Thursday, August 23, 2007
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Rightroots Rising
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Posted by:
Patrick Ruffini at
10:25 AM
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 Today, I'm excited to unveil a project that's been a long time in the making: Rightroots.com. For the first time ever, Republicans have the power to contribute to any Republican federal candidate -- not just the ones approved by party leaders -- from one website, like ActBlue.
In the beta version, you'll be able to search for candidates in an easy-to-use, shopping cart interface. We have multiple slates to help you get started, including a list of House conservatives who've voted 100% of the time against all earmarks (including Townhall's very own John Campbell), a list of Presidential candidates (tip: Rightroots' processing fees are lower than most candidates' websites, so this is the place to contribute), a list of key House challengers, the leaders in the fight against the immigration bill, and key Senate races.
Coming up: the ability to create your own slate, with embeddable widgets and graphics to promote your slate.
Townhall's Mary Katharine Ham and Matt Lewis will be advising us as we continue to build and improve the site. Watch our for an announcement later today of more bloggers who are supporting this effort at our beta blog.
We're not done with this yet by any means. I'm sure we'll get a ton of suggestions and constructive criticisms, and we're inviting people to weigh in over at the blog on what they'd like to see next. This is a site built for the online community, by the online community.
If this sounds at all familiar: yes, this grew out of the successful Rightroots campaign last year which raised $300,000 for conservative House and Senate challengers. The name stuck, so we're in the process of renaming the entire site in its honor, with contributions proudly (and cheaply!) powered by ABC PAC.
With the rightroots flexing its muscle in the last few weeks, a huge online training next week in D.C. for tech-savvy conservatives, and now Rightroots.com, conservatives online are fighting back and ready to beat Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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