app/profile/kyle...
henry ✷10it's not just new york babey we are going to win!!
Rick9Beating AIPAC money is very big for me right now. Kick these fucking terrorists out of western governments already.
GraceCallahan4I hope this is true in November. 🫡🇺🇲📜⚖️
Five2Hey its almost like votes count!
literatrix2How it should always be. Take the money out politics!
@radbradley.bsky.social2Carville & the DNC AREN’T LISTENING
⚡️ Another Democratic Socialist wins a primary — this time in Colorado: @melatkirosco.bsky.social 🎉
Thomas Boyd16Time for the Democratic Party leadership to wake up and smell the coffee. The base is fed up with do nothing centrists…
Seth L, a Wisconsin resident15DeGette was a 29 year incumbent. Huge.
Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny8There’s definitely a shift on politically, the corporate democrats need to be cleaned out
RydenTheCanuck 🇨🇦 🇺🇸6Holy hell! Colorado! WTG to one of the best states in the union.
mutant21.bsky.social6A wave is coming.....and the people are beginning to plant their surfboards, boogie boards, jet skis, and wooden rafts on it. We the people are tired of the Epstein class robbing us blind and living high on the hog while we are barely scraping by. Vote blue in November, your life depends on it.
Scott Stelzriede5Not called yet but the first drop should favored DeGette. It did not.
Walker Bragman57Feels like the political revolution is happening.
Doctor Cupcake 🌸🌈14HOLY SHIT ANOTHER W!!!!!!!!!!!!! centrist tears bro omg
Derek St. John7NOT sure the DeGette/Kiros Primary has been called yet. BUT, if Kiros wins, the message to the Democratic Party Establishment & Leadership is simple: "We [the Voters] are Mad as Hell...and we want FIGHTERS!"
Stoned Feminist4So I guess socialists can win outside of NYC
Distorted Reality4Everyone check on your centrist Dem friends; they might not be ok.
Terri from Colorado3Riding the ageism and antisemitism wave Colorado way to go. This winner was asked about a Boulder hate crime and her answer was she didn't know what was in the killer's heart. Total weasel answer. And don't get me started on young and hot Manny. Vegan to bring me the brisket in seconds.
Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD3Democratic Socialist unseated establishment Democrat who took office the year the Democratic Socialist was born. Per the usual ratchet effect, establishment Dems are allying with GOP in attacking progressive-left movement by infantilizing DSA as unruly children in need of harsh discipline.
Carlye Hooten3DNC/DCCC better get on board, or you'll find yourselves outmoded and obsolete.
progressivebeat.bsky.social3It ain't just NY 😉
The AP has called the #CO01 Democratic primary for Melat Kiros over longtime incumbent Diana DeGette. Another major triumph for a democratic socialist challenger, one week after New York.
Taniel204This comes moments after Denver's third update of the night, with the margins improving for the progressive challengers in two key races: —Melat Kiros now leads Rep. DeGette 49% to 43%. —Iris Halpern now leads state Rep. Camacho 52% to 48%.
B Paige7And the DSA literally lied about her opponent getting money from AIPAC. See how this crap works in November
A. “Tony” Shifflett3Change is in the air.
Char315 terms is more than sufficient
BygoneBegotRisk1LFG Democratic Tea Party Wave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rreardon.bsky.social1Better fucking win the general
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮20DeGette used to be my rep for a long time, more or less by default. Her getting the boot like this is a big deal. Denver is pissed off, Democrats are angry about big tech and the Israel lobby (both spent huge on DeGette), Polis is really not loved, and Hasan is turning into a kingmaker. Huge deal!
Daniel Kelly73 sitting Democratic House Representatives, and quite possibly a fourth soon, have lost their jobs to Democratic Socialist challengers, and while Senator Hickenlooper won his primary easily, it was a lot less easily than he probably thought he would. The Democratic Party is changing, fast.
MJ3It’s another win for outspoken antisemites. We called it out when it happened on the right, but when it’s on the left, there’s a lot of reluctance to call it out.
HUGE BREAKING: Democratic socialist Melat Kiros just DESTROYED 30-year-establishment Democrat Diana DeGette in a Colorado House primary. DeGette had been in power as long Kiros had been alive…👇 The tide is officially TURNING. 😎✨
Jeroen Werner30Interesting you call her a socialist. In EU she would be called progressive or realist. Not a socialist 🤔 What you in US perceive as ‘left wing’ is ‘central or neutral’ in the Netherlands and EU
charlie859.bsky.social10Good. Social Democracy is the antidote to fascism.
dipradan.bsky.social9What exactly did Diana DeGette accomplish in her 30 years except accept donations from donors? Not exactly a household name given her 30 year tenure. She did collect over $1.6 Million from AIPAC though according to www.trackaipac.com/states/color... Good riddance.
The Resistance CO8People are tired of the do nothing establishment Dems.
Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸6gee it's almost like the PEOPLE are pissed off at never having elected officials that actually represent US and OUR best interests 🤔
Cheryl Jones-Head5Calm down...These are the PRIMARIES. Are you going to be excited if R's wipe the Dem Socialists off the map?? This is how we lost to tRump in the first place...
Supporting a genocide and taking money from AIPAC are now a red line and litmus tests for Democrats, but the party's leadership and consultants haven't figured it out yet because of course. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Four Seasons Total Landscaping (not really!)16It’s so embarrassing that establishment Dems think skewing toward being Republicans is the key to victory, when all evidence over the last decade has proven that to be nonsense.
nuckles13.bsky.social14Democrat Moderates who were bought by AIPAC still haven't figured out that siding with a genocidal apartheid state cost them the 2024 election and ushered in Trump's Reign of Terror. Now, they're trying to sabotage the midterms and once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Aaron Epperson111. I keep reading things by centrists and feel kind of shocked they seem not to have thought a hard shift left would really happen. The last decade has felt like one giant losing streak for Democrats. And even Biden's successes in office have been obscured by the withdrawal from Afghanistan and
Zorro Rozic4Bc they don’t want to give up Neoliberal cash, it pays well to accept lots of Corp & AIPAC money could you imagine RIP .. but I think we know why she died in office .. she was asked to retire … nope 😂.. could you imagine living there .. and NOT wanting to retire .. greed is a sin . 😮💨
Dustin Du Cane3Schumer would bring back slavery , a property requirement for voting and ban women outright from voting before stopping pro Israel rhetoric.
Tao Jonesing3Every Forever War was started by a Republican president. We have to remember that. And every Forever War served Israel’s interests and the interests of Big Oil, not thoose of the American people. Want Forever Wars, vote Republican and enjoy the coming draft.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد34these people aren’t stupid but they care less about winning elections than they do greasing their pockets — and that means holding the line. A front seat view of Dari’s campaign was so eye opening - the way money flooded into her opponents campaign as hers got stronger was wild.
Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ5This really is brilliant news. A progressive woman of colour ousting a long term Republican white incumbent? Bravo ma'am!!
the left hand of dankness ☭ 🔺3they figured it out long ago. they would rather get paid than be popular
Jenny Arntzen, PhD, PMP 🇨🇦 ✋💙🌊🇺🇦🍁2When we lead the parade, politicians will scramble to push to the front. I don't care. As long as the parade is moving us away from toxic masculinity, profiteering, and the concept of a punishing god. We are the leaders. They will come running as we hold ourselves together.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Melat Kiros wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Colorado's 1st Congressional District.
AVOIDC16“… this win in Colorado’s First Congressional democratic primary tonight by the Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidate shows it’s not just New York… it’s not just Colorado… it’s Americans, it’s US… we all feel this way: time for radical change FOR THE PEOPLE!…”
Alex Zerbe7The party of FDR is back
Steve6Establishment Democrats: Get on the Democratic Socialist bus, or get run over by it! The Mamdani effect is real, and the rest of the country is waking up to the fact New Yorkers are getting the nice things the old guard has spent a generation telling us we couldn’t have.
Cynfulfan3I’m not a fan of the far left. But establishment Democrats have failed so many basic tests and have shown nothing but arrogance and contempt. Jeffries and Schumer need to step down.
5Plume🪶3Can't comment on Kiros... yet, but DeGette has been in there too long and that is always a problem.
.1Purge the old fuckers - it’s time for tribunals
Colorado Democrats just got a political earthquake: After 15 terms in Congress, Diana DeGette was defeated in the Democratic primary by democratic socialist Melat Kiros. One of the biggest primary upsets of the year — and Kiros is now on track to become at least the seventh DSA member of Congress.
Kiefer13Good. Consequences of Representatives not listening to their constituents.
Ted PowKu10I'm hearing so many new-to-me names of people in Congress being scared of democratic socialists or being voted out. Makes me think they did nothing notable and are more concerned about job security than representing their constituents.
Young Americans go left..to Democratic Socialism9Young Americans go left..to Democratic Socialism
Kelly7The democratic party is a big tent. Let's remember DeGette has been in congress longer than Kiros has been alive. That's wrong. Change doesn't come from being stagnant!
🎶🥁…one tin soldier rides away.7Why is there negative vibes being promoted in the Dem party. Looks to me like Dems competed for the same job and though one of them held the job for years, the newbie was chosen. Doesn’t have to be portrayed as a war within the party. Not a good look and it’s ridiculous.
daror.bsky.social5You can’t be a centrist in the time of fascism!
Holy shit. 30 year House veteran Diana DeGette defeated in the Dem primary by a challenger younger than her congressional service.
Seth Masket54Mea culpa: Several months ago I predicted DeGette winning this primary comfortably.
Dave Kartunen23Maybe this will help establishment Dems understand how pissed off people are at them.
Big Brain13Hakeem Jeffries needs to wake up. Dem voters are not buying what he’s selling. Pelosi was his idol and mentor, and she has huge accomplishments, but lots of dem voters have zero interest in going back to her gameplay of playing defense even when you have the ball.
Pronounced “Tim”8She would been, I think, in the top 10 longest serving Dems in the House, and had her ass handed to her in the caucus (33/67 Kiros) months ago. She did not show any urgency since that. It was a throw out the bums primary
Andrew Sinclair3I remember looking up her twitter (back when...) and realizing that her posts about EPA oversight in 2019 got less engagement than my posts about wearing a STATA shirt to APSA. That would be on the order of about... 50 likes or comments.
two bears watching stuff1I want the dumbest anti DSA dems to try and blame Wanda James for being a spoiler. As if all those votes would have somehow defaulted to Dianna. lol
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST30Folks like DeGette paved the way for folks like Kiros, & I hope each can appreciate the other's service in this overdue changing of the guard
You Call Yourself a Film Critic9I don't think the solution to resolving the issues with the Dems is "Replace them with younger sexier Dems" having said that
Meechy Dorko8ive been waiting for this wave for a decade
Sarah ⚧ ✡︎6You love to see it. I do, anyway.
Jesse Gamble4Wanda James (whoever she is) is going to get so much shit for "stealing" the primary from DeGette. Rather than, I dunno, interrogating the positions held by the candidates.
VoteHub projects Melat Kiros to win the Democratic primary for Colorado U.S. House District 1.
Trampoline Academy33Getting badmouthed by Democrats is like an in-kind contribution.
dustwords.bsky.social16wow she curb stomped degette
onion person1864another radical DSA candidate easily winning
Alex Ip 葉清霖40It seems like voters hate being represented by old people
Paul Crider39But it's not a trend. Don't put it in your newspapers that it's a trend.
Jesse33I was told DSA candidates were only viable in New York City
Goose13They're calling it the United Socialist States of America folks
1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account13again i say that you cannot expect hostility to israel, even hostility that skirts close to antisemitism, to be a dealbreaker for the democratic base when israel enthusiastically supported donald trump and is a proud member of the global illiberal axis
alyaza ΘΔ11yet another DSA shot across the bow. this now means a DSA block of at least 6 in Congress next year (Tlaib, AOC, Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, and now Melat Kiros) with potential to add at least two more (Donavan McKinney and Cori Bush) later this year
SnoCo DSA10🌹Big Ups to DSA Denver and @melatkirosco.bsky.social for their amazing win tonight. Socialist Block expanding! Our movement is on 🔥
steviebaby🫡10another radical leftist endorsed by hussein pecker !
J0SIE Mostly6LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO DSA SWEEP
Leftists toppled a three-decade incumbent in Denver when democratic socialist Melat Kiros, an attorney who lost her job for speaking out about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, ousted Rep. Diana DeGette amid a wave of anti-establishment sentiment. interc.pt/4eIQtso
Preliminary results Tuesday night showed U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s 30-year career in Congress on track to be brought to an end by a democratic socialist and first-time candidate born four months after DeGette first took office. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Rocky Mtn Rambler9God how I hope Kiros holds this lead. DeGette meant well, but she’s become Boomer deadweight in our Congress. We need the energetic and radical new blood. And I say that as a (tail-end) Boomer myself.
DragonMusing2Excellent. 30 years without doing an F-ing thing to help her constituents SHOULD come to an end. An elected office should NOT be a permanent job. We should put term limits on ALL elected offices.
nichrome77.bsky.social2That she was born after the congresswoman took office is delicious. I am tired of the older generations strangling the future. Anyone over 60 needs to shut up and let the younger people drive the car. They have a personal stake in the future. And our stake is the future of our descendants.
Kathryne1I have been anticipating that this election would be about taking out the trash in the form of getting rid of ineffective incumbents. Glad to see we are on track. Let's keep going.
