Unwilling to take it any more, Alex Hult went to Cincinnati in the fall of 2004 to work with America Coming Together. Intending to stay only for the weekend, he found himself there through Election Day organizing volunteers. Convinced of the efficacy of door-to-door canvassing, he joined up with Act Now in the summer of 2006. That fall, he traveled to central Illinois to work on a state senate campaign. Leaving no union hall, high school football game, church social or VFW fish fry untouched in the search for votes, he helped turn Illinois’s 52nd State Senate district Democratic for the first time since before the Civil War. Alex works part-time trading commodity options.