In Bay Ridge, 26-year-old Zohran Mamdani is losing an election. In Astoria, they're fighting off one of the most powerful companies on planet earth. Two campaigns — one victory, one defeat.

In January, 2018, ten people met in a park to canvas for 29-year-old former bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is the story of that campaign. It's about the choices we make — and the ones that we don't.

How did a neighborhood in Queens become a laboratory for a new kind of politics?

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“The People’s Republic of Astoria.” It’s not a manifesto; it’s a neighborhood. A new podcast. Coming this October.