John —

We want to fill you in on where things stand because you deserve total transparency.

Here is the good news: We received a huge number of donations after Ken Paxton became the nominee, and we're on track to hit the end-of-month goals we set for this critical moment of the campaign. But just barely.

Here is the bad news: We are now seeing a dramatic slowdown in our fundraising just as we're sure the fundraising and outside spending planning is ramping up to defeat us. The timing is not great at all.

Check out this screenshot of ActBlue:

The blue bars represent money raised, while the purple line accounts for how many donations we receive in a given day.

You can see the trend, John. A huge spike after Paxton won the Republican primary, but then a dramatic slowdown — and now it's going the wrong way.

That leaves us with two choices. We either need a lot more individual donations or we need those who've given before to donate a larger amount than their last contribution.

Normally, we ask people to give about $5 if they haven't donated before. But given the timing, the trajectory, and our end-of-month fundraising deadline right around the corner we're asking people to dig a bit deeper than usual today.

Can you please rush a $20 contribution to James Talarico's campaign today? We will put it to work immediately to persuade undecided and infrequent voters to pull the lever for James Talarico.

CONTRIBUTE

This is truly one of the most important moments of this entire race. So thank you for stepping up for James.

Team Talarico