Feel-good update: The Kavanaugh Effect
Since the hearings ended on Thursday, we’ve seen 20x more volunteers, 4x more candidates signing up, and 3x more contributions coming in.
Last week was the worst. No pretending otherwise. But this morning, I want to tell you a little about the “Kavanaugh Effect”…
Since the hearings ended on Thursday, we’ve seen 20x more volunteers, 4x more candidates signing up, and 3x more contributions coming in. People are doing something meaningful with their outrage.
Over on Twitter, we’ve been sharing some of the notes coming with our new sign-ups…take a look. They will make you feel something resembling good.
As we told folks like the NYTimes, MSNBC.com, PoliticsUSA, and NPR politics, this is what we’ve been building for. Infrastructure matters because at moments like this, where everything is horrible and people are infuriated, we have the systems set up to channel that outrage into effective action. (Shout out to our incredible community manager Leslie Hauser, who’s been working all weekend long immediately plugging our new volunteers in.)
I know it feels like nothing else happened last week…but alas, there were other things in the news…
- Ross joined Generation Progress for a presentation on a report about millennial representation in government. Most interesting stat to me: 1 in 10 members of Congress have student debt; 4 in 10 young people have student debt. No wonder Congress hasn’t dealt with it…
- Cards Against Humanity launched their midterms project, Cards Against Humanity Hacks the Election, and all profits will go to us! Get your pack ASAP.
- RFS candidate Andrew Gounardes was featured in the NYTimes this weekend as one of the key opportunities to flip the NY state senate.
- OH state house candidate Rachel Crooks — activist, first-generation college grad, and one of the many women who’s accused Trump of assault — is featured on RollingStone.com.
- FL state house candidate Emma Collum has a powerful op-ed in FloridaPolitics.com about her experience as a sexual assault survivor. It’s worth a read.
- Just putting this on your radar: I’ll be joining Late Night with Seth Meyers tomorrow night on NBC to talk about the incredible work our team has been doing and why I’m more hopeful than ever about the midterms. Should be fun, assuming I don’t trip or curse!
There’s a lot to do between now and Election Day. Thanks for doing the work with us. It has never mattered more.