John,

Last Friday, I flew out to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and join my friend Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes for a campaign rally there.

Mandela is running for a winnable Republican-held seat this November that could tilt the balance of power in the Senate.

As the son of a United Auto Workers factory worker and public school teacher, his lived experience in the marginalized neighborhoods he grew up in is an experience that’s hardly common in the Senate. Mandela would be Wisconsin’s first Black senator.

And while Mandela is cut from the same cloth as our toughest Democratic fighters in the Senate, he understands that what Americans need most right now is love and hope.

Mandela understands that the way you rise is not by pushing other people down, but by telling your truth every single day.

In the Senate, he will be relentless.

Let me tell you, John, there are some folks who join the Senate and are instant game-changers. Mandela is one of them.

But in order for Mandela to win this fall, and defend our Senate majority in states across the country, we’re counting on donations from grassroots contributors like you.

So John, I’m humbly asking: Will you split a $10 contribution between Mandela’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin and The Collective PAC to expand our Democratic Senate majority?

Mandela isn’t a multimillionaire like some of the other candidates in this race. So your contributions really make a difference.

And by my estimation, this is probably the most important race in our nation based on the issues that Americans care about.

Whether it’s giving women access to abortions, voting rights, common-sense gun regulation, all the things stalled in the Senate right now that the majority of Americans agree on, it’s going to hinge on this.

Mandela’s race could decide whether we will continue to be on a radical retrenchment of core rights that Americans desire, or whether we will find a way forward.

John, I hope that if you are able, you will split a contribution between Mandela’s campaign and The Collective PAC today. We couldn’t do this work without you.

With love and gratitude,

Cory

Thank you for your continued support of The Collective PAC, John. Thanks to supporters like you, we’re building Black political power across the country at all levels of government. We’re on a mission to elect Black progressive champions like Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, Val Demings, and MORE in 2022, but it’s going to take every single one of us to do it. Can you chip in and support our work today? Were you forwarded this email? Want to sign up for our email list? Click here to sign up!