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Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate

Ads, texts and creative behind a Senate primary win

Digital ads, texting and fundraising creative for Abdul El-Sayed's campaign for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat.

2,000+

donors gave through our texts

The challenge

A crowded, closely watched Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, where the campaign needed a steady flow of small-dollar donors for more than a year.

What we did

We have run the campaign's texting program since May 2025, writing and sending its MMS fundraising appeals and timing them to the moments that move donors. Alongside it, we run digital fundraising ads and write and produce the video and static creative behind them, testing narratives and scaling the ones that raise money.

How the program unfolded

  1. Texting program launches

  2. Digital ads and creative run alongside the texts

  3. Abdul wins the Democratic primary

  4. The program keeps raising into the general election

The result

Abdul won the primary. Our ads, texts and creative were part of the fundraising program behind that win, and the program kept raising into the general election.

  • 2,000+ donors gave through our texts

How every gift is traced

Every ad and every text gets its own refcode on the donation link. When a gift comes in, it's matched to the exact ad or text that raised it, and recurring installments stay with the message that started them. Money we can't match is counted, never guessed.

  • TextThursday 6:00 PM“Polls close in 48 hours…”Credited $54.00
  • AdDoctor video, 15sVideo ad, square and verticalCredited $10.00
  • No refcodeDirect to the donation pageNo link we can traceCounted $50.00, not credited

Select a gift to see where its credit goes.

Example of how donations are matched to ads and texts. Select a gift to see which source it is credited to.
RefcodeSourceGiftStatus
Text · Thursday 6:00 PM$27.00Matched
Ad · Doctor video, 15s$10.00Matched
Direct to the donation page$50.00Counted, not credited

This $27 came through the link in Thursday's text, so it's credited to that text.

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