Last week, Georgian voters pulled off a historic feat: electing two Democratic U.S. Senators and flipping the Senate blue.
Sens.-elect Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock became the first Democrats to win a statewide election in 20 years.
Warnock and Ossoff will also make history as Georgia's first-ever Black and Jewish U.S. Senators. (Haaretz)
Pres.-elect Joe Biden also scored a historic win in Nov., flipping the state blue for the first time since 1992. (AP)
Ossoff, Warnock, and Biden's wins are no fluke: Local organizers have spent years working to flip the state blue.
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams has spent nearly a decade in the state working to flip Georgia blue, per the AJC.
In 2013, Abrams founded voting rights organization, the New Georgia Project, to register people of color to vote. (AJC)
And, in 2019, after losing the governor's race by one point, Abrams founded Fair Fight 2020 to fight voter suppression.
According to NPR, Fair Fight registered 800K+ new voters in the lead up to the Nov. general election.
The Pew Research Center found that Black voter registration in the state increased by 130K+ between 2016 and 2020. (CNBC)
Georgia also saw a surge in new Latino and Asian voters, with 95K+ new Latino voters and 63K+ new Asian voters in 2020.
Georgia Rep. Nikema Williams, who succeeded Rep. John Lewis in the 5th District, also worked with Abrams to flip the state.
In 2018, Williams was arrested at the state Capitol for protesting voter suppression in Georgia's gubernatorial election.
In 2019, Williams was elected chair of the state Democratic party, becoming the first Black woman to chair the party. (WP)
According to the Washington Post, Williams spearheaded a program to target "low-frequency women-of-color voters."
Former state legislator DuBose Porter told the Washington Post that Williams "helped rebuild the party."
As a congresswoman, Williams is leading efforts to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Black Voters Matter co-founder Latosha Brown also led efforts to register Black voters in Georgia ahead of the elections.
Black Voters Matter hosted registration drives and voter education events in all 50 counties, per NPR.
Georgia saw record Black voter turnout in the 2020 election: 1M+ Black voters turned out to vote in Nov. (The Hill)