My favorite campaign tradition started five years  ago -- check out the email below.
It's just incredible how much we've grown -- from  100,000 individual donors at that time to more than 3  million in this campaign alone -- and how much we've  accomplished together. 
Tomorrow night, we're selecting the guests for the  last dinner of my last campaign. I'm looking forward to  closing out this tradition the way it started: with supporters  like you.
Will you be there?
Make a donation of $X or whatever you can, and you'll be automatically entered:
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This is the last time we'll do this on this campaign --  let's make it a good one.
Barack
------------Original Message--------------- From: Barack Obama Date: Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 6:23 p.m. Subject: Re: Dinner with Barack?
When we launched this campaign, we decided not to take  the easy money offered by Washington lobbyists and  special interest political action committees.
Instead, we put our faith in you, and we couldn't have  made a better choice.
I'll be meeting four of you for dinner sometime soon, but  what's happening across this country is bigger than me,  or my candidacy.
Together we're re-shaping the political process based on the  idea that a movement of people who care about the common  future of all Americans can be more powerful than any special interest.
I hope you'll take a minute to make a donation, and  perhaps we'll be seeing each other soon.
Barack
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