Friends -

We’ve got a bit of a challenge right now, and I’m hoping you can help us out.

Last month, our campaign once again broke our record for the number of individual donations to our campaign in a single month. Another incredible sign of our momentum!

But here’s the problem: Our average online donation has dipped quite a bit from last quarter. So now we’re a bit short of where we had hoped to be before Wednesday’s FEC deadline.

Unlike our opponent, we don’t depend on a max-out machine to fund our campaign. Instead, we count on this movement of grassroots donors to power our fight.

That means we have two options here to make up the difference before the deadline. We either need to generate even more individual donations OR we need folks to donate slightly larger amounts.

We usually ask you to give $3, but if you could do a bit more than that, it would be tremendously helpful.

Please consider contributing $5 to help us close the gap before our deadline. We cannot afford to fall short now that mail-in voting has started.

Our ability to compete with Joe Kennedy’s big money in these final days depends on what supporters like you are able to do today. Let’s prove once and for all that our progressive movement is far more powerful than the corporate special interests who spend unlimited sums to defeat us.

- Ed Markey