Election Reflections: 2022

As many inside the beltway start shifting their attention to speculation about 2024, we know that there is work to be done right now.

To help make sense of this moment, Mat Hanson sat down with DaMareo Cooper, Kendra Cotton, Michael Podhorzer, and Nancy MacLean.

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. 

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. 

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.

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections.​ Here's what Elianne Farhat from TakeAction MN learned

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.

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. 

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections.​ Here's what Sam Smith from PA United learned. 

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.

When elected officials wouldn’t deliver, tipped workers and their progressive allies went to voters.

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. 

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. 

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.

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Make the Road Action's (MRA) co-Executive Director and its Pennsylvania and Nevada directors learned. 

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. 

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.

Authoritarian takeover is not inevitable—but preventing it will require imagination, commitment, and a united democratic alliance like we haven’t experienced before.

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.