I've been talking with some folks in the CPUSA and my understanding from common sentiment that the CPUSA has been compromised since COINTELPRO is, apparently, misinformation nowadays. So after asking a ton of questions and looking into the party, I'm formally making the swap from the inactive SPUSA to the surprisingly active and largely CPUSA.

As a TLDR, the modern CPUSA largely grants organizational autonomy to its party clubs and has far greater democracy than the SPUSA does. They're also surprisingly transparent to their members. Post-COINTELPRO, the CPUSA drastically increased party security and has had to ward off multiple fifth columns. Notably, they had to expel a neo-nazi faction attempting infiltration a little over a year ago that was trying to

gain influence in the party and become the dominant faction. This obviously didn't work. The faction in question nowadays calls themselves the, "American Communist Party (ACP)." They advocate for, "National Bolshevism," "Socialist patriotism," and, "MAGA Communism." If it's not obvious, these guys are just nazis.

active and larger CPUSA* on that first paragraph