John,

I’m again facing censure in Congress because I’m Palestinian American and I’m speaking up for the humanity of my people.

Republicans are targeting me for speaking at the People’s Conference for Palestine, which was held recently in my home city of Detroit, Michigan.

I called out how members of Congress from both parties can make millions of dollars investing in Palestinians’ slaughter and starvation, while ignoring the overwhelming majority of Americans who are demanding an arms embargo.

Please chip in to my campaign and Justice Democrats today to push back against the GOP’s attempt to censure me. Let’s show them that we won’t let them silence us or our movement to save lives, and we aren’t going anywhere!

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At the People’s Conference for Palestine, I was honored to welcome folks, including fellow speaker Mahmoud Khalil, to the incredible majority-Black city that raised me and taught me how to fight for our rights.

I spoke about how Detroit taught me that the political structures that I have to work in were built on slavery, genocide, rape, and oppression… and that the people, not these institutions, will free us from ongoing oppression.

This city sent me—the descendant of Palestinians, including my grandfather Abdallah who wouldn’t leave his land even after being shot multiple times—to the United States Congress to fight for freedom and justice for all.

Palestinians’ oppressors thought they could kill us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our homeland and our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear. But guess what? Now we’re in Congress, and we’re in every corner of the United States. Palestinians aren’t going anywhere, and neither is our shared movement for collective liberation.

But together, we have a lot of work to do. While continuing to enable war crimes in Gaza, our government is turning its troops on its own people. At this conference, I said that what our government is willing to do to Palestinians, they are willing to do to you.

The fascist-in-chief keeps threatening to bring U.S. troops into Black-led cities like Chicago and New Orleans (which is also a majority-Black city). And this week, the House of Representatives just voted to pass a nearly-trillion-dollar military budget, some of which will go toward militarizing our cities. The Senate is set to vote next week.

No matter how much they try to repress us, we’ll keep standing up for our shared humanity and our right to dissent.

Although Republicans keep introducing resolutions to censure me, I won’t stay quiet and I won’t back down in the fight for freedom for all. I will continue pushing back against state violence and pushing for a government that actually represents the American people—who are overwhelmingly demanding an end to genocide.

Please chip in now to stand with me against war-mongers’ attacks and the threat of censure. Together we’ll keep demanding liberation for all people.

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In solidarity,

Rashida