I've only donated to one 2020 presidential campaign -- Mike Gravel's.
He's already missed the cut for the first Democratic presidential primary debate, but as of today he's at about 47,500 donors of the 65,000 he needs to get into the second debate.
I want to see him in that second debate not because I agree with him on everything but because I believe his voice in the debate would be disruptive, in a positive way, of the American political conversation.
A Democrat who helped end the draft and who read the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record.
A Democrat who's stood up in defense of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange for years.
A Democrat who's been antiwar for more than half a century (unlike Tulsi Gabbard, who spent several years as a darling of Republican hawks before suddenly deciding that "antiwar" might be a politically profitable market niche).
Will he win the Democratic nomination? Unlikely. Will he ever be president? Even more unlikely.
But he can affect the process and the discussion, and you can help him do so with a donation of as little as one dollar.
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