I'm just a concerned American citizen doing what I can to help save democracy, decency and the planet by electing as many Democratic candidates as possible at the federal, statewide & especially local (state legislative) levels.
This is not a PAC, it's just a site with links to ActBlue pages where you can donate directly to one, two or dozens of Dems running for office at once. All funds go to the campaigns listed; I receive nothing.
--Charles Gaba
Last year, in the thick of the 2024 Presidential Election cycle, I did a deep dive into the FEC filings of two supposedly Democratic-friendly Political Action Committees (PACs): "Blue States PAC" and...
I've decided to restart my monthly fundraising update posts, although I'm not going to go into nearly as much detail as I did last cycle until we get into 2026.
The graph below tells the story: My fundraising efforts for the 2025-2026 cycle: So far this cycle I've raised a stunning 3.6x as much for Democrats as I had at the same point 4 years ago...and a jaw-dropping 7.7x as much as I had at this point 2 years ago.
In spite of...
Four years ago, as of Election Day 2020, I had raised a grand total of $5.72 million for Democrats up & down the ballot, plus an additional $280,000 after Election Day for the 2 Georgia Senate runoff races, for a total of $5.90 million.
The $5.9M total was broken out as follows:
I wasn't really planning on any more blog posts until after the dust settles on Election Day, but thanks to The Downballot providing a handy spreadsheet with the 3rd Quarter FEC campaign finance report data, I've whipped up this one to help folks figure out which Democrats running for U.S. House are the best bets for...
Four years ago, as of October 15, 2020, I had raised a total of $4.52 million for Democrats up & down the ballot, broken out as follows;
Four years ago, as of Sept. 30, 2020, I had raised a total of $3.6 million for Democrats up & down the ballot, broken out as follows;
UPDATE 9/18/24: While the breakout below only runs through midnight on 9/15 (when the grand total was $9.87 million), last night I broke $10 MILLION total raised, so I've updated the headline.
Four years ago, as of Sept. 15, 2020, I had raised a total of $1.72 million for Democrats up & down the ballot, broken out as follows;
While most of the nations attention was squarely placed on The Debate, the final* three primaries of the 2024 election cycle were taking place in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
The first and last of these didn't have a whole lot of drama for most political junkies; both states are solidly Democratic. However, New Hampshire had a heavily contested primary for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and all three had a handful of contested state legislative...
Four years ago, at the end of August 2020, I had raised a total of $1.29 million for Democrats up & down the ballot, broken out as follows;
Now that we've entered the home stretch of the 2024 election cycle, I've decided to go ahead and boil down the ~720 or so Democratic candidates I've been raising money for until now down to just 240:
