In just 24 hours, we come face to face with the final FEC quarterly deadline before Election Day. No doubt that this is the most important deadline of the campaign — and these tea party types know it.

Sarah Palin just announced that she’s targeting 20 races, and some tea party crazy who is too ashamed to show his or her face just slithered out from under a rock to chip in a cool million for their effort to drag us back to the Stone Age. The world will judge our response to gauge our chances for holding the House.

President Obama issued his urgent call and I want to second it. We need to raise just $141,983 more in the next 24 hours to make our goal.

Contribute $5, $10 or more before tomorrow’s FEC deadline to fund our Rapid Response Media Fund. Your dollars will be matched 2-to-1 by a group of committed Democrats, tripling the impact of your support.

Every dollar you give today will go right back out into our battleground districts. Your support will make the difference between victory and defeat. Sarah Palin thinks she can see a right-wing GOP House from her front porch. Let’s prove her wrong.

It’s time to buckle up.

Paul Begala

P.S. Many key races show a dead heat in the polls. It’s all going to come down to which side can mobilize their voters and turn them out. Help us raise just $141,983 more in the next 24 hours.