A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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PFAW Member --

One of the AMAZING young progressive champions PFAW has endorsed in the
rapidly approaching Virginia elections is state Senate candidate Qasim
Rashid.

Earlier this month, we emailed you about Islamophobic attacks on Qasim by
his Republican opponent -- and PFAW members stepped up big time, with
donations to have Qasim's back and respond to right-wing racism and hate
with progressive support and love. (Thank you!)

Well, we are sad to report that not only is Qasim's opponent, Republican
incumbent state Sen. Richard Stuart, standing by -- and still running --
Islamophobic, race-baiting online ads that try to tie Qasim to “Islamic
terrorism,” his commitment to the smears is now being picked up by white
supremacist hate groups and Qasim is receiving an increasing number of
threats echoing Stuart's attacks.

We need to show Republicans that their racist, Islamophobic,
immigrant-bashing campaign playbook won't work! Not this year, and not in
2020.

[ [link removed] ]Can you chip in with a donation to Qasim's campaign before his
end-of-quarter fundraising deadline (tomorrow) to help send a message
against bigotry and hate?>>

100% of your donation will go to Qasim Rashid's campaign for state Senate.

[ [link removed] ]Chip in to elect progressive champion Qasim Rashid!

Republican Sen. Richard Stuart is running a series of ads
accusing Qasim of being “radical” and one of the ads stating,
“Qasim Rashid doesn’t believe Islamic terrorism exists.”

In recent weeks, as Stuart has continued to embrace the Trump playbook and
promised to stand by his anti-Muslim ads, it has drawn the attention of
hate groups and anti-Muslim activists, whose followers are targeting Qasim
with DEATH THREATS. (One of those activists, who blogged about Qasim, is
Robert Spencer, one of the inspirations of the Norwegian terrorist who
carried out an anti-Muslim mass shooting in 2011 that killed 77 people.)

Rather than condemning those threats or backing away from the ads that
sparked them, Stuart has decided to double down.

Qasim is incredibly grateful for the support he's received so far from the
PFAW community -- and we are immensely proud to be standing with him, and
proud of our members for stepping up to join us.

Now, as the attacks against him continue to escalate, Qasim is asking for
our help again.

[ [link removed] ]Will you rush an emergency donation to Qasim right now via ActBlue to
help him fight back?

[ [link removed] ]CHIP IN NOW →

We only need to flip TWO SEATS to change majority control of the Virginia
state Senate from Republican to Democrat.

So if we can join together and make Republican Richard Stuart’s racist and
dishonest smear tactics backfire with a surge of grassroots support
to Qasim’s campaign, we can FLIP this Republican Senate seat from red to
blue and FLIP the Virginia Senate!

Republican Richard Stuart has voted to expand access to guns and to
restrict funding for abortions and family planning services. He also voted
against ratifying the ERA, against raising the minimum wage to $15 an
hour, and against expanding Medicaid.

But our candidate, human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid, is a progressive
fighter who is running to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, expand
health care access for Virginians, and improve worker protections and
strengthen unions. He is a champion for voting rights, supports ratifying
the Equal Rights Amendment, and is ready to fight for common-sense reforms
to address gun violence. 

Qasim is also rejecting campaign contributions from corporations and the
state’s largest electric utilities to focus on small dollar donations from
individuals – including hundreds of PFAW members. 

But Republican Richard Stuart, who is attacking Qasim with racist,
Islamophobic ads, has a massive Big Money advantage, with nearly half of
his campaign contributions from Big Business in 2019, including Dominion
Energy, Appalachian Power, Verizon, Altria and Capital One... So we need
to fight back with even more grassroots support!

[ [link removed] ]Can you rush an emergency donation to Qasim's campaign now to help him
beat back the racist smears, flip this Republican-held seat, and ensure a
progressive future for Virginia?

(100% of your donation will go to Qasim Rashid's campaign for state
Senate.)

Thank you so much for stepping up, and for all you do.

-- Lizet Ocampo, Political Director

[ [link removed] ]DONATE NOW TO ELECT QASIM →


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