Team,

When I became the first member of Democratic House leadership to take the No Corporate PAC pledge, some people told me I shouldn’t turn down these donations.

Republicans are regularly backed by multi-millionaires and dark money super PACs – so why would I turn down money if I wanted Democrats to compete with this kind of funding?

From the start, I was committed to running a campaign aligned with my values – respect, transparency, and accountability. And I’ve taken those values with me to Congress and in every election where my name is on the ballot.

This campaign is powered by people. 98 percent of the money we raised in the first quarter of 2021 came from individual donors like you.

But I wouldn’t ask for your support if it wasn’t important. Our Democratic majorities in Congress are razor-thin, and the historical odds are against us holding on to these majorities in the 2022 midterm election.

So team, will you join our movement and make your FIRST donation to our campaign right now to help us beat the odds and win big in 2022? Even $1 makes a difference to our grassroots campaign.

In just the first few weeks of the Biden-Harris administration, Democrats have signed a historic COVID-19 relief bill into law and my colleagues in the House and I have passed bills to save lives from gun violence, protect workers’ rights, fix our immigration system, and so much more – and we’re just getting started!

But well-funded Republican groups are already gearing up for 2022. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the national powerhouse organization working to retake the House of Representatives, raised $33.7 million in the first quarter of 2021 – a record for the committee during an off-cycle year!

If we’re going to match their dark money with people-power, we need your grassroots support immediately. Can you fuel our grassroots campaign with a donation of just $1?

Your support means the world to me, folks.

– David