“While Susan Collins’ campaign is backed by billionaire donors, our campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average donation of $26,” said Graham Platner’s campaign manager.
A new analysis of campaign finance data shows that nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection bid so far, funneling nearly $10 million to the incumbent’s campaign committee and PACs supporting her effort to fend off progressive challenger Graham Platner.
The Maine Monitor on Thursday published a list of billionaires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his Republican opponent a “corrupt” protector and beneficiary of an oligarchic political system.
The outlet noted that Collins’ billionaire donation total “stands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent… whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.”
To them, losing the “progressives can’t win purple states” narrative would be a catastrophe.
Not only can progressives win in purple states, I bet they can win in these supposedly “red” states that have been abandoned by the Dems in recent years. Progressive takeover of the Democratic Party needs to happen ASAP.
People in those red states will never vote for anyone with a ‘D’ next to their name, no matter how much they agree with them.
I agree. I don’t think the actual silent majority thinks “that guy’s too far right” or “that lady’s too far left,” they ask “which one’s gonna help with my problems?”
We need a Left version of the Tea Party
The tea party was an astroturfing campaign…
What’s astroturfing?
And we need it fast. No time for steeping. Call it the Espresso Party!
Just look at all the special elections earlier in the year that flipped seats. They’re definitely scared we’re waking up
I think it’s already happening. People are tired of the current leadership who have proven themselves deaf to the needs of the working class. They’ve just been stringing people along with performativism and virtue signaling, but people have definitely woken up to that in recent years.
Also, establishment Dems’ catastrophic failures in last election followed by a series of progressive wins is a good signal. Progressives are demonstrating their electability, and that momentum will only build from here on. It will become increasingly harder for Democratic Party leadership to stifle the progressive caucus.
Also, the new DNC chairman is at least nominally progressive. We’ll see how he does in two years. Till then all we can do is hope and wait and vote.
Asking honestly… how do we do this?
Vote in every dem primary for the progressive candidate, campaign for the progressive candidate, run as the progressive candidate. Vote in every primary and every general.
I’m no strategist but: Primaries, local organizing with progressive supporters, and refusing to play the “civility politics” game that so many conservatives and neoliberals love to play. Be progressive and don’t apologize for it.
Do they ever apologize? No, they don’t. We don’t either.