Blog de Dunlap: Critics are quick to tell you what’s not possible after you start talking about helping working people.

You know, throughout my time in Washington, I've learned that when you start talking about helping working people instead of Big Banks or giant corporations, critics are quick to tell you what's not possible.

It's like clockwork.

Take student loan cancellation for example. Cynics said we could never get government on the side of working people. But we got organized and we got it to the president's desk.

Despite an extremist Supreme Court, President Biden has still canceled student debt for millions of borrowers, but this is a case where the rules work differently for different groups of people. While millions of struggling student loan borrowers were held in limbo regarding the status of their debt, the government swooped in and worked overnight to ensure that big banks and billion-dollar crypto firms wouldn't lose a dime in deposits during their recent bank failures.

The difference between these two scenarios? The willingness to fight for them.

I'm running for re-election to keep fighting the righteous fights for working people. But I need you by my side. So please, if you're able, chip in $28 or whatever you can to support our re-election campaign before our next critical FEC fundraising deadline. Thank you.

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I've dedicated my career to studying why families go broke and fighting to rebuild the middle class. After Wall Street crashed our economy in 2008, I fought to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect people from getting scammed by big banks and corporations. The CFPB has already returned more than $16 billion to American consumers who've been cheated.

After Senate Republicans vowed to block my nomination to serve as the CFPB's first director, I went back home to Massachusetts and ran against one of them — and I beat him. I ran to tax greedy corporations, to invest in jobs and our infrastructure, and to rein in student loan companies.

And guess what? We got it all done.

But the fight to make our government work for everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected — isn't over. So I'm running for re-election to keep up the fight and pass universal child care, a wealth tax, national abortion protections, and much more.

A contribution of $28 or anything you can will help show the naysayers that our plans — like taxing the rich, reining in big banks, and making child care affordable — have strong support. Will you please pitch in today to support my re-election and make these plans possible? The amount of grassroots contributions we receive will help demonstrate the strength of our movement — and any amount makes a powerful difference.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth