Election Reflections: 2022
Election Reflections: 2022
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Courtesy of Local Progress The Fight for Progressive Power Starts in Local Communities
As many inside the beltway start shifting their attention to speculation about 2024, we know that there is work to be done right now.
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Photo from NGP Action (Facebook) Debriefing the 2022 Midterms: Hard Wins and Historic Threats
To help make sense of this moment, Mat Hanson sat down with DaMareo Cooper, Kendra Cotton, Michael Podhorzer, and Nancy MacLean.
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Courtesy of Down Home NC The Path to Building Power Runs Through Rural America
Rural voters are essential to building winning majorities. Sustained investment in year-round organizing, renewed focus on populist economic policies, better messaging, and locally rooted, working-class candidates are beginning to win them over.
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Courtesy of the author View from the Grassroots: Community Change
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Grecia Lima from Community Change/Action learned.
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Courtesy of the author View from the Grassroots: TakeAction MN
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Elianne Farhat from TakeAction MN learned
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Courtesy of the author View from the Grassroots: PA Stands Up
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Carrie Santoro from PA Stands Up learned.
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Courtesy of the authors View from the Grassroots: NY WFP
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Tascha Van Auken and Divya Sundaram of the New York Working Families Party learned.
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Courtesy of Celina Culver View from the Grassroots: SURJ
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Celina Culver from Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) learned.
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Courtesy of Sam Smith View from the Grassroots: PA United
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Sam Smith from PA United learned.
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Photo by Nelly Fuentes How Undocumented Farmworkers Helped Flip the Michigan State House
Among the unsung heroes of the Democrats’ historic triumph in the Michigan legislature are the same unsung heroes that have kept our country fed for generations: rural, undocumented farmworkers and their families.
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Courtesy of the Initiative 82 Campaign How Tipped Workers Won in DC
When elected officials wouldn’t deliver, tipped workers and their progressive allies went to voters.
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Courtesy of Christine Neumann-Ortiz View from the Grassroots: Voces de la Frontera Action
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Christine Neumann-Ortiz from Voces de la Frontera Action learned.
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Courtesy of Make the Road Action View from the Grassroots: Make the Road Action
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what <a href="https://www.maketheroadaction.org/">Make the Road Action</a>'s (MRA) co-Executive Director and its Pennsylvania and Nevada directors learned.
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Courtesy of Katey Lauer View from the Grassroots: WV Can’t Wait
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Katey Lauer from WV Can't Wait learned.
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Courtesy of Jay Malone View from the Grassroots: Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Jay Malone from the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation learned.
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Courtesy of Brendan Walsh View from the Grassroots: Worker Power
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Brendan Walsh from Worker Power in Arizona learned.
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Photo from Rising Voices via Facebook. Multi-Ethnic Coalition Wins in Michigan
Statewide alignment among organizations representing communities of color flipped Michigan. “We did get our people to see the power within themselves and unlock that power,” Jungsoon Ahn of Rising Voices told Eddie Wong.
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Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun. Licensed CC BY 2.0 Organizing Against Autocracy in the US: Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks
Authoritarian takeover is not inevitable—but preventing it will require imagination, commitment, and a united democratic alliance like we haven’t experienced before.
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Clockwise from top: UNITE HERE, Faith In Minnesota, Pennsylvania Stands Up. MAGA Stymied But Stalemate Remains
Effective organizing helped block the “Red Wave.” This buys our movements a bit more time to build to the scale and unity we need to defeat the authoritarian right.