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Music day. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. A campaign for office starts with finding the right candidate.

Zoran Mamdani, of course, combines world historic Riz with deep ideological commitment.

But his mayoral campaign won, because it successfully introduced that candidate and the political

vision he embodies to millions through a

mass field operation alongside a brilliant, funny, sharp, and moving comms operation.

As 100,000 volunteers knocked three million doors, a team of strategists, speechwriters, designers, and filmmakers

painted a giant love letter to New York City and inoculated voters against tens of millions

of dollars in mendacious smears and attacks. Volunteers on the doors and videos on social media tag-teamed to conjure up a

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