A Very Important Day
Thank you all for a wonderful year.
Happy New Year’s Eve, folks!
It’s a very important day for our campaign, and I want to explain why.
Tonight at midnight, we’re facing the final FEC deadline of the year – perhaps our most important deadline of this campaign so far. When it ends, we’re legally required to report to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) how much we’ve raised and how many donations we’ve received. Then, these numbers go public.
Everyone – and I mean everyone – will be waiting for our numbers to drop so they can gauge the strength of our grassroots campaign.
My opponent, Republican Jon Husted, his allies, and the corporate special interests dead-set on defeating me will be watching so they can set their investment strategy for the start of 2026. If we crush our big $250,000 goal and demonstrate the full force of this team, they might think their money is better spent elsewhere for now. If we fall short? You can bet they’ll take advantage of this moment and flood Ohio with millions in attack ads to try to gain the upper hand.
Political pundits and the media will be watching to see if we truly have what it takes to flip this Senate seat – and if it’s worth highlighting our campaign on their broadcasts, blogs, and social media channels, reaching audiences of millions of people.
And our supporters (like you!) will be watching as well to see if our message of fighting for working people and taking on a rigged system is resonating. That insight will influence other campaigns up and down the ballot, and it’ll determine our own investment strategy.
Will we step into 2026 ready to make the key, early investments we need to rapidly scale up our operation in the coming months? Or will we start 2026 having to dig ourselves out of a hole, wasting precious time as our opponents spend millions to defeat us?
The answers to these questions are up to us. That’s why this FEC deadline is so important – and why I’m counting on your critical grassroots support before midnight tonight.
Thank you all for a wonderful year. There’s a lot of darkness in our world today, but people like you – who care deeply about the future of our state and our country, and are willing to fight to make it better – are the light. I’m humbled to have your support.
In solidarity,
Sherrod
I am waiting for you to tell us what grassroots actions are already underway, throughout the state and in partnership across the spectrum. I am no longer giving money based on past performance or alarming rhetoric- I have been alarmed for 18 months - Senate Democrats are only now catching up. I want results not vague observations.
THE COMMON GOOD MANIFESTO
A society built for people, not predators.
We are at our best when we invest in each other.
We are at our worst when we abandon the vulnerable.
This manifesto is how we return to the common good.
I. DIGNITY AND JUSTICE
1. Release the Epstein files — full transparency, no exceptions.
2. Impeach, convict, and imprison Donald Trump and every handler who enabled his corruption.
3. No federal office for any convicted felon.
4. End the weaponization of the justice system against the poor, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and marginalized communities.
II. DEMOCRACY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
1. Abolish the Electoral College — one person, one vote.
2. Abolish ICE — replace it with humane immigration policy that honors human rights.
3. Ban gerrymandering with a standardized national apportionment method.
4. Two-term limits for every elected office.
5. Mandatory retirement at 70 for all elected officials.
6. Paper ballots only — end the era of hackable voting machines.
III. AN ECONOMY THAT SERVES PEOPLE
1. Restore 1950s-style progressive tax rates — when America was prosperous and fair.
2. Overturn Citizens United — corporations are not people.
3. Eliminate the Social Security payroll cap and tax capital gains for Social Security contributions.
4. $25 minimum wage indexed to inflation.
5. Medicare for All, one unified system — no A/B/C/D maze.
6. Congress receives Medicare, not boutique private insurance.
IV. WORKERS, CREATIVES, AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
1. Big pay raises for social workers, teachers, librarians, artists, and cultural workers — the people who actually hold society together.
2. Universal childcare — because families are the foundation of the nation.
3. Free public university education.
4. Full forgiveness of all student debt.
V. CLEAN GOVERNMENT
1. Root out corruption at every level, starting at the top.
2. Full financial transparency for every elected official, appointee, and senior bureaucrat.
3. Ban lobbying for former officeholders for life.
VI. THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE
We choose a country that values:
• Compassion over cruelty
• Community over greed
• Truth over propaganda
• Shared prosperity over billionaire hoarding
• Democracy over minority rule
• Human dignity over corporate profit
We choose a nation where the common good is not a slogan, but the organizing principle of public life.
And we refuse to apologize for demanding better.