Friend -- you might have heard the news: Special interest groups have been on the airwaves attacking my record with negative TV ads.

The team here is worried, and they're right to be. This shows just how committed our opponents are to stopping the progress we're making in Congress -- and just how much they're willing to spend to beat us in 2020.

Right-wing groups may have deep pockets and dark money funding, but there's one thing they don't have on their side: you. Our movement is built by countless individual supporters like you, and today I hope you'll join us in fighting back.

We've had to raise our February mid-month goal in order to respond to these attacks. Can you chip in today to help us get there?

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These aren't the first negative attacks we've seen, and they're not the last. Special interest groups have been trying to trash my record since day one.

But for a group to go up with expensive TV ads this early in a race? It's a sign that dark money groups think they can win in Minnesota's 3rd -- and they're willing to spend big to do so.

Do you know what? I'm proud of my votes to lower prescription drug prices, fight climate change, and reform our politics. If that's made me a target of special interests, so be it.

But we must respond to these attacks the Minnesota Way -- by out-organizing and out-mobilizing the competition at every step. Before our mid-month deadline, can you join us?

Thank you,

Dean