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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@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
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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
Please remember that the corollary here is that now that I've related this heartwarming story of collective purpose to you, if you don't donate (if you're legally allowed to donate to US campaigns) or at least share, you're harshing the whole vibe here, just ruining the party. So you just gotta donate now.
(I am kidding. Not everybody has resources they can contribute. Not everyone is comfortable sharing a slate they haven't personally vetted. I get it. It's cool. But also: c'mon.)
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