Members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) rally at a May Day march in New York City in 2019. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
"In nature, the cuckoo survives by trickery. It lays its egg in another bird's nest. The unsuspecting parents raise the impostor as their own until the cuckoo grows strong enough to push the true chicks out," the video's narrator explains. "The DSA is the cuckoo inside the Democratic Party."
But the analogy, which pointed to candidates like self-proclaimed socialist Zohran Mamdani, did not appear to bother the socialists it was targeting. Rather, they applauded the video advertisement as a great recruitment tool to get more people to join their ranks.
"New DSA recruitment ad for communists just dropped," joked Nicolás Vargas in response to the video. Vargas has been affiliated with the Central Brooklyn branch of the DSA, according to a 2022 DSA national convention resolution on COVID protections.
"Are you trying to make young people find the DSA more cool?" quipped Marxist-socialist blogger C. Derrick Varn.
"New recruitment ad unlocked," joked Giovanetta Marangoz, co-chair of the New York City Young Democratic Socialists of America.
Other socialist activists were a little more direct in their view that the Democratic Party must be extinguished.
"My biggest gripe is the idea that we’re being deceptive," Allan Frasheri, an at-large delegate to the 2023 DSA Convention who spent time as a co-chair of the University of Florida's DSA chapter, said in response to the video. "DSA is loud and proud: we are fighting for a worker’s party. Only a party of, by and for working people can bring about a better world. The Democratic Party is ultimately one for the billionaires."
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"This is the best DSA ad I’ve ever seen," added DSA organizer Miko Ludoviko. "The DSA is an anti-capitalist organization with the long-term goal of taking state power. The Democratic Party is a tool we use for local elections, but it remains an enemy of the working class."
Part of Canary Mission's video focused on New York City's Mamdani, who is running for New York City mayor on the Democratic Party's ticket. He beat out former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary earlier this year to be the party's candidate. Cuomo is now running as an Independent.
Mamdani, who is a member of DSA's NYC chapter, brought several DSA members on stage during a "New York Is Not For Sale" rally earlier this week. He was also a keynote speaker at the group's national convention in 2023 while serving as a New York state representative.
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, spoke to supporters at a canvass launch event in Prospect Park on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
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In addition to the responses to Canary Mission's new video, other messaging materials the pro-Israel group has put out, such as a graphic slamming socialists for attempting to "weaken and ultimately dismantle" the United States, have similarly been met with praise by DSA socialists.
For example, in response to a Canary Mission graphic exposing DSA’s Red Star Caucus for their stated goal of striving to "weaken and ultimately dismantle US empire," a user on X, who describes themselves as "DSA's favorite Maoist," remarked that the slogan Canary Mission was calling out "needs to be the line of the DSA as a whole."
"I will use every tool at my disposal to make it so," they added.
"That's right," another X user with the handle "centristmarxist" said in response to a second graphic slamming DSA’s Marxist Unity Group for their stated goal. "With every tool available to us, we must erode the political, cultural, and physical hegemony of the U.S. police state."
Fox News Digital reached out to the DSA for comment, but did not receive a response.
Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
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