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for what it's worth... The following is from Wikipedia. Boldface emphasis is mine.

WinRed is a for-profit fundraising platform built for the GOP.[1][2] GOP leadership began discussing the possibility of building a competitor to ActBlue within days of the 2018 midterm results. WinRed was called Patriot Pass in its initial announcements, with an expected release date of February 2019.[3][4] The name was changed following Robert Kraft's complaints that the name resembled that of his football team, the New England Patriots.[3]

The GOP, the Trump re-election campaign, and other state-wide and local-level races across the United States used the platform as of late 2019, with nearly 800 campaigns using the platform by May 2020.[5] Unlike ActBlue, WinRed does not publicly disclose donation levels.[6][7]

WinRed merged Revv, a GOP payment processing firm founded in December 2014 by Gerrit Lansing, and DataTrust, the party's voter data repository. The platform allows one-click donations.[8][9]

In 2019, the RNC and the Trump administration applied heavy pressure to incentivize all Republican campaigns to use the platform.[2] In April 2020, the platform expanded from its previous representation of only federal-level candidates and opened support to state- and local-level races.[10]

thanx for the clarification re: roots & evolution of winred, nick based on wikipedia’s info.

for some reason, I thought there was some contention between trump & RNC about the RNC using Trump’s image or likeness in their fund raising efforts.

I guess trump’s “re-election campaign” folded the tent around 1/20/20??

so, who’s getting the benefit of winred fund raising over the past two years??

I used to get a ton of solicitation from various named candidates across the nation (many of which I liked & hoped would win), and whenever I hit the button to make a small donation to a particular candidate, I found out I was not donating to that candidate & couldn’t specify my $ would go to my candidate, but the donations were pooled up and seemed to be divvied up by the RNC??

so, my rule now is to only donate directly to a candidate I like & I don’t send any money to winred

but, that’s just me.

what am I missing?