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The Dig: The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han

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The Role of the Progressive Caucus in Mayor Brandon Johnson's Municipal Election

Alex Castellanos: I think that Mayor Brandon Johnson is going to have some very serious things he's going to be coming up against. He says labor invested a ton of money to get people out of office, and they flipped a lot of seats in the city council for the first time in a long time. And so from that lesson came the notion that one, we should have a progressive caucus, right?Castellanos: United Working Families was founded in 2014, looking towards the 2015 municipal election. They fight to make sure that when I'm taking big fights in city hall, I have people that are marching with me, people that are moving with me.

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