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In the summer of 2014, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat was locked in his second epic primary against the 44-year incumbent \u201cLion of Lenox Avenue\u201d Rep. Charlie Rangel. Already, Espaillat had begun to form his uptown political alliance, mentoring candidates and boasting about how many mayoral hopefuls came to the Indian Road Cafe to court his support and the support of a growing Dominican voting bloc. Espaillat would lose to Rangel, just as he had two years prior. But the loss would harden his resolve to wrest the 13th Congressional District seat from the Black establishment to become the nation\u2019s first Dominican member of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more Meet the voters of New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the guy who came here as an undocumented immigrant and clawed his way up, forcing his way in, beating down the doors of the machine,\u201d said New York City Comptroller Mark Levine, a loyal ally. \u201cNothing was handed to this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same summer, a 20-year-old Columbia University student named Darializa Avila Chevalier was in Palestine \u2013 and her worldview was being turned upside down. With funding from school, she took an internship in Nablus, one of the largest cities in the West Bank, somewhat on a whim. For almost two months, she lived and worked at a center run by Tomorrow\u2019s Youth Organization, teaching English to Palestinian kids as young as three. Right after she got back, the 2014 Gaza war began, a conflict in which more than 2,000 Palestinians died and 10,000 were injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a really formative period for me, because I was essentially living in the heart of the occupation and seeing the way that Palestinians had to navigate all these systems, the impact that it had on children as young as the ones that I was working with,\u201d Avila Chevalier said. \u201cI came back, and I couldn’t unsee all those things. And I started seeing them in our own systems, right? Our systems of policing, of deportation, of the controlling of our movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, that summer was radicalizing. Avila Chevalier was going through something many young people can relate to: a dawning of global consciousness, a realization that the way things are presented is different from the way things really are, a painful awakening to the disparities of human experience. Many people draw the curtain on these epiphanies as they enter adulthood \u2013 and this is seen as a mark of maturity. As we all now know because her old and not-so-old tweets saying things like \u201cFuck Kamala Harris\u201d and \u201cno more police at all ever\u201d have been repeatedly published, Avila Chevalier did not moderate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe connections just solidified in my mind,\u201d she said. \u201cOh, these are not only like<\/em> systems, they are the same<\/em> system. It was the same tear gas made in the USA that was being dropped on Gaza that was also being used against (Black Lives Matter) protesters in Ferguson.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Within the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization Avila Chevalier officially joined less than a year ago and which voted overwhelmingly to back her in January, skeptics have called her a \u201cPalestine ultra.\u201d It\u2019s an issue the now 32-year-old has oriented her whole adult life around. It has animated her interest in immigration policy, in anti-terrorism surveillance and in racial justice. It led to her conversion to Islam and to her protesting the ongoing Israel-Hamas war from the moment it began. And it animates her attempt to unseat Espaillat, now a five-term Congress member, more than a decade after that turning point summer.<\/p>\n

That this is the candidate hand-picked by the primary factory Justice Democrats, backed by New York City DSA and endorsed by an enthusiastic Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggests that they believe pro-Palestinian activism is a winning issue. This is true particularly among theyoung people who showed up for Mamdani in droves last summer, but Avila Chevalier is testing the theory across a swath of Democrats in a district with a diverse primary electorate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re in an interesting moment where new people are being politicized by the thousands through the anti-war movement,\u201d said DSA co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo. \u201cAnd it makes sense that a candidate who’s been at the center of anti-imperialism has been able to tap into that interest and that outrage and agitation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also speaks to the vulnerability of Espaillat \u2013 and to the weakening political power structure that he painstakingly cultivated. The Upper Manhattan and Bronx branch of the New York City chapter of DSA is the organization\u2019s fastest growing. Mamdani won the district, which stretches across Manhattan north of 96th Street and includes a small portion of the West Bronx, by 13 points in the primary last summer, walloping Andrew Cuomo, whom Espaillat endorsed. Espaillat quickly adjusted, backing Mamdani right after he won the primary, but his overtures to Mamdani\u2019s movement failed. After Mamdani endorsed Avila Chevalier on MS NOW last month, Gordillo said 200 volunteers have joined the campaign every week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re talking about a 10-year Democratic incumbent running against an avowed leftist,\u201d said political commentator and left whisperer Michael Lange, who has written extensively about the race. \u201cLike, someone who might be the most left-leaning member of Congress if she wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can see how Espaillat might be bewildered by the situation. In some ways, Avila Chevalier, who is the daughter of Dominican immigrants and who speaks fluent Spanish, could be familiar to him. In another timeline, she might have ended up like 35-year-old City Council Majority Leader Shaun Abreu, who worked on Espaillat\u2019s state Senate and congressional campaigns while a student at Columbia and whom Espaillat mentored into his City Council seat. \u201cHe’s someone who has really looked out for young people, people like myself, the young generation of elected officials, and he’s opened a lot of doors and opportunities,\u201d Abreu said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But here she is, as if from nowhere, challenging Espaillat, <\/em>the original insurgent, with a totally different worldview, with a totally different relationship to the district. And he could very well lose to her. \u201cI think it’s up for grabs,\u201d said Eli Valentin, author of \u201cPoliticking in the Barrio: Essays on Latino Politics in New York.\u201d \u201cEight months ago, we would not have thought this was going to be possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more Adriano Espaillat, Jordan Wright, join with Black leaders in show of unity to fend off DSA<\/a><\/p>\n

At a recent rally in Harlem with union supporters and elected officials, the 71-year-old Congress member was in true form \u2013 a master operator who has been forming alliances (and making enemies) since he first ran for City Council in 1989.The location of the rally, in front of the housing complex Esplanade Gardens, home to many Black voters, was telling. Espaillat, who was accused earlier in his career of capitalizing on racial politics to pit Black and Hispanic voters against each other, is now hearkening back to the 1989 mayoral race, talking about \u201ca David Dinkins-type coalition,\u201d where \u201ca Black and brown labor coalition comes together to fight for a seat at the table.\u201d In a district with a primary electorate that, at least in 2025, was a pretty even mix of white, Hispanic and Black voters, he seemed to be aiming for a coalition of the latter two. He introduced myriad labor leaders and elected officials without a script, alternating between English and Spanish, touting long relationships with each one. It was an unusually cold and windy day just after Mamdani announced he was endorsing Avila Chevalier \u2013 reneging on a commitment he had made to Espaillat.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s in the fight for his life, for his political career, and I’m proud to stand by him, and proud to stand by our community,\u201d said Council Member Carmen De La Rosa, another Espaillat mentee. \u201cUnfortunately, the candidate that has been chosen by the DSA and the mayor, I\u2019ve never met, I\u2019ve never seen, really.\u201d It was a sentiment many shared. Espaillat went so far as to call for people like Avila Chevalier, who was raised in Florida but lived in New York City since she moved here for college 14 years ago, to be sent \u201cback home packing wherever they came from.\u201d It was the kind of thing you say if you don\u2019t totally understand what you\u2019re up against.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe permission that I needed\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That inability to \u201cunsee\u201d after she returned from Nablus led Avila Chevalier to join the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia, where she co-founded the campaign to get the university to divest from Israeli assets. She studied Middle Eastern Studies, and went on to pursue a doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center in sociology. Her unfinished dissertation focuses on the connection between the criminal legal system and deportations of immigrants and \u201con antiBlackness and securitization as undergirding ideological projects of this pipeline.\u201d She collaborated with civil rights attorney Ramzi Kassem, who is now Mamdani\u2019s chief counsel, to advocate for the release of Abdikadir Mohamed, a legal permanent resident of Somali origin who was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport and held in immigration custody for more than a year. To support herself while she worked on her dissertation, she took a job as an investigator with public defense practice The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. The day after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel that launched the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, she was in Times Square with her keffiyeh on, advocating for Palestinian liberation at a rally that startled and frightened many Jewish New Yorkers. \u201cI can only say I have been advocating for the human rights of Palestinians for most of my adult life,\u201d she said. \u201cWhenever anything happens on the ground (in Israel), there’s always a really outsized reaction that costs thousands of people their lives, and that is what I was worried about.\u201d<\/p>\n

She threw herself into organizing against the war, focusing on her alma mater. She was there as an alumni organizer from the first day tents popped up on Columbia\u2019s campus. She would go teach at Lehman College and NYU during the day, then come back to the encampment until late into the evening. A week after Palestinian campus activist Mahmoud Khalil, whom she calls a friend, was detained by Department of Homeland Security officers in March 2025, she wrote an op-ed defending him in USA Today. \u201cRelying on racist tropes that depict Arab men as national security threats, President Trump has detained and defamed Mahmoud and denied him due process,\u201d she wrote, calling the move \u201can authoritarian power grab.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At a Memorial Day rally overlooking the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights, it was clear that for Avila Chevalier, every issue connects to the Middle East. To describe how Espaillat had betrayed the district on immigration, she talked about his failure to stand up for Khalil. To describe how Congress had failed on affordability, she said she is \u201ctired of being told that there is never enough money to feed our children while there is always enough money to bomb schoolchildren abroad.\u201d Her primary attack against Espaillat, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the first formerly undocumented member of Congress, is that he is funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. This cycle, AIPAC has directed roughly $145,000 to Espaillat\u2019s campaign from about 100 donors as of the end of March. As of three weeks before the primary, he had about $1 million cash on hand, compared to Avila Chevalier\u2019s $230,000. He\u2019s also benefited from more than $3.4 million in super PAC spending so far \u2013 a number that\u2019s sure to rise until the June 23 primary. Avila Chevalier also has been boosted by just over $1 million in spending from super PACs, including that of the Justice Democrats.<\/p>\n

Avila Chevalier describes political conviction as a physical experience. \u201cMy politics have always felt like they\u2019ve had a visceral sense about them, in the sense that when I see something that I feel is so deeply unjust, like, in my body, I just can’t help but try to figure out what I can do about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As she spent more and more time organizing, she was surrounded by Muslim friends and allies. Raised mostly by her mom, Maria, who worked several jobs throughout her childhood, the emphasis was always on education. She didn\u2019t have a religious upbringing, though most of her family is Catholic. \u201cWhen I felt most spiritual when I was doing work that was about my community,\u201d she said. When Ramadan came around in 2019 or 2020, she decided to try fasting, \u201cjust to see if I could do it.\u201d Then she fasted again the next year, and the next. The fourth year she was fasting, a friend gently confronted her: \u201cShe’s like, \u2018Darializa what are we doing here? Are you converting? Are you not? Like, why are you continuing to fast? What’s the goal?\u2019\u201d It was the push she needed to admit that she actually wanted to be Muslim. \u201cI remember being able to articulate that, and then a few days later going to Halaqa, which is like, Quran study, and the Imam said, \u2018You know, Allah introduces himself to us as the most gracious and the most merciful. He will always be that, and whenever you’re feeling any type of doubt, you can always come back to that,\u2019 and I remember crying, and being like, \u2018Oh, that was the permission that I needed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDarializa knew\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The narrative with Justice Democrats often goes that they pluck out reluctant candidates from obscurity after reviewing thousands of nominations \u2013 like with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But it was Avila Chevalier who first reached out to the organization, according to spokesperson Usamah Andrabi. It was February 2025. In an email, she introduced herself as part of the \u201ccollective Uptown for Palestine\u201d and said she had been frustrated with the lack of response from Espaillat\u2019s office on the issue. \u201cA few of us have been thinking that it might be worth introducing an electoral strategy to unseat or push him on his policies,\u201d she wrote. \u201cPersonally, my organizing experience is in grassroots\/direct action work and would love to talk with someone who would be willing to do some strategy\/power mapping with us on the feasibility of an electoral strategy against an establishment Dem.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was long before Mamdani\u2019s campaign, for which Avila Chevalier was a field lead, proved that the 13th Congressional District could be fertile ground for a progressive upset. \u201cWe had not been looking at this district first and foremost, but we were definitely interested in doing so,\u201d Andrabi said. \u201cDarializa knew what the feeling on the ground was before any poll showed it.\u201d (And polls have since shown it. A Justice Democrats survey from early June had her up 4 points. An internal Espaillat poll reportedly had the race \u201ctightening.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Both Justice Democrats and Avila Chevalier say it took some convincing to actually get her to be the candidate to challenge Espaillat. Maybe, maybe not. She certainly fits the mold of a Justice Dems pick. Like AOC, she\u2019s a young, dynamic, bilingual woman of color who comes from a working-class background, graduated from an elite college and looks great on TV. Whether she needed coaxing or not, what is certain is that the campaign has been brutal \u2013 especially as the political and media classes have caught up to the fact that this is a real race and started dissecting her vast online footprint. On the tweets from her 20s, Avila Chevalier said the old, fun Twitter was a haven after her brother died: \u201cI am a millennial with an internet connection, and obviously the way I talk about these things now is not at all how I talked about them then.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a recent press conference denouncing Espaillat for his ties to AIPAC, Avila Chevalier\u2019s aide tried to make the press get on line for one-on-one interviews with the candidate, as opposed to the more traditional media scrum. The reporters refused, crowding around Avila Chevalier, cameras up, microphones in her face. The questions came in a harsh staccato, a handy summary of the narrative she\u2019s up against: \u201cDarializa, can you respond to past comments that you said the U.S. was \u2018a fucking disgrace\u2019 and you also said the U.S. \u2018bullied Russia?\u2019\u201d \u201cAre you the gentrifiers\u2019 candidate?\u201d \u201cCan you explain why you attended the rally on Oct. 8 in Times Square that considered the attacks from Hamas on Israel, the taking of 251 hostages, including children, as \u2018resistance?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If she pulls this off \u2013 and many observers across the political spectrum think she has a real chance \u2013 these would be the kinds of inquiries she\u2019d hear for two years straight. And Espaillat and his still-vibrant network of proteg\u00e9s are not keen to give this seat up. If she wins, she\u2019ll have to defend the seat, maybe immediately. Ill-fated Justice Dem Jamaal Bowman lost reelection after just two terms. But she\u2019s keeping things in perspective. Avila Chevalier said she was recently asked about community organizing: \u201cHow do you know what will work?\u201d She said, “I don’t. You just plant the seed, you just do the work, the rest is with God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more NYC-DSA chides Mamdani for increasing NYPD headcount<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/em>With reporting from Sahalie Donaldso<\/em>n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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