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!!!! First day of our new podcast, America Actually (w/ Astead Herndon). It's going to be about the upcoming elections and America's road to a post-Trump future. But as we got started I wanted to write something about why I landed on that theme and what I saw as the our mission in a landscape of a lot of media choices

Zohran Mamdani has accrued political capital to spend it. That’s what tonight’s primaries in NYC are about. But pissing off the establishment doesn’t just mean white guys in DC. There’s a Black Democratic establishment and a Latino one too — and the rise of anti corporate, movement based politics is also disrupting their grip on power 📺: On @TheArenaCNN w/ @abbydphillip

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Does ideology matter more than experience? Lived and legislative.

🧵 Spoke with @ReynosoBrooklyn and retiring Congresswoman @NydiaVelazquez ahead of tomorrow’s congressional primary in NY-07 On New York’s changing left, being on the wrong side of the @ZohranKMamdani endorsement, and the difference between a Working Families Party progressive and a DSA leftist (1/5)

If NY’s landmark AI safety bill was so significantly watered down before passage — how realistic is the idea of any national bill (w/ teeth)? @AlexBores answers

Excited to join @majorityfm this afternoon! Talking NY primaries and our recent America, Actually episode with @EmmaVigeland and @SamStein

DSA challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13) argues that an increasing number of voters see a connection between their unaffordable reality and the amount of money spent abroad, on things like Iran War and supporting Israel. It's a case for 'America First' -- but from the left Listen:

Next week's NY primary has something for everyone -- Alex Bores on A.I. regulation -- Darializa Avila Chevalier makes her case for oust a five-term incumbent Hear from the New Left this week on America, Actually. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you podcast @voxmedia @voxdotcom youtube.com/watch?v=5aC3Aw…

"I still believe that all deportations are wrong." New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier makes her case to Vox's Astead Herndon that deporting someone after they’ve served time for a crime amounts to double punishment.

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I asked DSA congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13) about several of her previously deleted tweets, including one that read that “all deportations are wrong.” Here’s what she said:

@patrickgaspard From my 2025 profile of @ZohranKMamdani for @nytmagazine nytimes.com/2025/10/14/mag…

This, from @patrickgaspard last year, is key to understanding the rise of the populist left in recent Democratic primaries from NYC to Maine and now DC "Foreign policy" may rank low on polling priorities for voters. But a willingness to be frank about Israel's violence in Gaza has become a litmus test of moral authority and a gateway to trust on issues like tackling affordability. The result is a sea change among blue coalitions

Rick Jackson’s win in Georgia Gov. runoff speaks to how President Trump occupies the role of establishment and outsider within GOP. His endorsement may fail, but MAGA remains the universal standard. And Jackson succeeded by running a Trump playbook without Trump himself On @ac360 @cnn with @andersoncooper

The long tail of Woke 1: New York City congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13) says she now regrets language used in old tweets. Watch the full interview this week on @voxdotcom YouTube channel:

“This is not a statement that they would ever hear in polite society, and that's kinda the purpose of it.” Left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker tells Vox’s @AsteadWH that he’s not backing down from his stance that he’d rather vote for Hamas than Israel.

"I certainly wouldn't use a lot of the language that I used back then today." Darializa Avila Chevalier joins Vox's Astead Herndon to talk about what she's learned since 2019 and 2020, why she deleted her account, and how she thinks about language and rhetoric in politics now.