How ActBlue Is Trying To Turn Small Donations Into A Blue Wave
Terry Wolfe has a dog, three cats and a deep desire to help elect members of Congress who will check President Trump.
“I just cannot really tolerate that man,” he declared.
Wolfe is putting his money where his mouth is.
Since January 2017, Wolfe, a 68-year-old retiree in Morgantown, West Virginia, has contributed more than $14,000 to Democratic congressional candidates. Like millions of other Democratic donors, he’s been giving via ActBlue, a fundraising platform designed to allow grassroots donors to easily give to Democratic candidates. His average contribution? Less than $11.
Wolfe is one of the most active members of an army of grassroots donors shoveling a mountain of cash into the coffers of Democratic House and Senate candidates on the November ballot.
ActBlue, a nonprofit whose online fundraising tools have been used to varying degrees by nearly every Democrat running for Congress, says it has raised more than $2.9 billion for Democrats and progressive organizations since its founding in 2004. September was the biggest month in its history.
An analysis of campaign finance data by FiveThirtyEight and the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization, shows that ActBlue is handling more political contributions than ever before. Between January 2017 and Sept. 30, 2018,2 nearly $564 million, or about 55 percent of all contributions from individual donors to Democratic congressional candidates, passed through the platform, compared to about 19 percent at this point in the 2014 election.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-actblue-is-trying-to-turn-small-donations-into-a-blue-wave/
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They have really got it streamlined and very easy.
