Long-term organizing, deep canvassing, and broad coalitions fueled wins for working families from Maine to Missouri, Washington State to North Carolina. “The red maps we see on network TV obscure the fact that rural America isn’t MAGA country. Our nation’s intertwined crises - of housing, health, climate, affordability and despair - hurt people in small towns and big cities alike.”
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years. It needs to expand its social base and movement infrastructure and build campaigns for multi-racial democracy as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism, defends democratic rights, and fights for the most vulnerable.