DNC raised $10.25M in Sept in small-dollar donations, more than last 3 midterms. These ""often reflect voter excitement and volunteering for the party and candidates. It means that the grassroots dollars are not just dollars. They’re energy"...about 1 in 5 donors are giving for the first time.""

Democrats see voter enthusiasm in fundraising haul from small-dollar donors before the midterms

The Democratic National Committee says it's raised more than $10 million from grassroots donors in September.

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Right-leaning social accounts are going to be all about "we are winning and Dems are now losing" 24/7/365. Elon will amplify, so will Russia and all MAGA allies. It's how they closed out both 2022 and 2024 and it's happening again now.

GOP-aligned and not-independent pollsters now dropping polls in key Senate races supposedly showing races shifting their way. It's done to create a media narrative that GOP Senate candidates are surging. The goal is to suppress Dem turnout and fundraising in the final stretch.

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 6d ago

So this is how it is going to work. They will now start more aggressively working a few states - AK, IA, OH, TX - and get the polling averages to tip towards them starting w/Real Clear Politics. They will then claim their ads have shifted the race, and they've kept the Senate. Expect more like 👇

GOP pushing out fake polls doesn't only hurt Dem turnout on election day. It sinks Dem fundraising leading up to it, among other things. They did it in 2022, and they're trying again now, focusing on Senate races, as @simonwdc.bsky.social explains. It's fake. Keep giving and keep working.

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · last mo.

For more background on how the Rs gamed the polls - successfully - in 2022 read this comprehensive investigative report from the @nytimes.com 5/ www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/u...

GOP is now duplicating the fake polling strategy they ran in 2022. I helped run a grassroots group in 2022 and explained the fake polling "shift" to many anxious activists. Without @simonwdc.bsky.social and @tbonier.bsky.social we would not have known it was happening. Share and keep working.

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · last mo.

Just so we all understand the play here. Release initial polls showing Senate Dem candidates with modest leads. Release more in coming weeks showing the races "tightening," and their candidate gaining and ours losing ground. It's 2022 red wave, redux. No one should fall for it this time.

Want to supercharge young voter registration and turnout? BRING DONUTS 🍩 @donutsndemocracy.bsky.social gets average 10x the usual return from in-person voter reg and turnout work. Young organizers with donuts is their game-changing innovation.

Donuts+Democracy@donutsndemocracy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're hitting the ground running in September as the midterms approach! We registered young voters on college campuses in Texas, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia,. If you're a student organizer and want to host an event, check out our website link in bio!!⁠

With the USPS whistleblower news this am its clear that our pro-democracy movement must launch a comprehensive campaign to encourage people to #Voteearly in-person, then dropboxes, then mail as early as you can, #Day1 if possible. More 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-import...

The Importance Of Voting Early, Pete Hegseth Is A Dangerous Clown And Needs To Go, Trump Has Made Venezuela A “Neo-Colony” And It’s Not OK

Bobby Pulido (TX-15), one of our very best candidates of the cycle, joins us live today at 2pm ET. Going to be a good one!

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If it's a low-voting state, how do we know what color it is? If there's no choice, voters don't show up. "In 2022, Democrats had candidates in only 54 of Tennessee’s 99 state house districts – and 13 of those had less than 5k...'Did not vote' was the biggest winner in 2024 in Tennessee."

How a dream comes true: Every State Blue

Yes, there is a strategy. Turn to Every State Blue

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Exactly, @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Small-dollar backing from the Dem grassroots has changed how Dem candidates campaign and what they can do once elected. That's a big reason we see so many virtuous people of modest means--ministers; firefighters; farmers; public health doctors--running this cycle.

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the most valuable assets a campaign has is candidate's time. If they're spending it on "call time" (dialing for donor dollars) they're not spending it with voters. Second, messages spread by people - especially those known to listener - are always more effective than those broadcast by ads.

More health burden in a state lowers the share of bottom-tercile (socioeconomic) voters, but not middle- or top-tercile turnout. It suppresses turnout for the group "whose participation would matter most for redistributive policy." Sheds more light on GOP slashing care. @jenvictor.bsky.social

Jennifer N. Victor@jenvictor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Election forecasts ask what share of the electorate will vote in November. They rarely ask who is still in the pool by Election Day. A new guest post at @misofact.bsky.social misofact.substack.com/p/the-2026-m...

The complaints about Ken Martin and the DNC are actually about "who controls how Democrats spend money." Martin is putting money into state parties for year-round organizing and infrastructure building, the platform he ran and won on. @timwegenermn.bsky.social explains.

I Sit on the DNC Finance Committee. Rufus Gifford Has the Job Description Wrong.

The greatest political malpractice of my lifetime happened in 2024. Those that were part of it have not earned the presumption that they know what the party needs.

timwegener.substack.com

Grassroots money is transforming how the Democratic National Committee operates. It has the funds to invest year-round in organizing, state parties, & infrastructure (eg data) largely because of small, often recurring donations. Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social explains. Keep it up everyone.

The DNC Is Building a Democratic Party That Can Win the Moment and Win the Future

By Ken Martin, Democratic National Committee Chair

substack.com

This would be a good time to donate whatever we can to Texas Democratic candidates, especially seats that we can flip to blue. Not only that but Talarico is investing $250,000 to the Texas House Dems... how cool. Don't know if it's an even split or not, but he's taking downballot races seriously.

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 3mo ago

🚨 W/THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT GUTTED, FLIPPING *STATE LEGISLATIVE SEATS* BLUE JUST BECAME EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. 📣 #TEXAS Democrats need your help! --Donations go directly to the candidates 📣 This page lists COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS. Donate today! #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/txblu...

A very unusual development, via @scottbraddock.bsky.social x.com/scottbraddoc...

"Anyone who runs now in a competitive House race can raise millions of dollars, enough money to be competitive. And that simply just was not true 6 years ago, 8 years ago." @simonwdc.bsky.social Dems no longer need a network of wealthy donors to run. Millions of grassroots donations power them.

A Conversation With Heather Cox Richardson

Dr. Richardson dropped by this afternoon to share her thoughts on where this remarkable nation is at 250

hopiumchronicles.com

Crowdfund the Dem candidates in those formerly uncontested races with one click. Money goes directly to visibility and talking to voters. Yard signs, door hangers, website, gas money. No party or recruitment org pays for these campaign basics-but we can, together. everystateblue.org/first-in-lin...

First In Line — Put a Democrat First in Every State

These races have always been last in line for resources. We put them first. Find your state and support Democrats showing up where it matters most.

everystateblue.org

was looking into Democratic recruitment numbers downballot and you've got folks running for seats that have literally not been contested since *2006.* which, tbf, feels appropriate. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Downballot Democrats are smashing recruitment records

“My God, I wasn’t gonna open that ballot up and not see a Democrat.”

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We can make sure the 27 Democrats running in Texas state house and senate districts where the GOP had no competition last cycle have money for campaign basics like yard signs and gas to get around the district and talk to voters. Chip in to all of them with one click. @kendallscudder.bsky.social

Back the TX Democrats Who Are Showing Up

Texas Democrats are showing up in districts that went uncontested last cycle. Back them with the resources to do the work. everystateblue.org/first-in-line

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"Every single seat [in Texas] has a Democrat working their local community. That's really important because these wins that are really tight aren't going to be delivered from the top down, they're going to be delivered from the bottom up." Great work @kendallscudder.bsky.social

Texas Dem Chair Kendall Scudder On Talarico, Paxton, And What's Becoming A Year Of Opportunity For Texas Democrats

Our good friend Kendall Scudder dropped by this afternoon for a live discussion about what comes next in battleground Texas

hopiumchronicles.com

This is the map that the TN GOP is trying to push through. **Even if you're not in TN** now is the time to push back. What can you do from wherever you are? A LOT MORE THAN YOU THINK.

Did you know that Every State Blue now has crowdfunding pages for BLUE DOTS running in RED DISTRICTS all over the country? We're directly supporting the folks running hard in the hardest places – in every state with state leg elections this cycle. It's true! ->

First In Line — Put a Democrat First in Every State

These races have always been last in line for resources. We put them first. Find your state and support Democrats showing up where it matters most.

everystateblue.org

The media keeps focusing on spreadsheets. Consultants keep focusing on spending that used to make them rich. I’m focused on wins. 💪 90% Democratic overperformance in elections 🧹 30-0 in statehouse flips 💵 ~50% more cash on hand than 2018 Read my op-ed in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/camp...

The numbers don’t lie: The DNC is winning where it matters most

The media is evaluating party strength through the same lens used to evaluate campaigns: money raised, money spent, and quarterly comparisons. But parties are not campaigns.

thehill.com

"It's really efficient for us to be contesting all these ["can't win"] races...If we’re forcing [GOP] to stay home and spend money in their own districts and to focus on their own backyards, we actually get more bang for our buck in the flippable districts." @beyondresistance.bsky.social @32:53.

Ep. 68: Unwinnable on Paper, Powerful in Practice: Funding Blue Campaigns in Red States

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Democrats running for state legislature seats can win in a lot of new places this year. Crowdfund ALL the Democrats running in state legislative races where there was no Dem candidate last cycle with one click. Thanks @everystateblue.bsky.social & @hornish.bsky.social.

First In Line — Put a Democrat First in Every State

These races have always been last in line for resources. We put them first. Find your state and support Democrats showing up where it matters most.

everystateblue.org

Democrats are running all over the country in state legislative races where no Dem ran last cycle, and in states you might not expect, like Idaho, Indiana, and Utah. These were always important races, but per @gregsargent.bsky.social they are now even more so w/gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One urgent takeaway from all this is that state legislative races just got even more important. They will help decide whether Dems can prevent the GOP from locking in a near-permanent majority. And gov races in places like Georgia are now hugely consequential. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Back the wave of blue dots with one click: everystateblue.org/first-in-line/

Every State Blue@everystateblue.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance. A group of hummingbirds is called a charm. A bunch of porcupines is called a prickle. And a collection of blue dots in the reddest corners of the country is called ... One helluva wave. 🌊🌊🌊

Democrats are running for every statehouse seat in Idaho, Indiana, Texas, Utah, and West VA. Alabama has Dems running in 21 districts where no Dem ran in 2024. North Dakota has 22; Oklahoma 14. The list goes on. Power the blue tsunami in your state with one click everystateblue.org/first-in-line/

First In Line — Put a Democrat First in Every State

These races have always been last in line for resources. We put them first. Find your state and support Democrats showing up where it matters most.

everystateblue.org

More evidence for @leahgreenberg.bsky.social 's point that there are no safe GOP seats this cycle. Donate and volunteer for Democrats wherever you can, all over the map, up and down the ballot.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 6mo ago

Democrats just posted their biggest (in terms of math and political impact) election swings of the 2026 cycle in Wisconsin and Georgia www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...