Some things leave a person lacking words, which is kind of ironic when it happens to a blogger… I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t acknowledge the support I’ve received from Blue America and Credo Action/Working Assets.

In a nutshell, Credo is soliciting petition signers. For every signature, they’ll be sending coat hangers to the ostensibly pro-choice Congressmen (note the “men”, intended use) that voted in favor of the ridiculously offensive Stupak Amendment. Moreover, for every signature they collect, they’ll send a dollar to yours truly to support this work (up to $5,000).

Because this blog is a YouTube blog, it’s reach far exceeds its traffic. My videos are embedded across the internet; viewers only occasionally click through to visit this site (if I was lucky enough to be linked by the embedding website). The upshot is that my traffic isn’t sufficient (yet) to sustain an advertising revenue stream.

I’ve pioneered a couple of alternative methods of sustaining my work; I’ll be talking about those soon. But… It’s been difficult.

I do see myself as part of a movement – a movement toward a new media model, a do-it-yourself style of reporting that fills a void. For example, until I started asking Republicans about their vote against the Franken Amendment, bloggers had written about it, but no other “news” organization had pursued the matter. Today, it’s in the Politico.

As a cog in this movement, I think it’s incredibly important for all the other parts of the movement to support one another. And that, more than anything else, is what makes me happy about what Blue Amrice (Howie Klein, Digby, John Amato) and Credo Action (Becky Bond, Matt Lockshin and Will Easton) are doing here.

Thanks to all of you.