Our Wins

Poor and Working-Class People are Winning in North Carolina

Not only do we fight at Down Home– we win.

Through organizing, Down Home members have won both local and statewide campaigns, plus made a reputation for ourselves at the ballot box.

Statewide Wins

Down Home members organize together across county and region to move working-class legislation at the state level, too. Our wins include:

The passage of Medicaid Expansion, bringing health coverage to 600,000 North Carolinians living in the coverage gap

Local Wins

Down Home members know their hometowns best and know what they need. They have fought for and won many local campaigns including:

Electoral Wins

Up and down the ballot, Down Home members endorse candidates who will fight for working-class needs. We then put in the hard work of knocking doors to get them elected and work to co-govern with those candidates after they win. Our electoral wins include:

Breaking the supermajority in 2020 with the election of Ricky Hurtado, the first Latino to serve in the NCGA
Preventing the supermajority again in 2022 with the election of Diamond Staton Williams to the NCGA and defeating a MAGA-extremist
Electing the first Black woman to the Burlington City Council
Elected the first Black mayor of Oxford (and he’s a Down Home member!)
Electing a majority of Down Home members on the Boone Town Council
Running Down Home members and working-class people for office in small towns all across the state

The winning combination of local campaigns and electoral politics

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Come on in y'all.

We’ve got work to do.

We want working families to have more than a seat at the political table when decisions about our communities are made – we want to be making the decisions ourselves.