The Republicans finally have an answer to ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that’s super-charged grassroots online fundraising up and down the ballot on the Left. The new Republican toolset is called WinRed, and crucially, it will include one-click donations processing. Why is...
Read More »According to a newly arrived press release, Democratic congressmember and presidential candidate Eric Swallwell is now taking donations in bitcoin. The strategy seems to have more to do with an actual belief in blockchain technology than practical fundraising considerations: “Blockchain can...
Read More »Beto’s in! And already begging for money (today’s email subject line: “We will be heavily outspent”). Of course, the man from El Paso raised close to $80 million in last year’s Texas Senate race, and we can expect that cash is one thing his campaign WON’T lack...
Read More »The digital side of Senator Kamala Harris’s campaign launch got good reviews this week, as Sam Stein and Gideon Resnick note at The Daily Beast: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that her presidential campaign exploratory committee brought in $1.5 million in the first 24 hours...
Read More »Via Politico, Republicans will finally build a central digital fundraising hub, something the Democrats have benefited from for fourteen years in the form of ActBlue: Following weeks of closed-door discussions, Republicans have agreed to create a new platform dubbed Patriot Pass, which will be...
Read More »2016 did not go the way Democrats hoped — and not just because Trump won. Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on congressional races, the balance of power in the House shifted only slightly toward the Dems, and Republicans could take full advantage of unified control of the...
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