Georgia

Recent Achievements

Investment in organizing Black communities and other communities of color over the last several years has radically shifted the political dynamics of Georgia, now a critical swing state. A key participant within that effort, BMI has contributed to important recent wins:

• In 2025, used digital, social media and deep organizing strategies to help flip two statewide seats on the Public Service Commission critical to the regulation of utility costs and environmental standards

• In 2024, kept the Democratic margin of loss in the presidential election well below the national average (2.4% rightward shift from 2020 compared to 6% nationally)

• In 2022, after flipping Georgia’s 16 electoral college votes and two US Senate seats in 2020, successfully defended Reverend Warnock’s Senate seat from a MAGA Republican challenger

During the 2024 election cycle, the BMI contacted voters at their doors, on social media, over the phone, and via their own personal networks. The universe of voters that BMI reached out to included underinvested, low turnout voters, voters under age 40, and formerly incarcerated individuals who were able to restore their voting rights.

BMI helped register thousands of new voters, knocking on 1,600,000 doors and engaging in over 759,000 conversations, 100,000 of which were with voters who other organizations had tried but failed to reach. In addition to BMI’s door knocks, they held 75+ events focused on voter education, cooperative resource sharing, and understanding issues that challenge their communities.

What makes Georgia crucial this cycle

• Senator Jon Ossoff is up for re-election, and Democrats must hold his seat in order to have any chance to recapture control of the US Senate

• The Georgia governor’s race is considered a toss-up, with former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in position to beat a Republican opponent to take charge of a very important 2028 presidential swing state

• Democrats have a chance to flip seats in the state legislature, particularly the Georgia state house; they can get closer to winning back that chamber and rolling back bad legislation that has been the blueprint for other conservative states across the nation

• SCOTUS’s ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act has added fuel to the state-level GOP trifecta’s extreme steps to make voting harder and to purge registered voters from the rolls, necessitating continuous efforts to help voters protect and exercise their right to vote

What Flip the Vote’s support means for 2026

BMI has ambitious plans this election cycle, including a goal to register 15,000-20,000 new voters and knock over 3 million doors, targeting more than 2 million Black men, Black women, and other BIPOC and young people in 75 of Georgia’s 159 counties, especially in Metro Atlanta, Athens, Albany, Augusta, Columbus, Fort Valley, Macon and the Black Belt along the state’s southern border. Support from Flip the Vote will allow BMI to hire additional organizers and canvassers from local communities, increasing the number of touchpoints they have with voters to offer support they may need while also educating them about candidates, what the upcoming elections mean for them, and how and where to vote. Early resources from Flip the Vote ensure that BMI can reach more voters at their doors and in the community, to gain understanding of what issues matter to them in time to help channel that energy into civic and electoral action.