In case you hadn't heard, the Use It Or Lose It campaign is a program where constituents call their ultra-safe Democratic House Representatives and ask them to help fully fund all of our competitive challengers this cycle. You can participate in the program here. There are only two days left when campaigns can still buy media, so we need to make this happen immediately.

So far, the campaign has been working quite well. At least a dozen Representatives and two Senators have made large contributions over the past week (in MA alone, people like Kerry, Kennedy, Frank, Markey, and Capuano have given). Whether or not it was because of our campaign, I can't imagine that your encouragement hurt. Just read some of our statements of support:

• Barney Frank
• Hilda Solis
• Earl Blumenauer
• Grace Napolitano: "Rep. Napolitano would like to thank her constituents who have placed calls on behalf of the Use It Or Lose It initiative. They reaffirmed her effort to contribute more to Democratic congressional candidates. She will continue to pay close attention to more congressional races so that she may be able to contribute more funds prior to Election Day"

Thank you to all of the Representatives who are giving. Your contributions will not be forgotten. We know who the big givers are this cycle, and we know who faced real challenges. We will remember and praise the heroes. However, those who have not given proportional to their warchests and challenger levels can expect the issue to come up again in the future.

We are not DCCC lone sharks. We are not consultants looking for more advertising commissions, ala my suspicions of the people who set up Hey, John! We are staunch supporters of the fifty-state strategy, who frown upon narrow targeting and look for Democrats to spend resources in every state and district. We are grassroots Democrats looking to take advantage of a truly rare opportunity.

In 2006, fifty or sixty (or more) Republican held seats are in play. We know this chance might not come again in a long, long time. In this one instance, we want ultra-safe Democrats to transfer a large, but non-crippling, amount of their funds in order to help fully fund our challengers in all of these districts. This could very well be a one shot deal--don't expect to see a replay of this campaign in future cycles.

There are only a couple of more days where such transfers would be relevant or useful.. We know that many of these Representatives have given already this cycle. We know it isn't easy to give away money like this. We don't even need credit. We are just looking for ways to help extend the playing field in this elections.

Your calls are making an impact. People are giving. Please, keep calling today.