Romancing the Vote

@romancingthevote

Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you in July 2026. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha more info @ romancingthevote.com

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Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· 25d

So I only could afford to get one thing from the auction this year, and this is what Mr. Bree chose. Thank you so much @bethplusbooks.bsky.social for your gorgeous work! (Mr. Bree is hiding behind it)

A gorgeous crocheted lap blanket in squares of color on greens and maroons ans blues and browns

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· 29d

Also... We've officially passed $260K raised on ActBlue right now! Thank you all so much. We're so proud of this amazing community!

Romancing the Vote 2026

$261,103.56 raised
Romancing the Vote 2026

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 10

Mr. Bree is about to haul the first 84 packages to the post office! If you got an email from us this morning, yours are among them! We have many more to go, however, and will have even more in our second export after the payment deadline! 💓

my tracking showing that we packed 84 invoices, with 232 left. And in those we packed 389 items, with 360 left.

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 8

Good evening! We've officially crossed 200K donated on the ActBlue account.

Romancing the Vote 2026

$200,896.13 raised

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 7

Updated amount raised (based on actual contributions)! We are 48 hours from the end of the auction.

Romancing the Vote 2026
$193,681.13 raised

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 6

Hello! It's been less than five hours since we sent our payment request email, we have more than 50% of the money. THANK YOU ALL WE LOVE YOU

Romancing the Vote 2026
$122,524.77 Raised (Goal $150,000)

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 6

trying to download the sales summary and oh we BROKE broke 32Auctions. lol

a gateway timeout saying that 32auctions just has given up for the moment

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 6

Our official 32 auctions total!

$232,908.74

raised

which is 122.9% of our $189,469.49 goal (what we got on 32 auctions in 2024)

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 5

Heh heh!

A screenshot of the FUCK SCOTUS sticker website, that shows that 69 of them have been purchased. (281 remain)

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 5

HOLY CRAP WE ALREADY DID IT!!!!! with over 5 hours to go!!!!

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 5

What is our new weirdly specific goal, you might ask? That is the exact number we made during the span of the auction in 2024. And we're about to blow past it before we even get into the final brutal hours. 💓💃 (this, of course, doesn't count all the rounding up & second chance offers from 2024!)

the new goal is $189,469.49 and we are 99% of the way there!

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 5

To give you some idea of what we've done in prior years...

2020 $504,490
2022 $273,988
2024 $249,607

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 4

they didn't even let me post a link, @oliviawrites.bsky.social

a shot of the bidfeed where 3 people bought Second Chance Romance within about 7 seconds of it being live

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 4

Virga has some instructions for how we should spend our day.

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 3

While the cookbook is fun, the cheat sheets (like the ones I keep on top of my oven!!!) are my real stroke of genius. 14 minutes at 465F, no looking that up in a book!

a shot of my messy stove top with a sheet pan and 3 long loaves of dough. the oven is preheating to 465F and above that I have one of my containers full of my little 3D printed cheat sheets. This is for the pizza dough, you can see Cheater Ciabatta time & temp down toward the bottom!

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 3

Uh this apparently happened while I was hyper focusing today. I didn’t see who did it. It could be anyone.

A bathroom floor, on which a roll of toilet paper has been absolutely shredded.

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 3

THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT!!!! I'll start releasing Buy it Nows whenever the dogs wake me up tomorrow. lol

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 3

if anyone is curious how we're doing on night two...

214,856 page views. $129,057.08 raised. 8,051 bids.

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 2

bees taking over the bidfeed

the latest bids and it's like 75% BEEEEEEEEEES

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 2

WE DID IT! We've raised $100,000 for voting rights, and it hasn't even been a full day. Thank you all so much--now let's see what we can do over the next four days!

A picture of an incredibly cute puppy, with black and white markings, floppy ears, and little brown cheeks, who happens to be Courtney Milan's Virga.

The text says: $100,000 raised for voting rights

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jul 1

if you guys think I'm lying about having an evil plan...

a screenshot of part of our spreadsheed with all the bee plushies, and a dropdown menu where each is listed as Thursday

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 28

A few of them also include examples of them being colored in and this one made me so happy.

a coloring sheet with a cute cat surrounded by flowers with a heart behind him that has been colored in with a rainbow of crayons, which are arrayed beside it.

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 27

I call this color "moody rainbow"

a picture of a blank journal surrounded by stencils. The stencils each are designed to make 20 boxes (or triangles, or hexagons) that you can color in to track how many words you've written: 100 per box = 2,000 words. I've colored them in in pretty rainbows. There is also a matching pen that has a dragon scale theme, and a set of stickers with days of the week and dates. This one is made of a tri-color filament that looks red, yellow, or blue depending on which way you turn, which kind of turns into a rainbow. a moody one.

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 27

Really excited about these Buy it Nows that I'm about to upload! Thanks to some whistle crew friends who printed the stencils and the matching pens, I have assembled a word count tracker journal package: journal, stencils, pen & day/date stickers! We'll have 2 different colors!

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 26

We're looking for sponsors who can help cover the cost of some of our Buy it Nows! $5 you spend to cover shipping could let us send $25 to our organizations! One of this year's Buy it Nows will be this holographic WTF fidget clicky! secure.actblue.com/d...

Want to help another way? Thanks to our partnership with Rainbow Broomfield, you can help sponsor the costs of the auction & shipping. Any money we don't use will go directly to VoteRiders and The Southern Coalition for Social Justice

the words "What the fuck?" in cute script printed in white on black, except it's also HOLOGRAPHIC. If you click the words, you get a clicky sound!

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 26

One of this year's stickers is dramatically holographic. 💖

A black rectangle sticker with very simple font and the words "I fought this fascist regime and all I got was this awesome community" but the words are holographic rainbow

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 25

we finally updated the form with all the coloring sheets & this year's stickers & magnets, and a few cool "attend a zoom" Buy it Nows... and the numbers are now approaching silly levels. LOL

Auction Items: 566, Buy it Nows: 12,832, Donors: 336

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 25

Not everyone can afford the big ticket items, but $1 to download a beautiful PDF that you can fill with beautiful colors instead of staring into the horrors is a popular item every year! Have you got some artwork that can help bidders keep their chill??? form.romancingthevot...

Illustrators and Artists! Have a digital b&w drawing that could be printed and used as a coloring sheet for stress relief? Donate the sheet to the auction as a PDF!

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 24

Don't have time to knit or paint something before the deadline? Send us pictures of your favorite hats or scarves or other crocheted or painted or quilted projects and offer to do a custom version for your winner! form.romancingthevot...

Artists & Crafters, we don't just want your finished work! Are you willing to do a custom project for some special winner?

Romancing the Vote@romancingthevote· Jun 24

Have you got 5+ copies of any of your books just hanging around? Want to raise money for VoteRiders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice? We want YOU! form.romancingthevot...