Hear me out, team –

I need to know if there's anything I can say that'd convince you to chip in $5 ahead of my midnight deadline tonight.

If you knew your $5 could save the last line of defense against a nationwide ban on abortion and family planning care, wouldn't it be the best $5 you ever spent?

If you knew that your $5 gift would protect a Senate Democratic majority so my colleagues and I could deliver bold changes on the issues facing working families, like making child care affordable and lowering health care costs, would you invest?

If you knew your $5 may be the deciding factor in whether GOP extremists take back Senate control, could you bear to part with it?

I only ask because saving our Senate majority will come down to resources – and right now, I'm falling 7% short of my $10,000 midnight goal.

It may not seem like much, but if just half the people reading this pitched in $5 or more before tonight's midnight deadline, it'd be enough to kick us over the edge and power the fight to save our majority.

So how about it, friend? Will you rush $5 to save my midnight goal and our razor-thin blue majority by tomorrow's deadline?

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

– Patty Murray