Dear Sharra, My warmest hello! It's been quite a week for our campaign as we rise, rise, rise. I write to you from the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco, where last night I spoke to the Young Democrats. We're bursting with press coverage. Here are the recent best: goop, ABC News, CNN's Cillizza grading me a "B," a gracious nod to our campaign, New Hampshire's Conway Daily Sun calling me "Different, but in a good way," and Blog for Iowa saying I "may be a game changer." Last Friday, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau interviewed me on his podcast, Pod Save America. 
Jon and I talked about the difference between moral outrage and anger, getting money out of politics, and why I want to establish a U.S. Department of Peace. Here are some highlights: [00:01:21] I've worked up close and personal with people for over 35 years who are dealing with crises in their lives, seeking to navigate those crises to transform them into opportunity and I have recognized particularly over the last 20 years, how many of those crises are at least indirectly and often directly a result of bad public policy. So not only do I have a real visceral sense of how bad public policy affects people's lives and which bad public policy affects people's lives, but also a deep passion for what needs to change. I think that that's what it's all about. It's about human suffering. How to address it and how to ameliorate it, that's what politics should be. Politics should be a conduit for making people's lives better. Securing our rights, not thwarting them. [00:12:36] Well, there are two kinds of Democrats, aren't there? And that's being played out in this campaign. There are two categories here. The two categories is the incrementalist who say we can have it both ways. We can take [corporate] money. We can take tens of thousands from some security investment firms. We can take tens of thousand from Big Pharma. We can take tens or even more thousands from oil companies, but we're going to go and be an instrument of change. Yeah, right. There's that, and they're saying well, we'll make these incremental changes and then there are those of us who say this has got to stop. We need a fundamental pattern disruption of the American political and economic status quo. Listen here: Pod Save America. There's a reason for the media we're getting, and for our rise: you. We were hitting grassroots fundraising benchmarks before some pollsters would even say my name. And for that, I thank you. Now, having gotten into the DNC debates at the end of June, we've gotten into the game. The challenge before us now is to play the game well. More people every day get to know this campaign. I need you now more than ever to help get out the message. When I'm asked "How do you differentiate yourself?" I point out that you don't need to differentiate yourself when you're simply saying something different! Our problem isn't in developing a message; it's in having the ability to amplify the message, so more people can hear it. And that is where you come in. Your $5 contribution today will make sure we reach more people—not just in Town Halls in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, but in every state where Americans are ready to step into a new possibility for our country and for ourselves. Make a $5 gift to our campaign today, and we'll keep gaining ground. Remember: I'm not asking that we do the impossible. I'm asking that we do the possible! With love and gratitude, Marianne | 
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