As of the end of April, I've raised 3x as much for Democrats as I had at the same point 4 years ago...and 60% more as I had at this point 2 years ago!
In terms of category breakout, so far this cycle I've raised:
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U.S. Senate: $70,557 (9.4%)
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U.S. House: $156,364 (20.7%)
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State Legislative: $376,816 (50.0%)
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State Executives*: $32,816 (4.4%)
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Courts: $47,841 (6.3%)
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State Dem Parties: $66,174 (8.8%)
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Local/Other: $3,131 (0.4%)
*NOTE: State Executives includes Governors, Lt. Governors, Attorneys General & Secretaries of State as well as other state executive office such as Treasurers, Auditors, Comptrollers, Public Service Commissioners, School Boards, etc.
The ~$750,000 I've raised so far consists of over 97,000 individual donations averaging just $7.68 apiece (admittedly, most of those were in the form of larger donations split among multiple candidates).
It's gone directly to ~1,900 different Democratic candidates (along with several dozen state & local parties), averaging around $390 apiece:
- 517 candidates have received $10 or less apiece
- 617 have received $10 - $50 apiece
- 208 have received $50 - $100 apiece
- 176 have received $100 - $250 apiece
- 128 have received $250 - $500 apiece
- 98 have received $500 - $1,000 apiece
- 112 have received $1,000 - $2,500 apiece
- 23 have received $2,500 - $5,000 apiece
- 44 have received $5,000 - $10,000 apiece
- 4 have received $10,000 - $30,000 apiece
I've changed my social media engagement methodology; since I've solidly established that Bluesky (and other platforms) generate several times more engagement (clickthrus per follower) than Twitter, I'm going to focus purely on actual funds raised via each.
In April 2026, links posted to Bluesky generated 34% of total funds raised (the all-time high so far was actually 53% in January); overall Bluesky has generated over 24% of everything I've raised for candidates to date.
Twitter/X generated slightly more than Bluesky for the first time since last May...but is still a distant second place overall at 7.8% of total donations.
The other four platforms combined (Threads, Mastodon, Spoutible & Daily Kos) only generated a combined 3.8% of funds for the month, and 6.6% of the cumulative total. I've also removed Substack from the tracking entirely as it didn't seem to be generating much of anything, so I'm no longer posting links there.
