Since our founding in 2019, the Grassroots Democrats HQ has significantly scaled up our operations and become a nationally-recognized leader in grassroots organizing and voter mobilization. We are proud to have played a significant role in the past three election cycles in support of more than 50 Democratic campaigns nationwide.
We Won Across the Country in 2025!
As soon as Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Grassroots Democrats HQ began organizing to win every off-year election we could in 2025 to reduce his power and fight the MAGA agenda.
In April, we started by electing Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a race that saw a 10-point swing to the left from 2024 despite a $20 million dark money campaign from Elon Musk. We contacted nearly 1.2 million voters in partnership with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and locked in a liberal majority on the Court that has already taken action to protect democratic elections and restore reproductive freedom.
We won two more resounding victories in November. In Virginia, we contacted nearly 700,000 voters, elected Abigail Spanberger as the state's first female Democratic governor, and flipped 13 seats in the House of Delegates for our largest majority in over three decades. In California, we contacted more than 1.3 million voters and passed Proposition 50 by an overwhelming margin, directly countering Donald Trump's plan to rig the 2026 midterms by drawing 5 new red House seats in Texas. Both California and Virginia saw swings of 7+ points to the left from 2024, and each victory will help ensure voters have the opportunity to reject MAGA authoritarianism at the polls in 2026.
Past Election Cycles
Obviously, the 2024 election did not go as planned. However, we are still tremendously proud of all we accomplished this election cycle despite unprecedented political challenges. Together, we contacted a record 40.7 million voters, including nearly 7 million contacts on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign. These efforts were not in vain, as the data clearly shows that Democrats performed significantly better in states where we invested heavily in ground game organizing.
We also secured critical Congressional victories. We shrunk the already razor-thin GOP House majority by re-electing every House Democratic incumbent we supported while flipping three red seats in California. We also helped win three critical Senate races in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin, despite each state voting Republican in the presidential race. Each of these victories will be an important check on Donald Trump's power over the next four years and has laid the groundwork for us to take back control of Congress in 2026.
During the first 4 months of 2023, we focused our resources on Wisconsin, helping elect Judge Janet Protasiewicz and flipping the Court to a 4-3 liberal majority. In partnership with the Wisconsin Democratic Party, we contacted nearly half a million voters between the primary and general elections. We also hired 26 youth organizers as part of our Organize for Democracy winter cohort, who made 27,000 calls to fellow young people ensuring they had a plan to vote. This victory will likely help ensure free and fair elections, end GOP gerrymandering, and restore reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.
In the fall, we shifted our focus to Virginia -- where we helped to flip the House of Delegates blue and expand Democrats' State Senate majority -- and Ohio -- where we helped pass a constitutional amendment to enshrine the right to an abortion in the state's constitution. Both of these victories not only will protect critical rights for millions of Americans; they also laid the groundwork for victory in 2024 in these battleground states.
When 2022 began, our mission to “Defend the Blue” faced some pretty daunting history. Democrats had previously lost nearly every midterm election – including many by wide margins – in which they controlled the White House. But we defied the odds. We expanded our Senate majority for another two years at least, and while Republicans may have squeaked out a razor-thin House majority, President Biden’s first midterm featured more Democratic House wins than those of Democratic Presidents Obama, Clinton, Carter, Johnson, or Kennedy. We also won countless down-ballot races nationwide that will be critical in our efforts to defend reproductive healthcare, voting rights, and more. Having implemented one of the most robust voter contact programs of any grassroots organization in the country, the Grassroots Democrats HQ played a significant role in Democrats’ unprecedented 2022 successes.
Following our historic victories in 2020, we immediately got to work in 2021 to defend and expand our Democratic majorities nationwide. We contacted millions of voters to resoundingly defeat the Republican recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom, and we laid the groundwork for victory in 2022 in our target House districts. While we suffered narrow losses in the Virginia gubernatorial and House of Delegates elections, we turned out a record number of Democratic voters, which was imperative for Democrats retaining their State Senate majority.
The Grassroots Democrats HQ was founded in 2019 with a simple mission: defend the House, flip the Senate, and take back the White House in 2020. We played an integral role in making this mission a reality, partnering with the Biden campaign while working on seven Senate and nine House races.
The Grassroots Democrats HQ was proudly the official GOTV virtual staging location for Progressives for Biden and Seniors for Biden. Together we made 4.7 million phone calls to voters in swing states nationwide in support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We also wrote 316,000 postcards for the Biden/Harris ticket in partnership with Women’s March Action.
Following the 2020 November elections, two U.S. Senate elections in the state of Georgia headed for runoffs in January of 2021, the results of which would decide control of the chamber in 2021 and 2022. The Grassroots Democrats HQ immediately shifted our virtual infrastructure to flipping Georgia blue, proudly partnering with the Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff campaigns as well as the Georgia Democratic Party. In seven weeks, we made 900,000 phone calls, sent 384,000 texts, and wrote 97,000 postcards to voters in Georgia.
From April through November 2019, we worked tirelessly to help flip the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate. Our efforts paid off. Thanks in part to 20,000 phone calls and 13,000 letters from our volunteers, Democrats won a 55-45 majority in the House of Delegates and a 21-19 majority in the Senate, giving Democrats total control of Virginia’s government for the first time in decades. As a result, Virginia was able to end Republican gerrymandering in the state, pass universal background checks, ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, codify LGBTQ+ protections, and expand Medicaid.