TONIGHT @ 4p PDT/6 CDT/7 EDT: BHN Talk Radio team explores the strategies of the Democrats reaching Black voters this midterm election and the new wave of the 'Democratic Socialist' movement momentum

Several guests who are Democrats will express their views on these issues

By Black Headline News

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Watch live, Sunday, August 30 at 4:00 PM PDT/6:00 PM CDT/7:00 PM EDT on the BHN website or on CTV platforms Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and the BHN Radio live.

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Join the BHN Talk Radio team, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb, Cheryl Smith and Brigitte Jones as they explore the Democratic Party's strategies to reach Black voters, while the Democratic Socialist movement is taking root in key elections. Hear from special guests about their assessments on the matter: Former Dallas city councilwoman, Tiffinni A. Young; Judge Bobbie Edmonds (Texas) and former local candidate, Derek Grasty (California.)

Should the Democrats worry about the influence of the Black vote this upcoming midterm election November 3? Perhaps the outreach strategies need to change to what works ...

Pew Research Center’s annual National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) has measured partisan affiliation among U.S. adults since 202, exploring patterns of partisan affiliation in the American public and among several key demographic groups below. Their fact sheet shows trends in partisan identification among U.S. adults with the most recent NPORS conducted from Jan. 30 to June 18, 2026, among 5,511 U.S. adults.

Democrats have a narrow advantage over Republicans in partisan affiliation among U.S. adults: 47% identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, and 43% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party’s advantage is primarily due to an edge among “leaners” – people who do not identify as partisans, but do express a leaning toward one of the two parties:

• Overall, 29% of Americans call themselves Democrats, while 28% call themselves Republicans.

• An additional 19% lean toward the Democratic Party, while 15% lean toward the Republican Party.

Partisanship by gender

The long-standing gender gap in partisan identification has been fairly consistent in recent years. Today, men are 11 percentage points more likely than women to affiliate with the Republican Party. Conversely, women are 9 points more likely than men to affiliate with the Democratic Party. The Republican Party’s 6-point advantage among men today is narrower than the advantage it held from 2022 to 2025 though it remains wider than it was in 2020 and 2021.

Partisanship by race and ethnicity

Democratic affiliation is higher than Republican affiliation among Black, Asian and Hispanic adults. And across these groups, there have been some modest shifts away from the Republican Party since 2025 – after it made some gains in previous years. White Americans continue to be more likely to affiliate with the Republican Party than the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, the DSA growing movement could be a challenge within the Democratic Party

Democrats who are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of American (DSA) movement are taking a strong hold across the country in key elections: The Brookings Institute acknowledges that in 2026 the DSA is having a moment. Its most important breakthrough came in late 2025 with the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. Then, in the 2026 primaries, candidates from the party’s insurgent left chalked up some high-profile wins in important swing states. The most prominent was Abdul El-Sayed, who won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan. Even though he calls himself a capitalist, was never a member of DSA, and wasn’t formally endorsed by DSA, his win, along with several other congressional successes and Francesca Hong’s close second in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin, signaled the left’s growing reach.

According to their website, the The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 100,000 members and chapters in all 50 states; they believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few.

"We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters, DSA members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people."

The DSA Campaign Priorities:

Electoral Strategy

Bernie Sanders launched a political revolution and DSA continues to build it, training our chapters to effectively support democratic socialist candidates running for local and state office while lifting up our key issues. We’re also grappling with how to build independent political power to hold elected officials accountable to their constituents rather than the donor class.

Strong Labor Movement

Capitalism pits us against each other and workplaces are fundamentally authoritarian unless workers can self-organize and build collective power. This is why people build unions, and why employers undermine them. It is also why the capitalists as a class constantly promote narratives about unions that frame them as unnecessary, undemocratic, or ineffective. We know better, and we’re building worker power in every region of the country.

Green New Deal

The climate crisis is an emergency. The world’s top scientists are saying we have little time to get off fossil fuels. Meanwhile, inequality is already out of control — and rising. We fight for a Green New Deal because it’s the only plan that meets the scale of the crisis, one that puts people and planet over profit to build a more just and sustainable economy. We’re organizing in our workplaces, communities and schools to build the working class movement it will take to win.