Please don't look away, John.

I just learned that crypto is dumping $30 million into defeating our campaign. Ohio is the only state they are targeting, and it’s with a historic amount in the final stretch of our race. These attacks are imminent, and our response window is closing fast. Please rush a split  contribution between my campaign and NextGenDems to help fend off these attacks.

There's a lot of moving pieces, but here's what I know right now:

Bethe Republican establishment was already spending $14 million each week against us. That includes Jon Husted's super PAC, Elon Musk's contributions, Peter Thiel's dark money, and Donald Trump's multi-million dollar investment. Every single week.

With crypto jumping in, that weekly amount is skyrocketing.

For reference, our campaign is currently spending about $2 million on TV ads each week.

Combined Republican spending is now at $238 million against me this cycle.

I'm never one to say the sky is falling or sound the alarm unnecessarily. But, John, this is not one of those times. Crypto's new spending could bury us.

They're doing it because Jon Husted is extremely vulnerable and the GOP has seen this tactic work before. In my 2024 race, when crypto started spending against me and we weren't able to respond, the polls started turning in Republicans' favor. We lost that race.

A few weeks ago, Senate Republicans put out a call for outside groups like data centers and AI to bail Husted out with enormous cash infusions in the Ohio Senate race. And John, this is them answering the call.

We had no choice but to raise our fundraising goals so we could mount a response to these attacks from Big Tech before they go live. My team and I did the math and we need to raise $1 million so we can scale up our program immediately.

We have less than 24 hours to fend off their attacks and fundraise for our response. Right now is the single most important time for you to get involved. I cannot stress this enough – I need you to split $10 between my campaign and NextGenDems right now. Please, while we still have time to launch a response:

If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will automatically be split between Sherrod Brown and NextGenDems:

Let's pull off an upset and prove Ohio isn't for sale.

In solidarity,

Sherrod

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