Asking Readers - Help Support My Work

I'm asking my readers today to help support the work I do here, at Smoking Politics and at Commonweal Institute.

There will also be an exciting announcement soon about something I am involved with at the coming YearlyKos convention. Like so much else, I have been working on this without pay.

You can contribute using the PayPal donation button, which is in the left column, partway down. You can also use the Amazon payment method.

I believe that my work is contributing to making this a better country. My reports and articles on the funding, organization, strategies and tactics of the right have helped people to understand what is happening to us, and have helped lead to development of strategies for pushing back.

I believe that my work with Patriot Project and Smoking Politics has helped people understand the fear and smear tactics of the right, and to start to come up with ways to back up our leaders and begin to counter this.

And I think that my writing has helped articulate ideas like Progressive Infrastructure and the need to reach the public to promote the benefits of progressive values and a progressive approach to issues. This has all been done for minimal pay -- $100 here and there -- and most often for no pay at all. I would like to at least make enough to cover my health insurance, which is $600 a month. So help me keep this work going.

Like I said, it is not easy to ask others to help out and like so many of us, it is not usually in my nature to do so. But if I am going to continue to do this work I do need to know that others are behind it and willing to be part of it by supporting my efforts.

Have a look at the collection I put together of links to articles, reports and resources for learning about the right-wing movement, its history, how it is funded and how it operates. You can look at my reports, The Attack on Trial Lawyers and Tort Law, and Responding to the Attack on Public Education and Teacher Unions. I have done election research like The Swiftboaters Are Back in the Water and John McCain 2000: The Swiftboaters' First Mission; exposing front-groups and their tactics.

These are just a few examples.

I would like to be able to keep doing this work. You can help me out by donating $100, or even $10. I am able to accept credit card contributions through the PayPal button in the left column, part way down or you can use Amazon.

THANKS!!!!

Also, if you would like to make a more substantial and long-term donation to support my work, you can click here to make a tax-deductible gift to the Commonweal Institute, which is a 501 (c) (3) tax-deductible organization, and let them know that it is to be used to support my work. A donation like this now will have the effect of a donation ten times as large to a political campaign, because it will help lay the groundwork for real change. It will help build public appreciation of progressive values, which will create demand for all progressive candidates and for progressive policies.

Thank you for your support.

Posted by Dave Johnson at July 8, 2007 5:15 PM Spotlight

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