Pending outstanding absentee ballots, Tiffany Cabán just won the Democratic primary for Queens County district attorney. With nearly 40 percent of the vote, incredibly, Cabán won in a close, competitive race on an explicitly socialist platform in the largest city in America. Her main competitor, Melinda Katz, is holding out until the remaining 3,400 absentee ballots are counted. But it seems unlikely that she’ll close Cabán’s thousand-plus-vote lead.

This is the third major electoral win for socialist candidates in New York in just under a year, coming soon after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and State Sen. Julia Salazar’s insurgent wins last summer. This also comes directly after the landmark housing bill that just passed the New York state government, a campaign that has been the focus of socialist organizers in New York for the past few years.

In her victory speech last night, Cabán stated, “We built a campaign to decriminalize poverty, to end mass incarnation, to protect our immigrant communities. I want to be clear: Nothing is more important to me than the safety of all people. We are going to invest in healing and stabilizing lives.”