How It Started. How It’s Going.

Our primary election – the biggest, most important moment of our campaign so far – is today.

Folks, today is our primary election here in Ohio. This is the biggest, most important moment of our campaign so far.

I just cast my ballot, and now I want to take a step back to reflect on how we got here. And what we’re fighting to do.

This has been one heck of a journey, and our work is far from over. And today especially, I am so grateful to have dedicated people like you on my team.

I wouldn’t be here without the support that hundreds of thousands of you have shown our campaign. People who have taken the time to meet me out on the road, who have shared their concerns and their hopes with our team, who have chipped in a couple bucks when they can.

I’m honored that so many Ohioans – and folks across the country, too – share this dream for an America where hard work is enough to make a decent life for yourself.

Together, our people-powered movement is stronger than ever, and we’re going to unrig the system and make our country work for working people.

How It Started

Last August, I launched this campaign for U.S. Senate because the system is more rigged than it’s ever been.

Ohioans are working harder than ever, but wages aren’t keeping up.

The cost of everything – groceries, housing, health care – is soaring.

Billionaires and big corporations are bragging about record-breaking profits.

And the same corrupt forces that fought against workers’ rights decades ago are back at it again, given even more loopholes under this administration.

Ohioans feel like the system is rigged against them, and they’re right.

Shortly after launching my campaign, I spent the day with soybean farmers in Northeast Ohio (pictured above). They’re paying the price for reckless tariffs that shrink their markets and a war that is raising the price of diesel and fertilizer. Ohio’s farmers are in crisis, yet nobody in Washington seems to care.

Right now, Ohioans don’t have a U.S. senator who’s looking out for them. It’s quite the opposite.

Republican Jon Husted has voted against Ohioans time and time again. To raise prices, to rip away health care from half a million people in our state, to shield the rich and powerful from any kind of accountability – like when he voted to block the release of the Epstein files after receiving the maximum campaign contribution from one of Epstein’s co-conspirators.

This moment in our nation’s history demands champions for working families and that’s who I’ve worked hard to be my entire life.

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How It’s Going

Over the past eight months or so, hundreds of thousands of people – supporters old and new – have joined our grassroots movement because they believe in our vision for a future where all working people can thrive.

I don’t know about you, but to me, that’s pretty inspiring.

Before we launched this campaign, pundits were quick to count Ohio out as too much of a long shot. But because of you, Ohio is in play, and we have a serious chance to flip this seat.

With poll after poll showing this race statistically tied, we are proving that we have the coalition to win here, put the Ohioans that Jon Husted has left behind front and center, and take back the Senate for working people. Our momentum is growing, and it’s all thanks to folks like you.

But look, our primary is today. And it’s only getting harder from here.

The truth is Jon Husted will be incredibly tough to defeat.

All of those billionaires and special-interest allies he’s wined and dined with in his Washington bubble will be propping him up – and outside special interests are pouring millions of dollars into Ohio to bail him out. Republicans have virtually unlimited resources to use to try and define me to undecided voters.

We just finished the end of April on a strong note, but unlike other campaigns out there, our primary is just days after that big deadline – and we can’t slow down.

We have to keep reaching Ohioans with our message. Attack ads are already airing on TV right as voters head to the polls – and the Senate Republicans’ biggest super PAC is spending $79 million to defeat me, more money than any other Senate race in the country.

I’m confident that we can win this, but I’d be lying if I said it’d be easy. The only way we can defy the odds and pull this off is with historic grassroots involvement.

I’m relying on a ton of folks like you getting involved in this movement in whatever way you can – whether that’s by telling your friends to vote, by volunteering to knock doors or make phone calls, or by supporting our work directly with a few dollars here and there.

So if you’re able to support our work today, it’d mean the world if you joined our fight. We need to start the general election in the strongest way possible to compete until November, and anything helps.

Let’s show the country what Ohio and this team are made of. Thank you.

In solidarity,

Sherrod Brown