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Just seven years later, they’d elect the mayor.
This is the story of a movement — from the inside.</description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>A grassroots movement, one staircase at a time.</itunes:subtitle>
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Just seven years later, they’d elect the mayor.
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	<title>Chapter 05: Twenty-Six Hours</title>
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	<title>Chapter 04: Four Hundred Pounds</title>
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	<title>Chapter 03: Fifty-Five Votes</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to lose an election by 55 votes? Tiffany Caban lost a District Attorney race in 2019. But in that loss, she helped build a movement that would transform New York City.]]></description>
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	<title>Chapter 02: Twenty Years Apart</title>
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	<title>Chapter 01: Ten Perfect Strangers</title>
	<link>https://peoplesrepublicpod.com/podcast/chapter-01-ten-perfect-strangers/</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Donovan]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s about the choices we make — and the ones that we don&#8217;t.]]></description>
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	<title>Trailer</title>
	<link>https://peoplesrepublicpod.com/podcast/trailer/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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