Team,

Thanks to this grassroots team, we won our primary.

This win was more than an electoral victory — we earned a mandate for change. Despite outside efforts to defeat us — including $6 million in spending from my challenger and GOP super PACs — our support has only grown.

As I like to say, here in Minnesota, we don’t just welcome refugees: We send them to Congress. And the people of Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District chose to send me on to the general election to represent them in Congress. If this primary has shown us anything, it is the lengths that those standing in the way of progress will go to stop a movement that wants to put power back in the hands of people.

We faced a barrage of super PAC campaign ads funded by Republicans in this primary. But the 5th District and our grassroots supporters across the country stood strong — because we know that organized people beat organized money.

So I promise to continue fighting for justice. I promise to continue to fight for a Green New Deal. I promise to continue to fight for Medicare for All. I promise to continue to fight to break the shackles of student debt. I promise to continue to fight for an America where everyone has a roof over their head and food in their bellies. And I promise to continue to legislate on behalf of the people — not corporations.

This election is not over yet, team. In the coming months, Donald Trump and his allies will do everything they can to use fear and division to turn Minnesotan against Minnesotan. But we are stronger than hate; we are greater than fear. And we are going to organize to have record turnout in order to defeat Trump and keep Minnesota blue in November.

Tonight, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we recommit to our fight for a brighter future for every single person who calls America home.

Thank you again.

Ilhan Omar