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We point you at one of those races every day until November 3. You donate $10/day; we donate alongside you. Added together, our small-dollar donations make a significant bottom-line difference for the campaigns we fund. Our candidates have more resources to win, to educate and register voters, and to turn them out on Election Day. And in this time of peril, you know you’re doing something meaningful every day to help preserve our democracy. Join us! https://www.sawbuckpatriots.com/FAQ daily 0.75 2022-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4bd4eba9b1494ec922a0a8/1598906529774-O6VAQEFWCQ7XFLX8J0M5/IMG_1008.jpeg Your questions: answered. Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4bd4eba9b1494ec922a0a8/1598906479167-7XT8SB2O5QJENZU4564F/Adjustments.jpeg Your questions: answered. Sawbuck Patriots? What’s with the name? Sawbuck: slang for a ten dollar bill. Patriot: person ready to defend their nation against danger. We’re using our sawbucks to defend our country against the rising tide of fascism, authoritarianism, and untruths that combine to threaten our democracy. Who’s making money off this thing? Just the campaigns to whom we donate, I promise. Nobody else. Hello. I’m Alex Clemens, the guy who started this effort with a hundred aware, far-flung, angry friends who viscerally understand that we need to fight back against those who would damage our democracy beyond repair. I’m doing this as a volunteer, and this is costing me more than it’s costing you, I promise! (Alongside those who are contributing $10/day, I’m investing $100/day in our candidates. And time. Lots of time.) And, because you were going to ask, no, I don’t ever touch any money. I point our members at the donation link for a candidate, and each of us donates directly. Who’s picking these candidates? I am, along with help from the excellent data analysts at Blue Ripple Politics, and the folks at Donor Organizer Hub. (Yes, they’re all volunteers like me, and no, they also don’t touch your money.) I’ve worked in politics for 30 years in the Bay Area and DC, I’ve got a network of smart and tough political operatives around the country, and I’m doing the hard deciding about who needs the help, where the help will make a difference, and whether I see a path to victory for the candidates who need that help. I’m talking with people on the ground, at the national organizations, and who have actual polling data about what they’re seeing and hearing. Donor Organizer Hub is bringing together groups like Sawbuck Patriots. They are advising Sawbuck Patriots (and others!) on best practices in this space. Blue Ripple Politics do innovative, focused data analysis, and are assisting Sawbuck Patriots (and others!) with statistical insights on the winnability of the races we select. We’re all being clear-eyed here - the stakes are too high to invest in races where there’s no practical path to victory or even where a race is a long-shot to win. There are several candidates I absolutely LOVE that we will not be sending group money to, because they’re really unlikely to get over the finish line in first place - so I won’t recommend them to you as worthy investments. At this particular point in history, we need to invest in blocking and tackling and doing what wins. PERIOD. I’ll never propose a candidate to you for the investment of your hard-earned money where I don’t see a real and realistic path to victory. https://www.sawbuckpatriots.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2022-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4bd4eba9b1494ec922a0a8/1598905229127-Q7AAFYL5HRISD8OKWENE/IMG_1008.jpeg Origin - The 2020 Facebook post that made this thing happen Hello, friends. If you generally agree with the political direction of my posts, you share my desire to change our nation's direction, and you can invest $10/day until the election, please take a sec to closely read what's below. I wrote it for you. Like me, you want to help oust the President and his administration, improve the composition of the Senate, and protect the Democratic majority in the House - but you see lots of campaigns asking for your money, and you're not sure which are the wisest places to invest your hard-earned resources to bring about the change we seek. If this rings true, please join me as a founding member of Sawbuck Patriots*. Every day, I'll email you (and others!) with a link to a fundraising page for a WINNABLE race that needs financial assistance - a race where a vulnerable R can be replaced with a D alternative, a vulnerable D needs help fighting off a real challenge, or an open-seat pickup is within reach - and all of which will increase D voter turnout during this all-important national election. In turn, you, I, and everyone else in Sawbuck Patriots will send that campaign $10, which - in total - will land with some impact. My promises: your money will be sent only to places where I'm convinced it will make a difference. As you know, I work in politics, and I have some insight into this arena. I'll combine my research with advice from my far-flung political network to identify critical races where there is a confluence of need and opportunity. I promise that I'll make the final decisions myself, and won't carry anyone else's water. This effort will cost nearly none of your time - you'll get one brief email a day from me, and you'll only need to make about three clicks to send your contribution along (after about five minutes of setup on your first day). And here's a bonus: the more of you who join, the more money you make me spend. If we get to the 100 people I require as a minimum to kick this off, every day when I ask you for your $10, I'll put in $50. If we get to 200 participants, I'll put in $60/day; you stay at $10. (Unless you want to donate more, of course - your call.) And so on, all the way up to 600 people, which will require me to plug in $100/day. (It's too much money, but it's certainly needed at this unprecedented time.) Some math: should we get 300 people in our group, we will each be an essential part of an investment of at least $200,000 into winnable races between now and Election Day. And I hope that sounds like something you'd want to be part of. Let's kick off Sawbuck Patriots and make a difference during this never-more-critical year. Feel free to share it if it resonates with you, along with sending me a private message to join up. Thank you for reading this. - Alex (*Sawbuck: slang for a ten dollar bill. *Patriot: a person who is prepared to defend their country from enemies.) 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