I'm very proud to announce that I've just broken a major fundraising milestone: $250,000 raised for Democrats running for STATE LEGISLATIVE races this cycle! (note: this includes VA, NJ, MS & LA, which held their legislative elections last year).
If you go through all 50 of my state legislative fundraising pages, the total will actually come to around ~$267,000, but that also includes around $1,400 raised for President Biden as well as around $15,500 raised for other organizations, mostly Voters of Tomorrow & the abortion/reproductive rights ballot initiatives in Arizona, Florida and Montana.
Not including those, as of this writing the total raised for actual Democratic state legislative candidates, Dem state parties & Dem legislative caucus committees comes to just under $251,000, broken out as follows:
Again, Virginia and New Jersey both held their legislative elections in 2023.
Other noteworthy data points:
- Of that ~$250K, it breaks out almost exactly 80/20 ($200K / $50K) between the actual candidates themselves and the state Democratic Parties & Dem legislative caucuses.
- I've raised money for around 630 Democratic legislative candidates so far this cycle, averaging around $320 apiece.
- This ranges from as little as $1.00 for a handful of candidates to as much as ~$4,800 for a few of the Virginia candidates.
- Of the candidates running this year, the candidate I've raised the most so far is around ~$3,000.
- Once I fill in the remaining states & districts, the total number of candidates could potentially grow to as many as ~700, although it will likely come in somewhere around 650 or so.
I'm well on my way towards my eventual target of raising at least $1.5 MILLION for state legislative Democrats by November. Help me achieve that by picking a page, picking some candidates & donating today!