I'm running for mayor in Philadelphia in part because I believe that great democratic American cities have to lead the way when our state legislatures and federal government has stagnated. We throw a ton of money at national politics and we don't invest even a fraction of that into the local, he says. "When you do it at scale in some of the big cities, you're seeing something be really transformational"
Featuring Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a long-time public education organizer, a frontrunner in the mayoral race.
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