I’m going to assign you a book:

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky

Do you remember when the right-wing dummies were all shrieking about this book, and how Hillary Clinton was mentored by Alinsky?

It’s because they were following the damn advice in that book - it’s like a checklist of what to do to take over locally, then statewide, etc