Join the Fight for a Progressive Governing Majority
With the assistance of over 35,000 members of the Open Left community, we played a major role in pulling together enough votes to pass a public option through the Senate. Proving there were over 50 votes for the public option in the Senate, and helping to educate the grassroots on both Senate process and the progress of the campaign, were essential to Harry Reid including a public option in the Senate bill.With your help, we are going to keep working to bring the public option over the finish line, to engage the fight for marriage equality wherever it is being waged, and to prevent conservative Democrats from instituting new, sweeping restrictions on reproductive rights. Down the road, we are going to keep pushing the progressive envelope with efforts to end the filibuster in the Senate, to institute a new millionaire�s tax in next year�s budget, and to turn remaining bailout funds into a second stimulus for the rest of America.
Next year is an election year, too. We are going to use new election analysis tools, more accurate than those developed on any other website, to keep putting more progressives in Congress. In 2010, we are going to replicate our previous victories in electing Donna Edwards to Congress through a primary challenge against a corporate Democrat, and to elect Alan Grayson to Congress over a corporate Republican.
Through it all, we are going to keep up our rigorous analysis, and keeping finding innovative, creative leverage points. Whether through my vote counting and data-driven analysis, Mike Lux's expansive and insider knowledge of progressive institutions and power structures, Adam Bink�s on the ground reporting, David Sirota's hard-nosed economic populism, or Paul Rosenberg's wide-ranging cultural critique, Open Left will continue to provide the sort of thoroughgoing, left-wing, yet still realpolitik, progressivism found in few other media outlets or political organizations in America.
Open Left currently has total a monthly operating cost of $7,500 per month. This covers payments to David Sirota, Mike Lux, Adam Bink, Paul Rosenberg, and myself. It also provides health insurance for me and my partner Natasha Chart--without which we would have really been up a creek when she broke her foot in July. Additionally, we need to pay for website hosting, accounting, and our Internet action tools.
We operate on a shoestring budget compared to other progressive activist organizations and DC-focused media. Still, as inexpensively as we are able to operate, the crash in online advertising has reduced our monthly income from ads to only $4,500 per month. We need your support to make up the gap, and 450 donors giving $40 each will accomplish exactly that!
