Political Fundraising

Let’s do some more fundraising and campaigning for the January 5th run off in Georgia.

There’s a new Stacey Abrams group that plans to register 10K new voters by Dec. 7. The New Georgia Project Action Fund

Plus there’s all the stuff we talked about before.

Opportunities to Help with Georgia!
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Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.

Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.

Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.

Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 

Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 

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Donations

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

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Gee but I thought I’d ask you just the samePost + Comments (20)

DEAD PEOPLE VOTED is probably my favorite stupid right-wing meme.

Austen Fletcher, a former Ivy League football player turned right-wing internet journalist, said in videos posted to Twitter that he had discovered registration documents on a State of Michigan website that showed that four people with reported birth dates from 1900 to 1902 had submitted absentee ballots ahead of Tuesday’s election. “How long has this been going on?” he asked.

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In one case, a 74-year-old woman in Hamlin Township, Mich., had asked for an absentee ballot for the first time in years, setting off a notice from the state’s digital voter rolls that her birth date was not on file, according to Catherine Lewis, the town’s clerk. The system had assigned the woman the default birth date: 01/01/01, or Jan. 1, 1901.

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Then, on Thursday morning, after a marathon week for Ms. Lewis running the town’s vote, her phone began ringing. “I have had 18 calls and at least 20 strange emails asking me if I committed voter fraud,” she said. She was staying home with her family. “I need to be concerned about my family’s welfare,” she said.

Fuck all these clowns claiming voter fraud. They will all rot in hell. So we’ve got that going for us.

Let’s fight for Georgia. There are lots of things you can do.

Opportunities to Help with Georgia!
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Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.

Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.

Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.

Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 

Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 

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Donations

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

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She said I know what it’s like to be deadPost + Comments (132)

The Trump game plan is to gum things up with bogus lawsuits to give some state legislatures the cover to overturn the election results. One of the law firms he is working with is Jones Day, one of the largest firms in the world, which has clients like Verizon and GM. The Lincoln Project and others are suggesting that these clients be pressured to drop Jones Day unless the firm stops working with Trump. Any ideas on how to pressure them? I do have a Verizon phone plan.

Also too, let’s raise some money for Stacey Abrams’ ballot access group and for the two special elections in Georgia.

Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate

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Fair Fight (Stacey Abrams’ ballot access group)

The devil and Mr. JonesPost + Comments (30)

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave. We raised 1.3 million this cycle.

It’s fair to say that the down ballot races didn’t go as well as hoped, despite tons of money pouring in. I’m going to think about what are the best causes to raise money for as we go forward (I’m also going to raise money for Warnock and Ossoff, yes). Here is one that really delivered: Stacey Abrams’ group Fair Fight. By my count, there were 49 states where things didn’t go as well as I’d hoped last week and ONE STATE where things went much better. That one state is Georgia. This group’s work in registering 800K new people and getting automatic registration passed almost certainly played a big role in Biden winning Georgia.

I hope there is a lot of thinking being done by lots of Democratic donors right now and that they are considering making Fair Fight, and other groups like it, a top priority.

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

And, remember, don’t gloat, organize.

You’ve been so kind and generousPost + Comments (59)

Our system is fucked up, yes.

Doing anything other than counting all legally cast ballots is not "a point" to be made. It would help our public discourse greatly if this crap is not recirculated. I'm only pushing back here because it was on a damn national news broadcast and is framed so poorly in this tweet https://t.co/jS1Lp60MZ0

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 1, 2020

There’s going to be all kinds of shenanigans. I don’t think they’ll be enough to keep Biden from a pretty decisive victory. But, yes, is stresses me out a bit.

If you’d like to do any last minute stress giving, the two Georgia Senate races are a good place to give, because they are likely to go to run-offs.

Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate (special election)

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Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate (regular election)

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Ballot access is *always* a good place to give and this is one is among our readers’ favorites.

Four Directions (ballot access for Native people)

You can see everyone we are supporting here.

I keep holding onPost + Comments (76)

I”m getting a bit nervous. This Jon Ossoff smackdown of David Purdue is my happy place

We’ve already raised an insane amount of money for Ossoff, but a little more couldn’t hurt. This is probably headed for a run-of: this could be the extra push over the cliff that gives Ossoff the majority and ends it or it could be a little more in the kitty for the run-off.

Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate (regular election)

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This is a great place to give as well:

Four Directions (ballot access for Native people)

As always, you can see all of our candidates here.

Needles and pinsPost + Comments (44)