Hi there,

Thanks for all your help getting us through the end of the month.

We knew going into this campaign that its early stages would unfold in roughly four phases.

The first was to convince Americans that a small-town Mayor with a funny-sounding Maltese name was a viable candidate for president. On the strength of our vision, the urgency of our convictions, and some help from phonetic pronunciation (BOOT-edge-edge), we’ve done that.

The second was to show that we’ve got grassroots energy on our side. We consistently posted some of the strongest fundraising numbers -- and we did it competing with well-established candidates. We are building a new kind of campaign, and Americans are showing their support by personally investing in this vision.

Then, it was Phase Three. We harnessed our vision for taking on urgent, generational challenges -- and turned it into the kind of person-to-person organizing that wins support and leads to people caucusing and voting for my campaign.

And now, it’s Phase Four. It’s the phase where we leave it all on the field and motivate caucusgoers and voters to show up and help turn the page and usher in a new era of politics.

But scaling a campaign and executing the programs we need to win takes resources. People. Buildings. Equipment. Paid media. We still need to raise a lot of money to finish strong in Iowa and continue this campaign through New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and the Super Tuesday states.

We're challenging ourselves to raise $500,000 before Monday -- the day of the Iowa Caucuses. That won’t get us all the way to what we need to stay competitive after Iowa, but it’ll go a long way, and I’d be grateful if you chipped in.

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It has been one of the honors of my life to be part of this campaign. I’ve been invited into homes and communities to talk about the problems that have gone unaddressed and the urgency of taking a new approach. I’ve heard directly about the deep fears, and the inspiring sources of hope, that motivate people across the country. It all reinforces the stakes of this moment and the power of a new vision.

So as this nominating contest moves toward caucuses and votes, we’re rising to meet the moment. We’re in this campaign because we take the urgency of the challenges we face seriously and know meeting them means thinking big and following through.

But all the challenges we face require this of us: that we take them on together. I’m asking for your support because demonstrating the size of our team and the strength of our purpose will send a signal to others that we’re going to win on Monday.

You’ll hear from others on the team today about Phase Four and the work we need to do this weekend. I’m thankful for your attention to our strategy. We’re thinking big, and the only way to achieve big things is to pursue them together.

Thanks,

Pete

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