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Happy New Year. I’m pre-writing this post because, well, New Year’s, so if the world is on fire, welp, that’s how it goes.
One of the interesting things about the crop of young progressives running for Congress is their transparency about the process. This piece on call time by Cameron Kasky, who’s running for NY-12 (formerly held by Jerry Nadler, who did the decent thing and retired) is great:
Candidate fundraising call time is one of the most demoralizing, radicalizing experiences in politics. @cameronkasky.bsky.social — who is running for the seat Jerry Nadler is retiring from — shows what it’s like to raise money as a candidate, in an effort to push more people to donate online.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social)2025-12-27T00:14:11.374Z
The video is worth watching. He points out that what he’s doing is buying expensive lists from consultants, so he can get donations from people on those lists, so he can buy more expensive lists from consultants. In the era when nobody picks up a call from an unknown number, his yield on calling 200 people was a couple of donations (he didn’t say exactly how many).
Kasky is a Parkland shooting survivor who worked for March for Our Lives, the non-profit that was started by Parkland survivors. His policies seem to match the district (D+33). Never Trumper George Conway is going to run for the seat, too, and as I noted the other day, there’s no reason Democrats need to support Republicans like him, and that goes double for this extremely blue district. Plus what ABL said:
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