Make the Road Action (MRA) promotes policy solutions that improve the lives of all working-class and low-income people, and strengthens the movement for justice through electoral and grassroots organizing to advance progressive change.

A key piece of our work is mobilizing voters in our communities each year to ensure their voices are heard in the political process. Founded in 2009 in New York, MRA has since expanded to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Nevada.

MRA has quickly built and expanded a powerful operation. Across five states, we reach more than one million voters every year. Collectively, we have won policy campaigns that have lifted millions of immigrants and working-class people out of poverty and expanded our rights.

Across our states, MRA has quickly become recognized as one of the most effective 501(c)(4) organizations for our civic engagement work. Our non-partisan civic engagement work reaches millions of voters every year across our states to provide them with up-to-date information to ensure everyone is able to exercise their rights at the ballot box. Through relational organizing, we build a culture of civic engagement in our geographies to ensure voices that for too long have been left behind have a seat at the table.

In terms of partisan electoral work, in 2020, across our five states, we generated more than four million phone calls and text messages to voters, with complementary digital efforts. Our teams helped to deliver crucial presidential election victories in Pennsylvania and Nevada, defended House seats in New Jersey, and ensured a State Senate super-majority for Democrats in New York. A Way to Win analysis found our voter mobilization program to be one of the most effective such programs in the country. We also ran one of the largest Latine voter mobilization programs in Nevada (an early primary/caucus state), helped progressive insurgents win state and federal primaries in Pennsylvania and New York, and were widely recognized for our impact.