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On a blustery fall Sunday in Union Square, hundreds of members of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America gathered to preview their two-pronged plan to help Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani achieve the lofty promises he made during the campaign.
The first prong: Keep the pressure on Governor Kathy Hochul, who has maintained that she's not going to raise taxes on New York's wealthiest, despite New Yorkers from Forest Hills, Queens to San Juan, Puerto Rico telling her to her face that she must do just that, to pay for Mamdani's multi-billion dollar vision of universal child care and free buses.
The second prong: Run candidates to challenge the incumbents who stand in the way of this vision.