Folks—this email might be a little bit longer than usual, so I’m hoping you’ll bear with me for just a couple of minutes.

But if you’re in a hurry and don’t have time, here’s what you need to know: with only 3 days left in August, we’re trailing behind where I’d like to be with our $500,000 End-of-Month fundraising goal. Can you help us make up ground by chipping in $25 right now?

I’m not gonna lie, August hasn’t been easy.

We started the month with the wind at our backs and momentum on our side—our last FEC quarterly report showed that we’d outraised JD’s fumbling campaign 9 to 1, and the polls had us surging ahead.

Then BAM! Corporate billionaires and dark money super PACs took notice and started panic-spending. They dropped MILLIONS to take the wind out of our sails.

First, the NRSC announced a $1 million ad buy to try and slow JD’s slide in the polls.

Days later, One Nation, an out-of-state dark money group aligned with Mitch McConnell, announced they’d be dropping $3.8 million to flood Ohio’s airwaves with ads attacking me.

Then the floodgates REALLY opened when the Senate Leadership Fund committed a jaw-dropping $28 MILLION to ensure that this Ohio Senate seat remains in GOP hands.

That’s an obscene amount of money, folks.

But instead of corporate billionaires or out-of-state super PACs, I’m relying on our 240,000+ grassroots supporters to help me flip Ohio blue and expand our Democratic Senate majority.

To defeat JD and his ultra-rich backers, we must first crush this End-of-Month fundraising goal—if we fall short, we won’t be able to counter their lies and smear attacks.

Can I count on you to have my back by chipping in $25 toward our End-of-Month goal?

Thanks for taking the time to read this, folks—I really appreciate it.

Tim Ryan