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I hope Tiffany’s promoters remember: -her winning is (at best) harm reduction; -more money & power to that office is still bad; -she’s an organizing target & therefore the right posture will usually be oppositional not conciliatory; & -(even “good”) prosecutors aren’t your friendhttps://twitter.com/decrimny/status/1143716552920981509 …

vote in your local elections. you matter. every single person does. & what i love most about this new movement— we reach out to voters traditionally not taken seriously. limited english speakers. immigrants. black and brown communities. sex workers. this is only the beginning

My tears today are for the new era we enter...one where #justiceforyangsong is not out of reach. Thank you @CabanForQueens for listening to people. Especially the people often forgotten.https://twitter.com/tiffanydian/status/1143729013111840768 …

The @nycDSA’s three elected officials- @AOC @JuliaCarmel__ and @CabanForQueens - all won in large part because of overwhelming canvassing Some commenters think this means their policies didn’t matter to their victories No- their policies meant enough to inspire volunteer armies

Thank you, Ron, for everything you and @yuhline done to support us. You have been champions for us, for Song Yang’s family, for our movement. With Tiffany as DA, let’s push to reopen Yang Song’s case and get #JusticeforYangSong. Song Hai sends his regards and says congrats!

Just think for a SECOND this is what the crowd is chanting at a DA election party. I’m in tears. We matter. No one needs to be left behind. No one will be left behind.https://twitter.com/kumarraonyc/status/1143697252474642433 …

If you work in New York politics and don’t recognize the monumental power shift that took place tonight you need to find a new profession.

1. If ain’t over until it’s over, and the Queens machine knows that 2. Sex workers organized in @JuliaCarmel__’s race & in this one; time to stop underestimating their power 3. People to people interaction aka door knocking is one of the most powerful tools we have

Change is here.https://twitter.com/rontkim/status/1143744157825032197 …

A fun sweetener on the Cabán victory is that Andrew Cuomo did everything he could to kill @WorkingFamilies last year, and they and @nycDSA just delivered a massive upset to his chosen candidate

AOC is easily among the most influential politicians in the country right now and she’s barely begunhttps://twitter.com/willbredderman/status/1143718795187564544 …

.@aoc defeating Crowley was 8.5 on the Richter scale. A 31-year-old public defender who favors decriminalizing all sex work and wants achieve “population zero” in the city’s prisons winning across the whole borough is a 47

This is the most stunning win yet in the movement to elect decarceral prosecutors: Tiffany Caban (@CabanForQueens), a 31 year-old queer, Latina public defender will become the District Attorney of Queens, the 11th most populous county in America. That’s people power.

Cy Vance should be looking to tonight as a preview

We have built the most powerful, the most diverse, the most beautiful coalition that a borough-wide race has ever seen. From formerly incarcerated folks to sex workers to undocumented immigrants to community-based organizations & activists to local & national elected officials.

We are ready for him if he does. #CabanForQueenshttps://twitter.com/jallen_ny/status/1143741133035585541 …

Tiffany Cabán’s victory is SUPER significant for all queer POC. Queens is now the epicenter of people-focused progressive leadership in America.