Elections

WAVE Political Action Committee (WAVE PAC) produces significant impacts on local, state, and federal elections through:

  • Endorsements and Vital Direct Contributions to Campaigns Up and Down Ballot

  • Strategic Communications to Targeted Voters Using Super PAC funds

  • Impactful Digital and Print Ads, as well as successful social media influencer campaigns

  • Sponsored Ballot Parties

  • Member-hosted Fundraising for Candidates

2022 Primary and General Elections

WAVE broadened and deepened its influence in 2022 with endorsements of 63 local, state, and national candidates and investments of roughly $150,000 in their campaigns. We also spent $180,000 in independent expenditures in support of certain candidates. Knowing the day-to-day impact local officials have on our communities and with an eye on building a bench for higher-level offices, WAVE members backed and helped recruit more city council, school board, and water/sanitation candidates than ever. The growing commitment of WAVE supporters enabled us to provide 36% more in campaign contributions than in 2020 and cover 20% more races in all corners of Orange County, from La Habra to San Clemente and Seal Beach to Rancho Santa Margarita.

Additionally, WAVE PAC and its members supported candidates by advocating for fair redistricting boundaries, amplifying candidates through social media, holding fundraisers and meet-and-greets, providing field volunteers, educating voters and holding ballot parties, phone banking, text banking, canvassing, and writing tens of thousands of letters and postcards at the local and national level to get out the vote.

WAVE continued expanding its network and providing members with even more opportunities to impact the elections by building and strengthening partnerships with individual campaigns and other grassroots organizations, such as Indivisible, Vote Forward, Field Team 6, Grassroots Dems HQ, California Common Cause, and local Democratic clubs.

WAVE By The Numbers 2022