As of the end of May, I've raised 3x as much for Democrats as I had at the same point 4 years ago...and 50% more as I had at this point 2 years ago!
In terms of category breakout, so far this cycle I've raised:
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U.S. Senate: $94,671 (10.7%)
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U.S. House: $219,067 (24.8%)
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State Legislative: $390,750 (44.2%)
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State Executives*: $50,980 (5.8%)
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Courts: $52,854 (6.0%)
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State Dem Parties: $72,700 (8.2%)
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Local/Other: $3,160 (0.4%)
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TOTAL: $884,182
*NOTE: State Executives includes Governors, Lt. Governors, Attorneys General & Secretaries of State as well as other state executive office such as Treasurers, Auditors, Comptrollers, Public Service Commissioners, School Boards, etc.
The ~$884,000 I've raised so far consists of over 107,000 individual donations averaging just $8.24 apiece (admittedly, most of those were in the form of larger donations split among multiple candidates).
It's gone directly to ~2,200 different Democratic candidates (along with several dozen state & local parties), averaging around $400 apiece:
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647 candidates have received $1 - $10 apiece
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644 have received $10 - $50 apiece
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243 have received $50 - $100 apiece
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215 have received $100 - $250 apiece
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141 have received $250 - $500 apiece
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99 have received $500 - $1,000 apiece
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111 have received $1,000 - $2,500 apiece
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50 have received $2,500 - $5,000 apiece
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46 have received $5,000 - $10,000 apiece
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3 have received $10,000 - $25,000 apiece
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1 has received more than $25,000
(Josh Weil, FL-06 special election received $30,512)
I've changed my social media engagement methodology; since I've solidly established that Bluesky (and other platforms) generate several times more engagement (click-thrus per follower) than Twitter, I'm going to focus purely on actual funds raised via each.
In May 2026, links posted to Bluesky generated 18% of total funds raised (the all-time high so far was actually 53% in January); overall Bluesky has generated over 23% of everything I've raised for candidates to date.
Twitter/X generated 6% of the May funds and is still a distant second place overall at 7.5% of total donations.
The other four platforms combined (Threads, Mastodon, Spoutible & Daily Kos) only generated a combined 2.6% of funds for the month, and 6% of the cumulative total.
