OKAY WE ARE LIVE NOW FINALLY: If you are able to donate to elections in the USA, please give up to the legal maximum to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/
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@cthos @glyph I had this horrible thought that I guess I could abandon this improbable phone number I've had since I was 19, but I'm somewhat attached to the idea of old friends being able to get back in touch with me if they want to some day. I'd also feel bad just handing off the problem to whoever it would get reallocated to.
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@cthos @aeva yeah the difficulty here is that ActBlue wants to be helpful and so they share with the campaigns. And every campaign is a completely different org with a completely different data-sharing policy. But of course there are several different democratic data-hoover consulting companies that helpfully take that data from many campaigns
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If you boost one thing I have done this year then this is the thing to boost. Boost it here, put it on your Instagram, post it on Facebook, hell, tweet it on X and glorp it on Slub for all I care, get it out to whatever platform you've got
Also this may be relevant: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mxf7jazbtk2e
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@cthos @aeva yeah the difficulty here is that ActBlue wants to be helpful and so they share with the campaigns. And every campaign is a completely different org with a completely different data-sharing policy. But of course there are several different democratic data-hoover consulting companies that helpfully take that data from many campaigns
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Do you get mad that the fascists are running circles around the Democrats, taking control of local and state-level offices all over the place, mobilizing across different institutions and building durable entrenched local power? Do you feel sad that you don't know where to direct resources when that problem is so pervasive? WELP HERE YOU GO, GET ON IT
@glyph Incidentally, my ballot in Texas had over 50 uncontested races, *all* going to Democrats. Mostly judge positions.
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@glyph Incidentally, my ballot in Texas had over 50 uncontested races, *all* going to Democrats. Mostly judge positions.
@bob_zim heck yeah
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OKAY WE ARE LIVE NOW FINALLY: If you are able to donate to elections in the USA, please give up to the legal maximum to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/
@glyph One of these is the district I grew up in (Nash County, NC). I did my part
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@glyph One of these is the district I grew up in (Nash County, NC). I did my part
@glyph I also hand-validated each one just to make sure they all seemed like decent people. It's interesting to see the different quality of website between a candidate in a place like Iowa versus the one for Pennsylvania.
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Also this may be relevant: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mxf7jazbtk2e
I make the website, I don't vet the candidates. But Jay checked! So if you felt you might need to, now you know, he already did so you can just donate!
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I make the website, I don't vet the candidates. But Jay checked! So if you felt you might need to, now you know, he already did so you can just donate!
In all seriousness if you find one candidate more compelling than the others and you want to highlight them, we've made sure that every Super Swing District has an anchor link, so if you are particularly passionate about mobilizing for Jane Aman (and thus helping with GOTV for Angie Nixon among others) you can link straight to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/#FLH-037
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I make the website, I don't vet the candidates. But Jay checked! So if you felt you might need to, now you know, he already did so you can just donate!
@glyph this isn't meant to be transferable trust
I encourage everyone to do the bare minimum of validation before having your name in the FEC donor roles for a person
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@glyph this isn't meant to be transferable trust
I encourage everyone to do the bare minimum of validation before having your name in the FEC donor roles for a person
@jay jay are you saying you're not trustworthy
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In all seriousness if you find one candidate more compelling than the others and you want to highlight them, we've made sure that every Super Swing District has an anchor link, so if you are particularly passionate about mobilizing for Jane Aman (and thus helping with GOTV for Angie Nixon among others) you can link straight to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/#FLH-037
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117470063241810446
The website part of this project is very small but it's still definitely a few hours' work, and everybody involved (myself included) was quite busy and feeling ground down by the General State Of Things. But we got enough volunteers to do a bunch of really small simple tasks that it came together like 3x faster than in previous years and we were able to turn it around really fast as a result. Despite my own inability to find 3 continuous hours to actually focus we got it out in one weekend.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117470063241810446
The website part of this project is very small but it's still definitely a few hours' work, and everybody involved (myself included) was quite busy and feeling ground down by the General State Of Things. But we got enough volunteers to do a bunch of really small simple tasks that it came together like 3x faster than in previous years and we were able to turn it around really fast as a result. Despite my own inability to find 3 continuous hours to actually focus we got it out in one weekend.
Sorry to make it about AI (why does everything have to be about AI now) but at a time when volunteer communities are tearing themselves apart both from the acrimony about the tech itself *and* the false sense that it can give you that You Can Do It On Your Own, You Just Need One More Prompt, the sight of a half a dozen people just typing some HTML whenever they had a few spare minutes to help out with a meaningful project that could make the world a lot better was honestly pretty moving
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Sorry to make it about AI (why does everything have to be about AI now) but at a time when volunteer communities are tearing themselves apart both from the acrimony about the tech itself *and* the false sense that it can give you that You Can Do It On Your Own, You Just Need One More Prompt, the sight of a half a dozen people just typing some HTML whenever they had a few spare minutes to help out with a meaningful project that could make the world a lot better was honestly pretty moving
Crashing Out About AI In A Thread That Is Way Too Long is my superpower so if I have to do something for Politics I guess that's what I'm doing for Politics now
