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Music Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Less than a decade ago, it was a really big deal to elect one single socialist

to city council in Seattle or to the state legislature in New York. Today, a Democratic socialist

is a mayor of New York City. Left-wingers hold office all over the place, and this year, this cycle, left-wing

candidates are running credible races at every level of government. I can't talk about every

single race, every single candidate, but I am going to do a couple episodes, maybe a few episodes,

highlighting just the remarkable variety of candidates in the fight,

candidates fighting for social, economic, and ecological justice,

fighting against imperialism and genocide, candidates who are up against the combined power of oligarchy, the Democratic

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