John,

This holiday season, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for supporting our campaign. Whether you joined us in 2021 or 2024, we couldn’t have achieved what we did without you. 

Though the results weren’t what we hoped for, we can take pride in stepping up for our communities and our country. When our grandkids ask what we did when the house was on fire, we’ll proudly say we got in the arena to make a difference.

I ran for Congress out of a commitment to public service, leaving a job I loved as a federal prosecutor after Ken Calvert voted to overturn the 2020 election and called for dropping charges against criminals I helped prosecute. I wanted to represent the people of Riverside County with a focus on country over party.

In our two campaigns, we built an unparalleled ground game in the Inland Empire. With the help of thousands of volunteers, we made more than 4 million voter contact attempts in 2024 by knocking on doors, making calls, and texting. 

We brought our message across Riverside County to every voter, focusing on lowering costs, keeping our communities safe from crime, protecting a woman’s right to choose, ending corruption in Congress, and more. 

To deliver that message in a very expensive place to run for Congress, we broke fundraising record after fundraising record. At the end of the day, we raised more than $12.2 million for our 2024 campaign, more than any challenger candidate in California’s history. I know that you were a part of that effort, and I cannot thank you enough.

Though we didn’t win, we achieved the highest vote total ever against Calvert. We outperformed the top-of-the-ticket, earning up to 5,300 more votes than Vice President Harris in a district Trump won by 6%, and the votes of up to almost 10,000 people who chose a Republican for the U.S. Senate. That overperformance was because of the organizing and fundraising apparatus that you helped us build, John.

The work that we did together will make a difference for Southern California, and it will ultimately lead to victory in CA-41. Churchill – one of the greatest defenders of democracy in human history – said it best: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

So let’s continue to do all we can to keep fighting for the communities and the country that we love. 

Best,

Will Rollins