I'm Manel Tomás, Chief Operating Officer at CitizenGO. Our President Ignacio Arsuaga has written to you a few times this year about CitizenGO’s budget, and, unfortunately, I am sending this email with some bad news about CitizenGO’s 2024 war chest.

I know that these emails are never the most pleasant to receive, but I would like to remind you of two things above all, which are central to our organization’s nature.

1. Unlike many other organizations, CitizenGO does not believe in manufacturing crises or manipulating our members into donating to us by being dishonest about the true state of our finances. I assure you that I will not be doing that in this email.
2. Last week, I promised that you would not hear from me again for the rest of the year if we succeeded in closing our 2024 budget. Unfortunately, we were unable to meet our critical goal. I am making one last 2023 promise to you that you will not hear from me again for the rest of the year if this email succeeds in closing our budget gap!

Here is the bottom line: As of this writing, CitizenGO still needs to raise $103,000 before the end of this month (only 24 hours!). I'll provide more details below, but first I want to ask if you can chip in now to help close our budget for 2024? 

Let me give you an insight into what CitizenGO's budget looks like going into the New Year.

We often tell you that CitizenGO is funded primarily by small-dollar grassroots donations from people like you. But to be more specific, 98% of our 2023 budget was set to come from people like you, receiving emails like this and chipping in what they could.

This has been a core tenet of CitizenGO's mission since our founding in 2013, because it ensures that we can remain fiercely independent and responsible to only our members, not the whims of a single large donor who writes us a check.

But over the last year, our battles have multiplied across the globe, yet our donations have not kept pace, causing an alarming shortfall in our war chest. 

It's not surprising, considering the furious offensive from the far-left and globalists we're tackling all over the world. They want to crush your voice and mine, forcing us to embrace the new pro-abortion "religion" gender ideology, utilize pandemics as cover-ups, and erase the Christian roots of our societies. 

Sadly, by multiplying the attacks, they are causing financial trouble not only for us, but also for many pro-life and pro-family organizations that are unable to battle on so many fronts.

I'm concerned by that trend not just for CitizenGO but because radical pro-abortion groups, fanatic LGBTQ+ organizations, and haters of Christian values are entering 2024 with tens of millions of dollars in the bank—ready to fund candidates, ballot measures, and terrifying totalitarian policies.

The good news is that CitizenGO has never needed to match these groups dollar-for-dollar. For 10 years, we have been nimble, innovative, and frugal—but given the intensity of the opposition, I'm concerned that we are not going to have the money we need to fight back.

So I'm asking. Can you please chip in and help us match the gap?

You may be wondering what CitizenGO will do with that $103,000 next year if we manage to reach our goal.

The short answer is: a lot!

Some of that money will be put toward research and development of new techniques to identify, energize, and mobilize young people and profamily voters.

Some will be put in our reserves so that when crises happen—as they did when our directors of campaigns in the UK and Germany, Caroline Farrow and Eduard Pröls, were under terrible personal attacks for bravely standing up for life and family—we are able to immediately dive in and do whatever is needed to fight back.

Some will be used to help fund small, underfunded but critically important organizations doing direct service work on the ground, in front of abortion centers, to save babies' lives; or battling back to avoid our children being groomed and brainwashed at schools in gender ideology.

And some will be used to ensure that CitizenGO is able to continue paying our incredible, hardworking staff the fair wages that we believe every single worker deserves.

I know that you've been asked for a lot this year, and I am so grateful for all that you have done. I just need to ask you one more time if you can chip in and help keep CitizenGO strong in 2024.