Last week, voters across the country elected a wave of Democrats. Georgia Republican Rich McCormick's answer is a bill he says would keep the Democratic Socialists among them out of office.

McCormick is now urging the lame-duck Republican Congress to pass his "Communist Control Act of 2026," according to Right Wing Watch, which reviewed his post-election fundraising pitch. He told donors the bill would mean:

"Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, AOC all removed from office. Abdul Al-Sayed and his 120,000 comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America PERMANENTLY BARRED from running for office. The 60+ DSA candidates FOREVER LOCKED OUT from Congress. HUNDREDS of their comrades BANNED from assuming state and local office."

The pitch ends with a request for donations to the McCormick Victory Fund.

What the bill actually does

The bill is H.R. 10501. McCormick introduced it on September 17, 2026, and it was sent to the House Judiciary Committee. Nothing has happened to it since.

It is one sentence long, more or less. It takes a law from 1954 that was aimed at the Communist Party and adds the Democratic Socialists of America to it, along with "any successor organization."

That 1954 law says the Communist Party is "not entitled to any of the rights, privileges, and immunities" that come with being a legal organization in this country, and that any rights it already had "are terminated." McCormick wants to do the same thing to a group whose members just won elections.

In his pitch, McCormick says his bill would remove elected officials from office and bar a group's members from running, because of their politics.

Right Wing Watch calls the bill "clearly unconstitutional." McCormick promises it would bring "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF THE COMMUNIST CANCER SPREADING THROUGHOUT OUR NATION."

He didn't do it alone

Three other Republicans with report cards on this site put their names on the bill. Congress.gov lists them as cosponsors:

• Clay Fuller of Georgia, cosponsor from the day it was introduced, September 17
• Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, also from September 17
• Keith Self of Texas, who signed on September 24

McCormick's pitch also promised that, once the bill passed, "President Trump will have the CLEAR AND UNDISPUTED AUTHORITY to root out the soapless socialists who have infiltrated every institution of our country."

Voters already answered this

Republicans spent the campaign telling voters that Democrats had been taken over by socialists. Tracey Mann told a Trump rally that the Democratic Socialists had "completely taken over" Democrats, and Ashley Moody ran on claims about her opponent that PolitiFact found didn't hold up. Tommy Tuberville went further and said an American mayor should be sent to Guantanamo Bay.

Voters didn't buy it. In Georgia, McCormick's own state, voters re-elected Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, chose Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor, and gave Democrats every statewide race, according to Right Wing Watch.

McCormick won his own race. He is now asking Congress to undo other people's.

The bottom line

A week after the midterms, Rich McCormick asked the lame-duck Congress to pass his bill putting the Democratic Socialists of America under a 1954 law that strips the Communist Party of all legal rights. He told donors it would remove Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar and AOC from office and permanently bar Democratic Socialists from running. Clay Fuller, Diana Harshbarger and Keith Self cosponsored it.

Source

• Rep. Rich McCormick's MAGA McCarthyite Madness — Right Wing Watch / People For the American Way, November 10, 2026
• H.R. 10501, Communist Control Act of 2026 — Congress.gov