every single local chapter front group of these anti-trans places has budgets like that.
DSA had 100k members and a budget of less than 1m even in it's boom year.
they're makework jobs for christofascists that helps them just churn out paper after paper and statement after statement on letterhead they pay someone else to create with websites they pay someone else to create with graphic design they pay someone else to create with canvassers they hire with people they bus in with etc
and we had to carpool to our national convention, had to lean on graphic artist members for our supplies and when we couldn't, draw our own. We had writers but they were too busy writing their agenda to actually really help the movement much, because volunteer work doesn't pay and you're already burning your resume by being a socialist writer.
but they get 12m to make anything happen. And they're still transparent and fragile.
Like the majority of the "comfortable" income bracket of the US, they haven't yet realized that buying services does not build skills.
