I want to talk about why we’re paying close attention to our grassroots fundraising performance right now, and why your first donation would be particularly meaningful today.

Our re-election campaign is funded by grassroots, small-dollar donations. In fact, 99% of the donations we’ve received this year have been $100 or less. That’s a testament to the strength of this truly grassroots-powered movement. And that's exactly the type of campaign I want to run.

But a few updates in our race have made us keep a close eye on our fundraising right now:

• A new right-wing Super PAC just launched to target me and boost one of my GOP opponents. It’s got ties to the Trump administration, Mitch McConnell, and powerful corporate interests — from Big Oil to Big Pharma to the big banks.
• That same GOP challenger the Super PAC is supporting just recently announced that he’d invested $1 million of his own money into his campaign.
• A second Republican challenger with ties to wealthy special interests recently announced a campaign to run against me too.

I know our movement is stronger than the special interests supporting my opponents, but our grassroots fundraising model only works if everyone keeps pitching in whatever they can, whenever they can.

So can you please pitch in $28 or anything you can today to ensure we can compete and continue fighting for working people in the Senate? We can’t afford to underestimate the amount of support my opponents can receive from national Republicans and outside special interests.