The historic victories of Georgia Senate candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff shift control of the U.S. Senate to Democrats. Warnock will be the first black Democrat to ever represent the South. This victory capped an enormous grassroots organizing effort to mobilize voters, especially women and BIPOC communities, led by Stacey Abrams and her groups, New Georgia Project and Fair Fight.

Another less visible but powerful force was also at work in Georgia and other swing states: a grassroots movement to back candidates who supported the “care economy” by expanding child care and services for the elderly and disabled. Vermont journalist Sue Halpern, a staff writer for the New Yorker, wrote about this powerful but largely under-the-radar movement. She discusses the movements behind the stunning Georgia electoral results, as well as what her 92-year-old mother taught her about the 2020 general election.