Just a quick note NOT asking for money.

I know the flood of emails and texts and snail mail asking for money is exhausting — and that times are tough right now for so many. 

I want to be direct and say that I never expect you to be able to respond to each message with a donation — and we’re grateful to have you on this team no matter how much or how often you’re able to donate. Chipping in with a donation is just one way to get involved.

It’s important that we do what we can — donate, make calls, put up yard signs, put out messages on social media — because we’re so close in so many races. I’ve kept it up because I’m trying to help — and I know you are too.

Take the email I sent yesterday for Mandela Barnes: The contributions to that email can help keep him on television in this closing week of his race. It can help make sure his field organizers have gas money. It can ensure there’s coffee in the pot and cookies on the table when volunteers get back from door knocking. And it will help build strong teams for elections to come.

This team has supported candidates like him across the country. John Fetterman. Katie Porter. Tina Kotek. Catherine Cortez-Masto. Maggie Hassan. Raphael Warnock. Tony Evers. Good people whose races are on a knife’s edge. Good people who may win or lose based on a handful of votes.

And whether they win or lose will have a lot to do with where our nation goes next on abortion rights. On the survival of Social Security and Medicare. On $35 insulin. On whether Democrats can stay in the climate fight. On whether our democracy survives.

So I don’t want to wake up on the day after the election and talk about the good people who lost by just a bit — and say I wish I’d done a little bit more.

Me — I’m giving it everything I’ve got.

I’m grateful for everything that every one of you has already done. And I’m grateful for the chance to be in this fight with you.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth