Democrats Won the Senate, Now It’s Time to Save Democracy

Aaron Huertas
4 min readJan 6, 2021

Democrats really did it. They flipped the Senate. Now the party has control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency for the first time since 2009.

This victory is due to hard work from Georgia organizers who have been battling voter suppression for decades—and Trump’s wild conspiracy theories about election fraud for the past few months.

Democrats should view this victory as a mandate to save democracy. But in order to do so, they’ll need to get their own house in order on process and power…

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Aaron Huertas

Democracy is pretty cool. We should try it some time. Voting rights, science policy, political communication and grassroots activism.