Jeanne's Cookies: three things I need you to understand:

Friend –

Before I ask you to chip in $5 toward my $200,000 end-of-quarter goal before Monday at midnight, there are three things I need you to understand:

Right now, SEVEN of my Democratic colleagues – Senators Baldwin, Brown, Casey, Heinrich, Kaine, Rosen, and Tester – are running neck-and-neck battleground races for reelection.

Photos of Senators Baldwin (WI), Brown (OH), Casey (PA), Heinrich (NM), Kaine (VA), Rosen (NV) and Tester (MT)

If Democrats lose just one Senate seat, we lose the majority Kamala Harris would need to make real progress as our next president.

Sept. 30 is our FINAL quarterly fundraising deadline before Election Day. Our numbers will go public Tuesday morning – and if we come up short, GOP megadonors will be more emboldened than ever.

Without your help toward my end-of-quarter goal, the GOP will spend the final days of this race spending millions of dollars' worth of attack ads against my colleagues.

And if that happens, Democrats can kiss our Senate majority goodbye.

So friend, I need your help to make sure my colleagues have the resources they need to power through this final stretch. Please, will you split $5, $25, or anything you can spare to help us keep the Senate blue?

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