Jack, we are just days away from a critical election in Virginia.

As David mentions in the email below, Democrats need to just flip three seats to gain control of the state House and block the Republicans' extreme agenda.

Daily Kos-endorsed candidates are in the final stretch of connecting with voters and mobilizing them to the polls. Small-dollar grassroots donations get an enormous bang for your buck in races like these. A small investment has a huge impact.

NOW is the time to make a $5 donation to these five candidates fighting to turn Virginia blue. Please donate today.

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Thank you for all you do,
Amanda McKay, Daily Kos

Jack, we have some major elections coming up in just a week, and once again, the Beltway media is rooting for Democrats to lose.

Just get a load of this screenshot:

In the middle of the GOP's humiliating three-week debacle that saw the party oust its own House speaker (a historic first), then fail to elect three different replacements, CNN deployed the hoariest trope in politics to declare that it was Democrats who were divided.

Seriously.

This sort of pre-written narrative doesn't just get applied to the halls of Congress. It infects the campaign trail, too. We saw this throughout last year's midterms, when the traditional press almost gleefully parroted GOP prophecies of a red wave and sneered at Democrats for centering abortion and democracy.

As I recall, that didn't work out well for pundits or Republicans. But how great would it be to see them all with egg on their faces for the second year in a row?

Daily Kos has identified five critical elections taking place on Nov. 7 where there's still time for us to make a huge impact in a major battleground: the Virginia legislature. Republicans currently control the state House by a narrow 52-48 margin, so we need to flip just three seats in order to deliver a hammer-blow both to GOP dreams and pundit fantasies.

The best part is, small-dollar grassroots donations get an enormous bang for your buck in races like these, which operate with tiny budgets compared to campaigns for Congress. So if you're looking to make a difference with one week to go—and you want to stick it to Republicans and the media alike—give to these five Daily Kos-endorsed Democrats ASAP.

Can you donate $25—$5 to each of these five Virginia progressives—right now?

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Thank you,
David Nir, Political Director
Daily Kos

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