Accountability Now Money Bomb Today

Strangebedfellows -- a diverse left-right coalition -- is conducting a money bomb today, using the services of ActBlue.

Why 8 August: On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon resigned for abuses related to Watergate.

As Glenn Greenwald writes:

In the 2006 mid-term elections, Americans handed The Democratic Party a sweeping, staggering, and historic victory... [Yet as] subsequent events conclusively demonstrate, mindlessly supporting and electing more Democrats for its own sake doesn't solve or even mitigate anything.

However, it's 4 pm on the left coast, and Greenwald's brainchild has raised less than half as much as the coalition pulled together for the FISA fight.

Frictionless fundraising technology (contribute with a mouse-click) works only when people feel the pain caused by friction -- an itch, so to speak, that needs to be scratched -- or when people feel that, in acting, they are doing more than spitting in the wind. (Tip of the hat to Jim Croce.)