Donald Trump is fundraising gold — if you’re on his bad side. We’ve already seen activists pour money into advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, in the latter case funding a massive expansion of their work. Via...
God is on the side of the big battalions, or so I hear. Photo via the National Archives. The announcement was essentially inevitable, but let’s still take note: Hillary Clinton can now tap the 20 million-odd supporter email addresses that...
The Hill’s Jessie Hellman reports: The Donald Trump campaign sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. That request follows a multimillion-dollar...
Quick thought: when advocates, fundraisers and organizers talk about the “ladder of engagment”, we usually speak in terms of “moving people up.” I.e., we’re getting our supporters to take higher-value actions over time...
Chris Cillizza called it a declaration of war: yesterday, Bernie Sanders endorsed DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary opponent in her race to retain her House seat. Today, he followed it up with a fundraising email asking supporters...
If you’re a nonprofit organization or a political campaign, you almost certainly need to raise money. Most of us don’t have a wealthy donor waiting in the wings to swoop in at a time of need! High-dollar individual fundraising and direct...
Bernie Sanders may dominate the small-dollar-donor battlefield on the Democratic side of the presidential race, but he’s not the only one growing a list of grassroots supporters. We talked earlier about Hillary Clinton’s messages...
John Wagner reports in the Post today that the Sanders campaign has already raised $36 million in February, almost all online. More, Bernie’s people are aiming to finish the month at $40 million, an amazing total that would almost certainly...
Perhaps the state wasn’t quite the “firewall” the Clinton campaign had hoped, but Hillary still pulled off a win in this weekend’s Nevada caucuses. This result came despite a late Sanders surge, fueled both by his strong...
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary, and he’s also winning the post-primary fundraising war: his supporters tossed him more than FIVE MILLION DOLLARS in the hours after the polls closed in the Granite State (or six million, depending...