The Kochs’ $8.2 million has completely wiped out Democrat Kay Hagan’s 15 point lead — she is now tied with or trailing every single Republican challenger in North Carolina, which Nate Silver projects is the “tipping point in the Senate battle.”

We can’t match the Kochs’ endless spending dollar for dollar, but we have a plan to win. The New York Times called our Grassroots Victory Project the “largest and most data-driven ground game yet.” Modeled after the Obama campaign, it “runs through 10 states, includes a $60 million investment and requires more than 4,000 paid staff members.”

Before the FEC deadline in just 24 hours, we still need 2,500 grassroots supporters — including you — to step up and fill the funding hole in our Month One Budget. If you get us there, we’ll be able to place senior staff in critical battlegrounds RIGHT AWAY.

Even years later educated blacks were still considered inferior to uneducated whites. I remember in the 1965 when a black college grad went to his home of Alabama to register to vote. The clerk gave him the form with camera’s rolling. He asked the clerk a question and she said she could not read but called her boss.

A reporter asked why a person was hired as a clerk who could not read. The boss ignored the reporter and replied, “only people who can read can vote boy.”

Then the clerk who couldn’t read looked up and said I vote because I am white.

But it’s still quite legal for them to discriminate against me because of their religion.

Some on the Right like to pretend that “Civil Rights” refers ONLY to the rights of Blacks in a predominantly white society.

MLK famously said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” He marched for justice and equality for all, not just for people of color, but for all who were poor and powerless and oppressed.