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It’s been a banner year for the Democratic Socialists of America. The two most prominent democratic socialists in the country — Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are currently two of the country’s most popular politicians and, come next January, there is a very good chance that the largest city …

Zohran Mamdani pulled off an inspiring 12-point victory to become the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York. How did he do it? He campaigned relentlessly on lowering costs for families, helping him build a grassroots movement so strong that millions of dollars in attack ads couldn’t touch him. On …

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, recently received a call from Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) with an invite to Wu-Tang Clan’s purportedfinal Madison Square Garden show. The call was recorded for a campaign video for Mamdani, and plays over clips of the New York assemblyman …

Since the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump has been trying to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants born in the United States, in a direct challenge to the plain language of the Constitution. Now, he’s openly musing about attempting to take away the citizenship …

It’s now official: New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, having toppled disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment pick, in a wild primary that has already had seismic effects throughout the party. A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, he will go up …

Earlier this month, Zohran Mamdani went on Hot 97, New York’s preeminent hip-hop radio station, to tell the story of how he first entered politics. It’s a tale he’s told many times: In 2015, Mamdani started knocking on doors for an aspiring Queens city councilman, Ali Najmi. But when he …

Zohran Mamdani shocked the establishment by becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, drawing ire from Republicans who are engaging in mongering tactics against the candidate, including Donald Trump, who called him a “pure communist” and “a 100% Communist Lunatic.” “No, I am not,” Mamdani said …

During a radio interview Thursday, New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appeared to suggest that Zohran Mamdani had condoned “global jihad.” Her office tells Rolling Stone she “misspoke,” as she responded to a caller who provided a lengthy list of claims against Mamdani, who won New York City’s Democratic mayoral …

When Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani announced his campaign to run for mayor of New York City in October 2024, he was a virtually unknown state assembly member up against a Trump-friendly incumbent, Eric Adams. He wasn’t just a longshot —for many New Yorkers, he felt like an impossibility. But that …

The early results of the Democratic primary are mostly in, and disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo is trailing dreamboat Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani by seven points. And while it doesn’t look like either candidate will clinch a majority of the vote before the Ranked Choice Voting elimination rounds begin, it’s …