John,
I have exciting news: I’m running to be Michigan’s next U.S. senator.
If you’re ready to send a fighter to the Senate, will you split a donation of $10 between me and Hold Them Accountable to become a founding donor of our campaign?
I never set out to be a politician. I wanted to be a doctor — and became one. I studied medicine and public health and became the youngest health official in a major U.S. city at 30.
But I learned something pretty quickly: while a doctor can prescribe medicine to help sick people get better, you can’t prescribe away poverty. You can’t cure what corporate greed does to us in a political system that’s rigged to put profits over people. It's no longer about left versus right — it's about the very top against the rest of us.
That’s why I’m running.
When I ran in 2018, I kept saying something that people didn’t want to believe at the time: Donald Trump, himself, wasn’t the disease. He was just the symptom of the disease.
What’s the disease? Our corrupted politics. Billionaires and mega-corporations are doing more than poisoning our air and water. They’re poisoning our democracy. They use their power to jack up prices, screwing over workers, and driving our costs through the roof. Then, they use their profits to buy access to politicians, leaving our political system too compromised to stop them.
That’s the disease that Donald Trump is a symptom of. And our campaign – you, me, our vision for change – is the antidote.
Things aren’t going to get better until we take our country back from the billionaires and corporations who are rigging our economy and our politics. And let’s be honest. Right now, the truth is, there aren’t enough leaders in the Senate who are willing to stand up and fight. But it’s not just about fighting back.
It’s about what we fight for.
Fighting for us is what I’ve done my entire career — whether it was to erase $700 million in medical debt, to test every Detroit school for lead after the Flint water crisis, or to hold corporate polluters accountable.
Together, we'll take our fight to Washington. We’ll refuse the terms set by the oligarchs, raise the minimum wage, and fight to bring down costs, protect Social Security and Medicaid for every Michigander, and champion Medicare for All to guarantee every American affordable, accessible healthcare.
This is a campaign to change our politics, not just win an election. But first, we need to come out on top in this competitive race — and I can’t do it alone.
Will you split a donation of $10, or any amount, between me and Hold Them Accountable today? We’re refusing every penny from corporate PACs because this campaign belongs to you, not the billionaires.
More soon,
Abdul
