Francesca Hong is running for Wisconsin governor on a platform that would dismantle the very systems her family came to America to escape.
Hong’s Democratic Socialists of America membership puts her alongside radicals calling for the abolition of the Senate, Presidency, and Supreme Court. Her campaign platform advocates government-run grocery stores, abolishing ICE and police departments, and what she calls freeing Palestine.
The DSA platform includes defunding the Pentagon — the nation’s primary defense apparatus — along with mass amnesty for illegal immigrants and emptying prisons of convicted criminals.
Hong’s parents immigrated from South Korea in the 1980s, three decades after American soldiers fought to keep the Korean peninsula from falling entirely to Soviet-backed communist forces. Over 1.78 million Americans served in that war.
“Let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood.”
That quote comes from Hasan Piker, a prominent DSA-aligned figure Hong now shares political space with. The organization she joined has defended terrorist attacks and calls for the destruction of America’s constitutional government.
One Korean War veteran who served in those dangerous missions was Douglas Gallatin, a Wisconsin native who executed reconnaissance operations behind enemy lines. He rarely spoke about what he witnessed — fellow soldiers shot or crushed by enemy tanks while he remained hidden and silent.
Gallatin returned home and ran a machine shop in Milwaukee with his brother. His army rucksack and two American flags hung over his garage door until Alzheimer’s and PTSD took him in 2012.
Before he passed, the trauma surfaced. He recounted hearing his fellow soldiers die while he couldn’t move or make a sound for fear of discovery.
Hong grew up in Madison and opened a small business as a chef before winning a State Assembly seat in 2020. She has publicly struggled with having a half-white, half-Korean son because of what she called “proximity to whiteness.”
She helped organize aggressive protests against law enforcement even after a knife-wielding man injured a cop in Madison. Her policy page calls the service industry a racist institution founded on white supremacy.
The full DSA agenda Hong signed onto: universal childcare, a Worker’s Bill of Rights that targets businesses, breaking up agricultural companies, overturning Wisconsin’s Act 10 union reforms, and transgender policy mandates.
DSA leaders continue pushing for open borders, wealth confiscation from top earners, and Medicare for all. Hong joined an organization that includes figures like Ilhan Omar and Omar Fateh.
Hong advocates to dismantle the constitutional framework that allowed her family to build a life in Wisconsin — the same framework American veterans like Gallatin fought to protect from communist expansion in Korea.
Wisconsin voters will decide in the gubernatorial primary whether Hong’s vision for abolishing core American institutions aligns with what the state’s Korean War veterans sacrificed to defend.
We are bringing the fight to @TomTiffanyWI with our first major ad buy of the campaign, which launched today on CTV. We got this, Wisconsin! pic.twitter.com/zosPCCjeqR
— Francesca Hong For Governor (@FrancescaHongWI) July 21, 2026
Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness." pic.twitter.com/Ix0j0nisnF
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 3, 2026
