In this short video, Ellen David Friedman reflects on the successes and long-term impacts of the Rainbow Coalition in Vermont. She lays out the importance of the years of independent electoral organizing that had been undertaken in Vermont prior to the Rainbow Coalition and why it meant that the Vermont Coalition was able to sustain the demobilization that shut down Rainbow Coalitions in other regions in 1989. She draws a number of lessons about the importance of independent electoral organizing that can shape our work today.