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The growing visibility of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and victories by some DSA-backed candidates has triggered an upsurge of redbaiting by Republicans and fear-mongering by moderate Democrats.

From city councils to Congress, homeowners have always dominated elected office. But after Mamdani’s victory, a slew of candidates want to follow in his footsteps.

Ahead of her swearing in today, Seattle mayor Katie Wilson talks to Jacobin about the everyday pressures squeezing working-class people and why she’s a democratic socialist.

Reader Comments: Thankful for Farmworkers; Mamdani and Wilson - Democratic Socialists and FDR Democrats; Legal Orders; What We Forgot About Socialism; Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich; New Approach to Getting Rid of Citizens United; The Montana Plan;

Will the AI bubble burst?

Zohran Mamdani got the headlines, but New York was not a one-off. Candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party had amazing election successes elsewhere in America, showing well-organized progressives can beat the power of big money.

The precariat rose up, with passion, desire for change, and votes. The issue was an excess compensation tax on corporations to fund social, economically integrated, affordable housing across Seattle which earlier had passed with a 26 percent margin.