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Contributions to political candidates and committees are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.

The funds you have designated for future Democratic nominees for State Legislative races are, at this time, only a payment to Democracy Engine, LLC, which will hold those funds on your behalf. They are not, at this time, a donation to any candidate for state legislative office. In fact, you will have to take an additional action to convert these saved funds into a campaign contribution. Each month your card will be charged for this amount and held by our processor, Democracy Engine, LLC (“DE”). At some future date (definitely after the Primary election, but perhaps sooner as well), Democracy Engine, via It Starts Today, will send you an e-mail and ask what you want done with any funds they hold on your behalf. Once you confirm what you want to do, DE will split up your money and follow your instructions on where to send it (likely, that will be to every Democratic nominee). But, if you no longer want the money to go to the nominees, just tell DE to return it to you. If you do neither of these by October 1, your funds will be donated to an It Starts Today Missouri PAC. That PAC will, generally, use money in the Missouri PACs to support all the Democratic nominees, but if there are funds we can’t contribute due to campaign finance restrictions, we’ll use them to cover the administrative costs of the program going forward.

I understand that my payment is being made to Democracy Engine, who accepts the responsibility of distributing the funds to my designated recipient(s). My card or bank statement will show a payment to “Democracy Engine” and if there are any issues or discrepancies with the payment or I wish to revoke the payment, I can contact Democracy Engine at support@democracyengine.com.