Look when I tell you the Koch family has spent DECADES spending millions upon millions of dollars to make sure we ended up exactly where we're at right now. I tried fighting them in VA07. One year we managed to raise $150k to fight Cantor. They casually dropped $1.5m on him. https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/1329764849820250112

Our candidate had some yard signs. He was able to blanket television and radio with ads. We lost.

Also we only managed to raise that $150k cause Mudcat Saunders had an in that got him on Maddow where he asked for help from the rest of the nation to get that motherfucker Cantor out. But y'all didn't listen. There wasn't a hashtag resistance cause you had yours so fuck VA07.

That race kinda broke Mudcat and he got weird as fuck and went up in the mountains and didn't talk to nobody for a while and then came out and endorsed fucking Cuccinelli for governor.

I mean ol Mudcat weren't real normal before that but he was *shrewd* you know? But trying to fight the Koch family hold on power broke that man.

It just got me the fuck out of electoral politics for good.

The Kochs were, and Charles is, very fucking strategic about the money he spends. Very targeted. And he knows that people won't help the places he's targeting fight him.

This is why @RomancingRunoff keeps making me cry. I am used to people leaving the south to die. Quite literally, since the legislators Koch money has put in office have passed laws written by Koch think tanks that kill.

I am not used to people helping us fight and pouring resources into our organizations and candidates.

Mudcat was a friend, you know? And he fought until he broke and he's still weird in a bad way now. So maybe if you can head on over to @RomancingRunoff and if you can't bid you can donate $5 direct in memory of the man Mudcat used to be.

Cause friends, I am so very tired of watching the struggle to break their hold wear people out down here. We've been so very alone for so long.