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Zohran Mamdani Vows a New Era for New York City
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The socialist mayor-elect pledges rent freezes, free public buses, universal childcare, and protection for immigrant communities. After confirming his electoral victory Tuesday night, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech reaffirming the main priorities of his upcoming administration. RELATED: Zohran Mamdani Elected New York City Mayor, Marking Historic First After toppling what he […]
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Nigeria: Sovereignty, Resources, and the Geopolitics of Crisis
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They aim to end cooperation with Libya over human rights abuses. On Wednesday, an alliance of 13 organizations dedicated to rescuing migrants at sea announced the creation of the “Justice Fleet,” which will suspend communication with the Libyan Coast Guard in an effort to prevent deportations to Libya, where migrants’ rights are not respected. RELATED: […]
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Typhoon Kalmaegi Leaves Over 50 Dead in the Philippines Before Moving Toward Vietnam
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'Hope Is Alive!' Mamdani Victory in NYC Seen as Historic Turning Point
(www.commondreams.org)
Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City on Tuesday in a victory he and his supporters say reflects the hope of a city—and a nation—ready for a new kind of politics that puts the needs of working people at the center after decades of failed leadership that put corporate interests and the desires of the wealthiest first.
Withstanding a barrage of negative ads and fearmongering by the city's elite, the democratic socialist candidate secured 50.4 percent of the vote in a three-way race that saw disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an Independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mandani, nab 41.6 percent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa just over 7 percent.
"Hope is alive," declared Mamdani in his victory speech from the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn after most major networks called the victory his shortly after 9:30 pm local time.
"While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together," said Mamdani. "Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do."
"This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt." —Zohran Mamdani
Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly who ran a campaign focused on making life more affordable for the workers who make the nation's largest city run and thrive, said that while the campaign's unifying and inspiring spirit meant his supporters could express a collective sigh of relief after the election day win, the hard work will now be making that shared vision for the city become a reality.
"This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt," he said. "Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child care across our city."
"Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come," he added. "This new age will be one of relentless improvement."
As progressives and Democrats nationwide took the victory in New York City as a sign of what a populist campaign focused on the needs of working people can accomplish, Mamdani also spoke to the underlying theme of Tuesday's elections across the country, where Democrats claimed major wins in various competitive races and ballot initiatives—outcomes seen as a resounding rebuke to President Donald Trump's scorched-earth second term.
"If we embrace this brave new course rather than fleeing from it," said Mamdani, "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him." pic.twitter.com/mvGcsN01Xt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 5, 2025
"If there is any way to terrify a despot," he added, "it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one."
That dynamic was front and center for many who heralded Mamdani's win as historic and called for the Democratic Party leadership to embrace his vision on economic issues and a more populist style of politics to displace the corporate stranglehold on the party.
Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, called Mamdani's victory "the turning point in this Democratic Party that our movement has been working towards for years: electing leaders with the moral courage to unite our voters to take on Republican authoritarianism, Democratic corporatism, and billionaire greed all at once."
"Zohran Mamdani has never backed down from standing up to Trump and the forces that threaten our democracy,” said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, a pro-democracy advocacy group focused on the climate crisis. “This is the leadership our democracy, and the Democratic Party, needs to rebuild trust with working people and fight for a future that works for everyone."
Michael Magazine, a campaigner with the group's local NYC affiliate, echoed that sentiment. "Tonight, the people of New York City showed up in force and reminded the world that grassroots power can beat big money," he said. "This is more than a win for Zohran. It’s a win for the movement and for democracy itself. We’ve proven that a bold, people-powered vision can overcome the status quo, and this is just the beginning."
"The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC," said former labor secretary Robert Reich following Tuesday night's victory. "It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who proudly endorsed Mamdani, also championed the win.
"Starting at 1% in the polls," said Sander, "Mamdani pulled off one of the great political upsets in modern American history. Yes. We CAN create a government that represents working people and not the 1%."
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of Mamdani's most prominent backers in the race, also heralded his victory as a major turning point, not just for New York City, but for the party.
In her remarks to MSNBC shortly after Mamdani's victory was declared, the New York Democrat said the campaign and the "heroic effort" of its supporters was not only a fight against Trump and Republican destruction but also a battle against the Democratic Party's "old guard," which "essentially led us to many of the perils of this moment."
Mamdani, she explained, "how a two-front war to win, which is what makes his win so deeply impressive" in a wider political context that should be a wakeup call for those in the party resisting the kind of policies and politics that his campaign championed and exemplified.
"We have a future to plan for. We have a future to fight for," Ocasio-Cortez said of the party going forward. "And we're either gonna do that together, or you're gonna be left behind."
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