Last week was a critical week for our campaign.

Over the last few days, we’ve released the most sweeping and ambitious plans of anyone in this race to fight climate change, reform our criminal justice system, and to boost workers’ rights and wages on the job.

The week ahead is a critical one, as well.

Because in just a few days, we are going to close the books on our August fundraising deadline.

And this is a big one, because it is probably the last deadline before we make some important decisions about paid advertising and state organizing plans.

So our job between now and then is to generate as many individual donations as we possibly can, because that is how this campaign raises what we need to win. And that is why I am asking:

— can you please add your first $10 contribution to our campaign before our end-of-month fundraising deadline comes to a close this week?

I wish I could tell you that we’d be alright with some minor changes here and there on some of these issues and things might be okay, but I would be lying if I did.

It is time for profound change.

But defeating Donald Trump and transforming this country will require an unprecedented political movement. And I cannot do it alone. No one could.

So I am asking:

Can you make your first $10 online contribution today?

https://act.berniesanders.com/go/August-Deadline

We are taking on the whole damn 1 percent in this campaign. And it means a lot to know that we are in this fight together.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

PO BOX 391, Burlington, VT 05402

We hope you’ll stay, because emails are such an important part of how we organize and how we raise money. In fact, there is no single greater source for our campaign’s fundraising than emails like this one. And that’s important, because no one person, not even Bernie Sanders, can take on Trump and the billionaire class alone.

Before you go about the rest of your day, help power our fight against the billionaire class by making a contribution today.