{"id":91341,"date":"2025-08-04T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91341"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:00:43","slug":"mothership-strategy-the-parasitic-consulting-firm-that-generates-rivers-of-dem-spam-to-fund-itself-and-a-few-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91341","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMothership Strategy\u201d &#8211; the parasitic consulting firm that generates rivers of Dem spam to fund itself (and a few campaigns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/data4democracy.substack.com\/p\/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation\">https:\/\/data4democracy.substack.com\/p\/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cextracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>GOP is worse of course, but only in degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cfundraising model that now dominates Democratic inboxes\u2014a high-volume strategy that relies on emotionally charged, often hyperbolic appeals to compel immediate donations. This model, sometimes called &#8220;churn and burn,&#8221; prioritizes short-term revenue over long-term donor relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/data4democracy.substack.com\/p\/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation \u201cextracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns\u201d GOP is worse of course, but only in degree. \u201cfundraising model that now dominates Democratic inboxes\u2014a high-volume strategy that relies on emotionally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91342,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91341\/revisions\/91342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}