Ken Burns here, friend. I’ve said this before and it’s now more relevant than ever: The power rests in our hands to secure the future of the Senate.

I have more to say, but if you want to use that power in your own hands, and have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to Roy Cooper’s campaign today. Winning his race is absolutely critical if we’re going to flip the Senate, so I hope you’ll join me.

Across this country, people are feeling the strain in ways that don’t always make the history books – but shape lives all the same. The cost of groceries that are too high. A lifesaving prescription that forces a difficult choice. A paycheck that doesn’t just stretch as far as it once did.

These are the quiet pressures that define a moment.

Roy Cooper has spent much of his life as a public servant working to ease those burdens.

Not seeking attention, but doing the work. Expanding access to affordable health care. Investing in public schools. Defending the idea that government, at its best, is not distant – but present, steady and accountable to the people it serves.

It is the kind of leadership that rarely makes noise. But over time, it leaves a mark.

There are those who would take the state in a different direction – who see division as a strategy, who mistake power for purpose. They are organized. They are well-funded by dark-money groups.

We can beat them back. This work matters, and we won’t stop fighting. So please, will you chip in now to help elect Roy Cooper for the U.S. Senate?

History has been written in moments like this – when people choose not to sit back, but to take part.

If you can, give today. Help ensure that the next chapter of North Carolina reflects the very best of what this state has always tried to be.

Thank you for doing your part,

Ken Burns