The DNC has finally broken my ability to give

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81. So do I.

I usually only donate to candidates I know anyway, important specific races excepted, obviously.

But I retired from the online/credit card game many years ago. Some races are really crucial (e.g. Jon Ossoff next year), and I’m not OK with a couple of hundred dollars of my contribution going to some “processing fee” instead of Jon’s campaign. It’s bad enough that I have to earn four times in salary the amount that I make as a non-tax-deductible contribution (it’s easier if you live in the USA). But to send a check costs the price of a stamp. That’s 78 cents in the States or €1.25 in Germany, and the postal services don’t sell my address to contribution solicitors calling me “Deborah” and imploring me to “step up.”

It’s pretty obvious that Nancy Pelosi is not letting me know that she “needs” just 15 more $25 donations from my zip code to cure cancer and flip the House by next weekend.