DSA STATE LEGISLATOR / CURRENT FIGURE
Jabari Brisport
New York State Senator · District 25
A DSA-backed state legislator advocating single-payer health care, higher taxes on wealthy residents, universal housing, and a Green New Deal.CURRENT POLICY RECORD: NEW YORK SENATE · OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY ↗
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PARTY & ORGANIZATION RECORD
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POLICY → HISTORICAL SYSTEM
proposed
New York Health Act
CURRENT MECHANISMA state single-payer program would publicly finance covered health care.
proposed
Universal housing and tenant protections
CURRENT MECHANISMState housing policy expands public or permanently affordable housing and strengthens tenant protections.
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THE AMERICAN TEST
These are the constitutional provisions and founding structures each proposal must survive. A policy is labeled unconstitutional only when controlling law supports that conclusion; unresolved threats and tensions remain plainly identified.
LIMITED, ENUMERATED FEDERAL POWER
Article I and Tenth AmendmentTest the claimed federal power, the Necessary and Proper connection, and powers reserved to the states or the people.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES · U.S. CONSTITUTION ↗PRIVATE PROPERTY & DUE PROCESS
Fifth AmendmentTest whether government compels transfer, occupation, confiscation, or deprivation of property and whether compensation and due process are provided.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES · BILL OF RIGHTS ↗04
HISTORICAL COSTS LINKED TO THESE MECHANISMS
These records share at least one documented policy mechanism with this dossier. The death total remains attributed to the historical ruler, action, and period shown on the card.
20M DEAD
01MARXIST-LENINIST / COMMUNIST
STALIN'S SOVIET UNION · 1924–1953
Joseph Stalin
ESTIMATED 20 MILLION DEAD1 MARKER = 500,000 DEATHS
WHAT THE REGIME DIDCollectivization, famine, executions, terror, and forced labor
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCEForced collectivization destroyed private agricultural control, seized grain, deported farming families, and contributed to catastrophic famine while the command economy redirected labor and capital by state order.
WHAT THE NUMBER COVERSHistorian Roy Medvedev's widely cited estimate attributes about 20 million deaths to labor camps, forced collectivization, famine, and executions during Stalin's rule. Other scholarly estimates differ, so the figure is labeled as an estimate.
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD · MEDVEDEV ESTIMATE ↗ORIGINAL POSTER ART
HUNDREDS DEAD
06MARXIST-LENINIST / COMMUNIST
REVOLUTIONARY CUBA · 1959–2008
Fidel Castro
HUNDREDS OF SUMMARY EXECUTIONS DOCUMENTED?NO CONSOLIDATED TOTAL
WHAT THE REGIME DIDSummary executions after revolutionary trials, political imprisonment, and systematic repression of dissent
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCENationalization, central planning, restrictions on private enterprise, and political control over employment and information produced a state-dominated economy with chronic shortages and limited individual economic choice.
WHAT THE NUMBER COVERSAmnesty International documents hundreds of summary executions following Castro's 1959 takeover while noting the absence of a reliable consolidated total for all deaths attributable to the regime.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL · CASTRO HUMAN-RIGHTS LEGACY ↗ORIGINAL POSTER ART
Follow the mechanism. Name the ideology. Test it against the Constitution. Show the historical result. No party label, campaign language, or modern rebranding overrides that record.
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