Amanda Litman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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I would say in particular, the donor world.
And I will be very honest, like.
Everyone who's not running for House or Senate this year that can't, like, if you're not a House or Senate candidate, you are probably struggling.
Like Run for Something, we're doing okay, but we have had to be really careful stewards of our resources.
And like, just to put a really fine point on this, you know, Run for Something's budget is $8 million a year, just about.
The Republican counterpart to Run for Something is called the Leadership Institute.
It has been around for 30 some odd years.
It has a $50 million a year annual budget.
I think I could have candidate recruitment offices in every state and be doing year-round.
I cannot imagine what I would do with $50 million a year.
It is the kind of abundance mindset around we can do it all that the Democratic Party just does not seem to operate from.
Little bit of call of A, little bit of call of B. So some of it is like we don't have enough rich people or our grassroots donors are very excited about some of the Senate races and not as excited about some of the infrastructure because it's not as flashy and not as exciting.
And really big checks still go to places that run TV ads or this right now it's like creator stuff.
And that's not to say that's not important, but that stuff ceases to exist after election day.
Run for Something and so many of other partners on the ground who are doing this real locally driven work that happens.
Like candidate recruitment for 2026 happened in 2025.
The recruitment that we are doing now for, say, the Louisiana and Mississippi state legislative races, which are going to be critical because of how they've redistricted these states and blowing up the Voting Rights Act, that recruitment happens now.
So if you are not funding things year round and sustaining this work with multi-year giving, multi-month giving, it is impossible to do in the way that is the most effective and efficient.
Yep, 100%.
If I think about it too much, I won't get out of bed in the morning.
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