Thanks Nancy!

[George II]

Link to tweet

[Wellstone ruled]

1. As one of many volunteers

whom did our little part,it was so important to have a bread and butter message and stay with that message.

[George II]

12. Good for you. Thanks!

[Wellstone ruled]

19. It truly sucked in 2016

especially in the closing days,how thirteen states got all the extra attention while our screaming for help in the mid west went unanswered.

It is a 50 state effort and we paid the price.

[kozar]

20. While I agree,

And I am from a true Red State, TN, I feel that this post shows how we are all ONE as a nation and every person in the whole nation can make a difference as long as none of us give up. No effort is ever lost if it was a true effort. Sometimes our little voice doesn't seem to be heard, until you hear the loud final voice and vote.

Koz

[betsuni]

2. K&R

[mcar]

3. Thanks Nancy!

[Wintryjade]

4. I am in love with our Democratic Establishment. I am.

[oasis]

5. Democrats are ready to rock and roll.

[Cha]

6. That's a lot of necessary dough, Nancy!

Thank You!

Link to tweet

A certain Senator from Vermont needs to read this.. he's going around saying..

"It is not good enough for Democrats to just be the anti-Trump party"

It's as if he wasn't paying attention to what the BLUE WAVE was All About.

It was about Health Care, taxes, jobs, etc & Yes "the right candidates"!. trump is the one who went around the country making it all about himself and LOSING.

[George II]

7. Indeed. Notice the average online contribution!

So much for "corporate Democrats".....

[Cha]

11. Yeah, they'll have to

shelve that bogus tired ol insult or we'll show them the BLUE WAVE results.

[Wintryjade]

8. Pretty.

[link:|

[Cha]

22. IKR!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

[Cha]

21. Hey Blanche!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

31. 🤟🏾Hey Cha!

🌴😄💙

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. 5 alarm fire

A lot of those small online donations came through ActBlue.

The heart of the problem, McConnell said at the event at party headquarters on Capitol Hill, is ActBlue. The Democratic fundraising tool funneled over $700 million in small donations to House and Senate candidates over the course of the 2018 campaign. The GOP leader said Republicans were getting swamped in the hunt for online givers and that he has charged his political team with coming up with a solution to enable them to compete in 2020.

[...]

“I’m glad everyone has woken up to this,” said Gerrit Lansing, Revv’s co-founder and a former Republican National Committee top digital strategist. “This is a five-alarm fire.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/12/republicans-fundraising-donations-2020-983243

[Cha]

28. Imagine the goputin doormats

with all the gop Billionaires not having as much online donations as they needed to "compete" against the 2018 Blue Wave?!

Us Flipping 40 red seats to BLUE.. maybe they just weren't that into you, gop?

Thanks, Hermit Sorry, can't help it..

[sheshe2]

9. Thank you Nancy.

You don't just talk the talk...you walk the walk. Hell girl, you are leading our party forward. Thank you for all you have done.

Forward!

[dalton99a]

10. Excellent.

[JHan]

13. K&R

[AlexSFCA]

14. curious how much gop raised

[GulfCoast66]

16. Hah, they are panicking at our grassroots fundraising.

I do not discount the importance of big donors. But republicans are now starting to work to improve their grass roots fundraising. Their problem is that their rubes live in red states, vote race over pocket book, and don’t have the funds nor sense of civic involvement to donate.

[NurseJackie]

15. Nancy rocks!

[apkhgp]

18. Absolutely Perfect

Something to be thankful for.
A Christmas present for the whole country.
At New Years we will be able to fix the stuff the GOP screwed up.

[brer cat]

23. K&R

[R B Garr]

24. K&R!

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. I have a close friend who believes any voting is a waste of time because it is pre-hacked

by a cabal of powerful billionaires that have no party loyalty and too much money and so on and he would point to this thread or these stats to prove his case.

Now, he isnt entirely wrong as of course there is way too much money needed. But "needed" is the key, here.

Were it not for our capitalist system and it being tainted and slanted in the first place, Wall Street would not have to spend so much on GOP to protect their ill-gotten gains. In fact, if we were doing this whole experiment correctly, we would never have let a corporate model become the governing business system. It has no morals.

It is warped and fucked from the get-go. I could explain why in detail but it is a waste of time, nobody can change it in the short term anyway.

And the answer is social democracy, but who can get us there, well let's just say I dont trust the current leader in that department.

[Kurt V.]

27. K&R

[MadDAsHell]

29. Can't believe the amount of money in politics. nt

[scarytomcat]

30. I saw in another thread that the dems still owe

21 mill or some such number

[George II]

33. I think the number is $18M, and we don't really owe it outright. What wasn't included...

...in that number is the funds in the treasuries of many candidates, which greatly outweighs that number.

About a dozen, or more, Senators have millions of dollars in surplus, and many Representatives have large surpluses, too.

In many cases candidates contribute to those committees (either DCCC or DNC, etc.) to make up for their shortfalls.

[peggysue2]

32. But . . . But . . .

Despite this:

Throughout the election, Democrats controlled the narrative. And the GOP knew it

Which is absolutely true. Yet publicly, the GOP and its members keep denying that Democrats have/had a message beyond 'anti-Trump.' Just heard John Kasich last night repeat the same tired line:

"Well, the problem with the Democrats is they don't have a message. Or if they do, it's not clear."

I'm screaming at the TV: How about healthcare, John? Your buds got killed on healthcare. How about electoral integrity, John? Your Party is scandalous in subverting and surpressing the vote.

So, much easier for Paul Ryan to question (even suggest) that there was something hinky in how California Republicans were slaughtered in the midterms. It's a mystery to Ryan.

And maybe that's a good thing.

As Republicans keep scratching their heads, doing the same old, same old, Democrats take their message directly to the electorate regarding healthcare, jobs, electoral integrity, eliminating dark money, climate change and respect for our fellow Americans and human beings everywhere regardless of where they're from, what they look like, who they love, who they worship, etc.

It worked in 2018 and it will work in 2020. Could not be clearer:

Working for the greatest good for the greatest number of people until everyone has a fair shake, a decent opportunity for themselves and their children.


And yes, thank you Nancy Pelosi. The woman is fierce!