Progressive Era Repression and persecution Anti-war and civil rights movements Contemporary Claudia De la Cruz (born 1980/1981)[1] is an American far-left[2] activist who was the Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 election.

[1] At the City University of New York, De la Cruz coordinated a teen group to study resistance movements and march against the 2003 Iraq War.

[1][5] In 2004, she founded Da Urban Butterflies (DUB), a Washington Heights-based leadership group for teens and young women of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent.

[3][5] Their socialist policy program includes a pledge to support reparations for Black Americans, institute a single-payer healthcare system, end all U.S. aid to Israel, forgive all student loan debt, fully recognize Native American sovereignty and honor treaty rights, cut the U.S. military budget by 90%, seize the 100 largest corporations, expand public transportation, and use taxation to eliminate billionaires.

[16] For the 2024 election, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge ruled that De La Cruz was disqualified from appearing on Georgia ballots after failing to sign the required paperwork.