Look — it’s been a couple weeks since New Hampshire. I get it. Activists like myself are impatient.

Over the last two years, the most forward-thinking, innovative, and outsider candidate was traveling the country, challenging assumptions, and arguing for structural change to the way Washington thinks. Then, just like that, Andrew Yang drops out.

I watched as a campaign that was once laughed at by insiders and ignored by the media built a presence, a following, and a focal point around inequality in America. It was beautiful. Surrounding it was hundreds of thousands of #YangGang supporters.

Yet throughout the campaign — and especially after the campaign — I have seen some activity that we need to call out and think about, particularly as a movement that supports the Universal Basic Income. So here are my thoughts on action steps:

Let’s wait to see what Andrew Yang does. We have seen a bunch of new organizations and even some organizations during the campaign try to capture the void left by our candidate not making quick and brash announcements about what is next. Let’s give the dude a second to breathe. He just spent two years traversing the country — away from his two sons — fighting for us, and as supporters, we sort of owe it to the guy to let him have some kid time, talk with his wife Evelyn, and announce what’s next before we start pouring time, energy, and money into random organizations. Stop donating time and money to organizations that fail the transparency test. I started a 527 Super PAC to support Andrew Yang. Our goal was to get him elected. We failed. We aren’t transitioning the Super PAC into something else to put money in our pockets. We are closing up shop. There were other Super PACs or 501c4s doing work around the campaign. You should ask these organizations how much of their money is going into activities and how much is going into the pockets of the people running the organization. Organizations should list their founders, how much the founders make, and what other staff make, and put financial statements up on their website if they are going to be advocating for a Universal Basic Income. We should demand in 2020, 2022, and 2024 that organizations supporting candidates in favor of UBI are actually using best practices to win campaigns. Spending hundreds of dollars to fly one person to one state to knock on doors for one weekend is a complete and utter waste of resources compared to the myriad of other activities that could be done. We should also demand that organizations supporting campaigns aren’t doing activities that could be better served by directly supporting the campaign — are they using the right messaging, are they overlapping with campaign activities and/or are they competing with limited resources for the campaign? The organization I started, for instance, only accepted money from individuals who had maxed out to the campaign. That’s because if you can only give $100, you should give directly to the candidate. Don’t split it between the candidate and another organization. We can’t and shouldn’t donate to all candidates of the UBI Caucus. The chief reason: a bunch of those candidates are running against each other in a primary. No one reading this has the wealth of Mike Bloomberg. Let’s say you have $100 to donate for the rest of the year to candidates. If you split that equally among the UBI Caucus candidates, you will be giving limited resources to candidates spending it against each other in a primary, instead of using it for general elections where we can move the needle. Look at the candidates who aren’t in a Democratic primary against each other. I say this out of tremendous respect because Scott Santens has thrown his support behind a candidate in the Kentucky Senate primary. There is another candidate in the race — Charles Booker — who also supports UBI (though Booker has tried to do an unfortunate dance to distance himself a bit from the energy behind Yang). Both of those candidates will have maybe one twentieth of the money that Amy McGrath has raised. That isn’t to say we shouldn’t get behind them — it’s just a reminder that we need to focus. We should actually come together as a community that supports UBI and pick some targets and work that can lead to real outcomes. For instance: If you donate to an organization that spends 80% of the resources on paying a few people, we’ve failed. If we donate to a primary challenger running against JOHN FUCKING LEWIS — they guy who marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and the guy who has stood up for working people, impoverished people, and for racial equality — we are failing our movement. If we donate to three people running against each other, we are failing our movement. Let’s find some victories. Let’s get behind some people who can win. Let’s pressure other progressives who are already in office to get behind a Universal Basic Income. Let’s be smart about what we are doing as a movement. Run for office. If you think the system is broken and that elected officials aren’t doing enough for everyday people, file to run for office. But you don’t just have to run for Congress. Mayors, city councilors, state legislators, and even county officials can implement UBI or policies similar to UBI. Hell, run for school board. Cancel school lunch debt for students. That alone could make a tremendous impact. We have to think of a better way than GoFundMe to fund activists who want to change things. First, it may violate FEC laws. I am not an attorney and I am happy to be proven wrong by someone who specializes in campaign finance law, but my assumption is there may be issues with illegal coordination, excessive funds, or failing to report that impacts individuals, donors, and candidate committees. Second, there is really no way to verify what your donation is being used for. Granted, social media and even social media influencers help serve as checks. And I definitely saw some great people on the trail who asked for help via GoFundMe. But, we need a better way of doing that. Most importantly, paying people to travel places is — again — a super ineffective use of resources. Better to support those who are passionate about a campaign to get people together locally to make calls, texts, and postcards to voters in other places.

Universal Basic Income should be the law of the land. Until it is, we need to keep fighting. But we need to fight in a way that is transparent, smart, and effective. Otherwise, we do a disservice to those we are fighting for.