John,

Oftentimes in politics, you'll see folks building up their profile by running for office in order to become a TV talking head or otherwise advance their personal career.

I want to be clear with you: I am running to replace Nancy Pelosi.

It's just not acceptable that the progressive vanguard of San Francisco continues to be silenced by a representative who slow-rolls impeachment. It's not OK that Congress is in recess while our neighbors fear arbitrary ICE and Border Patrol actions and mass shootings—two of the devastating growths from the white supremacy festering in the White House.

I'm going to be direct: we have the plan to replace Pelosi, we need your help to fund it.

In July, we set a fundraising pace that will allow us the field a winning campaign in San Francisco. We are not running in protest. Are you with me?

In the last few days, we've been profiled in Mother Jones and joined The Nicole Sandler Show.

Mother Jones asked the questions we have. Why is it acceptable to believe that Pelosi's actions are advancing progressive interests when our eyes see the opposite?

"... all this talk about Pelosi’s practicality begs the question of what gets reckoned practical or impractical in the first place. In the through-the-looking-glass morality of the DC political class, fantasy is opposing Trump’s ethnic cleansing altogether; realism is giving the president the money to fund it, lest certain swing Democrats appear too “pro-immigrant,” as one member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus characterized it. Fantasy is wanting to exercise the House’s full practical means of oversight in the form of impeachment; realism is not wanting to do anything that might anger the people who aren’t going to vote for Democrats anyway. That Pelosi and her party might have some power to positively shape public opinion around their goals and values rarely seems to factor into the leadership’s calculus. The procedural moderation starts to look like an end unto itself. Perhaps, as HuffPost’s Zach Carter put it recently, she “doesn’t know who the Democratic Party is anymore.” Perhaps Buttar’s epitaph for Pelosi—sophisticated and unwilling—applies to more than just climate policy.

We won't be complicit. We're here to fight. Thank you for standing with me.

- Shahid