*Excellent news!*

My first co-authored book, 2006’s Crashing the Gate, featured a special House election in Ohio in which a candidate named Paul Hackett—in a supposedly unwinnable race—raised $500,000 from 9,000 blog readers (the blogs were Daily Kos, MyDD, and Swing State Project). It was the first sign that this “ActBlue” thing was real, an inkling that perhaps we could build an answer to the conservative parade of billionaire donors. As I wrote, “the tens of millions the big donors can raise annually pales in comparison to what small donors can raise on their own.” 

Still, that was the dream, not the reality. And while we saw that progressive donor infrastructure grow cycle after cycle, this is the year where it has absolutely blown everything out of the water. I mean, South Carolina Democratic senate candidate Jamie Harrison raised $57 million. In one quarter. For context, $5-6 million a quarter for a Senate candidate was considered awesome fundraising last