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Lots left to learn, but one clear thing: flipping AZ is major offensive win for Dems. Many will try to explain how it happened. Here's a truth: the win would've been impossible w/o the organizing led by grps like @LUCHA_AZ
We profile them in our book: https://bit.ly/3jSqr7O
We profile them in our book: https://bit.ly/3jSqr7O
The opening story of the book begins with the choice that confronted leaders like @TomasRobles14 @Gomez_Alex07 @RaquelTeran & so many others when S.B. 1070 passed in 2010. How they should respond in that moment was hardly a foregone conclusion in that moment. 
The brilliant, urgent, human response in 2010 became a crucible of leadership development & organizing that created an incredible network of leaders who built an web of interconnected organizations that reshaped the politics of the state. It's not abstract; see it here:
See (on left) how the leaders moved through this ecosystem, building relationships with each other, developing experience, & building the infrastructure they needed....& how that added up to a steadily growing constituency base (on right)
The impact of all this was a steady pushback on the worst excesses of SB 1070, a reimagining of what politics could be, and the dedicated work it takes to make it a reality
A key piece of the story is that these leaders made it happen by rejecting the false choices that establishment politics always tries to give movements; they designed a new kind of politics on their own terms that was both idealistic & pragmatic, worked inside & outside, etc.
. @TomasRobles14 and @Gomez_Alex07 tell their own story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/opinion/sunday/latinos-arizona-battleground.html
And I wrote about it in @nytopinion below, and you should read the full story (w/data!) in our book: https://bit.ly/3jSqr7O https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/opinion/activism-power-victories.html
The coming weeks will engender a reckoning w/2020. The same establishment players who rejected the notion that movement grps could make a diff will try to spin the narrative. Read this history to see who won the biggest offensive fight for Dems this cycle. Not the consultants.
And, see this story by @ryangrim and @aidachavez, reinforcing ideas: https://theintercept.com/2020/11/04/arizona-democratic-latino-election/
