As of the end of March, I've raised 3.1x as much for Democrats as I had at the same point 4 years ago...and nearly twice as much as I had at this point 2 years ago!
In terms of category breakout, so far this cycle I've raised:
- U.S. Senate: $61,348 (8.7%)
- U.S. House: $147,992 (21.1%)
- State Legislative: $348,778 (49.7%)
- State Executives*: $31,589 (4.5%)
- Courts: $47,117 (6.7%)
- State Dem Parties: $61,347 (8.7%)
- Local/Other: $3,102 (0.4%)
*NOTE: State Executives includes Governors, Lt. Governors, Attorneys General & Secretaries of State as well as other state executive office such as Treasurers, Auditors, Comptrollers, Public Service Commissioners, School Boards, etc.
The ~$700,000 I've raised so far consists of over 91,000 individual donations averaging just $7.62 apiece (admittedly, most of those were in the form of larger donations split among multiple candidates).
It's gone directly to over 1,500 different Democratic candidates (along with several dozen state & local parties), averaging around $448 apiece:
- 364 candidates have received $10 or less apiece
- 530 have received $10 - $50 apiece
- 197 have received $50 - $100 apiece
- 136 have received $100 - $250 apiece
- 61 have received $250 - $500 apiece
- 95 have received $500 - $1,000 apiece
- 92 have received $1,000 - $2,000 apiece
- 29 have received $2,000 - $3,000 apiece
- 15 have received $3,000 - $5,000 apiece
- 43 have received $5,000 - $10,000 apiece
- 4 have received $10,000 - $30,000 apiece
I've changed my social media engagement methodology; since I've solidly established that Bluesky (and other platforms) generate several times more engagement (clickthrus per follower) than Twitter, I'm going to focus purely on actual funds raised via each.
Last month, links posted to Bluesky generated over 47% of total funds raised (the all-time high so far was actually 53% in January); overall Bluesky has generated over 23% of everything I've raised for candidates to date.
Twitter/X is still a distant second place, although Daily Kos is coming up fast now that I've started cross-posting links there daily as well. All other platforms only make up around 2% of the total combined, and Substack which I also started cross-posting links to daily (via their "Notes" social media feature), doesn't seem to be a good fit for this sort of project, though I'm guessing it would be more effective if I actually posted a blog entry about it there.
