Dear FRiends: We have approx $19k left to go in our FReepathon and 11 days to bring it in. We're gonna need a lot more of your help to get 'er done.

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[Jim Robinson]

And as if raising $19k in 11 days is not hard enough, what I'm about to ask sounds crazy and even unreasonable.

Please use paypal or mail-in checks ONLY for the time being. Please DO NOT use our credit card program. It's in test mode and will not work at this time. We hope to have it ready to go within a week or so. We can only pray that it's not too late.

We are very sorry about this inconvenience, however, we have to get this work done. Our system has been abused by fraudulent credit card testers using bots to process hundreds of fraudulent entries. We are working to make our system bot-proof so that we can get our merchant account approved again.

And, unfortunately, this delay has caused our FReepathon to fall even further behind and it's going to be very hard to get caught up before the end of the month.

While we can't use credit cards at this time, our paypal program still works fine. Also, paypal has a credit card function where you can donate by credit card through paypal and you don't even have to have a paypal account to do so.

Click here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

[DCBryan1]

For those that are high-net worth individuals, you can donate, $19,000.00 to anyone or anything in order to (IOT) reduce your taxable income. If your 2024 income approaches one of the tax brackets, its a good idea to gift IOT avoid paying income taxes at the higher bracket.

In addition, the giftee pays NO TAX on that income!!!!!! If you are married, your household can double that! 2025 gifting is 19k per individual, 38k per married couple.

Please talk to your CPA/Trust attorney and ask them about the IRS Gift Tax Exclusion for 2025.

Thanks!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

If I search for Free Republic through my PayPal app does the correct result some up as “Free Republic”? Thanks.

[Jim Robinson]

I just tried it and it does not. paypal gave me a list of organizations and none of them was us. one was free Republic defense, llc. definitely not us.

Probably best to use the link that we provided up on the thread.

Thanks

[Jim Robinson]

Great info. thanks

[2111USMC]

Finally got it done. We’re in!

Last weekend I couldn’t get PayPal to take any of my credit cards. I use Waterfox as my primary browser. I used Edge tonight and it worked.

[Jim Robinson]

thank you very much, 2111USMC! Greatly appreciated.