Friend,

I believe in truly representative democracy, where those of us who have the privilege of getting elected to public office strive every day to represent and empower our constituents.

One of my colleagues in Congress who embodies this is Michigan’s Representative Andy Levin.

Andy and I know that real change happens when people organize and build power in our streets and neighborhoods. That’s why our role in Congress isn’t only to vote in our constituents’ interest—we must also support social justice movements.

Can you donate to Rep. Andy Levin’s re-election campaign, so together we can create fundamental change?

Andy and I have known each other for years, before either of us ever considered running for Congress.

He helped found Detroit Jews for Justice, which has been on the front lines of environmental justice campaigns, including to prevent unjust water shut-offs in Detroit and close Detroit’s polluting incinerator.

And in Congress, when people tried to weaponize antisemitism to divide us, Andy brought a group of progressives from various faith and ethnic backgrounds together, in all our beautiful diversity—to unify our fight against all forms of bigotry and racism.

We need Rep. Andy Levin in Congress. Will you donate to his re-election campaign today?

Many of us see him as our freshman class’s uncle of social and racial justice activism, because he really walks the walk.

As a college student in the 1980s, Andy fought to end apartheid by organizing a hunger strike at his college. Since then, he’s been a champion for human rights around the world, including for Palestinian rights, and now as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

When Rep. Ilhan Omar and I were barred from visiting Israel and Palestine, he was one of our early supporters.

And he recently led a letter, co-signed by me and more than 100 other House Democrats, criticizing Trump’s State Department’s outrageous decision to reverse decades of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. (The widespread consensus has been that such settlements, which displace Palestinians, violate international law.)

Here in the United States, he’s been working for economic justice for decades.

In the 1980s, Andy helped hundreds of nursing home workers—mostly women of color—organize for a better life with the union SEIU. Then he created and ran the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer, which changed the labor movement and empowered 1,000 diverse young people as union organizers. His economic justice work continued across the country as he fought to restore workers’ right to organize unions.

When he came home to Michigan, he created “No Worker Left Behind,” helping more than 160,000 unemployed and underemployed Michigan workers go back to school to qualify for new jobs.

Andy has continued pushing for economic justice as the Vice Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, and he was one of the first people in Congress to come out for the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. I’ve been proud to cosponsor his STOP GAMES Act, which would lower the cost of prescription drugs.

Because of all this and more, I’m hoping you’ll join me in supporting Rep. Andy Levin.

Will you chip in $5 or more today so Rep. Andy Levin can stay in Congress and fight with me for a better future?

Thank you for all you do,

Rashida