Brandon Mancilla is very happy. For the United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A Director and a Democratic Socialists of America member, June’s New York primary elections were a massive success. Speaking with a week later, hours before a rally supporting Columbia University postdoctoral workers, the victory was still fresh.Jacobin “Going into 2026, there were zero UAW 9A members in Congress. At the start of 2027, we will have two,” he says proudly, referring to and . Both had just won congressional