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A top advisor to Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral campaign reportedly helped launch the re-election bid of the House of Representatives’ chief progressive.
Morris Katz, a left-wing political operative who serves as the Mamdani campaign’s lead media strategist, helped create a new ad for Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair and “Squad” member Greg Casar, D-Texas, announcing his 2026 midterm campaign on Monday morning, Politico Playbook reported.
Katz is no stranger to Democratic campaigns, having helped “fortify and expand” New York’s Working Families Party, according to an online biography, and most recently creating ads for a Democrat in Maine who is challenging longtime Sen. Susan Collins, D-Maine. He also advised Dan Osborn’s independent Senate campaign in Nebraska.
The Fight Agency, where he works creating ads and advising on campaign strategy, has rolled out videos for Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., among others.
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The political strategist behind multiple Zohran Mamdani ads has also thrown his professional chops behind House Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar. (Getty Images)
But it’s his work for Mamdani that propelled Katz’s name to the national stage.
He told New York Magazine in June that he was taken with the 33-year-old democratic socialist after their first meeting.
“I left thinking, I love this man. And I am supposed to be skeptical. What is going to happen when the rest of New York gets to know him?” the outlet published him saying.
Katz is now reportedly throwing his progressive ad-making chops behind Casar, who is running for his third term representing part of the Austin, Texas area.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Fight Agency and Casar’s campaign multiple times for confirmation and further comment but did not receive a response.
Casar’s new ad, which runs just over two minutes long,…
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