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Rachel Leingang

Working Families bet on 2026 as the right time for a third US party after a wave of wins

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Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families party, with Zohran Mamdani and voters in Brooklyn, New York, on 4 November 2025. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/Reuters

The “time has come” for the Working Families party, the progressive third party’s national director said after a year of big wins and a growing hunger among voters for a home outside the two major political parties.

“For 26 years, we’ve been building this argument,” Maurice Mitchell said. “And the argument has met the moment.”

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