I'm just a concerned American citizen doing what I can to help save democracy and the planet for Gen Z by electing as many Democratic candidates as possible at the federal, statewide & especially local (state legislative) levels.
This is not a PAC, it's just a site with links to ActBlue pages where you can donate directly to one, two or dozens of Dems running for office at once. All funds go to the campaigns listed; I receive nothing.
--Charles Gaba
Indiana's candidate filing deadline was yesterday. Now that it has passed, I've gone ahead and filled in the competitive state legislative candidates for districts which only have one Democrat running, thus meaning they're the presumptive nominee unless there's some dramatic development between now and November.
As it happens, only one...
Three updates to my U.S. House page today:
Prior to being elected to the Senate, she served as executive director of the Michigan Head Start Association, vice president of Michigan Future, Inc., and president/CEO of Greater
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Thanks in large part to a new analysis of the various Attorneys General & Secretaries of State races from Louis Jacobson of Sabato's Crystal Ball, along with some other candidate research I've been doing, I've gone ahead and filled in seven more of the Gov, AG & SoS races on my...
Now that I've added a blog to the site I decided to post monthly analysis updates showing the latest fundraising progress by various criteria.
All of 2023:
For the 2023 -2024 cycle, I ended 2023 having raised just over $220,000. Around half of this went to (successfully) help Virginia legislative candidates in their 2023 election; they ended up keeping control of the state Senate and flipping...
Yesterday, the DCCC announced 17 US house districts which they are adding to their "Red to Blue" campaign. I already had most of these included on my fundraising page for the House, but there are a handful of additional ones. They also announce specific Democratic candidates who they're backing. In most cases these are...
The filing deadline passed for major party candidates in West Virginia yesterday, so I've gone ahead and added the presumptive Democratic nominees for as many competitive state legislative seats as possible. Only one Democrat is running in 8 of the 10 competitive seats; the other two districts have more than one Democrat running, so those will remain TBD until after the primary on May 14th.
Only four of the eight have active ActBlue pages as of today (boldfaced); I check ActBlue from...
The major party filing deadline passed today in West Virginia. Only one Democratic candidate filed to run for Governor or for Secretary of State, so I've added both of them to my Statewide Executive fundraising page:
For the past month or two I've been relentlessly cross-posting links to over a dozen of the fundraising pages on six different social media platforms per day: Twitter, Threads, Blue Sky, Mastodon, Post and Spoutible. Some people have complained that while they generally support my efforts, that's just too much.
I agree, so going forward (at least for the next few months, anyway), I'm going to cut my posts in half from 14 per day to 7: Five State Legislative pages, the Special Election...
The January 23rd New Hampshire primary also included general special elections for 2 state House districts: One of these is solid red to begin with; the other is a 50/50 swing district.
Unfortunately, since there was a competitive Presidential primary on the Republican side vs. a completely meaningless Democratic Presidential primary (where the presumptive nominee wasn't even listed on the ballot), GOP turnout understandably swamped Dem turnout, and both of these...
As I noted yesterday, my normal policy for legislative races is to only include districts with a Partisan Voter Index (PVI) rating of less than 10 points. This helps donors concentrate their donations on races where the Democratic nominee has a realistic chance of winning (or losing).
However, it's also...
