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:

• HD-010A (R+08): Hamida Dakane*
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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 &...

Oklahoma's candidate filing deadline has passed, so I've gone ahead and updated my OK Legislature fundraising page to include the following state House & Senate districts with PVI ratings of +9 or lower:

House:

• HD-034 (R+02): Trish Ranson*
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Tennessee's candidate filing deadline has passed, so I've gone ahead and updated my TN Legislature fundraising page to include the following state House & Senate districts with PVI ratings of +9 or lower:

House:

• HD-018 (R+09): TBD
• HD-
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Arizona's candidate filing deadline has passed, so I've gone ahead and updated my AZ Legislature fundraising page to include the following state House & Senate districts with PVI ratings of +9 or lower:

House:

• HD-002A (R+05): Stephanie Simacek
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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;

• U.S. Senate Seats: $137,222 (60.4%)
• U.S. House Seats: $66,102 (29.1%)
• State Execs (Gov/AG/SoS): $942 (0.4%)
• State Legislative Seats: $21,473 (9.5
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South Carolina's candidate filing deadline has passed, so I've gone ahead and updated my SC Legislature fundraising page to include the following state House & Senate districts with PVI ratings of +9 or lower:

House:

• HD-012 (D+07): Jumelle Brooks
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