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In their bright T-shirts, the volunteers for Zohran Mamdani’s campaign on a recent Saturday afternoon at McGolrick Park in Greenpoint fit right in, part of a citywide cohort of canvassers 50,000 strong and growing.

But within their own families and communities of origin, the three are outliers. Their families all fled socialism or fought against it in the former Soviet Union, before emigrating to the United States. Now as young adults born and raised in the U.S., they are working hard to elect a candidate who calls himself a socialist.

Magdalena Morań

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