BIG news, folks! A few generous IL supporters have committed to matching all online donations through the weekend to help me hit my End-of-Quarter fundraising goal.

Before I ask you for money, I want you to have all the facts. Here's a quick overview on how a match program works and why it’s a worthwhile investment.

→ When we say your contribution will be doubled, we mean it. Chip in $25, $25 gets pulled from our match fund. Boom, $50 for our campaign.

→ Real donors pledge specific dollar amounts to our match fund. We'll continue matching your donations until the fund is empty.

→ We only receive the full $9,150 pot if we raise $9,150. After a week, we tell our donors what we raised and collect the matching amount. If we don’t hit $9,150, we leave money on the table.

→ My team and I stick to the terms laid out above. I will not bombard you with bogus claims of 8,000% matches and ALL-CAPS EXTENDED DEADLINES, because no amount of money is worth losing your trust.

Now that you know how a match program works, I really hope you’ll take advantage by investing $25 (becomes $50) today. Your impact will be automatically doubled, plus you’ll bolster our upcoming FEC finance report before it goes public.

— Sean Casten