Organized People, Organized Power: 3 Lessons We Learned From Angie Nixon’s Campaign

Happy Black August, y’all.

Tuesday night, state Rep. Angie Nixon won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida. Her opponent had raised $16 million. Nixon had raised just under a million.

She won by double digits anyway.

I’m not going to stand here in Black August and pretend November will be easy. She’s facing an incumbent with real money, in a state where the GOP holds a real registration edge, in a state Democrats have treated like a lost cause for a generation. The road ahead is steep, and it deserves to be named honestly, not waved away. But steep roads and closed doors are not the same thing. This campaign has already handed us something we needed regardless of how November turns out.

Three lessons. Let’s get into them.