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Nevada, Here We Come!

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Update at 7:00 pm Eastern time:

 Angel matches 1-3 are complete!  Another Balloon Juice Angel has appeared, and we’ll start that one in the morning.  Thanks to all who donated today or encouraged others.

Update at 2:30  Eastern time:

Almost Retired has offered to be a Balloon Juice angel for $250, and will match up to $25 per person.

Update at 12:30 Eastern time:

Well, we blew through Angel match #1 and we have just $256 left on the Angel match #2!

After that, we are back to the double-match from Four Directions.

At that point, you can multiply donations up to $50 by 3. 

Four Directions found us a double-match, and two Balloon Juice Angels have already come forward with $1,000 angel matches.  Angel matches are complete!

On Wisconsin!

We will start out with angel matches up to $50 per person.  So $50 from you gets matched by a BJ angel and becomes $100, and that gets double-matched and turns into $300.

So, up to $50, thanks to our two BJ Angels, for now your donation gets multiplied by 6!

Your donation gets double-matched by Four Directions, so for now your donation gets multiplied by 3.

  • $50 from you becomes $300 for Nevada.
  • $25 from you becomes $150 for Nevada.
  • $15 from you becomes $90 for Nevada.
  • $100 from you (where the first $50 is angel matched) becomes $450 for Nevada

Let’s see what we can do to bring Nevada home for the Democrats and help give a voice to Native people!

Let’s win in 2022 and build a firewall for 2024 by keeping out the crazies running for office in Nevada who want to override the will of the voters.

Also, mark your calendars for this Thursday, 8/18 at 7:30 to zoom with Voces de la Frontera.  No fundraising peeps this time – just the folks on the ground who can give us the scoop in their neck of the woods.

Fabi, Political Director, Voces de la Frontera Action
Yasmin, Canvass Manager
Minerva, Relational Voter Program Coordinator, Milwaukee
Jose, RVP Coordinator, Racine

I am looking forward to this.  Send me an email if you would like the zoom link.




  
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  6. 6.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    $100 – what a great way to celebrate this uniquely consequential August we’ve been having!

  7. 7.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    I love when my money multiplies this way! $50 turns into $300!

  19. 19.

    MazeDancer

    In for $10. Tweeted out a link. Figured we would welcome stranger’s money. If any show, maybe they’ll stay a while. New friends.

    As I said tweet, donating to 4D feels like guaranteeing new Dem Voters.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @lowtechcyclist:

    Squishable is Betty’s very nice shorthand for “I know Anne Laurie usually has a post up in this time slot but there isn’t one, so I am putting my post up now… but Anne Laurie don’t let that hold you back if you show up after my squishable post has gone up.”

  25. 25.

    HinTN

    @WaterGirl: Did I understand correctly from the zoom last week that 4 Directions are limited to federal campaigns (House, Senate, Prez) and that state races are only indirectly affected because GOTV gets folks to the polls?

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Just put in $25. I love that it magically becomes $150. Thanks to the various angels for the matches!

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN: I think they limit their candidate forums to federal races.

    Just like all the organizations we have funded, Four Directions doesn’t say “vote Democratic” or “vote for this candidate”.

    They hold candidate forums so folks can see for themselves who is with them and who is against them, so to speak.  Plus, anyone who is paying attention can see who wants to make their lives better and who could care less (at best) and who actually wants to take things away from them (at worst).

    They do encourage everyone to vote up and down the ticket.

  36. 36.

    Wolvesvalley

    I was going to hold off on contributions until I got a chance to total up how much I had given to various causes and candidates since the beginning of the year, but I couldn’t resist adding $50 to this effort. Four Directions does great work!

  38. 38.

    Alice

    Huge thanks from this Nevadan to WaterGirl for putting this together and all the contributors.

    $50 from me, too.

  44. 44.

    JeanneT

    $25 from me for now, maybe more later after I check my bank accounts: the money’s been rolling out for so many campaigns…..

  49. 49.

    kindness

    Thank you for this post.  While I live in CA I have lots of friends in Nevada and (all to commonly) the Republican Party in Nevada has gone Confederate.  Happy to donate.  It’s both a good cause and enlightened self interest since Nevada is less than 100 miles away from me.

  57. 57.

    Kent

    I’m all for keeping Nevada blue, but this cycle I’m keeping my spending closer to home and donating (and volunteering for) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez here in the WA-3rd who has a chance of flipping this House District blue now that Jaime Herrera Beutler was upset in the primary by a raving MAGA Q-anon lunatic.

    The WA-3rd is shamefully the last congressional district touching the Pacific Ocean (south of Alaska) that is still red.    It will be an uphill battle to flip but not an absurdly futile effort like trying to defeat McConnell in Kentucky.

    The district is GOP+5.  About half the district is close-in Portland suburbs of Vancouver, Camas, and other nearby towns that are blue and purple.  The other half the district is all the rural areas and mill towns running up I-5 towards Olympia that are jam packed with “white working class” MAGA hordes and are as red as Wyoming or Idaho.  The blue/purple parts of the district are growing fast and the red parts are not. But it is sort of like Texas in that it should flip blue at some point but never quite seems to get there this cycle.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    Holy cow!  While I was putting together the cheese enchiladas for lunch, over $4,000 went to Four Directions (if you include all the matches!)

    That’s 17 people, from RaflW at #31 to dkinPa at #52.

    Thank you all!

  63. 63.

    Mo Salad

    $50. Also just dropped $275 in a DCFC game kit auction benefiting Special Olympics for my girlfriend’s favorite player, goalie Nate Steinwascher.

    Expensive lunch, and I didn’t even get to leave the office.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    Well, we blew through Angel match #1 and we have just $256 left on the Angel match #2!

    After that, we are back to the double-match from Four Directions.

    At that point, you can multiply donations up to $50 by 3. 

  66. 66.

    H.E.Wolf

    Three cheers for all the donors thus far, and standing ovation for the 2 angel donors and for WaterGirl, our fundraising organizer extraordinaire!

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    That’s $2,000 in the last few minutes, starting with StringOnAStick at #56 and ending with Xentik at #68!

    Just $156 left of Angel match #2.

  85. 85.

    Paul W.

    I didn’t read the instructions, so I donated $100. Enjoy the extra on the way to smashing our goal!

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    @Haroldo: That’s still $75 to Four Directions Nevada!  It’s just not $150.

    We are out of Balloon Juice Angels at the moment, but you never know when an angel will step forward.

  89. 89.

    pat

    I put in $100 when it first went up.  Did not realize I had to admit it here!

    Now I might as well do the same for the chef!

  92. 92.

    Almost Retired

    OK, I’ll be a “mini-angel” (or, perhaps more accurately, a somewhat cheap angel), with a match for each donation up to $25 with a cap of $250.  Math is involved, so I’ll step back and let WaterGirl sort all of this out (liberal arts major…)

  93. 93.

    WaterGirl

    Almost Retired has offered to be a Balloon Juice angel for $250, and will match up to $25 per person.

    $250 of angel #3 matching funds are available.

  96. 96.

    Chris

    In for $50. No idea how much it gets matched but well worth it however much it is. Well done all!

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    Angel matches 1-3 are complete!  Another Balloon Juice Angel has appeared, and we’ll start that one in the morning.  Thanks to all who donated today or encouraged others!

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