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
Four years ago, at the end of March 2020, I had raised a total of just over $227,000 for Democrats up & down the ballot, broken out as follows;
If the past few years have taught Democrats nothing else, it's how vitally important JUDGES are.
Depending on the state and the type of vacancy, some state-level judges are appointed by Governors, but others are elected positions. This page lets you easily donate to state supreme...
The filing deadline for major party candidates in Michigan passed yesterday, so I've overhauled & updated my Michigan Legislative fundraising page accordingly.
The Michigan state Senate isn't up for re-election until 2026, but all 110 state House offices are up this November. I'm including 28...
Pennsylvania held their primary yesterday, so I've gone ahead and filled in the rest of my PA Legislative fundraising page. There are two Democratic nominees who don't seem to have active ActBlue pages at this time; I'll update the page if &...
Nebraska has a U.S. Senate situation which may sound similar to Georgia in 2020: Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts (both of whom are Republicans in this red state) are both up for re-election at the same time this November due to former Governor Ricketts being appointed to fill out the remainder of Ben Sasse's term after Sasse resigned.
Nebraska Democrats are only officially running a candidate against Ricketts for his partial (2-year) term: Professor & activist Preston...
A few days ago I wrote up a deep dive into the finances of one of the numerous "Save Democracy!" left-leaning Political Action Committees which has been clogging up my in box with fundraising requests daily for the past several months.
"Blue States PAC," which has sent dozens of...
New York's candidate filing deadline has passed, so I've gone ahead and updated my NY Legislature fundraising page to include the following state House & Senate districts with PVI ratings of +9 or lower:
(Note: Due to the confusing nature of New York's Board of Elections system, there may be additional...
North Dakota's candidate filing deadline has passed, so I've gone ahead and updated my ND Legislature fundraising page to include the following state House & Senate districts with PVI ratings of +9 or lower:
House:
About 2 1/2 weeks ago I posted a thread on Twitter about why I began this project in the first place. The short version is that I started raising money directly for Democratic candidates back in 2018 because I, along with some other Democrats, was somewhat distrustful of the DCCC over some of the...
Now that the candidate filing deadline has passed for major party candidates in over half the states, I thought this would be a good point to take a look at where things stand.
As of today, the 2024 General Election candidate filing deadline has passed in 28 states (not including New York, which hasn't updated their filing database yet). When you include the states which have their legislative elections in odd-numbered years (New Jersey, Louisiana, Mississippi &...
