Friends,

Tonight, on primetime national television, the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack will present new evidence to the American people.

Donald Trump and his Republican supporters in Congress tried to overthrow 2020’s fair and democratic presidential election. Their efforts led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol, brandishing antisemitic and racist paraphernalia, brutally attacking police officers—killing one. They even sought to harm and kill elected officials, including Trump’s own Vice President, Mike Pence.

These Trump Republicans engaged in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the will of the people. They must be held accountable.

Join me and allies across the country in supporting the January 6th Committee. Add your name to call for the prosecution of Donald Trump and all those who willfully incited or took part in this violent insurrection with the intent of dismantling our democracy.

After Election Day, even before the election was called for Joe Biden, Trump and his supporters targeted Black and brown communities with their election fraud conspiracies, angry that communities of color voted out Trump.

Black and brown communities have always been the targets of voter suppression in this country.

And since January 6th, state legislators have introduced and passed dozens of bills to make it harder to vote (which will disproportionately impact Black and brown voters) and to make it easier for partisan legislatures to tamper with democratic elections and overturn the will of voters.

Meanwhile, Republican members of Congress have largely sided with Trump and the insurrectionists he incited.

They’ve tried to block voting rights along with investigations into the January 6th attack on the Capitol, they’ve used Islamophobic and racist attacks to threaten me and other progressive colleagues of color, and they’re stirring up an increasingly anti-democratic and openly racist base in order to win despite representing a minority of the American people.

Trump Republicans in office, in the court, and in the media want to take away our rights and freedoms, from voting rights to reproductive rights and much more.

As activist Bree Newsome Bass wrote:

“Conservatives are not just ‘attacking democracy’. It’s specifically about reinforcing structural racism and preventing freedom & full citizenship for Black Americans. …They have no issue with a democracy that is limited to white participation. They are becoming increasingly authoritarian because they recognize that is the only way to preserve white domination as the demographics shift.”

We cannot let this happen.

Before tonight’s primetime hearing, sign the petition calling for Trump and all those involved in the January 6th attack to be prosecuted for seditious conspiracy.

For too long, the hateful ideology that the United States belongs to white people, that white people are more deserving of power, has shaped our country’s politics. No more.

We have to claim this country as belonging to all of us. We must continue expanding the idea of who deserves rights and resources, as liberation movements before us have done.

I’m the proud daughter of Palestinian immigrants, and I was raised in Detroit: one of the most beautiful, Blackest cities in America, where movements for civil rights and social justice are birthed.

I want to reiterate: We all belong here. And we all deserve freedom, justice, human dignity, and the opportunity to thrive.

In solidarity,

Rashida