(I know. Email is so boomer. I was born in '57. It's what I do. I do check fb, xwitter, bsky, threads, mastodon and spoutible with moderate frequency, but the signal-to-noise ratio in these places tends not to be good (mastodon is perhaps the best of the lot, but maybe 'cuz it's the least popular 🙂☹️, spoutible in 2nd place, same issue). ig and ttok totally fail to work for me, except for a couple bands I follow on ig (AG, VoB))
Mailing lists where Sarah McBride has been active:
It may be that these candidates/organizations could be making better use of social media. I haven't dug into that. I just happened to be in the midst of a big project of organizing (unsubscribing, redirecting, filing) email and had this information at hand.
(there may be more out there - this is the first I stumbled across since I read your article. Also, I don't know if it was on his web site or socials, but it was in my inbox. You may be able to dredge this up at https://www.politicalemails.org/, but the archive is not 100%. Also, Sarah McBride has sent messages via a number of other PACs' and candidates' mailing lists - I'll put these in a separate response)
quoting from Feb 17 email I got from John Fetterman (policywise he's a mixed bag for me, but I think he's one of the more effective communicators the Dems have right now):
Subject: standing with the trans community
Folks, it’s John Fetterman, and this is important.
It might not be popular to stand with the trans community right now, but I’m doing it anyway and calling on the Trump administration to rescind the transgender military ban.
It’s not about woke sh*t. It’s about respecting the inherent dignity of every U.S. servicemember, regardless of race or gender.
I’m unapologetically pro-military AND pro-LGBTQ, and I actually think they go hand-in-hand. ALL our servicemembers, including our trans troops, make our military stronger.
If you agree, will you join me by signing on to my petition calling on the Trump administration to rescind the ban?
A fundraising email seen by ones own donors is not a public statement of support (it has a much more limited audience, both in political alignment and in number of eyeballs).
A trans congressperson fundraising on Democratic fundraising email lists is *also* not a public statement of support.
I don't think I have to explain why refusing to make a public statement, while simultaneously *fundraising off of it* in effectively *private* emails, makes the situation much more embarrassing, and worse. It's blatant, cynical, "Rainbow Capitalism".
(I know. Email is so boomer. I was born in '57. It's what I do. I do check fb, xwitter, bsky, threads, mastodon and spoutible with moderate frequency, but the signal-to-noise ratio in these places tends not to be good (mastodon is perhaps the best of the lot, but maybe 'cuz it's the least popular 🙂☹️, spoutible in 2nd place, same issue). ig and ttok totally fail to work for me, except for a couple bands I follow on ig (AG, VoB))
Mailing lists where Sarah McBride has been active:
State Democrats Committee (StateDemocrats.com)
Colorado Turnout Project PAC (coloradoturnout.org)
Friends of Tobias Read (tobiasread.com)
The Voter Protection Project aka VPP (protectvoting.org)
Heartland Patriots (LucasKunce.com)
John Fetterman (johnfetterman.com)
Leaders We Deserve (leaderswedeserve.com)
DCCC (dccc.org)
Forward Blue (ForwardBlue.org)
Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC aka CPCPAC (weareprogressives.org)
Truth to Power PAC (via katieporter.com)
It may be that these candidates/organizations could be making better use of social media. I haven't dug into that. I just happened to be in the midst of a big project of organizing (unsubscribing, redirecting, filing) email and had this information at hand.
I don't understand what you're trying to prove here. And I was born in 1973 so please dont accuse me of being youthful in any way
(there may be more out there - this is the first I stumbled across since I read your article. Also, I don't know if it was on his web site or socials, but it was in my inbox. You may be able to dredge this up at https://www.politicalemails.org/, but the archive is not 100%. Also, Sarah McBride has sent messages via a number of other PACs' and candidates' mailing lists - I'll put these in a separate response)
quoting from Feb 17 email I got from John Fetterman (policywise he's a mixed bag for me, but I think he's one of the more effective communicators the Dems have right now):
Subject: standing with the trans community
Folks, it’s John Fetterman, and this is important.
It might not be popular to stand with the trans community right now, but I’m doing it anyway and calling on the Trump administration to rescind the transgender military ban.
It’s not about woke sh*t. It’s about respecting the inherent dignity of every U.S. servicemember, regardless of race or gender.
I’m unapologetically pro-military AND pro-LGBTQ, and I actually think they go hand-in-hand. ALL our servicemembers, including our trans troops, make our military stronger.
If you agree, will you join me by signing on to my petition calling on the Trump administration to rescind the ban?
Sign the petition » https://act.johnfetterman.com/sign/email-20250214-trans-military-ban?source=em20250217-9910&akid=9910%2E5563861%2EGRXL1n
Thanks, folks. I’ll never vote to degrade anyone, including our trans servicemembers. It’s not woke sh*t to have their back; it’s our duty.
John ❤️
John Fetterman
U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
A fundraising email seen by ones own donors is not a public statement of support (it has a much more limited audience, both in political alignment and in number of eyeballs).
A trans congressperson fundraising on Democratic fundraising email lists is *also* not a public statement of support.
I don't think I have to explain why refusing to make a public statement, while simultaneously *fundraising off of it* in effectively *private* emails, makes the situation much more embarrassing, and worse. It's blatant, cynical, "Rainbow Capitalism".
"I'll never vote to degrade anyone". His disgusting track record with Palestine says otherwise...