And online fundraising isn't just a game for presidential campaigns: sites like ActBlue on the left and Slatecard on the right are extending internet fundraising to candidates at all levels,
while nonprofit advocacy groups have access to a broad array of tools to build supporter lists and plumb them for cash.
In the same article we reported that
while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a
nonprofit Tea Party
advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.