I want to tweet for a moment about the track record of the Great Slate. The question from the outset was this: there is no goal more important than winning the midterm elections. Can tech workers pool their money in a way that will expand the universe of winnable seats?
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The Democratic Party had a very timid definition of "swing seats" that seemed to exclude many rural districts where the limiting factor was fundraising, at the astronomical levels required. But if you pour water into a desert, surprising things grow. So we tried that!
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About five thousand people, mostly in the tech industry, put a cumulative $1.8M into eleven House primary races across the country. We have nine primaries behind us and two to go. Three of our candidates got onto the ballot in November.
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@Pinboard I greatly appreciate your effort to make Congress more progressive, but respectfully, spending $1.8 million on Dem primaries, two-thirds of which you lost, is not best way to do it. Much more effective would be funding targeted voter registration and enagmenet efforts1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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What do you think the donated money gets spent on?
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That's not true at all; it depends entirely on how the money is spent, and what happens afterwards.
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