Saikat Chakrabarti’s bid for Congress is setting down roots in San Francisco.

The progressive Democrat, who opened a new campaign headquarters last week, said he’s hoping to build a movement.

‘“We do need to do a huge voter-contact operation, and a big part of our strength is going to be our grassroots volunteer army,” Chakrabarti said.

An early engineer at San Francisco-based financial-technology company Stripe, Chakrabarti is hoping to win the seat held for more than 30 years by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who twice held the role of speaker of the House of Representatives during that time.

Though he got his professional start in tech, Chakrabarti is no stranger to politics. He joined Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ upstart 2016 presidential campaign, then managed New York Rep. Alexandria

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