Overcoming the odds is nothing new for me.

When I first ran for Congress, no one thought I could win. I ended up winning that race and became the very first woman elected to the House of Representatives from Wisconsin. And it wouldn’t be the last time our team would make history.

When I ran for U.S. Senate in 2012, grassroots supporters (like you!) fought alongside me — even as some people wrote us off. You helped me become the first woman elected to the Senate from our state and the first openly gay Senator in our nation’s history.

When you defy the odds as much as I have, people start to ask: what’s your secret?

But I’m here to bust their bubble, because there is no “secret sauce.”

My “secret” is showing up all over the state. It’s listening to people. Hearing their concerns. Then taking those concerns back to inform my work in Washington.

It’s what separates me from my right-wing opponent who’s trying to buy this Senate seat — a California megamillionaire who moved back to Wisconsin when it was politically convenient.

Eric Hovde has a long history of disparaging the Wisconsinites he’s seeking to represent — from saying farmers just drive around in tractors to claiming people in nursing homes shouldn’t vote, and a whole lot more I can’t all fit here…

But what he lacks in experience and understanding, he makes up for with a personal fortune that’s self-funding his campaign to flip Wisconsin red. He and his Republican allies have already plastered Wisconsin with $45 million worth of ads, and they’re not done yet.

While I continue to visit Wisconsinites from Milwaukee to Bayfield, I could really use your support to make sure my campaign has the resources to fight back against the flood of Republican attacks coming my way.

I’m humbly asking: Will you make a donation to help send me back to the Senate to keep fighting for Wisconsinites?

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Thank you for having my back, today and always.

— Tammy