A MILLION'S ON THE TABLE

Lucas,

If you usually skim or even skip my emails, do me a favor and take a few minutes to read this one.

Read this one.

A million dollars is on the table. And we can't claim it without your help.

I know I ask for your support a lot. Maybe it seems like too much.

But remember, Public Citizen does not take money from corporations. We don't take money from the government. And the Wall Street tycoons and modern-day robber barons of the 1% are hardly lining up to be our benefactors.

We have you.

Still with me?

You -- and hundreds of thousands of people like you -- have made Public Citizen a force for progress for over 40 years.

You give Public Citizen the strength to get dangerous drugs and unsafe products off the market.

You give us the power to push meaningful laws through an ever more hostile legislative process.

You have helped turn the seemingly impossible -- a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling -- into the real hope that We the People will take our country back from the Koch-heads and Rove-ing bandits who would auction off our democracy.

We have you.

And we have an extraordinary opportunity.

Don't stop now.

For a limited time, a group of longtime Public Citizen donors will match your contribution dollar for dollar -- up to $500,000.

Any gift you make will go twice as far toward supporting all of Public Citizen's critical projects.

If we make the most of this match, Public Citizen will have an additional one million dollars to carry out our essential work.

Public Citizen has been around for a long time, and we've done a lot of great work. But there's even more work yet to be done, and we can't afford to pass up a million dollars.

I am counting on you.

You are one of Public Citizen's online rapid responders -- the committed action-takers who always answer the call to sign petitions, email your members of Congress, submit comments to federal agencies, and do so much more.

Your commitment makes a difference every day.

And I'm depending on you to rise to the challenge again.

Look, I know we can't raise half a million dollars in one week. (I'm quite happy to be proven wrong here!)

But there is just so much to do right now.

The sooner we have this money in the bank, the sooner we can put it to use doing work that really can't wait.

This is your challenge.

This is an unprecedented opportunity. And I'm turning to you to help us meet it with the kind of mettle Public Citizen is known for.

Help us explode out of the gates by raising the first $100,000 in one week -- that's now through midnight next Saturday, May 12.

Can you do it?

Here's an incredible chance to massively leverage your generosity with that of other Public Citizen supporters. Don't let it slip by. There has never been a time like this to make a significant contribution to the strength we have together.

The opponents of progress are, to put it mildly, well funded by the rich and incorporated. But what they don't have is thousands and thousands of committed, engaged citizens standing as one to hold the line.

Stand with Public Citizen today -- at this moment -- when your support means more than ever.

Thank you.

photograph of Robert Weissman

Sincerely,

Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen
P.S. It will take everybody pitching in to make the most of this match. Please forward this message to friends and family and encourage them to join you in supporting Public Citizen.