Update at 9:15 am on Thursday morning:
You guys are amazing!
We have only 875.00 left on our $3,000 Angel match from Total Lurker!
We can make a difference in North Carolina! It’s as easy as 1-2-3.
- Trump won NC by ~ 75k votes, just 1.5% of the 5,500,000 votes cast.
- NC now has 16 electoral votes, similar to GA (16) and MI (15).
- The Republican candidate for governor is bat shit crazy.
And we have a new match! A lurker came forward offering a match, so we are starting a new $1,000 $3,000 Angel match right now. Up to $100 per person, add a comment or send me an email message in order to be matched.
Thank you, Total Lurker!
This can pay off in 2024, and it’s an investment in the future.
The NC Black Alliance Youth Voter Engagement Program has a ten-year track record of registering, inspiring, training and engaging students at North Carolina’s 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. With our help, they’re taking their engagement and registration template on the road to reach students of color outside of the HBCU environment.
- Our goal for June is $30,000.
- NC Black Alliance found an external match for us!
- Any donation amount will matched.
- When we have a Balloon Juice matching angel, and you tell us about the donation in the comments or by email to WaterGirl at balloon-juice.com, your donation is matched 4x!
What are the stakes?
- Targeted campuses are in state legislative swing districts.
- Potential to take back 2 Black Democratic seats that went Republican in 2022.
- All it takes is a Democratic gain of one seat in both the state House and Senate to bust the Republican’s veto-proof supermajority
Read about the plan: NC Black Alliance Youth Voter Engagement Program Summary Document (pdf)
In case you missed the two previous posts:
One more thing you can do!
Please consider sharing the thermometer link and link to this post on your social media – and if you’re on a blog that doesn’t raise funds like we do, feel free to share there, too.
Out-raise them. Out-organize them. Out-strategize them. OUT VOTE THEM.
WaterGirl
I love it so much when lurkers participate in our quilt raffles, or donate, or offer an angel match, or come to meetups. Go lurkers.
Also, let’s make this one an Open thread!
Redshift
In for $50!
WaterGirl
@Redshift: Got it, thanks!
Wolvesvalley
Just added another $50. Nice to see the thermometer going up so fast.
Cheryl from Maryland
Donated $50.00. I love how Ballon Juice is supporting GOTV.
Hungry Joe
In for 50 smackeroos, plus five-smackeroo tip. We are SO going to win this.
OT: It was said of Willie Mays that “he never threw to the wrong base.” That may not be the greatest compliment ever, but it’s close.
Randal Sexton
In for a Hundo.
WaterGirl
All three new $50 donations matched, It really is nice to see this rolling along!
Tomorrow may be a wild ride with Supreme Court decisions, but win or lose on the important ones, we just have to keep doing what we can do, which is work toward the outcome we want in November.
WaterGirl
@Randal Sexton: Thank you!
lashonharangue
Donated $100.
BenInNM
Put in $100 – thanks WG for finding all these wonderful groups to support!
Lurker #42
Let’s do it. Lurker here donated $100.
WaterGirl
@lashonharangue: @BenInNM:
Thank you! Very excited about this group, too
With the matches you two just raised $800!
WaterGirl
@Lurker #42: Thank you, Lurker #42! :-)
And welcome!
Mrs Ragbag
In for 25
WaterGirl
@Mrs Ragbag: Got it, thanks!
Barbara
I donated $100. Thanks for doing this.
WaterGirl
We are already at $750 toward the match!
I am closing the laptop for the night, but I will check for donations first thing in the morning.
Total Lurker said he was willing to match as high as $3,000 – so anyone who donates overnight can be confident that your $100 (or less) donations will be matched 4x!
BJ peeps are the best!
WaterGirl
@Barbara: Okay, got yours, too! Thank you.
Goodnight, can’t wait to see the thermometer in the morning!
Wapiti
Donated $100.
XeckyGilchrist
In for $25!
Sister Golden Bear
In for $25.
RevRick
Added $250
DEBG
In for $25
Another Scott
+$125.
Thanks WG, angels, jackals, and all.
Cheers,
Scott.
thruppence
I get paid tomorrow, kick some in come the morning
Kayla Rudbek
In for $25
H.E.Wolf
Happy Juneteenth! A great way to celebrate would be to donate to the North Carolina Black Alliance’s Campus Engagement project. :-)
Fair Economist
Count me in for $100.
Buggrit
Happy Juneteenth! In for $50.
Maxim
Another $100.
Dmkingto
In for $100
sempronia
In for $50.
scribbler
In for $25.
CarolM
In for $50, thank you!
Lumpy
I just made a donation of $250. Thanks to the matching angel, and thanks to WaterGirl for working on this!
There go two miscreants
Just put in $100.
WaterGirl
You guys are amazing! We have only $875 left on our $3,000 Angel match from Total Lurker!
topclimber
General Grant is marching toward NC.
ElegantFowl
@WaterGirl: $100 from this lurker. Thank you!
WaterGirl
@ElegantFowl: thank you!!!!
WaterGirl
@topclimber: love the image.
I will be out for the next couple of hours but when I get home, I’ll check for more donations toward the match!