FEC Gives Progressives a Boost: You Can Donate to Campaigns By Text Message

Thanks to a new ruling by the Federal Election Commission, citizens can text in donations to political campaigns in 2012. Because many Americans who don't have personal computers access the internet and communicate via their smartphones, this decision opens up a new avenue for small donors.

Sp while it may not quite be the campaign finance equivalent of empowering America's Davids in the David-versus-Goliath struggle against big money flowing intp political campaigns (that would be public financing), progressive groups in coalition had petitioned the FEC to allow the text donations.