Do you get mad that the fascists are running circles around the Democrats, taking control of local and state-level offices all over the place, mobilizing across different institutions and building durable entrenched local power? Do you feel sad that you don't know where to direct resources when that problem is so pervasive? WELP HERE YOU GO, GET ON IT
(Also BIG thank you to the SuperSwingDistricts Ad-Hoc Team, the effort to get the website up and running again this year was distributed across various volunteers without whom I would not have been able to get it promptly deployed. This is absolutely a fediverse joint.)
If you boost one thing I have done this year then this is the thing to boost. Boost it here, put it on your Instagram, post it on Facebook, hell, tweet it on X and glorp it on Slub for all I care, get it out to whatever platform you've got
Also this may be relevant: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:2aebn3xk5t63net43eeepire/post/3mxf7jazbtk2e
I make the website, I don't vet the candidates. But Jay checked! So if you felt you might need to, now you know, he already did so you can just donate!
In all seriousness if you find one candidate more compelling than the others and you want to highlight them, we've made sure that every Super Swing District has an anchor link, so if you are particularly passionate about mobilizing for Jane Aman (and thus helping with GOTV for Angie Nixon among others) you can link straight to https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/#FLH-037
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117470063241810446
The website part of this project is very small but it's still definitely a few hours' work, and everybody involved (myself included) was quite busy and feeling ground down by the General State Of Things. But we got enough volunteers to do a bunch of really small simple tasks that it came together like 3x faster than in previous years and we were able to turn it around really fast as a result. Despite my own inability to find 3 continuous hours to actually focus we got it out in one weekend.
Sorry to make it about AI (why does everything have to be about AI now) but at a time when volunteer communities are tearing themselves apart both from the acrimony about the tech itself *and* the false sense that it can give you that You Can Do It On Your Own, You Just Need One More Prompt, the sight of a half a dozen people just typing some HTML whenever they had a few spare minutes to help out with a meaningful project that could make the world a lot better was honestly pretty moving
Crashing Out About AI In A Thread That Is Way Too Long is my superpower so if I have to do something for Politics I guess that's what I'm doing for Politics now
Please remember that the corollary here is that now that I've related this heartwarming story of collective purpose to you, if you don't donate (if you're legally allowed to donate to US campaigns) or at least share, you're harshing the whole vibe here, just ruining the party. So you just gotta donate now.
(I am kidding. Not everybody has resources they can contribute. Not everyone is comfortable sharing a slate they haven't personally vetted. I get it. It's cool. But also: c'mon.)
Dang y'all showed up fast. Thank you. Less than 24 hours and we are already halfway to our first goal. (The goal is at $20,000 but the campaigns could use a lot more than that, so, let's not limit our imaginations. But it would be a great start to hit that number.)
But this is good because we are launching late and the election is VERY soon.
We blew past our first goal of $20,000 on https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/ !
We've raised it to $40,000. Let's go!
(Last year we managed to get to $70,000, which was great, but insufficient. Let's see if we can beat it this time!)
For obvious reasons campaigns are much more able to use money before the absolute last minute. Deadline for the Florida candidate is 10/30 (and I think that's the last one) but sooner is better than later. Hopefully we can get some kind of countdown onto the site to make the urgency clearer
needs must when the devil drives https://lnkd.in/p/g_UYVFua
I don't have enough tracking to determine which donations came from where, but just based on timing, it seems like LinkedIn showed up for well less than 1/4 of what Fedi did. continue to put them to shame, please: we're just a bit over $25k now https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/
also if you're seeing this through the bridge on Bluesky but you're not donating then you are proving the inferiority of atproto as a network
we've got a countdown on the website now too, so you can see how little time is left (IT IS VERY LITTLE TIME)
Oct 20, 2026, 4:44 AM@glyph donated a bit. thanks for helping organize.
@noah Thanks. Even $1 to each campaign helps. Really appreciate it.
@glyph y'all got a flyer I could print out with a QR code? I know a place or two that sees a lot of well off center left Dems.
@wronglang that is a great idea but I got nothing. let me share it with the group
@wronglang Share and enjoy https://superswingdistricts.org/2026/flyer.tiff
@glyph thank you!
@wronglang thank YOU! will be curious if this results in any meaningful donations
@glyph I have to sleep before I print but I'm curious too!
@djmitche yeah we are extremely late to the game already but a bit of a boost in the waning days can still matter quite a lot
@djmitche what's the campaign?
Oct 21, 2026, 1:51 AM@glyph Is there a feedback loop? Any idea if the downstream campaigns know what's going on or if it's even a drop in their bucket? Is it naive to consider that like, $2000 to a rural Iowa house race might be meaningful?
1. No, at least not to me. I think they might be vaguely aware they're in the slate.
2. Yes, these local campaigns are often *tiny*, so small donations make a big difference.
@jay in fact, re: 2, there's verbiage on the site about this, smaller campaigns make WAY more efficient use of money than bigger ones. Give to a big campaign and you're likely to get another network TV ad that 3/4 of viewers just ignore or tune out, give to a small campaign and you'll get 1 more canvasser out on the road physically talking to people in person
@glyph <3 I did use grep, regexps and vi pattern replace, if those count as automated augmentation.
@jmeowmeow ooh look at Adam Jensen over here /s
@glyph I really loved seeing the css and html carpenters fixing things up that I had left as roughly tacked down table elements.
@jmeowmeow as I said, pretty moving. surprisingly so, honestly. it improved my mood much more than I expected
@jmeowmeow kind of a lesson, maybe? I need to make my other projects less intimidating to approach, and ask for help more often. there's probably some irreducible complexity that would make e.g. Pomodouroboros more challenging to contribute to than SSD, but not _that_ much more challenging (particularly for my audience)
@glyph (whispers) I can't tell what Adam Jensen you're thinking of.
Oct 20, 2026, 3:49 AM@glyph this isn't meant to be transferable trust 😂
I encourage everyone to do the bare minimum of validation before having your name in the FEC donor roles for a person 😉
@jay jay are you saying you're not trustworthy
Oct 20, 2026, 2:20 PM@glyph I'm saying that some of the root cause of our current political shenanigans are people not taking personal responsibility for their own political voice/money/votes
@glyph Incidentally, my ballot in Texas had over 50 uncontested races, *all* going to Democrats. Mostly judge positions.
@bob_zim heck yeah