Friend, at the end of this message, I’m going to ask you to contribute $5 to my Senate campaign in Ohio. But before I do, you deserve to know why I’m running – and why I need your support to win.

When I first came to the Senate, they gave me an official Senate pin – the kind that says, “Look at me; look how important I am.” I wore it for a couple of days, but it just didn’t feel right.

So I replaced it with a pin depicting a canary in a birdcage, which a Lorain steelworker gave to me decades ago at a Workers' Memorial Day rally.

As the story goes, coal miners once brought canaries down into the mines with them as a warning system against poisonous gases. Back then, they didn’t have a union strong enough or a government that cared enough to protect them. They were on their own.

Together, we changed that. We passed worker safety laws and overtime pay. We banned child labor. We passed clean air and safe drinking water laws. We enacted Social Security and Medicare, workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights.

Because when you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work.

But right now, there is no one in D.C. willing to keep up this fight in Ohio, and hardworking folks are paying the price. I’m running for Senate in 2026 to change that – and the only way I can win is with your support.

I’m personally asking, friend: Will you chip in $5 or more now to build the massive grassroots movement it’ll take to win in Ohio and continue making progress for workers across the country?

Falling short in my Senate race last year was difficult. But I haven’t taken off my canary pin, and I haven’t given up our fight for workers.

How could I, when we have so much left to do?

In solidarity,

Sherrod