Stop Donating Blind

Know what you’re funding. Stop bankrolling lost causes. And yes, we take crypto.

This Substack reaches a lot of different people. Let me try to connect with all of you.

Some of you have never given a dollar to politics. Not because you don’t care. You do. You don’t trust where the money goes, you can’t tell a real candidate from a placeholder, and the whole machine feels rigged to extract from you without ever telling you what you bought.

Some of you used to give. You maxed out in 2018. You bundled friends in 2020. Then you watched some of your money go to candidates who couldn’t have won if their opponent had been caught on tape. The rest went to consultants whose biggest skill was sending you more emails. You’re not cynical. You’re tired. There’s a difference.

Some of you are still writing checks every cycle, on autopilot, because somebody you respect asked. You haven’t stopped giving. You’ve just stopped looking at where it lands.

Some of you aren’t Democrats at all. You’re independents, refugees from a Republican Party you no longer recognize, or simply people who…