VICTORY: Arizona Senate Flips to Gun Safety Majority

Everytown Spent $10 Million to Elect Moms Demand Action Volunteers, Flip State Legislative Chambers, and Build Trifectas in Key Battleground States

WASHINGTON - Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, declared a major victory today as voters flipped the Arizona Senate to a gun safety majority, establishing a gun safety trifecta.

"The majority that spent years rubber-stamping the gun lobby's agenda in the Arizona Senate is gone, replaced by a new majority that will put public safety ahead of gun industry profits," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "Everytown congratulates the new majority, and we're excited to work with them on the lifesaving laws Arizonans have been waiting for."

"This year, eight Moms Demand Action volunteers ran for the Arizona legislature, and the neighbors who organized alongside them changed who runs the state Senate," said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. "They showed what happens when the people most affected by gun violence decide to lead. Our movement will be in Phoenix in January to help this majority deliver."

"Arizona volunteers have spent years at the Capitol, watching the state Senate push dangerous gun bills toward the governor's desk. This fall we decided we'd seen enough, and we spent months making the case to our neighbors for common-sense gun safety champions," said Sandra Gutierrez, a volunteer with the Arizona chapter of Moms Demand Action. "We're proud of what we accomplished together, and we're excited to see what this new majority does for our communities."

Everytown's top state-level goal this cycle was building trifectas: establishing gun safety majorities in both legislative chambers alongside a gun safety champion in the governor's office. Across Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund, and Everytown for Gun Safety VF MN invested $10 million, running paid media campaigns supporting Moms Demand Action volunteers in key state legislative battleground districts and partnering with the Democratic Governors Association to elect gun safety governors in those states. Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers made more than 15 million voter contacts in support of gun sense candidates up and down the ballot.

These candidates were among 547 Moms Demand Action volunteers who ran for offices up and down the ballot across 47 states this cycle, including 40 in all who ran for Congress. Many were trained through Demand a Seat, which Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund launched in 2021 to train grassroots volunteers and gun violence survivors to run for office. The program has trained more than 1,600 volunteers across 49 states and Washington, D.C. Since 2021, more than 600 former volunteers have been elected, including six who were already serving in Congress before this election.