Russ Feingold and the Progressive Patriots Fund has been one of the groups that's way ahead of the conventional wisdom.
This week they're working on expanding the map to bring more money and attention to some of the races that are outside the shadow of the traditional Democratic organizations.
There are tremendous patriots out there running great campaigns who consistently fail to attract resources because they aren't anointed early, or because the DCCC follows a twisted logic that you have to lose close once before you can be considered for funding.
Look at candidates like Charlie Brown and Larry Kissell, who should already be in Congress, but the numbers didn't look right the first time.
Now that the polls are pulling away for Obama and many of the other candidates, it's time for true progressives to follow Russ Feingold's lead.
Want to help Obama? Give money to these ten candidates and force the GOP to keep volunteers money, and organizers in ten more districts instead of flying in to help in Ohio or Florida.
Want to help Darcy Burner? Tie up ten more house members' money so they can't make their donations to the NRCC.
Expand the map now so these ten new candidates have the money to run better campaigns. They're making weekly buys on cable, they can expand their mail targets, they can do local print ads with every dollar you give them.
And with these campaigns, your money will be spent frugally instead of on big market media buys.
Trust Russ.
Expand the map.