As The Indypendent reported this spring, pro-Israel donors sought to unseat Brooklyn councilwomen Alexa Avilés, a DSA member, ...

Election Day, I followed the street signs, the “Vote Zohran!” chalk, the pamphlets, the smiling neighbors playing his ads on ...

While imprisoned in ICE custody, Marcial Morales Garcia helped lead a wave of hunger strikes in New Jersey jails where guards refuse to wear masks, rats run wild and toilets are often the only source ...

In From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary, Carol Mason, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky, draws a through line that ...

And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than 400,000 New Yorkers voted early and Zohran Mamdani led by 9 points. The Election Day surge of support for Andrew Cuomo never ...

Long before he became the breakout star in this year’s NYC mayoral race, Mamdani appeared regularly in the pages of The Indy and on our Tuesday evening news and public affairs show on WBAI-99.5 FM.

From frigid winter days when their candidate was polling in the low single digits to the final sweltering hours outside polling stations when Zohran Mamdani was rapidly closing in on Andrew Cuomo, his ...

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign manager describes how a movement dethroned a dynasty. Elle Bisgaard-Church Jul 8 Note: Elle Bisgaard-Church is Zohran Mamdani’s campaign manager and has also served as his ...

Surrounded by honking cars and chants of “ICE out of New York,” a crowd gathered on Tuesday morning outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan to protest the detention of immigrants and a shifting ...

For Zohran Mamdani’s army of door-to-door canvassers, each shift brought new chances to connect with their fellow New Yorkers. Persuading voters to support their candidate was the goal. But for many ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleThey said it couldn’t be done. And then the election results started to roll in Tuesday night. More than… 2025 NYC Mayoral Race Culture Zohran Mamdani ...

The Indypendent’s Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton has led our local political coverage since 2017 as the left has steadily gained a foothold in New York electoral politics for the first time in decades.