“The goal of United By Interest is to “close the economic advantage gap, and that cuts across party, and that cuts across race,” Williams says. When he and his UBI partners looked at the 100 poorest congressional districts, they found they were almost evenly divided among members of the hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus and lawmakers in the Black and Hispanic caucuses. “If you can get those three disparate caucuses to work together, you can get a majority in the House, at a minimum,” he says of the potential for policy breakthroughs.” — Michael Williams