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MS Now • January 23, 2026
Yasmin Radjy on Swing Left's "Ground Truth" Expansion
Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy joins Chris Jansing to discuss Ground Truth, highlighting recent conversations with Iowa voters and how anyone can get involved to help Democrats win competitive House races in the midterm elections.
Grassroots Connector • February 6, 2026
Cultivating the Ground for Truth
Swing Left’s Managing Director Zack Malitz spoke with Steve Schear of the Grassroots Connector about knocking on every door, talking with persuadable voters, and more.
The Connector • January 7, 2026
“Before we persuade, we have to listen.”
How Swing Left's new "Ground Truth" program is aiming to revolutionize how Democrats connect with voters.
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The New York Times • December 26, 2025
When the Democratic Door-Knocker Has Something Unscripted To Say
Yasmin Radjy, executive director of Swing Left, has called for door-knockers to be freed from the “tyranny of testing.”
The Connector • December 11, 2025
Ground Truth featured by Micah L. Sifry | This Shor Smells Bad***
“…Swing Left’s new ‘Ground Truth’ project, which seeks to change how Democratic activists engage with voters by getting them to listen first before trying to persuade...”
NBC News • December 8, 2025
What Democrats can take from Zohran Mamdani's outreach efforts for 2026
“Yasmin Radjy, the executive director of Swing Left, a Democratic voter outreach group, said Mamdani’s team made three strategic decisions that she believes should inform Democratic campaigns...”
NPR Politics Podcast • November 25, 2025
What Does It Mean To Be A Republican Or A Democrat In The Trump Era?
“[Swing Left is] trying to figure out how Democrats can build back trust that was very clearly lost in the 2024 election cycle…”
Pod Save America • November 21, 2025
Episode: 1089: Trump's Polls Plummet To All Time Lows | Pod Save America
Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy joins Tommy Vietor on Pod Save America to talk about a better way to contact, engage, and organize voters and volunteers.
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Future in U.S. Politics | Tommy Vietor CNN
Pod Save America host Tommy Vietor discusses initial findings from Swing Left's Ground Truth canvassing program on CNN.
CNN • November 19, 2025
“Ground Truth” conversations with voters | Chris Jansing Reports on MS Now
Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy joins Chris Jansing to discuss Ground Truth, highlighting conversations with voters in a Pennsylvania swing district and Democrats’ strategic blindspots when it comes to voter outreach.
MS Now • November 17, 2025
The Nation • November 17, 2025
What Catholic Door-Knocking Taught Me About Saving the Democratic Brand
“When I took a job as a church-based community organizer in 2010, I had no previous exposure to religion. As a secular Iranian American, my knowledge of the Bible was limited to my Bay Area high school’s AP English elective…”
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How To Win the Midterms: Yasmin Radjy on her New Initiative Ground Truth
“Yasmin Radjy, Executive Director of Swing Left, unveils their new initiative Ground Truth, a deep-canvassing strategy aimed at not only speaking to voters face-to-face, but implementing their feedback directly into a candidate’s policy proposals…”
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The Contrarian • November 17, 2025
How one Dem group is rethinking canvassing
“Following the FEC’s decision to allow canvassing coordination between outside groups and campaigns last year, Swing Left is taking a big swing…piloting a year-round canvassing program that utilizes artificial intelligence, all in an effort to help Democrats win next year’s midterm elections…”
Politico • October 20, 2025
Letter: US Democrats waste millions reaching out to the wrong voters
“Janan Ganesh correctly flags a paradox in his column that ‘winning polls is the only curb on strongmen’ (Opinion, August 28), but he misses a key culprit: the breakdown in the way Democrats communicate with voters. What Democratic politicians are saying…”
Financial Times • September 8, 2025
Democrats Are Workshopping New Tactics After Losses of 2024
“If there is one point of consensus in the deeply fractured Democratic Party, it’s that the old ways of doing business just aren’t cutting it. And so, many of the party’s most analytically minded strategists have begun focusing their energies on…”
The New York Times • July 15, 2025
MS Now • July 15, 2025
Yasmin Radjy on “Ground Truth” | Chris Jansing Reports on MSNBC
“We’ve got to throw away the old playbook, and we’ve got to start a radically different approach. At Swing Left, we’re working with House Democrats now on a new program called Ground Truth, which is our most ambitious effort ever to reach voters.”