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Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections

Edited by Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum, and Maria Poblet

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INTRODUCTION 
  • 2020 Was an Extraordinary Year  
    Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum, and María Poblet

PART 1: BUILDING PROGRESSIVE POWER IN THE STATES
  • Change a State and Shock a Nation: Georgia in the 2020 Elections
    Interviews with Cliff Albright, Beth Howard, Adelina Nicholls, and Nsé Ufot, conducted by Linda Burnham
  • The Battle for Democracy in Michigan
    Art Reyes III and Eli Day
  • LUCHA’s 10-Year Road Map to Victory
    César Fierros Mendoza
  • New Virginia Majority: We Win by Expanding Democracy
    Jon Liss
  • Florida’s Rising Majority Learns from Its Wins — and Its Opponents
    Andrea Cristina Mercado
  • Pennsylvania Stands Up: Stepping into the Whirlwind
    Jacob Swenson-Lengyel and Jules Berkman-Hill
  • States of Solidarity: How State Alignment Builds Multiracial Working-Class Power
    María Poblet
PART 2: COMMUNITIES OF COLOR DRIVE THE WIN
  • Black Voters in 2020: A Roundtable Conversation
    Moderated by Karl Kumodzi and featuring Sendolo Diaminah, Arisha Hatch, Thenjiwe McHarris, and Mondale Robinson
  • Lessons from Engaging AAPI Voters and Communities in 2020 Timmy Lu, and featuring interviews with Aisha Yaqoob Mahmood, Laura Misumi, Mohan Seshadri, and Vivian Chang
  • Stepping into Indigenous Political Power: The Resurgence of the Native Vote in 2020 Lycia Maddocks (Quechan Indian Tribe)
  • No One Is Coming to Save Us: Self-Organizing in Latinx Communities for Political Power
    Rafael Návar
PART 3: WORKERS ON THE DOORS
  • UNITE HERE: Drawing On Our Knowledge, Fighting for Our Future
    Interviews with Mario Yedidia, Stephanie Greenlea, and Diana Valles, conducted by Marcy Rein
  • Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation: Steps on the Road to a New Texas
    Hany Khalil and Jay Malone
  • ‘There’s a Purpose in This’: Domestic Workers Enter the Electoral Arena
    Linda Burnham and Ai-jen Poo
PART 4: BERNIE, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, AND THE PRIMARY BATTLES
  • Bernie 2020: ‘Not Me, Us’
    A conversation between Yong Jung Cho, Neidi Dominguez, and Alex Han, convened by Alex Han
  • Our Revolution: Everything Depends on Local Organizing
    Larry Cohen
  • Democratic Socialists and the US Presidency in the Neoliberal Era
    David Duhalde

PART 5: MOBILIZING VOTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
  • Protest, Politics, and (Electoral) Power
    Maurice Mitchell
  • People’s Action: Building ‘Movement Politics’
    Ryan Greenwood
  • Fight the Right, Build the Left: Seed the Vote’s Work in 2020
    Jill Shenker, Rose Mendelsohn, and Jason Negrón-Gonzales
  • Win Justice and Beyond: Winning Elections While Building Power for the Long Term
    Deepak Pateriya
  • Building and Transforming Power: Lessons from the 2020 Elections
    Alicia Garza