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Writing it out helps with stress. [Mother Jones]( MoJo Reader, I never know how to get an email like this exactly right, and this is an important one to get right. Do I just stick to the brass tacks of fundraising, or is this moment at the end of the year made for more reflection than that? I guess we'll find out! We need to raise $120,000 in donations in the next two days. That's more than a third of our December goal and almost 10 percent of our annual online giving, and it's right about the ceiling of what we think might be possible with the huge [surge of last-minute donations]( we typically see. We can't afford to leave anything to chance, and we're going to need more help than normal making sure we don't come up short. If you can right now, [please help us finish strong and support Mother Jones with a year-end donation today](. All online gifts will be doubled until we hit our goal, or tomorrow's deadline, thanks to an incredibly generous matching gift pledge. It's always a real nailbiter, waiting for the flood of last-chance donations to come in and hoping it will be just enough. But it's also really wonderful to see so much generosity from so many people showing up all at once. Itâs hard sometimes to remember the good stuff amid the chaos. (Iâm writing this on Day 3 stranded amid the Southwest Airlines mess, and I know my worries are minuscule compared to so many.) So let me use this chance to close the door on 2022 with the Mother Jones community on a high noteâand this yearâs high note, for me, was generosity and showing up in the face of threats, bullying, even terror. It started with Putinâs war on Ukraine, and the way that the people of that countryâand so many around the worldârallied to tell an aggressor and a bully, âNo. Not this time.â Whatever you think about the way this war has played out (and with my family in Europe not that far from the frontlines, it all definitely hits close to home), the resilience and resistance to a strongman has been amazing to see. Then there were the January 6 hearingsâand again, whatever you think of the results, it was hard not to be wowed by witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson, whose generosity and bravery in letting all of us see what she saw was made more remarkable by the bullying and threats she endured from Trumpworld. Here, too, were people, most of them loyal Republicans, who found a line they could not cross. âNo. Not this time.â And then the midterms, which by any basic political math should have been a rout for the opposition partyâwhich meant, this year, a slew of candidates who ran against democracy itself. That so many of them (though by no means all) were defeated was an incredible testament to the grit and generosity of millions of Americans, probably including a lot of you reading this. People turned out to vote, to volunteer, to give, and to run themselves, even though in a year of so much uncertainty, they had a lot to worry about in their own lives. That was generosity in the face of threats, too. And thankfully, our December fundraising campaign feels like a testament to generosity. Yes, we still have a HUGE amount of money to raise today and tomorrow and we need all hands on deck, but after our fall campaign (there is no sugarcoating this) bombed, it has been incredibly encouraging to see our "[No Cute Headlines or Manipulative BS](" way of asking you to [support Mother Jones]( really resonate. Like 2022 itself, it could have ended worse. The fundamental truth of it all is this: It takes people who believe in democracy and justice finding ways to show up in ways big and small, day in and day out, to protect and advance both against the very real threats they face. Whatever the scale and whatever the scope, that's how change is made. And I hope you might show up for Mother Jones and [support our fearless reporting as the year winds down and when your gift will be doubled to help us raise the final $120,000 we need in these next two days](. We can't leave hitting our goal tomorrow to chance and we can't afford to come up short. Thanks for reading, and for everything you do to make Mother Jones what it is. [Monika] Monika Bauerlein, CEO Mother Jones [Donate]( [Mother Jones]( [Donate](
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