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If you're thinking about creating a dream juicer, there are plenty of places to go to raise money, like Kickstarter.

It's a simple idea that's worked to grow marketplaces and competition outside of politics. Unlike others, Crowdpac also lets you explore the idea of running for office, without having to commit. Like other sites, Crowdpac (which is nonpartisan), ranks candidates on issues and lets you donate. So she Googled terms like "Kickstarter politics." And she got back a site called. We each need to do the biggest thing that we can."Īnd that is where the Internet begins to factor into this story.īateson wanted to find ways to raise money for Democrats in her district. She took a good long look around and told herself: "This is a time when we all have to stand up, and have the biggest impact that we can.

Then, over the coming days and weeks, she started to feel a higher calling. And I don't want them to grow up in a world where bullying is the norm." She says she was thinking about what Donald Trump's victory meant for her kids: "I have three boys. Bateson recalls lying on a rug, infants in her arms, and crying.

And then, the November 2016 election happened. She was a political science professor at MIT. She's fighting this unlikely fight because technology - in the form of an online platform called - made her believe it's possible.īateson had a good life. And she needs to unseat the Republican incumbent in her solidly Republican district. She's a Democrat with zero campaign experience. She just left her tenure-track job at MIT to run for Congress back home, in Northern California.

Regina Bateson doesn't look like a gambler, but that's what she's become - in the world of politics. Democratic congressional candidate Regina Bateson (left) speaks with local resident Paige Stauss outside a public library in Granite Bay, Calif., following a campaign event.