While imprisoned in ICE custody, Marcial Morales Garcia helped lead a wave of hunger strikes in New Jersey jails where guards refuse to wear masks, rats run wild and toilets are often the only source ...

And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than 400,000 New Yorkers voted early and Zohran Mamdani led by 9 points. The Election Day surge of support for Andrew Cuomo never ...

Election Day, I followed the street signs, the “Vote Zohran!” chalk, the pamphlets, the smiling neighbors playing his ads on ...

Note: Elle Bisgaard-Church is Zohran Mamdani’s campaign manager and has also served as his chief of staff in the New York State Assembly. This communique was released on June 26 and has been lightly ...

From frigid winter days when their candidate was polling in the low single digits to the final sweltering hours outside polling stations when Zohran Mamdani was rapidly closing in on Andrew Cuomo, his ...

For Zohran Mamdani’s army of door-to-door canvassers, each shift brought new chances to connect with their fellow New Yorkers. Persuading voters to support their candidate was the goal. But for many ...

They said it couldn’t be done. And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than… ...

As The Indypendent reported this spring, pro-Israel donors sought to unseat Brooklyn councilwomen Alexa Avilés, a DSA member, and Shahana Hanif, a progressive Muslim. On June 24, voters in adjoining ...

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Protesters cheer at Brad Lander’s release from detention while keeping their focus on the bigger picture. “I am furious,” said protester Janice Bloom, 56. “New York City failed to stop this. I’m angry ...

In From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary, Carol Mason, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky, draws a through line that ...