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Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

People are weird.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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It’s Up To Us Now, Next Stop, North Carolina – Phase II

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Reminder:  Why North Carolina?

  1.  NC is not a red state.
  2.  NC is a voter suppressed state.
  3.  NC now has 16 electoral votes, similar to GA (16)and MI (15)..
  4.  Trump won NC by ~ 75k votes, just 1.5% of the 5,500,000 votes cast.

Let’s talk demographics:

  1. NC is changing fast, and Republicans know it – which is why they’re cheating!
  2. NC is growing rapidly in ways that are similar to AZ, NV and GA!
  3. NC has an influx of out-of-state younger people relocating for tech and finance careers.
  4. Northerners are retiring in cities like Asheville, where beth, our BJ calendar girl, moved to.

As you guys know, we’re partnering with North Carolina Black Alliane to support their Youth Voter Engagement Program.  This is an organization with a ten-year history of successfully registering and turning out young African-American voters on North Carolina’s 11 HBCU campuses.

We wanted to help them expand to two non-HBCU Black majority campuses (Phase I) and we raised funds for that.

Now we’re helping them expand to certain Community Colleges, which educate many more Black students than the state’s HBCUs (Phase II).

We have a Balloon Juice angel for the first $2,500, matching up to $100 per person
with donations in the comments or email to WaterGirl.

And we have an angel that is willing to pop in $5,000 if we get to $10,000 by midight on 7/22.

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  2. 2.

    Mike in NC

    My corner of this state for several years has seen in influx of retirees fleeing the Rust Belt, so about a 50/50 ratio of D vs R. The Republican candidate for governor is a MAGA psychopath.

  5. 5.

    Yet Another Haldane

    $100 from me, with thanks to the apparently never-ending supply of angels, and for WaterGirl’s apparently boundless energy.

  6. 6.

    West of the Cascades

    In for $100. Thank you thank you thank you for posting these opportunities to target contributions effectively. My first candidate contribution this cycle (besides my local D congressman) was yesterday afternoon to Kamala Harris, but I’ve pitched in on a few of these fundraisers.

  9. 9.

    chris

    NC Boy here. In for $100. Black turnout in NC was lower than normal in 2022 and for gods sake we gotta dodge this Robinson guy. I guess its a question of which one is more powerful. Racism or Anti Semitism (His competitor Josh Stein is jewish)

  12. 12.

    Eolirin

    I’m not in a position to financially contribute, but I want to thank you for all of your tireless efforts WG.

  14. 14.

    oldster

    I just blew my budget on a donation to President Harris, so I’ll have to sit this one out.

    But I want to say how grateful I am to you, WaterGirl, and to all of you BJ peeps, for your excellent activism in support of Democratic and progressive causes. You make a difference.

  21. 21.

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

    @Eolirin: I put in $25 for you & $25 for me. Sometime when you can, you can donate for someone else.

    These GOTV actions are just about the most important thing we can do, and I’m too old to go door to door myself anymore, so thank you for giving me a chance to do it vicariously.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    @Eolirin: Thank you!

    Perhaps someone with more disposable income will decide to donate up to $100 in your honor, in appreciate for you and your ability to express what many of us were thinking in recent weeks.

    P.S.  I wrote that before seeing Kay at #21!

  32. 32.

    H.E.Wolf

    I’m waist-deep in the Big Muddy of database cleanup for my state’s Democratic Party (my word, we change locations a lot in this country!) – so this is just a quick thank you to everyone who’s helping to GOTV in North Carolina… and keep the GOTV-ers safe while they work.

  39. 39.

    KRK

    I’m in for $50 in memory of and thanks for Steeplejack and $50 to honor Nelle’s outreach efforts and modelling thereof.

    I’m pissed off and moving donations entirely to local/state races and groups doing targeted outreach & organizing.

    Thanks for all you do, WG!

  41. 41.

    Spanish Moss

    I gave $25. Sorry it isn’t more, but the timing of this match is unfortunate. I just gave to the Kamala campaign because these donations are sending a message, and I want to do everything I can to insure that she is the candidate.

  47. 47.

    banditqueen

    I’ll make a donation for Steeplejack, whose memory will always be a blessing.

  49. 49.

    Lumpy

    I love all the organizing efforts related to registering young voters, and GOTV for young voters. IMO this is how we win – not just this election, but future elections.

    Thank you WaterGirl!

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @Lumpy:

    IMO this is how we win – not just this election, but future elections.

    That’s how I feel.  Even if we don’t win every seat we want, we have new people who have voted and they are more likely to vote again.  And again.

    I love all the energy for donating to Kamala, and it sends a message.  But to me, supporting this type of organization is key.

  51. 51.

    There go two miscreants

    Just put in $100. (Thought I had commented but it vanished, just noted in case this is a duplicate.)

  55. 55.

    Spanish Moss

    @WaterGirl:

    But to me, supporting this type of organization is key.

    For sure! I am so grateful that you organize these fundraisers, and I will definitely be giving more in the future. I was just feeling bad that we might not make the most of our match opportunity today.

  56. 56.

    I gotta get out of this place

    I gave $25 to my new state. I’m hoping for a little more blue in the government here.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    I am no longer checking for donations on this thread, so if you donate toward a match, please let us know in a more recent fundraising thread.  Thank you!

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