Team,

I’m sitting here with Emily, our Finance Director, as we go over our budget for these final days before the election, and I wanted to send you a quick note about where we’re at and where we need to be.

The topline: we’re $2,104 short of our $50,000 end-of-month goal with only hours to go. Can you pitch in anything you can right now to close the gap?

These next few days are the most critical in this entire election season. The reality is that this election is going to be decided by who can turn out the most voters. Republicans in Ohio have a dark money machine behind them to do exactly that. Bernie Moreno has his own personal fortune to spend on getting out the vote.

We don’t have either of those. But we do have a grassroots movement that I am confident will help us raise the $50,000 we need before midnight tonight to stay on track to reach the hundreds of thousands of Ohioans we need to get to the polls on Election Day.

So I’m asking: can you chip in $5, $10, or whatever you can spare right now? We can’t afford to fall behind.

Thank you,

Liz Walters, ODP Chair