But there's another critical reason why your support is so important: By coming after the fundraising platform grassroots Democrats use to chip in toward campaigns like mine, and causes that align with our values, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are trying to shut us up and shut us out of the political conversation for good.
Because of the Supreme Court, political donations all count as protected free speech.
And when I last ran for reelection, grassroots supporters like you used ActBlue to speak up, by making nearly 50,000 small-dollar donations totaling over $5 MILLIONto help me keep one of Washington state's Senate seats blue.
So after Democrats brought in about TWICE as much as Republicans from small-dollar donors last cycle, the GOP is fed up with regular people speaking up with their dollars to power candidates who will check their overreach, or threaten their majorities, like me.
Since the American public is the only guardrail in the way of them and absolute rule, their only option is to squash the people power on our side.
In short, they are terrified of you.
And while they have a trifecta in the federal government, they're trying to lock in their power by stamping out any and all opposition.
We can't let them. We WON'T.
And until their unlawful, un-American scheme succeeds, the best way to show that we won't be silenced so easily is by ensuring I have the resources to keep making your voice heard in the Other Washington, whether they like it or not.
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