Jeanne's Cookies: FWD: Crypto is coming after me. I have nowhere else to turn.

Monday, September 21, 2026

FWD: Crypto is coming after me. I have nowhere else to turn.

We needed to make sure you saw Sherrod’s urgent message.

Starting first-thing tomorrow, a billionaire-backed crypto group is spending $30 million here in Ohio to try to stop us.

We’re fighting back, but we’re just short of our $1 million rapid-response goal. We can get there with one final push.

For today only, top grassroots supporters have agreed to 2X-match all contributions up to $500K. The polls are neck and neck, so we can't let their lies and smears go unanswered. There’s never been a more important or impactful time to give than right now.

If you care about flipping Ohio and taking back the Senate for Democrats, rushing $5 to our campaign today is the best thing you can do to make that happen. Will you add your donation before the match expires at midnight?

Thank you,

Sherrod HQ

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Sherrod Brown
Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2026
Subject: Crypto is coming after me. I have nowhere else to turn.

Please don't look away.

I just learned that crypto is dumping $30 million into defeating our campaign. Ohio is the only state they are targeting, and it’s with a historic amount in the final stretch of our race. These attacks will hit us tomorrow, so we have less than 24 hours to respond. Please rush a contribution to help my campaign fend off these attacks.

Rush $5

There's a lot of moving pieces, but here's what I know right now:

As of today, the Republican establishment was already spending $14 million each week against us. That includes Jon Husted's super PAC, Elon Musk's contributions, Peter Thiel's dark money, and Donald Trump's multi-million dollar investment. Every single week.

With crypto jumping in, that weekly amount is skyrocketing.

For reference, our campaign is currently spending about $2 million on TV ads each week.

Combined Republican spending is now at $238 million against me this cycle.

I'm never one to say the sky is falling or sound the alarm unnecessarily. But, unfortunately, this is not one of those times. Crypto's new spending could bury us.

They're doing it because Jon Husted is extremely vulnerable and the GOP has seen this tactic work before. In my 2024 race, when crypto started spending against me and we weren't able to respond, the polls started turning in Republicans' favor. We lost that race.

A few weeks ago, Senate Republicans put out a call for outside groups like data centers and AI to bail Husted out with enormous cash infusions in the Ohio Senate race. And this is them answering the call.

We had no choice but to raise our fundraising goals so we could mount a response to these attacks from Big Tech before they go live tomorrow morning. My team and I did the math and we need to raise $1 million so we can scale up our program immediately.

We have less than 24 hours to prepare for their attacks and fundraise for our response, which is why a group of donors has agreed to match the first $500K donations we receive today. Right now is the single most important time for you to get involved. I cannot stress this enough – I need you to chip in $5 right now. Please, while we still have time to launch a response:

If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

Let's pull off an upset and prove Ohio isn't for sale.

In solidarity,

Sherrod

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When you love your country, you fight for the people who make it work.

Hey there! It's Sherrod Brown.

There's nobody fighting for Ohioans in the U.S. Senate right now, and I won't sit on the sidelines while working people get screwed over by large corporations and wealthy political donors.

If you work hard, you should be able to afford a decent life. But the reality is, life is too expensive. Costs are going up. Wages are staying stagnant. Working people are working harder than ever before, and they're not getting their share of the profit.

This campaign is all about changing that – and election analysts say we have a strong shot at winning in November.

But I'll need your help to pull it off: My opponent is a Washington insider being propped up by the Republican establishment, and he's got virtually unlimited resources.

That's not how our campaign works. We're a grassroots movement, and that means we rely on ordinary people chipping in a couple bucks. If you're able, please make a donation of any amount today. It could be what helps us flip Ohio and the Senate.

If you'd like to receive exclusive updates from my team, you can text "OHIO" to 64054.

Thank you.