In a Medium essay, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson argues that Democrats won Senate and other races in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Kansas — places the DSCC, funders, and democracy groups had left off their maps and out of their budgets — crediting Black women voters, young and Latino voters, and local Southern organizers. She says party committees and philanthropy drew their targets from last cycle's margins while ignoring suppression and the people already organizing there, and urges them to fund the South year-round, put organizers in the room where lists are made, and never again write off states the spreadsheets called lost.