If he wins, it won’t just be a victory for progressives—it’ll be a breakthrough for feminist, working-class power in America’s biggest city.

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His campaign says the quiet part out loud:
💰 Tax the rich.
🏘️ Fund public housing.
👶 Pay care workers what they deserve.
🚍 Make transit free.

That’s feminist economics in action.

Mamdani’s campaign isn’t just progressive—it’s structural. His platform treats housing, care, wages, and taxation as the foundation of gender and racial equity.

That’s what feminist economics looks like in practice: shared power, fair pay, and democracy that serves the people who make the city run.

One thing we’re all getting wrong?
Aisha: we’re not taking enough risks. The playbook burned down; we need a new one.
Keith: need more entertaining content. Our stuff is liberal-brained. Too much “information”
Qasim: $ isn’t going to the right places for the new playbook. Put it in content creators

Vs Keith: Believes independence from campaigns is important for credibility and more powerful audience-building

One point of disagreement:
Aisha wants to be a part of and build long term infrastructure to ensure that as the last and maybe only line of defense for public engagement, we need investment for the long term.
You need to deliver content 12-13 times and that requires a real relationship w/ campaigns

To take your audience further… At Feminist, beyond a headline there is a call to action.

Build trust and consistently mobilize people.

Bring content creators into campaigns early. Can’t do much by the end.

People aren’t in the middle. A majority wants fighters.

Last panel: content creators- Haley Lickstein moderating,
@qasimrashid.com of @justwinstuff.bsky.social @keithedwards.bsky.social (currently beating Tucker Carlson)
Aisha Becker-Burrowes of @Feminist

Advice: listen, be trust-worthy and authentic, be responsive and have a standard of justice

Solution?
1. Treat all money equally
2. A “cost of living” exemption
3. A “cost of living” wage
4. Antitrust for oligarchs

Treat Elon musk like a monopolies corporation and break him up.

Simple and powerful @patrioticmillionaires.org platform

“The book ends of our economy are taxes and wages”. Poor people make too little money and pay too much in taxes. Rich people make too much and don’t pay enough taxes.

Inequality leads to authoritarianism.
When people don’t get what they need out of the economy, they reject political systems.”

“The Patriotic Millionaires North Star is Money”
Billionaires are funding culture wars to keep your eye off the ball.
MAGA is misdirecting to
84% of people in the U.S. are worried about the price of groceries.
We’ve been playing economic jenga and what happened is what you’d expect.”