I am a member of the Navajo Nation. Daily Kos helped shed light on the issues facing Indian Country. Now I am asking you to support Daily Kos.

Yá'át'ééh from the Navajo Nation. I started reading Daily Kos in 2003. In 2004, created a user account to report about issues in Indian Country. The political process is so crucial to positive change on our reservations and for our urban Indians. Nearly all of my reporting was very well received by our wonderful community. [Through Daily Kos, not only could I shed light on the issues affecting many reservations and tribes but I found a platform where I could organize real, impactful action. Now I am asking you, Friend, to help Daily Kos reach its monthly goal of $100,000 by giving $5 today.]( In 2010, my blogging on indigenous topics [caught the attention of Keith Olbermann](, then a news commentator on MSNBC, who focused two segments of “Countdown” on the winter ice storm disaster in South Dakota that devastated the Lakota Reservations. [Hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised]( to help the affected tribes as a result. Before that our community raised thousands of dollars to deliver propane to Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, something we are very proud of to this day. Other Native fundraising projects continued over the years. In 2014 [our community raised over $200,000]( to get-out-the-vote on the South Dakota reservations. A great accomplishment of that GOTV effort was that Shannon County was changed to Oglala Lakota County through a ballot initiative. The Daily Kos community's financial support helped make that happen. Shannon county was named after a white judge who did land deals with the Lakota in the 1800s and not to their favor, of course. Funding also went to building a voting infrastructure for this state's reservations. Most recently, [this community raised $500,000 to GOTV in North Dakota in 2018](! North Dakota threw the reservations a curve ball requiring all Natives to have street addresses on their permanent ID in order to vote, less than 30 days before the election. This was done to suppress the Native vote since many citizens living on reservations have no street addresses and are remotely located, so the Post Office will only deliver to P.O. boxes. The money the Daily Kos community raised helped purchase ID printing machines, paid Natives to organize those who live on reservations to obtain street addresses and get to the polls. Again, all while building voting infrastructure for future elections. And it worked, on some of the reservations, voter turnout was up by 33% from 2016, and up 105% from 2014! [The Daily Kos community supports Indian Country! Help me continue this reporting of on-going Indigenous issues by contributing today.]( Thank you for all you do, Neeta Lind, Director of Community at Daily Kos Neeta Lind is the Director of Community at Daily Kos, a position she has held since 2013. Neeta is responsible for developing projects to maximize the political effectiveness of our most valuable resource, the Daily Kos Community. She promotes the participation of Daily Kos users by creating and supervising various communities and community activities in order to build their engagement and participation on and offline. Neeta is an enrolled member of the Navajo (Diné) Nation. She has been interested and involved in Indigenous issues and progressive politics for many years. [You can support Neeta's work, and the many others at Daily Kos by giving today.]( If you wish to donate by mail instead, please send a check to Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Contributions to Daily Kos are not tax deductible. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.