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Bookchat: Romancing the Vote — How Authors Raised Over $1 Million for Elections

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anotherdemocrat

2d ago· 4 min readenOpinion
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Summary

This Bookchat post discusses Romancing the Vote, a grassroots fundraising initiative by authors and book lovers that began with the Georgia Senate runoff elections (Romancing the Runoff) and has since raised over $1 million for Democratic candidates through online auctions. The post serves as a community discussion thread inviting readers to talk about books and the upcoming 2026 election efforts.

Source

bskyBookchat: Romancing the Vote — How Authors Raised Over $1 Million for Electionsdailykos.com

Key quotes

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Y'all remember the Georgia runoffs a few years ago? The wonderful election that gave us Senators Warnock and Ossoff?
A group of authors and others got together for an online auction to raise money for it, that effort was Romancing the Runoff.
Since that first auction, they've raised a total of over a million dollar
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Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us. Y’all remember the Georgia…

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