ActBlue Q1 2010 Stats: Totals, Candidates, & Fundraisers
Our latest monthly report on ActBlue activity was just a teaser. Today is the filing deadline for federal campaigns and committees, and we’re releasing our Q1/2010 numbers. More real time numbers!...
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On August 24, the AK-Sen primary was a forgone conclusion. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), a 1.5 term incumbent–in 2002 her father appointed her to his Senate seat when he won the governorship, the very...
View ArticleRuffini on Mobile Giving
Patrick Ruffini, a Republican consultant, recently diagnosed the ills that plague mobile giving: it can be pretty frustrating watching these solutions get tripped up in the bureaucratic thicket of the...
View ArticleConsider the Source
On Wednesday, the Washington Post broke the news that the American Action Network, a Republican "charitable organization" along the lines of American Crossroads GPS, was financed entirely by 11...
View ArticleStandUp RedTent RootsCard StormPAC
Over at DailyKos, David Nir has a post up asking "what ever happened to the right's version of ActBlue?" It's a good question. As David shows, the right's attempts to replicate our success have...
View ArticlePolitical Actors, Not Political Addicts
In yesterday's Washington Post, T.W. Farnam apparently thought it would be illuminating to compare grassroots donors to addicts. The article is the other half of a classic D.C. lose-lose attack on the...
View ArticleSmall Donors and 2012
A few weeks ago, Nick Confessore of the New York Times wrote a piece about the reluctance of small donors to return to the Obama fold. Shira Toeplitz of Roll Call recently examined the slowdown in...
View ArticleBundles, “Bundles,” and Blinders
A recent Seattle Times story on Maria Cantwell noted that, By far the biggest single source of Cantwell's fundraising last year was ActBlue, a political-action committee that acts as an online...
View ArticleCongrats to the new DCCC and DSCC chairs
We’re excited to see long-time ActBlue user Rep. Ben Ray Lujan be named chair of the DCCC. Reminded us of this video from 2008 when candidate Lujan taked about the importance of the entire Democratic...
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Contribution Forms: Easier Access = (Even) Easier Fundraising
Campaign season is picking up quickly as we march on toward 2016, and we’re always working to make things as easy and efficient as possible for our users. That’s why we’ve made some big changes to the...
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Q3: The most donors in a day, ever.
As you read this, keep reminding yourself that we’re talking about the third quarter of an off-year. An off-year! We broke the record for most contributions in a single day: 147k on September 30th. It...
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You can use nominee funds right now to fight back
When the House GOP voted to repeal the ACA, they jeopardized the health and security of millions of Americans. In many cases, the Republicans who voted for Trumpcare don’t have a challenger yet, or...
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Ted Cruz thinks we’re big money
Last night, Ted Cruz mentioned us in a debate about the tax code on CNN with Bernie Sanders. Perhaps not surprisingly, Cruz got his facts wrong. When talking about big money in politics, he compared...
View ArticleElection Day 2017: Wins at the state and local level, fueled by the grassroots
Hi, I’m Rachael from the Outreach Team at ActBlue, stopping by the blog to talk about the (amazing) outcome we saw this past Election Day. I work with state and local candidates and teach them how to...
View ArticleWhy we need to #FixDemocracyNow
Right now, our friends at Every Voice are running a “Fix Our Democracy Now” week of action, and we’re proud to be a participating organization. Every Voice is pushing for elected officials to pass...
View ArticleRuffini on Mobile Giving
Patrick Ruffini, a Republican consultant, recently diagnosed the ills that plague mobile giving: it can be pretty frustrating watching these solutions get tripped up in the bureaucratic thicket of the...
View ArticleConsider the Source
On Wednesday, the Washington Post broke the news that the American Action Network, a Republican "charitable organization" along the lines of American Crossroads GPS, was financed entirely by 11...
View ArticleSmall Donors Rising
Before heading out for the weekend (and in the midst of ActBlue’s move to new offices) I wanted to briefly touch on some presidential fundraising numbers compiled this week by OpenSecrets.org and the...
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ActBlue Featured in the Boston Globe
We’re back from Yearly Kos in Chicago and we were greeted by a great sight, a feature in the Boston Globe! Here’s the story… By Scott Helman, Globe Staff | August 7, 2007CAMBRIDGE — The new...
View ArticleMaking Democracy More Democratic
Over at Horses Ass, blogger David Goldstein gives his take on the importance of ActBlue. It’s a spot on analysis both of what ActBlue does and why it matters. Emphasis Mine: When people talk about...
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