The Daily Kos community—in other words, you—are now one of the biggest forces in progressive politics. And there's no way the rest of America won't be taking notice.
[T]he political activity [in Kansas] didn’t come from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, nor did it flow from the Democratic National Committee, whose new chairman, Tom Perez, ran on a pledge to compete in all 50 states.Instead it came from Daily Kos, one of the pioneers of the liberal blogging period of the aughts, which has found newly acquired relevance in the era of Democratic resistance to Trump.
It wasn’t a fluke. Kos readers had already sent more than a million dollars to the campaign of Jon Ossoff in Georgia, and in the next few weeks you’re likely to read about how they’re pumping eye-popping sums into Montana to boost Rob Quist and, perhaps, even into South Carolina, where a race is shaping up to replace Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
That's you, the members of this community, responsible for this. You now have the power to take on races nobody expected to contest and make them competitive. It didn't come from any of the usual places we've now come to expect as the status quo in American politics, no billionaire seeking to install a favored friend or industry group pouring money into a state race on behalf of one of the industry's reliable apologists. It's actual, bona fide people-power, ten or twenty bucks at a time, from folks who don't have their own lobbyists but do have their own principles, and are fed up with that status quo.
You're a movement now.
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