Georgia has become the center of the political universe. A Democratic presidential candidate won the state for the first time since 1992. And now it’s holding two U.S. Senate runoffs that will determine control of the chamber. These victories are possible because local organizers have been hard at work for years building a multi-racial coalition and fighting voter suppression. Anoa Changa, a freelance writer and political strategist based in Georgia, shares her insights on how organizers have shifted the state's politics from the bottom up and how political narratives in the South are changing as a result.

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