Local and state elections are ghost towns where the non-corrupt passionate people were replaced by big money-backed party d-bags because it took convincing a couple hundred to swing the election. The kleptocrats are in control at all levels now because the public was asleep at the wheel, and has been for an entire generation now. Hell when I was born there was a massive variety in political representation that is not there whatsoever now.
The change needs to be getting people to the polls to vote anything to normalize voting with high turnout and then let actual public pressure make a difference.