Brad Lander for NYC Mayor

Gaslit Nation

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New York City’s mayoral race is heating up, and into the inferno walks Brad Lander: City Comptroller, longtime progressive pain in the ass (in the best way), and, most importantly, not a corrupt tool of the oligarchy. That alone is refreshing.

Lander’s running on a revolutionary NYC platform: competence, decency, and not being Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, or a trash fire named Donald Trump. He’s spent his career backing tenants, workers, and immigrants, including showing up at an ICE facility to demand Newark mayor Ras Baraka’s release.

On Gaslit Nation, Lander made it clear: he’s not here to play nice with predators in power. He’s here to break the cycle of corruption, fight for working people, and stop ICE from turning Rikers Island into Guantanamo East.

On climate? “Climate risk is financial risk,” Lander says. His plan includes rooftop solar, ensuring net-zero emissions by 2040, and preventing your apartment from becoming a boiling deathtrap during the next heat wave. (Remember Cuomo leaving people to die in nursing homes?)

As the feds abandon us under Trump and Musk, someone’s got to step up. Lander wants to expand the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. And for non-New Yorkers: NYC’s mayor matters nationally. This is a frontline job against elite impunity and rising autocracy. We need Lander to help rebuild democracy.

Want to protect New York, and the country, from grifters like Adams and Cuomo? Use ranked-choice voting, ranking Lander #1. Then rank all the other progressives endorsed by the Working Families Party. Do not put Cuomo on your ballot. He already resigned after using his power to prey on women. Don’t make us go through that again.

Go to landerfornyc.com and help make New York City safer and stronger, for the sake of its residents and all of America. Share this interview with the New Yorkers in your life to help stop Cuomo and elect Lander New York City’s next mayor.

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0:00.0	All right. Brad Lander is a Brooklyn dad, a public servant and New York City's controller who spent his career fighting for affordable housing, workers' rights, and government accountability. He stood up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk when they tried to steal $80 million in taxpayer funding
0:27.7	from the city because they're that petty.
0:30.8	Welcome to Gaslit Nation, New York City's next mayor, Brad Lander.
0:36.2	It's such an honor to be here.
0:37.7	Thank you so much.
0:38.8	Well, I first learned about you from hardcore Gaslit Nation listeners who are on the front
0:45.3	lines of fighting for our democracy, who are in the trenches, election after election,
0:50.6	getting out the vote.
0:51.5	They helped launch the Tesla takedown protests. They
0:55.5	showed up to Schumer's house when he changed his mind last minute on, you know, with the whole
1:00.0	budget showdown earlier this year. So my most dedicated, resourceful community organizer power
1:07.3	listeners were like Brad Lander, we're at Brad Lander's office today. We're working out of his
1:11.4	office. Like for years now, I've heard about you and your rise through New York City politics.
1:15.3	So it's an honor to finally meet you. It's great to be here. And yeah, look, that's my model is that
1:20.4	inside outside work where people are fighting and building power on the outside and they could be
1:25.8	excluded workers or deliveristas like I was out
1:28.8	there with today or grassroots activists at Tesla takedown. They're building power on the outside.
1:34.8	I'm working the levers on the inside and it's a deep partnership both to make change to fight
1:40.5	corruption and to build real democracy. Absolutely. And we always tell our listeners,
1:44.8	you know, it is dark out there. Like, believe your eyes, believe your ears. This really is
1:47.9	oligarchy rising fueled by Republican fascism. But the way we get through it is not to spare.
1:54.0	We have no choice but to build political power. And we need to flood the system with Brad Landers.
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