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Friends – First and foremost, we want to say THANK YOU!

Yesterday President Joe Biden addressed the nation: Election experts all
across the country projected we’d lose our House majority by 20-30 seats,
that we’d lose the Senate by 1-2 seats, and that our Governors in tough
races would lose.

[ [link removed] ]Instead, as Joe Biden said, Democrats pulled off the BEST midterm
performance with a Democratic President since President John F. Kennedy!

You are to thank. Our democracy is on steadier ground and in several
states, a woman’s Constitutional right to her own bodily autonomy was
preserved and restored. From the bottom of our hearts: Thank
you and thank you for
stepping up even when the odds were against us.

You might not think a single donation to an email like this makes a
difference. But thanks to the nearly 400,000 of you who have donated to
support us and our candidates (with an average donation of just $20!) we
were able to make historic investments up and down the ballot in key races
all across the country. And in those highly competitive races, it made all
the difference.

So we wanted to share with you where your support and donations went +
update you on how many of our candidates, despite the odds, made history.

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THE SENATE
[ John ]John FettermanAs you’re probably aware, Senate control has not been
decided and we’re anxiously watching votes come in in two of the country’s
closest and most consequential elections in Arizona and Nevada.

Because of incredible supporters like you, we were able to invest over
$800,000 into key Senate races in states like Pennsylvania, Arizona,
Nevada and Georgia as well as launch voter mobilization efforts that
reached hundreds of thousands of swing voters in these hotly contested
races.

[ Captain ]Captain Mark KellyOn the eve of Election Night, many election experts
predicted John Fetterman would lose, that Mark Kelly was in serious
jeopardy, and that Raphael Warnock could be defeated outright. Instead,
John Fetterman won a historic victory in Pennsylvania, Mark Kelly is in a
good position to win (based on where the outstanding vote remains to be
counted), and Raphael Warnock is headed to a Senate runoff in Georgia
after earning a slight lead over his opponent.

We were proud to be there for Mark Kelly on day one when he announced his
candidacy at the beginning of 2019 and we’re so incredibly thankful for
the many of you who have donated directly to his campaign and those in
Arizona who showed up for him on Election Day.

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THE HOUSE
On the morning of Election Day, two of the most respected election
analysts in America, The Cook Political Report and Nate Silver’s
FiveThirtyEight, projected Democrats would lose 25-40 seats in the House
and Kevin McCarthy warned his inside polling projected Republicans gaining
as many as 65 seats.

It was supposed to be a red tsunami of historic proportions. But because
of you, despite the alarm bells and doomy forecast, we defied history and
had the best showing in a midterm election with a Democratic President in
60+ years (virtually every single one of our House Democrats won!).
[ Eric ]Eric Sorensen
Eric Sorensen (IL-17) and Dr. Yadira Caraveo (CO-8) were projected to lose
their toss-up races. Many election experts even shifted their races to
Lean Republican and Likely Republican, respectively.

[ Yadira ]Yadira Caraveo We’re proud to tell you that Eric and Yadira will be
headed to Congress in January. Eric will be the second only climate expert
in Congress and the first ever LGBTQ+ member of Congress from Illinois
while Yadira shattered a glass ceiling to be the first Latina elected from
Colorado + will be the only pro-choice physician of color in Congress. In
addition, we’re proud to say that PhD chemist Shri Thanedar (MI-13) won
his House race and will become the first Indian American elected to
Congress from Michigan.
[ Lauren ]Lauren Underwood
Polling showed Republicans could take out some of our most vulnerable
House Democrats including Lauren Underwood(IL-14), Sean Casten (IL-6),
Melanie Stansbury (NM-1), and Dr. Kim Schrier (WA-8).

[ Dr. ]Dr. Kim Schrier Instead, Lauren, the youngest Black woman in Congress,
Sean, the only climate expert in Congress, and Melanie, the first Democrat
to win a special election this election cycle (and the only natural
resources expert in Congress), won re-election by massive margins despite
millions in Republican attack ads. There are still too many votes
outstanding in Dr. Kim Schrier’s race (who was projected to lose by many!)
but we feel good about her odds of winning re-election in a race rated as
Lean Republican.

Because of you, we were able to invest MILLIONS into key House races,
reach hundreds of thousands of swing voters, + support vulnerable House
Democrats who many election experts predicted would be swept away in a Red
Wave.

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OUR GOVERNORS
To put into perspective how well our Governors did, this is the best
showing for Democratic Governors in a midterm election with a Democratic
President since the Reagan Era – nearly half a century of history defied,
because generous supporters like you stepped up in a major way.

[ Tony ]Tony EversIn Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers was projected to lose by 1
point + with it the future of reproductive rights, voting rights, and free
and fair elections with it.

We’re incredibly happy to share with you that Tony, the former science
teacher who ran for office because he felt Wisconsin students deserved
better, has won re-election by 3.4 points which is the best showing for a
Democratic Governor candidate in the Badger state since 2006!

Tony’s running mate and now Lt Governor-elect is Sara Rodriguez, a State
Representative and epidemiologist.

Thanks to you we were able to bundle nearly half a million dollars for
Tony + reach hundreds of thousands of swing voters in both Wisconsin and
Pennsylvania.

[ Josh ]Josh ShapiroWhich brings us to Josh Shapiro, who defeated a January 6
insurrectionist to become the next Governor of Pennsylvania, winning a
state Donald Trump carried by a staggering 11 points. Not only does this
win prevent Republicans at the state level from advancing an abortion ban,
which they promised they would if they had a Republican Governor, but it
also ensures that both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will not have election
deniers overseeing elections in 2024.

[ Gov. ]Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist The same
extends to Michigan where Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her Lt. Governor
Garlin Gilchrist (software engineer), won a stunning victory in a race
many expected to come down to the wire. With this victory, reproductive
rights and the election certification process has been protected.

And lastly, in a historic first, our Democrats flipped Maryland’s Governor
seat from red to blue and in the process elected Wes Moore as Governor
(who will be the first Black Governor in Maryland) and civil engineer
Aruna Miller as Lt. Governor (who will be the only Indian-American Lt
Governor in the country).

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STATE + LOCAL ELECTIONS
To be candid, the Democratic Party has largely ignored and under-invested
in state, local, and municipal races. We still haven’t recovered from the
nearly 1,000 state legislative seats we lost in the 2010 midterm elections
which is part of the reason so many states have GOP-dominated legislatures
that gerrymander maps, suppress the vote, restrict abortion, and advance
Far-Right policies, even in states that are blue!

We’re trying to change that: We invested nearly one million dollars
directly into supporting local and state legislative Democratic
scientists. This year we set a new record by supporting nearly 400
Democratic scientists running for state and local office – And it paid
off.

In Michigan, where we supported 31 state and local Democrats, we can
confirm that we flipped the Michigan State House + State Senate for the
first time since 1983!

In Minnesota, where we supported 26 state and local Democrats, we can
confirm that we have flipped control of the Minnesota State Senate for the
first time since 2012 and defended our razor-thin majority in the State
House.

In Pennsylvania, where we supported 13 state and local Democrats, we can
confirm that we have flipped control of the State House for the first time
since 2008.

There are still plenty of key Senate, House, and state and local races yet
to be called. But we wanted to take a moment to update you on our work +
some of the incredible victories your support helped power. You are the
reason the forewarned ‘Red Wave of 2022’ never materialized.

[ [link removed] ]But with control of the Senate hanging in the balance and once again
coming down to a Senate runoff in Georgia, please consider donating so we
can defend our Senate majority!

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Thank you,

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