The untimely death of judicial giant and women's rights champion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last night has prompted an outpouring of tributes to her remarkable life and her life's work. It's also energized the progressive community to take up her banner and fight in the upcoming elections. Through noon today, the progressive on-line fundraising platform ActBlue has received a record-shattering $31 million in donations for Dem candidates:
"The jaw-dropping sum was raised by noon Saturday after news of her death broke late Friday, according to a donation ticker on the website of ActBlue, the party’s online fundraising platform.
The 2020 campaign, which will decide control of the White House and the Senate, had already delivered record-shattering fundraising totals for the Democrats, a sign of the motivation within the party to rebuke President Donald Trump on Election Day.
But Ginsburg’s death brought new impetus to the campaign, particularly after Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., both pledged to move forward with finding a new justice.
That would further tilt the court in a conservative direction, carrying wide-ranging implications for the fate of abortion access, environmental regulations and health care.
Democratic challengers to Republican senators were a major recipient of the influx of cash."
We can imagine RBG would be proud of that. Let's double or triple that number to give Dem candidates the resources necessary to take back the Senate, and defeat unstable demagogue Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump, by contributing what you can to ActBlue.com.
