During his victory address after he won the Democratic primary for New York's 12th Congressional District, Micah Lasher sent a message to OpenAI and Anthropic, two AI companies that poured millions of dollars into the race."I won't be taking cues from either of you when it comes to protecting our kids, our jobs and our environment," he said.

A year before winning the Democratic primary in New York's 13th Congressional District, Darializa Avila Chevalier was the lead organizer in an area the district is part of for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign. Avila Chevalier shared with NY1’s @errollouis the lessons that experience taught her for her own campaign.“For so long, politics has felt like a dirty word to so many people in our community because they’ve been abandoned by it, and so it was the opportunity to build the trust with the comm