Melat Kiros, who booted longtime Denver Democrat, 15-term leftist Dianna DeGette, from her seat in Congress during her party’s primary just weeks ago, is an immigrant from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who turned herself into a member of America’s elite with her law degree from Notre Dame, her pursuit of a “Public Affairs Ph.D.” in Denver and whose advocacy includes reparations, universal income and equity.
She already has on her resume getting fired from an influential law firm in New York for her work pushing pro-Palestinian talking points.
Her candidacy is based on components that would be found in communism, such as Medicare for all, abolishing ICE, universal childcare controlled by the government, workers’ “rights,” and federal control of housing.
Now she’s pushed her agenda to demand “socialism” to an extreme, insisting that “socialism” actually is “More American” than capitalism, actually, more than anything.
She self-identifies as a Democratic Socialist party member, and recently said in an interview, “The evidence shows” nothing is “more American” than socialism.
She is claiming socialism is “actually capable of delivering things like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Democrat nominee for Colorado’s 1st congressional district Melat Kiros—who was born in Ethiopia—is a member of the DSA.
She claims “the evidence shows” there’s nothing “more American” than socialism because it’s “actually capable of delivering things like life, liberty, and the… pic.twitter.com/smfgBlaaX9
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) August 4, 2026
Breitbart had a response to Kiros’ agenda:
Kiros, who believes there should be a Trans Bill of Rights, made the declaration during a recent interview on PBS’s Firing Line with Margaret Hoover . The candidate staunchly defended socialism, asserting that it has delivered on the ideas outlined in the founding documents of the United States.
“I don’t think there’s anything more American than subscribing to an economic philosophy that, as the evidence shows, is the only one that’s actually capable of delivering things like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Kiros said. “I really can’t.”
“Socialism has proven to deliver on the values of the Declaration of Independence more than capitalism has?” Hoover asked.
“Yeah,” Kiros declared. “You know, when we talk about capitalism, you know, one of the things that folks talk about with capitalism as a theory is that it’s responsible for you know delivering people out of poverty here in the U.S.,” which she said “isn’t the entire story.” Instead, she credited the pull out of poverty to “social safety programs.”
She claims, “Unfettered capitalism is where the capitalists, the owners of the means of production, are the only ones that are calling the shots, and you are lucky to have the job, and you just have to deal with the conditions.” Socialism, she alleged, is about “delivering democracy in the workplace and making sure that workers have a say about the conditions that they’re working in, about negotiating for the kind of wage that would be fair for the labor that they are contributing to whatever industry it is that they’re working in.”
She also has an attack agenda lined up, promising if her party takes control of Congress “everyone” from the Trump administration is going to be hauled in:
Colorado Democratic congressional nominee @MelatKirosCO calls for accountability for the #Trump administration and the Democratic Party.
“The fact of the matter is we have Donald Trump as president for a second time because we didn’t hold him accountable the first time… pic.twitter.com/36gpyBKDOM
— Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) August 5, 2026
And her plans including making health care, food, housing and more dependent on a socialist government agenda, and the socialists in government who would hand out benefits to chosen citizens.
Melat Kiros: “We have socialism already. It’s in the roads we drive on, the schools we send our kids to, the fire stations we call upon. I’m just asking that we extend that security to our healthcare, to our housing, to our nutritional food, to our higher education so that we’re… pic.twitter.com/FmmWqWzLsR
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) June 28, 2026
The Gateway Pundit’s reaction?
“Kiros comes off as a campus radical because that’s exactly what she is. She has spent years in college as a professional student. She was also born in Ethiopia. Like many other DSA radicals who were not born in this country, she got here fifteen minutes ago, but believes she has the right to go to Congress and decide issues that will directly affect your God-given Constitutional rights.”
