Thread by @RealSteveCox

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The most difficult thing for our campaign has always been fundraising. The services that provide donor contacts usually cost thousands up front so you have to raise money before you get the contacts to raise money.
#Paradox

About a year and a half ago, a campaign volunteer asked a service that supposedly only supports “left wing” candidates, and does it with no money up front, Grassroots Analytics (@grassrootsmath), working with our campaign. They said no because I’m not a Democrat.

A few weeks ago, I decided to ask them myself. They charge no money up front, but charge 3% of what your campaign raises (with or without using their contacts). They set up a phone meeting and then sent over a contract after that meeting!

We signed the contract on a Thursday and my “onboarding” web meeting was set for the following Tuesday. About 45 minutes before that appointment, I got this email:

Then I emailed my original contact asking what happened and I got this reply:

The only thing of note that happened between signing our contract and them calling me “unprofessional” and canceling the contract was I tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/realstevecox/status/1366548983733055490

That led to tons of replies from partisan Democrats/liberals—mostly paid trolls and bots—whom I mocked as I usually do.

And it so triggered these people that they just couldn’t work with me.

I replied twice practically begging them to reverse their decision and they didn’t even reply.

This organization says they support “progressives” and “left-wing” candidates but all they want are people who act just like the useless assholes we already have in congress.

Want to know why our system is so badly broken? Because even the people who talk about the right things and purport to be on our “side” ultimately serve the Democratic Party, not us. Their staff are who’s who of former Democratic campaign people.

So now I need to raise at least $10,000 before I can even start raising money. This is what independents are up against. It’s not that voters don’t want independents, it’s that voters aren’t exposed to independents because it’s made incredibly difficult for us to raise money.

And the money is necessary in order to communicate with voters and earn their votes.

Which is why we need your support now more than ever. We have to defeat this duopoly if we’re ever to have a functional government.

Please RT and pitch in if you can.
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