NY-11: Can a Populist Democrat Flip New York City's Only G.O.P. House Seat?
Populist Democrats, trying to pull their struggling party toward a left-wing economic platform, are already waging high-profile campaigns in swing states from Maine to the Midwest.
Now, the anti-establishment faction is taking aim at a Republican-held House seat in one of the reddest corners of New York City.
Allison Ziogas, a first-time candidate, formally kicked off a campaign for the seat on Tuesday, leaning on her biography as a union electrician in a long-shot bid to win back voters who have abandoned her party in droves.
To help shape that message, she has tapped Morris Katz, the strategist behind several of Democrats’ most-watched progressive populists, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, and Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/nyregion/ziogas-malliotakis-midterms.html
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I've lived in many places where R's ran unopposed
Right now it's like a free-for-all of D candidates. They're popping up like spring dandelions!
DURec
For them it's synonymous with "progressive" and often means "socialist" or "socialist-leaning." As the mouthpiece for AmeriKKKa's wealthy elite, NYT has a pathological hatred of folks like that and always seeks to undermine them.
Etymologically speaking, "populist" is a term that has completely lost its meaning and is usually used as a pejorative slur.
Ergo, everyone who can should probably vote for Allison Ziogas unless someone further left comes along. 
