On June 23, New Yorkers will go to the polls to vote in their state’s primary elections, and many voters in New York City will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for outspoken socialist organizers. In addition to incumbents Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York state senator Julia Salazar, there are five socialist challengers backed by New York City DSA running for state and national office.

One of those candidates is Jabari Brisport, who is campaigning for the New York State Senate seat in District 25. The seat is open, and Brisport’s main opponent, Tremaine Wright, is a current State Assembly member with close ties to the relatively conservative Democratic establishment in Brooklyn. That, of course, goes along with taking money from the likes of real estate lobbyists and a billionaire-funded charter school PAC.

Brisport, on the other hand, is a public school teacher who advocates rent control, a homes guarantee, police defunding, fully funded public education, and a charter school moratorium; in short, a full-throated and direct socialist challenge to business-as-usual Brooklyn machine politics.