Hello friends. I am hoping this final night of Dem Convention will be a big night for the Mastodon For Harris fundraiser. To that end, I thought it might be fun to do some matching. I will start by matching the first $500 worth of contributions starting at 5:30 pm Central (when the main session will be gaveled in). For now, I'm seeking others who might be willing to offer a match. If you are, please DM or email me at hlfgulc at gmail dot com.

More on how this will work if enough interest. 1/

@heidilifeldman @tchambers

Here is a look at the history of the funds raised at the ActBlue site Mastodon for Harris-Walz.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

From humble beginnings of a $1,000 target, we together, with leadership from Heidi and Tim, have contributed over $517,000 so far. Let's keep the momentum going tonight and into the coming weeks until we win in November.

@AkaSci
That plot suggests that the current momentum is very low, with contributions near saturation (based on the logistic curve shape of it all). That suggests to me that there needs to be some significant event or change to the current state of the fundraising landscape to accelerate giving again, certainly if we want to coast on momentum into November
@heidilifeldman @tchambers
@_dmh @heidilifeldman let's see how that curve looks after last night's speech!

@_dmh @AkaSci @heidilifeldman

But it looks very different this morning …. ✊

@tchambers @_dmh @heidilifeldman
Nice bump in contributions to "Mastodon for Harris-Walz"
$17,202 raised since 5:00 p.m. ET yesterday.
 
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

@_dmh @heidilifeldman @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @tchambers
Also,, the aggregate contribution rate at ActBlue looks quite healthy.
Note that this does not include large donations thru PACs.

Data source; https://observablehq.com/@rdmurphy/actblue-ticker-tracker

ActBlue Ticker Tracker

Powered by the GitHub Action of \`actblue-ticker-tracker\`. The data is updated every 10 minutes. Things to Note With newfound attention on this tracker I did want to stress one major caveat of this dataset I've prepared — it is based entirely on that huge, updating number found at the top of the ActBlue website. ActBlue is under no obligation to share their fundraising progress this way, and it should not be assumed that the big number is being held to the same standards that go into producing the reports

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