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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 last weekend 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 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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Last weekend, 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 last weekend’s conference I said that what our government is willing to do to Palestinians, they are willing to do to you.
This week, the fascist-in-chief threatened to bring U.S. troops into Black-led cities like Chicago and New Orleans (which is also a majority-Black city). In the next few days, Congress will likely vote to pass a nearly-trillion-dollar military budget, some of which will go toward militarizing our cities.
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.
In solidarity,
Rashida
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From: Rashida Tlaib
Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2025
Subject: Act now: We won’t be silenced by this censure attempt against me in Congress
To: [email protected]
John,
A war-mongering Republican Congressmember is trying to bully me into silence by introducing a new measure to censure me for speaking up against the genocide of the Palestinian people.
I’m being targeted for my speech at this weekend’s People’s Conference for Palestine in my home city of Detroit—where I called out the majority of my colleagues in Congress who keep voting for genocide while ignoring the overwhelming majority of Americans who are demanding an arms embargo.
They can censure me, but they can’t censure everyone who’s working toward Palestinian liberation. During August’s congressional recess, people across the country came to town halls to demand their representatives stop funding and arming genocide.
Our movement is growing, and we won’t let war-mongers silence us or stop our efforts to save lives. The more they try to suppress us, the more we need to get louder and more courageous.
Will you chip in $5, $15, or more to show that we won’t be silenced and we aren’t going anywhere?
At the People’s Conference for Palestine last weekend, I welcomed people to the city that raised me and spoke about how the U.S. government doesn’t value human life, in our country or abroad.
I explained that as a daughter of Detroit, it’s no surprise to me that our government—which is complicit in war crimes including enabling forced starvation and supplying bombs that are dropped on Gaza’s hospitals and schools—is also defunding Americans’ food assistance and healthcare while turning its military forces on people in U.S. cities.
Detroit, the biggest majority-Black city in the country, has shown me how to fight for civil rights and justice. My neighbors have experienced U.S. troops on our streets, and they’ve risen up and birthed movements. Detroit’s community mothers have taught me that our political institutions won’t save us or free our people: We will do that. Social change comes from organizing in our communities and pushing these institutions to do what is right.
Our movement is working: More Democrats in Congress are swearing off AIPAC funding, and more Democrats are supporting policies to restrict U.S. military aid to Israel’s government.1
But most elected leaders are still deeply out of touch with their constituents. For example, last week the Democratic National Committee voted down a resolution for an arms embargo—even though a poll came out beforehand showing that 75 percent of Democratic voters and 60 percent of all U.S. voters oppose sending more military aid to Israel.1
This recent Quinnipiac University poll also found that 77 percent of Democrats and half of all U.S. voters say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. I will keep pushing our government to stand with the American people and stop the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians.
I will continue defending human rights at home and abroad, including our constitutional right to protest against genocide. Recently, I went to the University of Michigan to join student activists and workers who are being punished by the public university for their pro-Palestine advocacy. Dissent is critical in a democracy—and academic freedom is part of it.
Can you push back against attempts to silence me and our movement, and stand up for our right to dissent, by donating to my campaign today?
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Thank you so much. Together we will keep fighting for our rights and for the safety and dignity of all people.
With you in the fight,
Rashida
1 Majority Of Voters Oppose Deploying National Guard To D.C., Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Support Drops For U.S. Military Aid To Israel As 50% Think Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza
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