Making progress isn’t quick and easy, John.

It’s a long journey that requires patience, perseverance and passion. Movements don’t happen overnight, and especially not by just a couple of people working loosely together.

A grassroots coalition made up of thousands of activists like you are what inspires and impacts our work to make progress for our communities. That’s why Lauren, and all of us at Team Underwood, strive to keep an open channel of communication with you, and why we depend on your support.

Please chip in toward our 500-contribution end-of-quarter FEC goal.

With the race for IL-14 heating up (Marter has wasted no time hurling attacks Lauren’s way) — we really need to ramp up our reelection campaign to ensure Lauren can continue working for the people in Congress — and in order to defend Lauren’s seat and take back the House Democratic majority, we’ll need a unified grassroots team backing us.

At this point in the month, we should be about 27% of the way to our June target on email fundraising, but we’re falling a bit short. If we can raise $2,146 from this email, we’ll be back on track.

That’s why we’re asking, John: Will you pitch in today to support Lauren’s reelection campaign and help fuel our work to make progress for Illinois’ working families? Any amount helps.

Your belief in progress makes a difference. Your support empowers us to keep pushing — together, we can make it happen.

— Team Underwood