As a Black woman, raising money to fund our campaign is even more daunting than usual. An analysis of 2018 House races found that Black female candidates raised, on average, less than half what white female candidates raised.https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/7/9/candace-valenzuela-campaign-finance-reform?fbclid=IwAR0Kv4p1AlJOZvjJh67SDo71ldsnob9j0dsBIVFiitlSQHHHEr75HDo_kr4 …
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This isn’t a new story. Women, PoC, and poor folks are used to having to work twice as hard to get half as far. We are in a moment of national reckoning over race, justice, and equity. The first step to creating a representative democracy is fixing the way campaigns are funded.
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