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Once again I’m being inundated by text, email and snail mail to support this or another candidate. I’d like to send my minimal contributions (which are a lot to me) to candidates in critical races who stand the greatest chance of winning. I’m referring...
by freemab
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 09:25 AM PST
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Blue Sea wrote a very good diary on this issue for people just starting to give to campaigns and the like, but I wanted to offer advice for those who already have, and my comment quickly entered into diary territory, so here it is: This is great...
by Sean Robertson
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 08:10 AM PDT
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I’m really impressed that DK keeps track or how many articles I’ve read month-to-date. Not so impressed that they don’t realize that I’ve been a monthly contributor for over a year.
by adamsbrew
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on Sat Jun 17, 2023 at 06:36 PM PDT
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I am what is called a “small contributor.” I will sometimes give 20 to 50 dollars or so to candidates that I think are worth supporting or for whom I think are in a close race. However, it often seems as if I’m being punished for my act of...
by jab70
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on Tue Oct 04, 2022 at 12:20 PM PDT
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I will admit that I have no idea how the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) works, what their rules are, or what gives them power. I don’t know how they came to be, or what can be done, but something obviously needs to be done. Apparently, TFG is now...
by LimitReached
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on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 11:00 AM PDT
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CVS, Centene and Wellcare are big Republican contributors that are currently making huge OTC profits through Medicare advantage plans. It is a quagmire of facts that tie these health organizations to the Republican Party and their current OTC profits...
by dfish1534
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on Mon Jan 25, 2021 at 03:00 PM PST
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. As I write...
by dratler
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on Sun Sep 27, 2020 at 10:13 AM PDT
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Wow… Just wow. I don’t have to write a darn thing in this diary. Read the facts. They don’t lie. This is gonna hurt Trump big time. He fed the tigers that fueled their rise in politics. He actually...
by Vetwife
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on Tue Aug 11, 2020 at 03:03 PM PDT
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An article came across my feed this last weekend from Dan Abram’s Law & Crime: Buttigieg Supported by GOP Oligarch Len Blavatnik Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is facing questions after recent...
by slave138
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on Tue Feb 11, 2020 at 08:31 AM PST
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Rolling Stone recently came out with an article that Bernie is the top receiver of military donations so far this election cycle. Which, seems great on the surface, but it also triggered a memory of an article I read back in November of 2016 at...
by Chodedc
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on Sat Feb 01, 2020 at 01:07 PM PST
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Very short diary. I made a donation today, through Act Blue, to Elizabeth Warren’s campaign. Within minutes, I had a text from the campaign, thanking me for the donation and asking which of her policies most excites me. I’ve certainly ended up on...
by marking time
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on Thu Oct 10, 2019 at 08:50 AM PDT
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It should not be controversial to state that donors give money to candidates whose policies they agree with. Voters are not likely to find a candidate who is 100% on the same page as they are on everything, so a donor will focus on the policies most...
by hankg
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on Wed May 08, 2019 at 12:42 PM PDT
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Trump is a master propagandist. He blitzes you with the Gish Gallop whenever evidence or serious accusations supported by evidence are presented in the mainstream media. He attacks the person presenting the evidence or the accusations and accuses them...
by Dem
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on Tue Jan 15, 2019 at 04:27 AM PST
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During the 2016 election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the abolishment of private prisons. Noting the dropping prison population and an existential political threat, the GEO Group—the largest private prison company in the United...
by RebeccaPilarBuckwalterPoza
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on Mon Nov 12, 2018 at 09:57 AM PST
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1. S-T-U-N-N-E-D [via TrainDemocrats.org] Beto O'Rourke takes the LEAD [!!!]
2. TEXAS STUNNER - Democrats 2018 Beto O'Rourke DEFEATED
3. TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS it's OVER (Beto O'Rourke)
4. Republicans TREMBLING Beto BARELY takes the lead
5. Beto vs....
by aPauledInNJ
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on Sun Oct 07, 2018 at 11:24 AM PDT
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This is a Google sheet I created for myself and friends to help us choose the pick-up races each of us wanted to support. The tool contains information on over the 100+ races where the Dem candidate has anywhere from even odds to long shot chance of...
by seethruit
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on Mon Oct 01, 2018 at 08:37 AM PDT
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Just a short diary to post a link to a story from Charles P. Pierce on a court decision relating to campaign contributions.
This Is Christmas in September
by GD58
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on Wed Sep 19, 2018 at 12:27 PM PDT
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Kelly Macias wrote a great diary about black candidates not being funded by the central Democrats.
It seems that Daily Kos sponsors candidates many times. I’m not sure how to get this done so am putting out this diary. Sorry, but I don’t know who...
by HiVoter
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on Sun Jun 03, 2018 at 01:35 PM PDT
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I just wrote several checks to political candidates and causes, and charged them in a ritual to increase their effect. The mantra I am using for this and other political work is "with liberty and justice for all", and I wrote that on the memo line of...
by MagentaMN
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on Sun Aug 20, 2017 at 12:51 PM PDT
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We can write blogs all day and sign digital petitions and answer “surveys” that take us to donation sites to get us added to yet more e-mailing lists to get more information about how much the government is being wrecked.
But the Republicans didn’t...
by Chris Montgomery
34 comments
on Sat May 27, 2017 at 06:03 AM PDT
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