A thread on why if you have a few spare bucks and care about institutional racism, voting rights, health care, women's access to contraception and abortion, police violence, all the things so many of us care about—you should really be giving money to state races in 2020
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Now, J. Random Bookmarking site is not the first to notice this or think of a remedy. Swing Left does it, the Sister District project does it, Forward Majority does it. The point is more of *us* should do it, especially in 2020, a pandemic year when fundraising is hard.
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Because we mobilized a lot of people in 2018 who had never made political donations before (myself included!) with the Great Slate, in 2020 we're trying to add to this pool of donations with the State Slate. All the hard work has been done for you by
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There are approximately two billion statewide races in the US, and Dave modeled them all, sorted and re-sorted, and got us a ranked list of races where small donations could go particularly far. You can find our first group here: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/state_slate.html …
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If we can raise enough money (about $20K a person, a good chunk of a campaign budget), we have expansion packs just waiting in the wings. I can't stress how far your contribution can go in these state races. We have a real chance at winning in Florida, Iowa, Arizona, Pennsylvania
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Money doesn't win elections, but lack of money loses us too many elections. We need to take away the Republican's dominant fundraising advantage. And yes, one of our candidates is Patrick Henry, who is going to make up that 61 vote deficit, with your help!https://secure.actblue.com/donate/state_slate …
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