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ActBlue helps small-dollar donors give repeatedly to progressive candidates.

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Paul Blumenthal
Money in Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
Posted: 11/20/2015 05:55 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- In September, a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC sent out an email that sought to tie Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The Sanders campaign turned the attack around with a fundraising blast to his supporters that pulled in over $1.2 million in under 48 hours.

The senator's legion of donors might not have answered the call so loudly without the work of one vital piece of the Democratic Party's infrastructure: the fundraising conduit ActBlue.

ActBlue's website serves as the main fundraising platform for Sanders' presidential campaign and has helped him amass more small-dollar contributions at this point in the race than any previous candidate. But ActBlue didn't start with him.

The web portal was launched in 2004 as a nonprofit organization to build a bridge between small-dollar donors and the Democratic campaigns they wanted to support. Anyone can set up a page to raise money for such a candidate, and any Democratic candidate or committee can rely on the Somerville, Massachusetts-based site as its main contribution processor.

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