Explore the historic rise of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor-elect. His odds-defying victory was a monumental upset against establishment figures, powered by an unconventional, radical grassroots strategy.

Mamdani’s campaign built the greatest field operation in NYC political history, mobilizing an "unstoppable force" of over 100,000 largely unpaid volunteers. This volunteer army successfully eroded political cynicism and catalyzed the largest voter turnout in the city in more than half a century.

We analyze how Mamdani’s democratic socialist platform, centered on specific affordability issues like freezing stabilized rents, providing free buses, and universal childcare, resonated with working-class New Yorkers. Learn the secrets behind this bottom-up insurgency that changed the political impulse from "lecturing to listening" and offered a possible blueprint for the Democratic Party nationwide.


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