The good folks at NCAAT found us a second external match for $20,000!
So our first $5,000 had an external match, and an Angel match, which is 4x.
Everything going forward until we reach our $25,000 goal – will have DOUBLE external match. That means that if we also have an Angel match, all donations are 6x.
So $10 turns into $60, and $100 turns into $600! I’ll let you do the math for the amounts in between. :-)
And we do! I swear that some of you guys can feel me thinking “this angel match is over, and I don’t have anything lined up”, and then I get an email message from a new angel, as I did this morning.
So we have a $1,500 Angel match, anonymous, and they will match up to $150 per person! 6x matching!
More information that would have made yesterday’s post too long!
Many / most of the organizations we support are “non-partisan”, which means they they organize to get people to register and vote, and to understand the stakes in the election, but they don’t tell you HOW to vote. In that case, it’s all about the target population.
Native Americans tend to vote for Democrats at 90+% – you don’t need to talk to people about how to vote if the choice is between the side that wants to help you and the side that wants to kill you. Think about it; I won’t spell it out group by group, but that’s true for most of the groups we support.
Supporting and Endorsing Kamala Harris
NCAATIA’s NC Youth Poll shows Harris leading Trump by 45 points!
Now we just need to get them to vote!
They are educating youth on Harris’ work defending reproductive rights and the environment (climate change), as well as other issues deeply important to AAPI and BIPOC youth, including protecting immigrants’ rights and prioritizing a ceasefire in Gaza.
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But NCAATIA’s own polling indicated that while 80% of BIPOC youth have been following the presidential campaign, only 45% can say the same about the governor’s race.
Downballot Races
DOWNBALLOT RACES: The NC governor’s race is between the eminently qualified Democrat Josh Stein and the MAGA extremist Mark Robinson. But NCAATIA’s own polling indicated that while 80% of BIPOC youth have been following the presidential campaign, only 45% can say the same about the governor’s race. NCAATIA is educating students on Stein’s record in protecting DACA recipients, prioritizing public education and criminal justice reform. Robinson, on the other hand……The goal is to energize turnout for Stein through education; which will ultimately benefit the Presidential race as well.
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Defeat an Anti-Immmigrant Ballot Measure
NCAATIA is motivating AAPI and BIPOC voters to turn out to beat a disingenuous initiative to amend the state Constitution to state that only citizens can vote (already the law), effectively erasing the sole mention of naturalized citizens in the entire document. This is obviously an effort to stir up anti-immigrant rhetoric and chill voting by naturalized citizens. NCAAT seems this as an opportunity to mobilize voters – much like Prop 187 did for the Latino community in California in 1994.
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We are seriously heading into direct donations to Balloon Juice candidates, even as we finish out our final few organizations.
Look for these in the coming week.
Also, stay tuned for a North Carolina-based down ballot candidate and Supreme Court fundraiser soon, with invaluable input from our friends at NCAATIA and the Black Alliance.
And a thermometer for the surprising Senate race in Nebraska, and a House race there, too.
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Open thread!
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Timill
Josh Stein, as you say below.
WaterGirl
@Timill: Fixed, thank you!
WaterGirl
As always, to count toward the Angel match, tell us about your contribution in the comment or send an email to watergirl.
The external matchers found by NCAAT match everything that goes into the thermometer, up to their total match amount.
watergirl at balloon-juice.com
Also, anything that was donated after 7 pm or so on Saturday got the DOUBLE external match retroactively.
dc
Never mind.
eclare
So, are contributions matched? This is kind of confusing.
WaterGirl
@dc: You have to get up pretty early if you want to be the first person to catch a mistake in a post! :-)
WaterGirl
@eclare:
All contributions up to $150 per person are matched 6x!
Send me an email message letting me know what’s confusing so I can fix it?
WaterGirl
Example:
That, boys and girls, is how we get to 6x matching!
eclare
@WaterGirl:
It looks like all of the matching happened last night. I was confused as to what is happening now.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I was told there’d be no math!
H.E.Wolf
6x matching for our newest (to us) GOTV organization?! Phenomenal!
Thank you to WaterGirl and to the inside AND outside matching donors!
eclare
I just donated $25.
Match me!
WaterGirl
@Baud:
Narrator: Ther’s always math.
eclare
@H.E.Wolf:
I am 50 postcards in to NC, 150 to go. Thank you so much for getting me in to this.
rodwell
Donated $50. If we can put NC into play, if make TFCG path harder.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf:
We should probably thank my mom, who always said “they can’t say YES unless you ask.”
We have gotten double external matches a couple of times in the past from Four Directions.
But I mentioned double external matches to The Civics Center and to NCAAT, and they totally came through! Thanks, Mom.
Josie
I just chipped in $10.00.
ETA: I leave the math in WaterGirl’s capable hands.
Jackie
Watching Steelers/Falcons game and just saw a Harris ad!
In Blue WA, we rarely see presidential ads, mostly just congressional race ads and such.
band gap
$50 to NCAAT
nevsky42
Just contributed $100, thank you for everything you’ve been doing!
kalakal
Just put in $40, please match me
LNNVA
Just put $25 in the pot. Thanks.
eclare
US Open is happening now. The first time an American has made it to the final since 2006 .
LFG.
Jackie in NC
I’m in for $100
Glidwrith
In for $25
Ceci7
In for $25
stinger
In for $25. Kindly hit me up with that sweet, sweet 6x match! Shoot it straight into
my veinsyour thermometer!WaterGirl
@stinger: done! can you feel it? :-)
Maxim
In for $100.
JAFD
Greetings from Newark, where WBGO (and WBGO.org) is broadcasting their Sunday (and Saturday) afternoon of “Classic Soul”, music from me younger days…
Still getting first-of-month stough into order, but am sure I’ve got $50 to chip in here.
Note to NotMax: Thought I had your email address, seems I don’t. Drop me an Enote when you get the chance. Ms. WaterGirl, if you’ll send my Eddress to him, please, if he requests. Thanks very much!
Happy 70th Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 36 senators and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
also the birthday of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, hero of Gettysburg.
H.E.Wolf
You’re welcome, I’m glad that you’re glad, and holy cow! 50 on the way to 200 is HUGE. You are a rockstar!!
I’m working along at my latest weentsy batch of 5 postcards today… which is why it took me a long while to see your message and respond. :)
You have motivated me to get 5 more as soon as the ink dries on these!
H.E.Wolf
All hail the wisdom and savvy of WaterMom! :-)
Wolvesvalley
Woohoo! In for $100.
Almost Retired
On the road but I’ll put in $50 when I get to civilization!
PHinSD
Just donated $75.
Greebe
@WaterGirl: @3
Added $25.
Thank you to all the angels and to Watergirl for setting it up!
Jim Appleton
In for a second $50!
SFBayAreaGal
In for $25
ElegantFowl
Just contributed $100. Thank you!
stinger
@WaterGirl: The best kind of high!
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team
Giving $50 now!
SkyBluePink
$50 to the great cause
Mai Naem mobile
Kicked in $25
Mai Naem mobile
@H.E.Wolf: i just got the cards I had ordered from SwingState. I picked NC. It says not to mail them till Oct 26th(between 10/26-10/29.) Obviously they’re the professionals on this but I feel 10/26 is too late especially with DeJoy still heading the USPS. I feel like 10/24 is a better earliest date but I don’t want to screw up.
Mercy
In for $100. Let’s GO!
Thanks for coordinating, WG!
WaterGirl
$265 left on this $1,500 anonymous match!
Mike S. (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
In for $100.
ToesInTheSand
I’m in for $50
WaterGirl
Thanks, everybody!
I’ve got all the matching donations up to here, just $115 left on this Angel match.
The return of Mo Salad
Fine. Another $50.
Dean g fitzgerald
@WaterGirl: Gave $5.
WaterGirl
@The return of Mo Salad: Ha! thank you.
I gotta get out of this place
Just added $25. I’m dollars away from the dreaded donut hole, so I have to watch my pennies.