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'Ready to take power': How Latino activists mobilized voters in Georgia's runoffs

Progressives invested in Georgia s Latino communities. Voter turnout shattered expectations. Suzanne Gamboa © Provided by NBC News Days before the Senate runoffs in Georgia this month, a canvasser with the Latino progressive political group Mijente knocked on the door of an 80-year-old man who didn’t know there was an election or who was running. The man asked the canvasser to talk to him about who was best for the community, and that’s who would get his vote, said Tania Unzueta Carrasco, political director for Mijente, who related the story told to her by a canvasser. “Here in Georgia, the support of the two candidates was a little bit of a trust exercise,” Unzueta Carrasco told NBC News. “We were looking at the bigger picture. We were looking at the fact that if they didn’t win, we wouldn’t have a Democratic majority.”

In Georgia Senate races, change comes knocking

This article originally appeared on Capital & Main. On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Brandon Brown appeared to have no room in his busy schedule for menu planning. The field director for the New Georgia Project had just come from a voter registration drive, one of a half-dozen planned around the state. He d popped in on a Zoom meeting with about 4,000 volunteers. Soon he would be embarking on a hiring spree. The organization had set itself an ambitious goal: knocking on 1 million doors before the Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff election. And for the task, a small army of foot soldiers would be required. We re looking for anywhere from 200 to 300 canvassers to knock on doors across the state of Georgia, Brown said.