to a lot of people like katy hill. she came up outside of the system. she s somebody who is challenging an established names, there s a two-term incumbent she ll go up against, but initially there s like a dozen democrats. she eventually went up against three of them. if you re still playing by the old party rules. if you re the democrats, or the republicans for that matter, you knee to start figuring out what s going on. this story is incredible and this organization is done something i, as a republican, would be very afraid of the they re use a single message, flip of house, swing left. so focused anyone can go into the district closest to them. it s organized. and they re doing more than money. they re bringing bodies, which mean they can canvass potential
reporter: now they tell me it s cathartic, even addicting. i cannot go away. every time i go out and meet another democrat and they say thank you so much for coming, i can t wait to vote. reporter: add to that swing left manpower, money. they set up innovative district funds. you donate to a district, not a person. and the eventual primary winner gets the cash. in cal 25, that s katie hill. it s my great pleasure to hand over this check from the grassroots. thank you so much. reporter: you beat a slew of other people on election night. how much money did you have left? we had almost nothing left. we spent pretty much down to zero. reporter: the group game over $160,000. with more coming in every day. swing left is now in 78 congressional districts in 29 states. whole families are turning out like the bartletts. why swing left? it takes a village to flip a house. so reporter: did you make that up, it takes a village to flip a
theater packed with celebrities. the unlikely star is a freelance write effort turned political power player. after donald trump won, he felt just like these folks did. i was feeling, you know, despondent, depressed. reporter: like the new yorkers at this party, he lives in a deep blue congressional district in western massachusetts. i was looking for a place where i could make a difference. i found it just across the border. reporter: he found out 75% of americans have a congressional swing district within 50 miles. and believed that if he could convince those blue district democrats to help out in their nearest winnable district, the house of representatives could swing left. he came up with swing left.org for people like chris goldberg. enter your zip code here. so i m in west hollywood. very blue district. maybe one of the bluest. and the search. and it says what my closest swing district is, which is
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house? i guess i just did. reporter: that s pretty good. back on broadway, ethan is winning over more converts. can mandy pitaken who s famous knock on doors? absolutely, that s what we do. we are absolutely going to do that. reporter: and the party s host, producer jordan, fresh off winning a tony, has his eye on a different prize now, control of the house. you either lay down or you say i m going to stand up, i m going to join with you, i m going to join with you, and i m going to make this change. joining me now, msnbc political analyst and republican strategist susan dell persio. democratic strategist basil smooikle. they re saying you don t necessarily have to come up through the system. you don t have to depend on the democratic party for its organization or even for its money. meaning they re not beholden to the party, beholden to the donors. if the democrats indeed swing left in the house, is it going