@anildash Harold Washington. Who shocked the Chicago Machine by beating Richie Daley and Jane Byrne. Harold wouldn't run until we registered hundreds of thousands of new voters - we did! And he announced.

I have been beating the drum for years - we can upend conventional political wisdom by turning out new voters. In 2024 the number of eligible non-voters exceeded the number that voted for Trump.

We win with disaffected Trump voters, new voters, and by not scolding our most loyal voters by telling us we lost because we needed to be nicer to racists, fascists, sexists, homophobes, transhaters, xenophobes, and the like.