Republican fundraiser | $89,438 raised last month
Maryland, USA
Joined January 2019
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July 2026: $89,438 raised for my clients
💬 $79,494 on SMS
📧 $9,011 on email
Here's the part worth talking about. Two days out of thirty-one produced 18% of the month. July 11 did $8,859. July 19 did $7,668. The median day did $2,534.
That shape is the whole job. Small-dollar fundraising doesn't pay out evenly — the news hands you a moment, and either the list, the copy, and the infrastructure are ready to move that day, or you read about someone else's number on Thursday.
The other twenty-nine days are what make those two possible.
Email is mid-rebuild and it shows. That's the work for the rest of the year.
What did your best day look like against your median?
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Can confirm. Many such cases.
A couple I know just started a CPG company together, and they’re the only two employees because AI basically runs the whole thing. It’ll optimize Facebook ads, project the ROI, and proactively say things like “I think you should turn off the ads because you’re running low on inventory which means you’ll be out of stock if you keep running ads.” The AI also handles most of the customer service inquiries.
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I had five Claude agents spend the morning reading everything I've ever written — 71 Medium posts, 65 pages of my old websites pulled from the Wayback Machine, 26,000 tweets, a decade of sent email.
The goal was to teach it to write like me. What I didn't expect was it flagging my own post-2022 email as "possibly AI-assisted."
It was right.
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I gave Fable access to my 'sent' emails (all-time), my old blogs, and an archive of now-deleted tweets with instructions to learn how I *really* write. Very curious to see what it comes up with.
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it's so hard not to chase shiny objects when you're self-employed. when you can work on anything, you want to work on everything.
My friend owns a $5M/yr restaurant supply business he started in 2019. He has 3 employees
I asked him how he stays focused and avoids chasing shiny objects. He said he always puts it through the lens of “what is going to make me the most money?”
Almost all the time, it’s just focusing on what’s already working and not getting distracted
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also, people need to be studying the @reformparty_uk online marketing machine. because they do an incredible job as a media brand based in politics. probably more thoughts to share on that later, but it's a case study in how to build a genuinely modern political brand.
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Ian Patrick Hines retweeted
on AI and water use.
You could ask a frontier model 4 questions per day every day for a year.
Or you could eat a single solitary almond.
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Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."
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A little-known hack:
2 slices of Aldi wheat bread: $0.17
3 oz of Aldi deli turkey: $0.86
1 slices Aldi cheddar: $0.15
1 condiment of your choice: $0.02
1 apple: $0.53
1 hard boiled egg: $0.14
5 carrot sticks: $0.17
Cold water from the tap: $0.01
Total: $2.05
You can do this.
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We’ve now reached the point where Democracy Defender Marc Elias wants the Virginia government abolished because the Democrats weren’t allowed to do an illegal gerrymander.
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In 2022, Gavin Newsom commissioned billboards in red states to encourage women to come to California for abortions. They had Bible verses on them. I’m not interested in what you think prolife “actually” looks like.
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We used to build the future without input from people who don't understand how anything they use in their daily life even works.
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This is a small amount of water and it’s crazy for Robert Reich to act like this is a big deal.
Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low.
Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed.
Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?
politico.com/news/2026/05/08…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Fayette County water system produces ~17.3M gal/day with a capacity of 22.8M gal/day capacity. QTS used 29M gallons over 9-15 months of construction (not 1 month): ~63K-106K gpd, or 0.37-0.61% of daily production / 0.28-0.46% of capacity. QTS paid the bill.
fayettega.org/doing-business…
fayette-news.net/news/qts-addre…
