I wouldn’t be here without Fred and Christine.

Folks like our teachers, farmers, and construction workers deserve a government that fights for them.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Hi folks. Here’s a photo of my grandparents, Arnfred and Christine, on their wedding day in 1905. That was a couple years before they picked out a flat piece of grassland just outside Big Sandy to homestead. [Sen. Jon Tester's grandparents, Fred and Christine, on their wedding day in 1905.]( That patch of loamy, alkaline clay soil is the same one where I grew up, where Sharla and I raised our kids, and where we still farm the land to this day. Things weren’t easy for Fred and Christine. They suffered devastating windstorms, bitter cold, fires, poisonous snakes—pretty much everything but locusts. They had a couple hundred acres to their name, a newly-built barn, a windmill, their healthy son and daughters (including Helen, my mom), strong muscles, and the powerful work ethic that built rural America. I first ran for office to make sure our government was serving hardworking Americans like my grandparents. Folks like our teachers, farmers, and construction workers deserve a government that fights for them. But the special interests trying to unseat me don’t care about that. Dark-money groups are spending millions of dollars to misinform voters and replace me with a mouthpiece for their own agenda. They’ll do whatever it takes to elect their handpicked candidate because they don’t care about protecting our way of life—they’re just in it for power and influence. That’s not how I operate, and it’s why we’re running this campaign differently. I’m counting on grassroots folks like you chipping in what you can, when you can, to build a team strong enough to take on the mountains of cash these outside groups have earmarked to defeat me. [Can I count on you to split a contribution between my people-powered campaign and Kirsten Gillibrand’s? With the election season in full swing, we need to fight back now >>]( If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your split donation between Jon Tester and Kirsten Gillibrand will go through immediately: [DONATE $5]( [DONATE $25]( [DONATE $50]( [DONATE ANOTHER AMOUNT]( Your donation—no matter the amount—plants the seeds of our movement, ensuring we grow the resources we need to win. Thanks for your support. Together, we can keep me in the Senate fighting for the little guy. —Jon --------------------------------------------------------------- [Join Kirsten in the Fight to Defend the Senate. Donate Now. Text NY to 60708]( A note from Kirsten: Friend, I can’t thank you enough for standing by my side in the critical fights ahead of us. As Democrats face our toughest Senate map in decades, I need your help more than ever. While Republicans only have to defend 10 seats in 2024, Democrats have to defend 23 — and if the GOP flips just two of them, it will deliver Senate control back to Mitch McConnell. Now, experts at FiveThirtyEight are saying that the GOP has a clear path to the majority. As right-wing special interests gear up to pour millions into flipping the Senate, we need to fight back right now. But I refuse to take a single cent from corporate PACs, which means I’m relying on your grassroots support. [So please, chip in to help defend our narrow Democratic Senate majority.]( And if you’d like to become a core member of my team and receive exclusive texts from my campaign, [text JOIN to 60708.]( Thank you, Kirsten Gillibrand This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Click here to [unsubscribe](. By providing your cell phone number you consent to receive periodic text message updates from Gillibrand for Senate, including by automated text messages. Txt HELP for help, STOP to end. Msg&Data rates apply. [Privacy Policy]( [Terms of Service]( Gillibrand for Senate PO Box 150516 Brooklyn, NY 11215 United States. © 2024 | Paid for by Gillibrand for Senate.