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A power network of organizers, activists and donors. We're here to upend politics as usual with research, intelligence and strategic action from across the winning diverse Democratic coalition. Listen to our new podcast, Charting the Way Forward!
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@waytowinus.bsky.social
· Dec 11
The politics we have as Americans ultimately is up to us. We can choose for our democracy to be a dreary march to the drab center or running over groups of people with a metaphorical bus. Or we can choose an imagination battle that realigns the center so we can fight and build on favorable terrain.
"By June, the Democratic research group Way to Win found that voters responded to messages emphasizing how Trump’s actions, lack of due process for immigrants, and the administration’s refusal to be reined in by the courts were a threat to all of us."
Democratic leaders have the upper hand now and could use it to change the policy conversation about what immigration means to Americans. It’s the smart and strategic path.
And the least they could do to (partly) match the bravery of regular people. trib.al/dslnFwd
And the least they could do to (partly) match the bravery of regular people. trib.al/dslnFwd
Democrats Should Take Control on Immigration
The battle over DHS funding should prompt Democrats to reexamine some of their assumptions on this topic.
trib.al
February 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
"By June, the Democratic research group Way to Win found that voters responded to messages emphasizing how Trump’s actions, lack of due process for immigrants, and the administration’s refusal to be reined in by the courts were a threat to all of us."
“They weren’t uninformed, right?” @jenancona.bsky.social said of potential Harris voters who stayed home. “They just didn’t like what they heard. So that’s why I feel like it’s so important for any engagement plan to recognize how kind of burned and cynical these voters are.”
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Democrats want to find out why their voters stayed home in 2024 — and how to get them to show up this year
The DNC is launching an outreach campaign to win over voters who skipped the 2024 election with a new "listening first approach."
www.politico.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
“They weren’t uninformed, right?” @jenancona.bsky.social said of potential Harris voters who stayed home. “They just didn’t like what they heard. So that’s why I feel like it’s so important for any engagement plan to recognize how kind of burned and cynical these voters are.”
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POLITICO: Republicans are freaking out about Hispanic voters after a Texas upset
"Tory Gavito, president of Democratic donor network Way to Win, said she received excited texts from several major donors over the weekend after the win.“
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
"Tory Gavito, president of Democratic donor network Way to Win, said she received excited texts from several major donors over the weekend after the win.“
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Republicans are freaking out about Hispanic voters after a Texas upset
Democrats flipped a deep-red state senate district over the weekend that has the party worried about November.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
POLITICO: Republicans are freaking out about Hispanic voters after a Texas upset
"Tory Gavito, president of Democratic donor network Way to Win, said she received excited texts from several major donors over the weekend after the win.“
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
"Tory Gavito, president of Democratic donor network Way to Win, said she received excited texts from several major donors over the weekend after the win.“
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
New Short Take on what wealth is for, and how funding science (and the humanities!) isn't just good for a lucky kid like me, it also grows the hell out of the economy for everyone. Inspired by two new scientist friends, @cdelawalla.bsky.social and @markhisted.org and the rally coming up March 7th!
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 AM
New Short Take on what wealth is for, and how funding science (and the humanities!) isn't just good for a lucky kid like me, it also grows the hell out of the economy for everyone. Inspired by two new scientist friends, @cdelawalla.bsky.social and @markhisted.org and the rally coming up March 7th!
Politico: Immigration takes center stage in New Jersey special election (featuring Quote of the Day from @torygavito.bsky.social)
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Politico: Immigration takes center stage in New Jersey special election (featuring Quote of the Day from @torygavito.bsky.social)
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
We are very excited to be included in this! Direct link to the @jenancona.bsky.social piece here. We spent a lot of '24 talking to voters and found profound alignment with Grumbach and Bonica's approach. We can not keep thinking small. Building a strategy around moderation has failed countless Dems.
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
We are very excited to be included in this! Direct link to the @jenancona.bsky.social piece here. We spent a lot of '24 talking to voters and found profound alignment with Grumbach and Bonica's approach. We can not keep thinking small. Building a strategy around moderation has failed countless Dems.
In the face of profound tragedy, millions of Americans are standing up to repression. DON'T MISS this discussion of hope, clear-eyed strategy, & an inspired theory of change w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social & @torygavito.bsky.social
Apple: tinyurl.com/y5vydy2z
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdxZ...
Apple: tinyurl.com/y5vydy2z
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdxZ...
Making Repression Backfire (feat. Leah Greenberg) - Charting the Way Forward Ep 54
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
In the face of profound tragedy, millions of Americans are standing up to repression. DON'T MISS this discussion of hope, clear-eyed strategy, & an inspired theory of change w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social & @torygavito.bsky.social
Apple: tinyurl.com/y5vydy2z
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdxZ...
Apple: tinyurl.com/y5vydy2z
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdxZ...
NEW Charting the Way Forward. The question isn't whether we need to abolish ICE, the question is how we get this done. This is not the kind of argument Dems are used to winning, but on this issue, failure is not an option.
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Not Whether to Abolish ICE. How. - Charting the Way Forward Ep 53
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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January 23, 2026 at 12:28 AM
NEW Charting the Way Forward. The question isn't whether we need to abolish ICE, the question is how we get this done. This is not the kind of argument Dems are used to winning, but on this issue, failure is not an option.
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The Trump Admin constantly tries to tell us that only woke blue states are moving toward clean energy. The speed and scale of the wind, solar and energy storage buildout in Texas tells a very different story.
Texas power buildout in one picture: wind (green) laid the foundation, solar (yellow) is the new wave, and energy storage (purple) is clustering around load. This is the grid transition, mapped.
January 21, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The Trump Admin constantly tries to tell us that only woke blue states are moving toward clean energy. The speed and scale of the wind, solar and energy storage buildout in Texas tells a very different story.
NEW: just posted Charting Ep 52, a discussion of the research summary we published at the end of last year with Kerry and lead author @danancona.bsky.social. Much easier to listen than reading the thing!
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Towards Strength: Way to Win's 2024-25 Research - Charting the Way Forward Ep 52
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
NEW: just posted Charting Ep 52, a discussion of the research summary we published at the end of last year with Kerry and lead author @danancona.bsky.social. Much easier to listen than reading the thing!
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📺 youtu.be/d_yC_qjqbLY
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📺 youtu.be/d_yC_qjqbLY
We'd had the tab with this interview of @mizzwelch.bsky.social open for a while and it is genuinely fantastic. This was literally the question that drove our research this past year. @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social.... we need to talk!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We'd had the tab with this interview of @mizzwelch.bsky.social open for a while and it is genuinely fantastic. This was literally the question that drove our research this past year. @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social.... we need to talk!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...
Our sprawling research report is now available on substack!
🎺🎺🎺
Why Dems underperform!
How voters think!
How many of them think the 1% is the problem and not immigrants and DEI! (lots!)
How many more mods are D than R!
Clear signals from massive complicated data!
Something for everyone, really! 🎁
🎺🎺🎺
Why Dems underperform!
How voters think!
How many of them think the 1% is the problem and not immigrants and DEI! (lots!)
How many more mods are D than R!
Clear signals from massive complicated data!
Something for everyone, really! 🎁
Towards Strength: Way to Win Post-2024 Research Summary
Voters wanted change in 2024 and still do. An alternative perspective on the losses of 2024, chronic Democratic underperformance, and what voters are thinking as we head into 2026.
chartingthewayforward.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Our sprawling research report is now available on substack!
🎺🎺🎺
Why Dems underperform!
How voters think!
How many of them think the 1% is the problem and not immigrants and DEI! (lots!)
How many more mods are D than R!
Clear signals from massive complicated data!
Something for everyone, really! 🎁
🎺🎺🎺
Why Dems underperform!
How voters think!
How many of them think the 1% is the problem and not immigrants and DEI! (lots!)
How many more mods are D than R!
Clear signals from massive complicated data!
Something for everyone, really! 🎁
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No one has done more to counterbalance the corrupting influence of the "we can't have nice things" dweebs (Yggy, Silver, etc.) than Way to Win. This new report is well worth your time to read and incorporate into your work if we really want to win.
The politics we have as Americans ultimately is up to us. We can choose for our democracy to be a dreary march to the drab center or running over groups of people with a metaphorical bus. Or we can choose an imagination battle that realigns the center so we can fight and build on favorable terrain.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No one has done more to counterbalance the corrupting influence of the "we can't have nice things" dweebs (Yggy, Silver, etc.) than Way to Win. This new report is well worth your time to read and incorporate into your work if we really want to win.
IT’S OUR 50TH EPISODE! And who better to celebrate with than Terrance Woodbury of @hitstrat.bsky.social. Join us for a look back at 2025, how Ds are positioned for 2026, & the transformative opportunity staring us in the face!
Apple: shorturl.at/XyEkZ
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0C...
Apple: shorturl.at/XyEkZ
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0C...
We Can Rebuild All of This 💩 (feat. Terrance Woodbury) - Charting the Way Forward Ep 50
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
IT’S OUR 50TH EPISODE! And who better to celebrate with than Terrance Woodbury of @hitstrat.bsky.social. Join us for a look back at 2025, how Ds are positioned for 2026, & the transformative opportunity staring us in the face!
Apple: shorturl.at/XyEkZ
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0C...
Apple: shorturl.at/XyEkZ
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0C...
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This piece matters to me because I literally have spent all my time, the better part of the past 20 years, speaking with Americans and listening to how they understand politics and how it intersects with their lives. I cannot tell you how true this is.
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This piece matters to me because I literally have spent all my time, the better part of the past 20 years, speaking with Americans and listening to how they understand politics and how it intersects with their lives. I cannot tell you how true this is.
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Democrats don't need to moderate to win. Not if you know anything about how actual voters make decisions. newrepublic.com/article/2042...
A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Democrats don't need to moderate to win. Not if you know anything about how actual voters make decisions. newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The politics we have as Americans ultimately is up to us. We can choose for our democracy to be a dreary march to the drab center or running over groups of people with a metaphorical bus. Or we can choose an imagination battle that realigns the center so we can fight and build on favorable terrain.
December 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The politics we have as Americans ultimately is up to us. We can choose for our democracy to be a dreary march to the drab center or running over groups of people with a metaphorical bus. Or we can choose an imagination battle that realigns the center so we can fight and build on favorable terrain.
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Really hard to explain. Stigmatize the whole population; racially profile; have masked thugs grab you and your neighbors from your communities, schools, and workplaces; destroy your businesses and raise your cost of living -- just doesn't make sense why he would be unpopular.
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Really hard to explain. Stigmatize the whole population; racially profile; have masked thugs grab you and your neighbors from your communities, schools, and workplaces; destroy your businesses and raise your cost of living -- just doesn't make sense why he would be unpopular.
"This Thanksgiving, I’m taking my power back and reclaiming the spirit of the holiday. I invite all Americans who are fed up to do the same." -LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter cofounder
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
We're not buying what Trump enablers sell this Black Friday | Opinion
This holiday season, we're launching the 'We Ain't Buying It!' campaign – a call to action redirecting our spending, and resisting authoritarianism.
www.usatoday.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"This Thanksgiving, I’m taking my power back and reclaiming the spirit of the holiday. I invite all Americans who are fed up to do the same." -LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter cofounder
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
FANTASTIC conversation with @melodyoliphant.bsky.social of the @georgiayouthco.bsky.social and how the wild election results two weeks ago looked from the ground. First state level win for Dems in GA since 2006!
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400K GEORGIA BLOWOUT!!! (feat. Melody Oliphant) - Charting the Way Forward Ep 48
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
FANTASTIC conversation with @melodyoliphant.bsky.social of the @georgiayouthco.bsky.social and how the wild election results two weeks ago looked from the ground. First state level win for Dems in GA since 2006!
🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vIN...
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You should read this.
JUST POSTED: Everyone Is Wrong, our response to the recent series of arguments that – based on the hypothesis that Harris lost and Dems underperformed in 2024 due to (summarizing broadly) voters’ perceptions that Dems are too far left – Democrats need to move right to win.
Everyone Is Wrong
The Way To Win Is Strength, Not Moderation. The 2025 Winners Proved It.
chartingthewayforward.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
You should read this.
“We don’t need to all be rowing in the same boat, but at least rowing towards the same direction,” Tory Gavito, president of the donor network Way to Win, said of Democrats in late September.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Democrats spent a year at rock bottom. Have they learned any lessons?
It’s been a long year of arguments, wisdom-mongering and profanity for the professional left and its allies.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“We don’t need to all be rowing in the same boat, but at least rowing towards the same direction,” Tory Gavito, president of the donor network Way to Win, said of Democrats in late September.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
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I want to repost this in the sky, humongous.
Just one example of the thinking we'd like to see change. These ads got around $4M each in AZ and OH. Party brands are open source. Everyone gets a say. But it's possible the image of the party might improve if we stop spending millions of dollars each cycle telling voters how wrong we are.
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I want to repost this in the sky, humongous.
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Not only did key allies of the regime lose top races in New Jersey and Virginia, Americans rebuked his party in “local races – school board, city council, mayor, county – across the country,” as @simonwdc.bsky.social wrote. “Simply, Trump has been a terrible, terrible leader and people are pissed.”
new from @tusk81.bsky.social:
For months now, polling has been clear: "Americans have only been growing more and more outraged at Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda, including on immigration."
And last week’s elections drove that message home.
For months now, polling has been clear: "Americans have only been growing more and more outraged at Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda, including on immigration."
And last week’s elections drove that message home.
Voters Send Clear Message: Enough Is Enough
“Simply, Trump has been a terrible, terrible leader and people are pissed."
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Not only did key allies of the regime lose top races in New Jersey and Virginia, Americans rebuked his party in “local races – school board, city council, mayor, county – across the country,” as @simonwdc.bsky.social wrote. “Simply, Trump has been a terrible, terrible leader and people are pissed.”