Swing Left

[jducoeur]

Throughout all the noise of the election, one organization stood out as being more strategic than the rest: Swing Left. They weren't huge, they weren't massively funded, but as far as I can tell, they punched above their weight in terms of analyzing political patterns, focusing a bunch of energy on the down-ballot, and pushing money towards winnable fights.

They've just declared, as I expected, that they're not going away. And while I'm unsubscribing from the vast majority of the terrifying number of mailing lists that ActBlue put me on, I'm sticking with Swing Left -- talking it up, and continuing to donate. Their attitude, which I believe is correct, is that we took a step in the right direction last week, but need to sustain the momentum and remember that elections don't only happy every two or four years, and that overcoming Republican control of state governments may, in the long run, prove crucial.

Check it out...

Comments

[keshwyn]

Don't you mean took a step in the left direction? ;-)

I'll donate as soon as I finish surviving this month...

[metahacker]

I've also been impressed with Flippable, which recognized the importance of state- and local races early, and raised a lot of money that nearly flipped Georgia pre-midterms. (I'm still not sure Ossoff wasn't robbed of the election.)