I never in a zillion years thought I'd be a U.S. senator. But my life has had a lot of twists and turns, just like a lot of people's.

I grew up on the ragged edge of the middle class. After my daddy’s heart attack, my family came within an inch from losing our house, but my mother got a minimum wage job at Sears that saved our family.

I dropped out of college at 19 to get married, but got a second chance at a public college that cost $50 a semester and got to live my dream of becoming a public school teacher. I then dedicated my career to studying why families go broke and fighting to rebuild the middle class.

After Senate Republicans vowed to block my nomination to serve as the CFPB’s first director, I went back home to Massachusetts and ran against one of them — and I beat him. I ran to tax greedy corporations, to invest in jobs and our infrastructure, and to rein in student loan companies. And guess what? We got it all done.

But the fight to make our government work for everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected — isn’t over. So I’m running for re-election to keep up the fight. Our campaign has a critical fundraising goal we need to hit by tonight, so if you're able, can you make a contribution of $15 or anything you can to help make sure I can keep fighting for working families in the Senate?

Throughout my time in Washington, I’ve learned that when you start talking about policies that help working people instead of wealthy people or big corporations, plenty of critics will be quick to tell you what you can’t do and what’s not possible.

It’s like clockwork.

Take student loan cancellation for example. Cynics said we could never put our government on the side of working-class and middle-class people who fought to get an education and are getting crushed by debt. But we got organized, we got in the fight, and we got this policy to the president’s desk.

And despite the Supreme Court substituting politics for the rule of law and striking down his plan, we’re still persisting and getting student debt canceled. Just this week, the Biden administration announced over $116 billion in student loan forgiveness for 3.4 million borrowers across a variety of new initiatives — with more to come. 

I’m staying in the fight with President Biden to get student debt canceled for more borrowers — and to reform our higher education system. 

See, this is a case where we see how the rules work differently for different groups of people: We have a system where millions of struggling student loan borrowers have been in limbo regarding the status of their debt, but that same system worked overnight to ensure that billion-dollar crypto firms wouldn’t lose a dime in deposits during the recent bank failures.

The difference between these two scenarios? The willingness to fight for them.

I’m in this fight all the way — and I am going to continue to use my voice to advocate for big, structural changes that help working people. I need you by my side in this fight.

A contribution of $15 or anything you can will help hit our important August fundraising goal and show the naysayers that our plans — like taxing the rich, reining in big banks, and making child care affordable — have strong support. Will you please pitch in today to support my re-election and make these plans possible?