Jack, for years, the threat of Trump in elected office fueled progressive advocacy organizations.

During Trump's time in office, grassroots fundraising flooded progressive civic engagement organizations at record levels. Many groups expanded their work and in turn, hired more staff to meet the urgency of the times.

Unfortunately, since Trump's departure from the White House, progressive grassroots civic engagement–and with it grassroots fundraising–has waned. For some, the current cash flow cannot sustain the size of progressive organizations that materialized during the Trump administration. As such, many groups have had to make difficult decisions and financial cuts in order to survive.

Over the last couple of election cycles, progressive advocacy organizations have shouldered a lot of the work to recruit and support democratic candidates, mobilize volunteers, and drive voter outreach. Now, these same organizations don't have the capital or the manpower to carry out the same level work we need in order to be victorious at the polls.

This is a problem, because Trump returning to office is still a very real threat, and we will need to work just as hard to turn out Democratic votes in 2024 as we did in 2020, when we signed up over 100,000 Get Out the Vote volunteers. That won't be possible with fewer resources.

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