John,

It’s a lot of effort to encourage voters to go to the polls. Each of us has a million things we could do besides visiting our local polling station. Campaigns and their allies make phone calls, buy ads, knock on doors, send mail, send emails (hello!) and flood supporters with messages reminding them to vote … until you might think that no one could possibly forget to show up on Election Day.

Still, after an election, there are always some people who didn’t make it to the polls because they just weren’t convinced that their vote mattered. But think about this:

555 more Democratic voters in Colorado could have ended Lauren Boebert’s political career last month. She held onto her seat in the House of Representatives by a mere 554 votes.

$5. $10. $25. These are the kinds of donations that could make the difference between a Senator Raphael Warnock and a Senator Herschel Walker.

Our great ally, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, also held her seat, winning the entire state of Nevada by only 9,007 votes. Our Blue Amp community raised over ten thousand dollars to help the Cortez Masto campaign get voters to the polls. While we can’t know if it was decisive, it sure seems worth it today.

In 2020, the GOP won a U.S. House seat in Iowa by only 6 votes. Yes. Really.

Georgia, according to Democracy Docket, is the second most expensive state to vote in. It costs .98 cents for each person to vote. This is in a close swing state that President Biden won in 2020 by only 12,670 votes--out of just under 500,000 votes cast. 

It's simple. $5 gets us 5 votes to the polls in this razor-thin swing state. $10 can get 10 votes. And so on. This is it, our last election this cycle. It is so important to again reject Trump, McConnell, gain momentum and add a vote on each Senate committee so we get crucial bills on women's rights, climate, gay rights, gun safety and so much more onto the Senate floor.