Team,

When you use your voice to speak truth to power like my friend Ilhan Omar, people react — and the status quo’s reaction is to push back to try to shut her voice down. That’s why Republicans are pouring millions into this race to silence her. As someone who has seen firsthand how Ilhan’s activism and policies have helped transform Minnesota for the better, I mean it when I say we can’t let them win.

We need to show Ilhan that we have her back. Will you donate $5 to join this movement to help Ilhan fight back against the status quo and win her primary next week?

Ilhan has never let up in her work to lift up Minnesotans. Having grown up as a young Black man in Chicago during the War on Drugs, I’ve witnessed what happens when elected officials prioritize policy based on systemic racism — when the government is willing to invest billions in mass incarceration yet invests nowhere near enough money into supporting our communities. Ilhan is one of the few politicians who is not only willing to call out these injustices but actively work to put an end to them once and for all, introducing and helping pass groundbreaking criminal justice reform policy in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in our state.

And as someone who works in education advocacy, when schools were beginning to shut down from this pandemic, I saw Ilhan lead from the front by passing the MEALS Act to make sure students who depended on school meal programs could still eat. It’s because of her work that millions of students have not gone hungry.

While the status quo wastes time debating the ways her policies will be impossible to pass, Ilhan gets to work — and gets the job done. We need her to stay right where she is to continue our progress, but it’s going to take all of us coming together to fight against the GOP’s millions.

So join the fight by donating $5 for the first time toward Ilhan’s $50,000 primary goal to help Ilhan fight back and win her primary.

Thank you. Together, we’re going to make sure Ilhan can continue to be a voice for each of us in Congress.

Cedrick Frazier
Minnesota DFL candidate, State Rep. HD 45A