Archive - The Narrative Wars

The AOC—Trump Voter

As Donald Trump made inroads across New York City's multiracial working-class, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outperformed Democrats up-and-down the ballot.

Dec 19, 2024 •

November 2024

New York City's Red Reckoning

Republicans continue to make inroads with Latino, Chinese, and South Asian communities in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Can Democrats stop the…

Nov 8, 2024 •

October 2024

Zohran Mamdani's Path to Power

From Bay Ridge to Astoria: The Three Campaigns that led Zohran Mamdani to his Fourth—Running to be Mayor of New York City.

Oct 23, 2024 •

September 2024

August 2024

Relationships, Institutions, & Why All Politics Is Local

How institutions and local relationships dictate political power and electoral outcomes in New York City - spanning Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Upper West…

Aug 23, 2024 •

December 2023

Jamaal Bowman, George Latimer, and the Existential Threat to Progressive Political Power

A look at how the Primary for New York's 16th Congressional District is poised to shape the Democratic Party's future

Dec 7, 2023 •

November 2023

Housing, NIMBYism, and Political Power

The state of political power in the East Bronx, and what led to the district's first Republican Council Member in forty years.

Nov 30, 2023 •

September 2023

Contextualizing the 2021 Mayoral Race

The key to 2025 is understanding 2021.

Sep 28, 2023 •

June 2023

New York City's Rainbow Coalition - Part I: John Lindsay's Forgotten Urban Crusade

The first installment of an original series on the history of progressive, multiracial coalitions in New York City.

Jun 8, 2023 •

February 2023

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