Hey Yang Gang --
I have to ask: Can you pitch in before midnight toward the biggest deadline this campaign has ever faced? We’re just $33,313 away from our goal and I know we can hit it if everyone reading this gives it all they have. Now that you’ve pitched in, I want to share this: There is something special happening in Iowa, New Hampshire, and every place we visit. We saw it in Nashua and Peterborough this weekend. Overflow crowds, new members of the Yang Gang, and an energy that I can’t really put into words. This is amazing! And when I think about where we’ve come from -- just me, a couple volunteers and staffers working out of an apartment in New York City with bold ideas and a whiteboard -- it honestly blows my mind. We didn’t have endorsements, big donors, or PACs lined up with checks. We didn’t even have a Facebook page. But as we spread our Humanity First message, shared how a basic income would change lives, and talked about how to fix our economy to work for us again instead of just corporate profits, we noticed something. People across the country who have been beaten down by debt and despair are now waking up to the power they hold to take control of their life. We are doing this. Not me, not this campaign, but us. This movement is already changing lives and doing it in a way that’s historic. Now, we’re about to enter the most important phase of this campaign. The hard work of organizing for votes that Senators, members of Congress, and other folks running have spent their entire adult lives doing. We’re once again in the role of underdog. The scrappy campaign with bold ideas for how to win and change lives. And every plan we draw up to make the November and December debates, get our message out to voters, and hire a bunch of staff in the early states comes down to what we raise between now and midnight. While we are doing much better than in the early days, we’re still well behind the fundraising totals of so-called "frontrunners." They are likely to raise in the tens of millions. And while we don’t have to match them dollar-for-dollar, we do have to raise enough to compete. That’s why I’m asking: Can you give everything you can before midnight so we can hit our $1.5 million goal? Whether we fall short or blow this goal away is up to you.
Thank you, Yang Gang. We couldn’t do it without you. -Andrew
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