Friends: There are only a few hours left until our crucial end-of-month fundraising deadline, and we're still coming up $9,471 short.

Before we ask you to make your very first donation to help us hit our end-of-month goal, we need to explain why the stakes are so high for every fundraising goal in this campaign – and what will happen if we miss this one.

The future of just about everything we care about (from the Supreme Court to affordable health care to climate change) depends on who controls the Senate after this election. And right now, every outlet from FiveThirtyEight to Roll Call is saying that Democrats cannot take back the Senate if we lose in New Hampshire.

GOP insiders know it too, so they're lining up behind Donald Trump's hand-picked candidate Corey Lewandowski. Trump and Mitch McConnell even met with Lewandowski earlier this month on Air Force One to hatch their plan to buy this seat.

We can't let McConnell and Corey Lewandowski – the man who put Donald Trump in the White House – buy this seat and keep control of the Senate. But they have nearly unlimited resources on hand. So the only way we can defeat them is by hitting every single fundraising goal – and with just hours left before our midnight deadline, we're still $9,471 short.

Friends, missing this goal puts our shot of winning in real danger. So we're counting on you to make your first donation before midnight tonight.

Click here to give $3 or more now to keep New Hampshire's Senate seat blue and take back the Senate for Democrats.

Thank you,

Team Shaheen