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...equal parts technology whizzes and Democratic money men, Rahn and DeBergalis want to do more than revolutionize how politics is financed. Indeed, they see themselves as part of a broader force, one that seeks to democratize politics as it Democratizes America...
...fact, Rahn and DeBergalis didn’t meet at a political rally or a campaign event, but at “geek camp” when they attended the Research Summer Institute (RSI) at MIT in the summer before their senior years of high school. The year was 1994, a full decade before they founded ActBlue...
Welcome to ActBlue, what its founders, Benjamin A. Rahn ’99 and Matt S. DeBergalis, call “the online clearinghouse for Democratic action.” In just a few years, the site has channelled tens of millions of dollars into Democratic campaign coffers nationwide, becoming the financial backbone of the “Netroots” movement that has sprouted up following the presidential campaign of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean...
Benjamin A. Rahn ’99, now a resident tutor in PfoHo, was one of those kids who didn’t trek out to weekly Dems’ meetings when he was a Harvard undergrad. Instead, he was involved in the politics of the campus, working for the Undergraduate Council and advocating for an undergraduate curriculum reform. The immediate issues that were prevalent and close to home were the ones that occupied his mind. Now, though, Rahn is working full time for the political action committee that he started, ActBlue.com, an online fundraising website for the Democratic Party...
...professors independently praised a 1997 critique of the Core written by James T. L. Grimmelmann ’99, Sarah K. Hurwitz ’99 and Benjamin A. Rahn ’99—three students that served on the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council. Engell said that he hopes students feel motivated to produce such a report again...