MoveOn members, we did it! Collectively, tens of millions of members mobilized voters in large numbers, prevented a purple wave, held the Senate, helped win essential governor and secretary of state races, and helped defend progressive champions within the Home. Our actions contributed to probably the most profitable midterm election for the social gathering in energy in many years—bucking historical past, defeating many hardcore MAGA extremists, and defending democracy.
Many elements performed into this election’s outcomes—and you’ll be proud that you simply had been a part of a neighborhood that contributed in impactful methods the place it mattered most. Early evaluation reveals our technique focused the correct set of voters with a resonant array of messages. In brief, the parents who helped result in Democrats’ electoral success had been a few of the very individuals our program centered on and had been motivated by the problems we centered.
Which means each name, textual content, focused digital advert, and get in touch with with voters contributed to a number of razor-thin victories that had been decisive this election.
Right here’s a few of what we completed collectively:
- We ran the most important relational organizing program within the nation and particularly recruited MoveOn members to mobilize 240,000 individuals they knew personally to vote in probably the most essential states.
- Grassroots MoveOn donors gave $1.5 million immediately for Senate, Home, gubernatorial, and secretary of state candidates—a few of whom beat the largest election deniers within the nation.
- MoveOn supporters gave our knowledge scientists, researchers, and organizers the sources to establish and goal and attain 4.3 million “surge voters”—first-time voters in 2018 and 2020 who could agree with progressive causes however had been much less prone to vote in 2022.
- We held 9 rallies in battleground states with Sen. Bernie Sanders, NextGen America and Working Households Social gathering to mobilize and prove youth voters in swing states.
- By means of adverts, social media, emails, texts, and MoveOn members’ advocacy, we pushed the problems of abortion rights and democracy safety entrance and heart.
Check out a few of the numbers behind our collective impression:
Thanks for all you probably did. From making a grassroots donation to spending a number of hours calling MoveOn members in swing districts, sharing hard-hitting content material on-line, becoming a member of our weekly Rallies for Democracy, taking part within the endorsement votes for the 85 candidates MoveOn members endorsed up and down the poll—every of those actions, and so many extra, contributed to MoveOn’s impression on these historic, consequential, and highly effective midterm election outcomes.
We didn’t win each race, and a GOP-led Home of Representatives can be a hotbed of MAGA conspiracy theorists and assaults on our freedoms. However we helped create a extra favorable political panorama for the subsequent two years, despatched a transparent nationwide message of rejection to MAGA’s extremism, and constructed momentum round points that matter deeply—and we’ll maintain organizing round them within the weeks, months, and years to come back.
Right here’s what our most speedy work forward contains:
- Going all-in to reelect Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia—hundreds joined our Nov. 15 livestream (watch the recording right here) to kick off this system and started to join phonebanking and vote tripling shifts to achieve Georgia voters. You possibly can join phonebanking and vote tripling right here.
- A whole lot of hundreds of MoveOn members took collective motion in response to Trump’s introduced candidacy for president in 2024—ordering “Make Trump Lose Once more” stickers to show visible opposition to Trump, signing petitions to name on networks to cease giving him free airtime and on officers to carry him accountable for his function within the riot, and donating now to defeat Trump … once more.
MoveOn members pulled collectively for our largest midterm election program in our 24-year historical past. The stakes had been simply that top—and our power, engagement, and impression matched the second.
Thanks for being a part of this vibrant neighborhood that works for an America for all. Thanks for the way you participated up by Election Day—and your continued partnership as we advance collectively a world of justice, sustainability, equality, and love.