Okay, I normally don't take gripes like this to the internet: But if you're a white woman political influencer, please don't steal political engagement ideas I've been talking for years and rebrand them as your own. Someone pointed out that an influencer took my adopt-a-candidate idea -
- And reposted it on her substack as a "new" idea for the 2026 midterms called, "online-adopt-a-race" while basically copying the core concepts. I've been talking about adopting candidates since the 2018 midterms, so no.
I'm not going to call out names, since ultimately: I think the goal is the same, we want to save democracy. But it is pretty dispiriting to see someone take an idea I put online for free, and try and monetize through their platform with pledges and merch. Don't do that. Be better than that.
P.S. I deleted my other thread on this, but: Please consider following my joint project on IG or Substack: IG: www.instagram.com/candcsavedem... Or my IG for call scripts: www.instagram.com/celestepewter/ Or the project Substack: substack.com/@candcsavede... Let's do the work.