On Saturday, I donated to Boxer, who is in an uncomfortably close race with Fiorina. Today, I'll donate to another reliable progressive in the Senate: Russ Feingold.
Click here to donate $5, $10, or up:
https://secure3.convio.net/...
And if you can't afford it, you can still help by spreading the word.
Progressives are being challenged by well-funded, corporate sweethearts. It's up to us to make sure those challenges fail, and unfortunately money matters in American politics.
I've found that helping progressives fight to stay in office is a good and productive way to shake off the despair that it's all too easy to slip into these days. These seem disturbingly like the days Yeats described in "The Second Coming": "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity." It's easy to feel that we're watching the unraveling of the American experiment. And it's depressing as hell.
So fighting--productively--is good. Putting our efforts behind those few in Congress who do speak for the growing number of disenfranchised in this country is the best way to snap out it, to move back into daring to imagine a better future.
Thanks.
UPDATE:
http://politics.usnews.com/...
WISCONSIN
The Wisconsin Senate seat currently held by Russ Feingold is one of a half-dozen Democratic seats that appear likely to be "in play" in November. Feingold's popularity among Wisconsin voters has faded in recent weeks. Surveys from SurveyUSA and the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling show that his approval rating has slipped below 50 percent, and that a growing number of Wisconsin residents are "undecided" on whether they approve or not.