We reached out yesterday with a call for help in Michigan and Iowa. These are swing states in every sense of the word — both the Senate and presidential races could go either way.

If we win both it's virtually a lock that we'll have pro-environment leadership in both the Senate and the White House. Lose both, and we're in serious trouble.

Friend — right now, we're not on track to pull it off. Polls are much tighter than they should be in Michigan — this could be 2016 all over again. In Iowa, polls are within the margin of error.

Bottom line, every day we wait is a missed opportunity. Ballots have already gone out to voters in both states — and turnout efforts for environmental voters are still underfunded.

We set a goal of raising $20,000 by midnight tonight to help turn these races around. A group of donors even put together a triple match pool to help get there — but as things stand, we're coming up short.

Friend: Donate by midnight. Every dollar will be triple matched. Even $3 is enough to make a difference »

We have a real shot here — but the stakes here are massive. In Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst is hypocritically backing a vote to replace Justice Ginsburg before the election, after previously stating that SCOTUS confirmations shouldn't happen in a presidential election year.

It's fundamentally changing the race. Ernst had been polling ahead earlier this summer, but now it's the closest Senate race in this cycle. Polls have consistently put the race within the margin of error — if we make a serious push in the final weeks of the election, it could be enough to make the difference.

In Michigan, Senator Peters has a strong record on the environment and protecting Michigan's most vulnerable communities — fighting to protect residents from toxic PFAS chemicals and working to upgrade Flint's water infrastructure. He's earned a perfect 100% score in LCV's National Environmental Scorecard for the last five years.

His challenger, John James, is all-in on Trump — he says he supports Trump's agenda "2,000%." He spoke at a Trump rally in Michigan recently, where he was endorsed by the president.

We can't come up short here — but turnout efforts in both states are underfunded right now. The challenge is that shifting resources could mean scaling back efforts to beat Susan Collins in Maine or Thom Tillis in North Carolina — races that are also super close, where the environmental movement could decide the outcome.

Your contribution can make a real difference here. We're pulling off vote-by-mail operations, getting tens of thousands of calls to environmental voters completed, and running peer-to-peer text operations. These are all efforts that can scale up quickly.

Win these races, and it means we're finally in a real position to advance federal policies that put people most impacted by pollution and climate change at the center of solutions — especially communities of color, Indigenous communities, and low-wealth communities.

Please — make an emergency contribution of just $3 or more to LCV Victory Fund before the midnight deadline. Every dollar will be tripled »

Thank you for everything you do, friend. Let's win these races.

Onward,

Brooke, Dave, Emily, Emily, Megan, Mike, and Pete at LCV Victory Fund
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