Because I'm a man of unlimited virtue, including exceptional humility, yesterday I donated a huge sum of cash — $10; hey, huge is relative to us plebeians and peasants — to Mary Trump's Democracy Defense Fund.
She explains on a page separate from the main that the DDF — "a hybrid federal Political Action Committee" — "coordinate[s] directly with candidates and run[s] independent expenditures into key races around the country."
(The website suggests giving amounts, but in her Twitter appeals she asks for as little as $5, an amount not suggested on the site. I doubled that to 10, because ... I'm a man of unlimited virtue.)
Key to niece Mary's fund is it that it's focused on congressional races, which too many voters neglect in a presidential year. Her organization "strive[s] to secure our electoral system from the authoritarian traitors who seek to destroy it."
Note the plural, traitors. Congress is overpopulated with D. Trump's wanton far-right clowns. Whichever way the presidential contest goes, meantime the country needs concerted campaigns to thin their herd.
Many wild guesses occur every day in this world and my share is that you feel more personal affinity with Mary Trump than with Section IRS Code 26 U.S.C. § 527's 501(c)(4) and sly 501(c)(3) PACs in competition.
If I happen to be right, then I also suggest that if you're financially able, by which I mean there's no pain involved, consider becoming almost as virtuous as I.
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