It seems clear now that Howard Dean will be the new Chair of the DNC. This is great news. I couldn't ask for a more dedicated, positive leader of our party at this critical time in American history.
It's a damned shame that we have lost the White House, the Senate, the House, and are in danger of a fundie Judiciary, but we have to face facts, and it's time to focus on getting a verifiable vote (with a real paper trail) in place before the 2006 elections, and on retaking the Senate.
Many of us have never given a dime to the DNC, preferring instead to give our money where we thought it would do the most good. I know that this will be my first contribution.
I'd like to make a real splash, get all of the blogs together and contribute on the 12th, the day of the official DNC election. I've called DFA and asked for their help with some mechanism like the DFA Bat that would channel directly into the DNC.
As a failsafe, I've gone ahead and set up my own donation page on the DNC site, which you can do too, (http://www.democrats.org/epatriots/index.html) but ideally I'd like to see this as a coordinated effort, and find some way to make it clear that all of our donations are in recognition of the election of Howard Dean.
Update: Kos posted on the main page, saying that he will put up a DNC EPatriots link on Monday following the election.
A Kos link suits me just fine. I'm going to try to get him to put it up earlier than that, so that we can all effectively link to it in advance, and set up a huge wave.