GEN Z PRIMARY UPSET / CURRENT FIGURE
Melat Kiros
Democratic nominee · U.S. House CO-1
A DSA-backed 2026 nominee who defeated a long-serving incumbent on a democratic-socialist platform.CURRENT RESEARCH RECORD: 2026 DSA CANDIDATE STUDY ↗
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PARTY & ORGANIZATION RECORD
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POLICY → HISTORICAL SYSTEM
proposed
Medicare for All
CURRENT MECHANISMA national health insurance program would replace most private health insurance for covered care.
proposed
Universal childcare
CURRENT MECHANISMTax-funded childcare is provided as a broad public benefit.
proposed
Abolish ICE
CURRENT MECHANISMMade abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement an explicit congressional campaign commitment.
DOCUMENTED HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS
NO DIRECT HISTORICAL LINK PUBLISHED YET — RESEARCH CONTINUES.
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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 ↗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.
23–30M DEAD
02MARXIST-LENINIST / MAOIST COMMUNIST
MAO'S PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA · 1959–1961
Mao Zedong
23–30 MILLION EXCESS DEATHS1 MARKER = 1 MILLION DEATHSSOLID = LOWER ESTIMATE · OUTLINE = ESTIMATE RANGE
WHAT THE REGIME DIDGreat Leap Forward and the resulting national famine
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCECompulsory collectivization, unrealistic production targets, grain procurement, and falsified reports disrupted agriculture and concealed starvation on a national scale.
WHAT THE NUMBER COVERSDemographic reconstructions vary. The reviewed medical history traces the largely manmade catastrophe to Mao's Great Leap Forward decision and Chinese Communist Party implementation.
~2M DEAD
05MAOIST / COMMUNIST
KHMER ROUGE CAMBODIA · 1975–1979
Pol Pot
NEARLY 2 MILLION DEAD1 MARKER = 100,000 DEATHS
WHAT THE REGIME DIDForced labor, thought control, mass execution, starvation, and destruction of urban society
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCEThe regime emptied cities, abolished ordinary markets and money, collectivized labor and food, and attempted to construct an agrarian classless state through coercion.
WHAT THE NUMBER COVERSThe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum attributes nearly two million deaths to Khmer Rouge rule and its program of forced labor, thought control, starvation, and execution.
U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM · CAMBODIA ↗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
600K–1M DEAD
07JUCHE / COMMUNIST ONE-PARTY STATE
NORTH KOREA · 1948–PRESENT; FAMINE PEAK 1990s
Kim Il Sung / Kim Jong Il / Kim Jong Un
600,000–1 MILLION FAMINE DEATHS1 MARKER = 100,000 DEATHSSOLID = LOWER ESTIMATE · OUTLINE = ESTIMATE RANGE
WHAT THE REGIME DIDPolitical prison camps, state food allocation, repression, and policy-driven starvation
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCECentral allocation, restrictions on trade and movement, political distribution of food, and military-first priorities deepened scarcity and prevented ordinary market responses.
WHAT THE NUMBER COVERSResearch estimates 600,000 to one million famine deaths. A UN commission found that state decisions violating the right to food were adopted with awareness that they would worsen starvation and related deaths.
AGRICULTURE & FOOD SECURITY / UN DPRK INQUIRY ↗ORIGINAL POSTER ART
9,542 DEAD
11MARXIST-LENINIST / COMMUNIST
COMMUNIST ROMANIA · 1966–1989
Nicolae Ceaușescu
9,542 MATERNAL DEATHS REPORTED1 MARKER = 1,000 DEATHSROUNDED VISUALIZATION OF 9,542 REPORTED DEATHS
WHAT THE REGIME DIDDecree 770: abortion and contraception restrictions enforced through intrusive state population policy
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCEThe state used surveillance, workplace penalties, and medical controls to pursue population targets while austerity and central planning produced severe shortages.
WHAT THE NUMBER COVERSA peer-reviewed medical review reports 9,542 maternal deaths from illegal abortions or birth-related complications during the period of Ceaușescu's coercive pronatalist decree.
PUBMED CENTRAL · ROMANIA DECREE 770 REVIEW ↗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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