My red state makes "preemptive laws" to undo anything remotely nice that the more liberal cities try to do (bike lanes, solar panels on school roofs, municipal banks).

There's tons of corruption on the municipal level as well (things like large development companies and Flock bribing politicians to get approval), which is kind of discouraging. But, I think you need to attack the problem on all fronts (federal, local, primaries, mutual aid, protest, civil disobedience).