Politics
Politics
Speaker Julie Menin is quite wealthy
And other insights from Zohran Mamdani and other NYC elected officials’ financial disclosures.
Albany Agenda
Assembly incumbents get some financial support from leadership ahead of Democratic primaries
DACC and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s leadership PAC have backed a handful of his members.
Campaigns & Elections
Reformers are trying – again – to take over the Brooklyn Dems
The results of district leader races will determine whether Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn remains party leader
News & Politics
The 2026 NYC congressional primaries to watch
Six races that could transform the delegation.
News & Politics
Espaillat, Avila Chevalier spar over gentrification in Harlem church
The Rev. Al Sharpton invited the rival congressional candidates to make their cases to the National Action Network on the last weekend before the primary.
2026 congressional midterm elections
AIPAC is helping boost Espaillat against DSA challenge
But who’s funding outside spending in the final week of the election isn’t always clear.
New York City Council
NYC Council intern fired after launching campaign to pay interns
Mina Farahmand was working for Manhattan Council Member Harvey Epstein – until she wasn’t.
2026 New York state elections
New WFP ad attacks Rajkumar as ‘Modi’s best friend in Queens’
The progressive group is supporting challenger David Orkin in the Queens Assembly race.
2026 congressional midterm elections
The bitter NY-21 primary highlights a fractured GOP
Republican voters in the North Country must decide between backing establishment Assembly Member Robert Smullen and President Donald Trump’s pick, Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino.
News & Politics
JD Vance stumps for Long Island Republicans
The vice president campaigned for Mike LiPetri ahead of the midterms.
2026 New York state comptroller election
Who is running for New York comptroller?
Drew Warshaw and Raj Goyle are battling it out to unseat incumbent Tom DiNapoli.
2026 New York state elections
The 2026 New York state legislative primary races to watch
New York’s most competitive contests in a year of immense turnover
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2026 congressional midterm elections
Mysterious pro-Reynoso super PAC is funded by teachers union, not AIPAC
Real Fight NYC has the American Federation of Teachers as one of its donors – and Randi Weingarten does “not play with AIPAC.”
2026 congressional midterm elections
Super PACs have spent millions boosting Adriano Espaillat and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Both candidates think that’s super hypocritical!
Espaillat has benefited from more than $4 million in outside spending. Some $1 million has been spent on Avila Chevalier. Both traded barbs about that during a forthcoming BronxNet debate.
2026 congressional midterm elections
How are New York’s congressional candidates using AI? Debate moderators want to know
“What’s your chatbot?” is the new “what’s your bagel order?”
Albany Agenda
A cheat sheet to super PACs in the 2026 New York primaries
It’s the wild west out there for outside spending.
New York City
Meet the voters of New York’s 12th Congressional District
Famous, affluent, opinionated, conscious of what Gale Brewer thinks and committed to Nina Schwalbe against the odds gosh darn it!
News & Politics
Adriano Espaillat, Jordan Wright, join with Black leaders in show of unity to fend off DSA
But Rep. Hakeem Jeffries insisted the DSA isn’t a threat to the Democratic Party.
News & Politics
NYC-DSA chides Mamdani for increasing NYPD headcount
The mayor’s political home says his actions have “run counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him.”
