More slates!

[rydra_wong]

This time, a deliberate, data-driven attempt to flip state legislatures:

The Intercept: Small Donors Suddenly Pour In to Flip Eight State-Level Seats — and Legislatures

Remember, state governments control drawing of districts and writing of voting rules, as well as having power over things like abortion restrictions, should Roe v. Wade be overturned.

Data for Politics: Give Smart -- with details of the individual candidates and who they're opposing

Most memorable opponent, IMHO, Sylvia Allen: She’s also a creationist who wants to make church attendance mandatory, and when her prison guard son was investigated for bribing inmates for sex she tried to pass a law to make that legal.

Act Blue: Give Smart -- donate here!

And between the time I started to draft this post this morning and posting it this evening:

Data For Politics: data for politics #30: Give Smart 2, EveryDistrict -- -- the first slate took off so well that they teamed with EveryDistrict to fund 8 more candidates who might have a significant impact

Act Blue: Give Smart 2 -- donate to the second slate here

Comments

[teaotter]

Thank you!

[minoanmiss]

I feel often like my small donations don't help, so this is a useful reminder Thant they do.

also, wtf, MS. Allen.

[indywind]

Thanks for this!

[jjhunter]

Thank you for this! I'd already decided that this month, in honor of my upcoming 30th bday and general incandescent rage at US politics, that I would donate the entirety of my usual monthly savings transfer in $10 chunks towards people & organizations who are helping during this cascade of crises, so this post happens to be very timely/convenient for me re: what to do for the portions I wanted to put toward political donations beyond ProPublica and Verified Voting and a handful of races I already had my eye on.

I really appreciate all the US political posts you've been doing here and at your own journal and the perspective you bring to bear - I've had such a hard time dealing with most mainstream media anything coverage of US politics this year that your posts have been such a gift: thank you.

[monanotlisa]

Ohh, Give Smart looks like another pin-pointed initiative, which is another item we all need. Thank you for your tireless work! (I notice a lot of Euros are up and about in US politics, which goes to show the levels of dread we all feel, knowing fully well that the world is interconnected these days, and a butterfly wing's tremble in China WILL cause earthquakes here in the US.)

[sathari]

Came here to post about this!!!!! Have donated!!!! (Right after I finished my Need to Impeach postcards to voters, too!)