Sources

The receipts — every factual claim on this site traces to one of these venues.

News and wire reporting

Reuters — universal childcare announcement (March 3, 2026); fare-free bus budget status (March 2026). Via SRN News.
NPR — White House meeting with President Trump (November 21, 2025); 2025 campaign coverage.
NPR affiliate KACU — inauguration reporting: midnight subway-station oath and public City Hall ceremony (December 31, 2025 / January 2026). https://www.kacu.org/2025-12-31/zohran-mamdani-sworn-in-as-new-york-city-mayor-capping-historic-rise
Associated Press — 2025 campaign and transition coverage.
NBC New York — election-night provisional 2025 general-election results (Mamdani 1,036,051 / 50.4%; Cuomo 854,995; Sliwa 146,137), via torchonline.com (November 2025); superseded by the certified Board of Elections totals (see below).
New York City Board of Elections — certified 2025 general-election totals: Mamdani 1,114,184 (50.78%), Cuomo 906,614 (41.32%), Sliwa 153,749 (7.01%), turnout 2,218,647 (43.47%). Statement and Return Report for Certification (December 2, 2025), as tracked by the Wikipedia election infobox.

The City Reporter — general-election results (November 4, 2025); rent-freeze lawsuit status (September 24, 2026).
Queens Daily Eagle — 2020 Assembly primary victory and 346-vote margin (July 2020); Mamdani’s victory statement.
prismnews.org — Rent Guidelines Board 7–1 rent-freeze vote (June 2026).
tbanewsnetwork — rent-freeze coverage and Mamdani’s “relief” quotation (June 2026).

beaconjournal — inaugural address transcript excerpts, January 1, 2026 (“democratic socialist,” “govern expansively and audaciously”).
WCBM — inaugural address childcare passage (“universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few”), January 2026.
worldinfonews — inaugural address (“If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor”), January 2026.

democrata.es — fare-free bus and municipal grocery status (September 2026).
Algemeiner; internewscast — attributed accounts of the “globalize the intifada” dispute (used only as attributed claims, not as the site’s voice).
American Jewish Committee — open letter from CEO Ted Deutch (June 2026); critics’ claims presented as theirs.

Wikipedia: Zohran Mamdani — biographical backbone (birth, family, schooling, citizenship, Assembly tenure, campaign chronology), accessed 2026-09-27. Granular 2026 items (e.g., Block by Block) are flagged where Wikipedia is the sole source.

Real photographs (3): Wikimedia Commons, verified licensing —
mamdani-sept-2025.jpg: Juan Cano / Presidency of Colombia, September 26, 2025 — Public Domain Mark 1.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zohran_Mamdani_Sept_2025.jpg
mamdani-white-house-2025.jpg: White House, November 21, 2025 — US federal government public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zohran_Mamdani_at_The_White_House_-_cropped.jpg
mamdani-caveat-2025.jpg: Dmitryshein, May 25, 2025 — attribution/share-alike (see provenance.json for the exact license). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zohran_Mamdani_05.25.25_(b)_(cropped).jpg
Generated dramatization art (16): stylized 3D animated-movie caricatures created 2026-09-27, each captioned “AI-generated dramatization art — not a historical depiction.”
See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.

Partisan outlets’ unverifiable figures (e.g., specific deficit numbers) were omitted rather than published with weak sourcing.
Single-source social-media claims about the 2025–2026 record were omitted unless corroborated.
Anything that could not be traced to a reputable venue is not on this site.

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