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Fundraisers for Joe and Kamala
I’ve been posting the following evolving comment in on-topic diaries that I suspect will have many readers for 13 days. I am very grateful for the response we’ve received. $29,921 in 13 days represents an average of $2,302 per day, and we have received a total of 540 donations.
Dear Readers and Members of Daily Kos:
Please donate to Joe and Kamala via our new ActBlue fundraising page for readers and members of Daily Kos.
When They Go Low, We Go Joe.
We started today at $28,004, more than half way to our goal of $50,000. If you donated already, thank you!
Please use our ActBlue page to donate to their campaign: A grassroots effort for readers and members of Daily Kos. Solidarity. Bragging rights.
- Uncle Joe and Kamala need volunteers too.
- Everyone:
- Please switch your recurring ActBlue donation to our group’s ActBlue page. Already did that? Thanks!
- Share this diary using the Twitter or FaceBook buttons, or email it to your peeps.
- Members of Daily Kos, Please:
- Recommend and tip this diary! This very one! And drop comments and Republish (all of which boost a diary onto the Trending List and keep it there).
- Follow Fundraisers for Joe and Kamala to bring funding diaries into your Stream (Daily Kos Inbox).
- Copy this comment into your own diary or comment, it’s okay. ~2thanks
- This is a crowd-sourced, not a top-down Daily Kos fundraiser.
- Website | Volunteer! | Phonebank! | Text! | Swag!
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I am very pleased, and I hope all the members of the group Fundraisers for Joe and Kamala are pleased too. I use an inclusive, dynamic definition of “members” of this group, as I have done for members of the Good News Roundup group since its beginnings. If you donate, Recommend, tip, comment, broadcast to social media, send emails with links to family, friends, or acquaintances, I consider you to be a Fundraiser. As I have said before: Some people have money, some people have time, some people have both, some have neither. We are fighting for the lattermost. We are all in this together.