Listen, our team has sent you quite a few emails this week, and we don’t mean to be pesky with our fundraising goals.

But since we value running a grassroots campaign, we’re pulling back the curtain to be transparent with you: We're falling short of our January fundraising goal.

As you can imagine, that’s not good. Especially not when this seat is absolutely critical to maintaining our Democratic Senate majority.

The good news, however, is that we can still make up for this shortfall. According to our records, friend, you haven’t chipped in yet this year. So please, step up for the first time with $25 or whatever you can to help close the gap.

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We can't overstate how crucial it is to hit important goals like this. Last cycle, the GOP dumped over $205 million into trying to flip the Senate red – and you can bet they'll spend just as much, if not more, this time around.

Lisa Blunt Rochester for Senate