Dec 10, 2024December 10, 2024

RECAP: Briefing - Some Bright Ideas for 2025 (12/10/2024)

In this briefing, MVP outlines our four main jobs in 2025-2028: 1) Block the Trump agenda; 2) Build state-level power; 3) Upgrade our voter engagement strategies; and 4) Win at the ballot box from down-ballot to Congress and President.

Briefings Partisan

2024-12-10 – Briefing Graphic – Some Bright Ideas for 2025 (Landscape – 16×9)

In this briefing, MVP outlines our four main jobs in 2025-2028:

Block the Trump agenda and protect our most vulnerable communities.
Build state-level power through local organizing and big-tent alliances.
Upgrade voter engagement from organizing to digital, media, and culture.
Win at the ballot box from down-ballot to Congress and President.

Agenda

Billy Wimsatt (MVP) - Why we lost, what we learned, where we overperformed, and our framework for 2025-2028.
Hallie Montoya Tansey (MVP) and Pablo Rodriguez (Communities for a New California) - Our two closest House victories (both in CA) and what we can learn from them.
Sarah Chaisson-Warner (MVP) - The plan to block bad federal legislation and make gains in the 2026 midterms.
Jillian Johnson (MVP) and Todd Zimmer (Down Home North Carolina) - Two razor-thin victories in North Carolina, and the state-level political fights ahead.
Javier Morillo (MVP) - The plan to build state-level power for long-term political realignment, drawing on over a decade of organizing in Minnesota.

Resources

Briefing slide deck
2025-2028 Strategy Roadmap forthcoming!

Want posts emailed to your inbox?

Subscribe to our Substack.

Screenshot of the Inside Political Money article "The Map Expanders: 13 Groups That Helped Democrats Win in Red America" by David Callahan, with a photo of Senator-elect Annie Andrews speaking to cheering supporters holding campaign signs

November 6, 2026

“The Map Expanders”: Inside Political Money names MVP among 13 groups that helped Democrats win in red America

After Tuesday’s “Blue Tsunami,” IPM’s David Callahan credits the funders who backed years of organizing in places the party had written off.

Post-election briefing: What Just Happened?!

November 6, 2026

RECAP: National Briefing - What Just Happened?! We WON!

Tune in for a briefing on the outcomes of the 2026 midterms, featuring 23 speakers, including MVP state and regional advisors and partners from across the country.