The Democratic Party has a simple strategy: Continue pumping funds into Democratic candidates until traditionally Republican-leaning states turn purple, and then finally flip blue. It may have taken decades, but the steady stream of dollars to the Left is finally moving the needle.

In Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz defeated Beto O’Rourke by less than two points, even though it’s been 40 years since a Democrat came within five percentage points of winning a Senate seat in the Lone Star state. Before Lucy McBath defeated Karen Handel in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, a Democrat hadn’t held that seat since 1976. The Virginia state legislature hasn’t been blue in over 20 years, but today a state that once boasted a 32-seat Republican majority now has only one.