Friend, it's Gary. I just finished looking over the latest end-of-quarter fundraising report from my team at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and I'm really worried. You see, Mitch McConnell's allies have already raised more than $100 MILLION to take back the Senate.

I knew that GOP fundraising would be ramping up this cycle after we narrowly won the majority in 2020. But they're scaling up their fundraising even faster than I anticipated.

With a razor-thin majority, Democrats really cannot let Republicans outpace our fundraising. We're already playing defense in way too many states – my friends Sen. Warnock in Georgia, Sen. Kelly in Arizona and Sen. Cortez Masto in Nevada are running in incredibly tight "toss-up" races.

That brings me to why I'm emailing you right now. Our end-of-quarter deadline is in just a few hours, we're still $12,342 short of our goal. With the GOP surely raking in tens of millions this quarter, we cannot afford to miss this goal. So please, before our midnight deadline, can you donate $5, or whatever you have to spare tonight, to help me hit this goal and protect our Senate majority?

There's so much at stake in this election, friend. The issues we care most about – protecting the right to choose, defending our democracy, ensuring a good future for our children – are all on the line if Democrats lose our majority. And the progress we've already made since 2020 would be first on the chopping block.

Mitch McConnell only has to flip one seat to take back the majority – and after seeing these massive GOP fundraising numbers, I'm getting more and more worried that he's going to do it.

The only way to stop him is to make sure that our Democratic candidates have the resources to get ads up on radio and TV, speak to the most critical voters and compete with the GOP megadonors trying to buy elections. And the only way we can get those types of resources is with grassroots donors like you, friend. So please, will you rush $5 before 11:59 p.m. tonight so we can hit this end-of-quarter goal, protect our Senate majority and stop McConnell from regaining control?

Thank you for having my back here.

– Gary