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Rashida Tlaib

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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM

Get out the vote before Jamaal’s re-election next Tuesday!

Jamaal Bowman is one of the strongest progressives in Congress. John, Jamaal Bowman’s re-election is next Tuesday, June 25th. Because far-right billionaires have spent over $15 million against Jamaal so far, this is the most expensive Congressional primary race …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 20, 2024 at 7:42 PM

[take action] Ban utility companies from making political contributions

Take action to protect our communities from corporate greed. John, Across the country, utility monopolies are charging higher prices for worse service―padding the pockets of investors while residents experience power outages during extreme heat and cold. The vas…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM

Re: This Juneteenth, I’m lifting up two Black champions for racial justice: Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.

Our country continues to deny Black people equal rights. John, Today is Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas learned that slavery was officially over—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Our country…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM

This Juneteenth, I’m lifting up two Black champions for racial justice: Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.

Our country continues to deny Black people equal rights. John, Tomorrow is Juneteenth, a day that marked the official end to chattel slavery in the South. Black Americans are still fighting for human rights and human dignity, while facing a new far-right backlash…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM

I’m a proud co-sponsor of the Transgender Bill of Rights.

With an unprecedented onslaught of anti-trans attacks, we need urgent action. John, Republicans at the state and federal level are attacking transgender and nonbinary people. We need to counter these attacks and strengthen protections to ensure that all people c…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 15, 2024 at 3:24 PM

Fight back against attempts to disenfranchise Black and brown voters

History will remember Donald Trump as the first president convicted of a felony. John, Today, Donald Trump is visiting my district. He’ll be speaking at a right-wing convention hosted by Turning Point Action and will speak at an evangelical church in Detroit. …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM

Can you join Team Tlaib as we phonebank to re-elect Jamaal Bowman?

Sign up for a shift between now and June 25th’s Democratic primary. John, Jamaal Bowman is one of the strongest progressives in Congress, and one of the few Congresspeople consistently standing up for Palestinians’ human rights. I need him by my side. But new p…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 13, 2024 at 5:54 PM

Re: Jamaal Bowman’s opponent is using racist tropes about our community

We’ve got to have Jamaal’s back in the next two crucial weeks. John, Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s pro-genocide opponent has spread bigoted Islamophobic lies about Jamaal and his supporters, including using my Dearborn neighbors in racist attacks this week. Jamaal’s oppo…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 12, 2024 at 8:39 PM

Jamaal Bowman’s opponent is using racist tropes about our community

We’ve got to have Jamaal’s back in the next two crucial weeks. John, Because my colleague Rep. Jamaal Bowman speaks out for Palestinians’ human rights, his racist opponent tried to attack Jamaal and my neighbors this week, saying: “Your constituency is Dearborn, …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 11, 2024 at 7:49 PM

Sign now to pass the Equality Act and affirm LGBTQ+ rights.

This weekend, my district celebrated Pride Month and honored LGBTQ+ neighbors. John, This weekend, my district celebrated Pride Month and honored our LGBTQ+ neighbors. This Pride month and all year round, we must keep fighting for LGBTQ+ people’s safety, dignity…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 9, 2024 at 3:03 PM

Re: I endorse Layla for State Rep:

Layla isn’t afraid to push back against the unjust status quo. John, Too many elected officials are millionaires who can self-finance their campaigns, and who don’t understand the needs of their constituents. That’s why we need more working people to run for offi…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 8, 2024 at 2:23 PM

I endorse Layla for State Rep:

Layla isn’t afraid to push back against the unjust status quo. John, As a proud Arab American Congresswoman, I know that many people across our country are facing intense anti-Arab hatred and dehumanization while feeling abandoned by our government. It’s importan…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 7, 2024 at 9:02 PM

President Biden’s new order will lock up and deport more people for the simple human act of trying to move for a better life.

President Biden promised to end cruel Trump-era immigration policies, not resume them. John, President Biden just announced an outrageous executive order that effectively bans people from seeking asylum at our country’s southern border. This will endanger thou…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 6, 2024 at 6:37 PM

Tell Big Banks: Stop supporting Project 2025, a dangerous far-right policy proposal

This plan is a forced-birth nightmare. John, History will remember Donald Trump as the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. And it will now remember him for being the first president convicted of a felony―34 felonies in fact. I am proud to have led the p…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 2, 2024 at 3:09 PM

Support pro-Palestine student activists and protect our right to protest.

The National Lawyers Guild’s Mass Defense Program is providing on-the-ground legal support for students. John, My colleagues in Congress are more outraged over the protests on college campuses than they are about the atrocities they’re funding in Palestine. Afte…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
June 1, 2024 at 2:12 PM

National Lawyers Guild supporting students’ right to dissent:

The National Lawyers Guild’s Mass Defense Program is providing on-the-ground legal support for students. John, I’m a proud member of the Detroit and Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, which protects the rights of people fighting for social change. …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 31, 2024 at 7:18 PM

Re: U.S. must stop shielding Israel from accountability as it commits genocide

Rather than condemning Israel’s war crimes, lawmakers are condemning attempts to hold Israel accountable. John, Just days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop military operations in Rafah, Israel’s military dropped U.S. bombs on multip…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 30, 2024 at 8:03 PM

Sign if you agree: Our country’s leaders must stop enabling Israel to act with impunity

Rather than condemning Israel’s war crimes, lawmakers are condemning attempts to hold Israel accountable. John, This week, the Israeli military used U.S. bombs to commit massacres at multiple refugee tent camps in Rafah, burning Palestinian children and families…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 26, 2024 at 2:42 PM

Re: Sign to demand university administrators stop criminalizing student protests

Students are putting their bodies on the line to demand their universities divest from genocide. John, We are witnessing the Israeli apartheid government carry out genocide in Gaza, with support from our government. Students are putting their bodies on the line…
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  Team Rashida · [email protected]
May 25, 2024 at 5:32 PM

Rashida officially filed petition signatures to be on the ballot for her re-election campaign

Rashida will never back down from speaking truth to power. John, Rashida has officially filed petition signatures to be on the ballot for her re-election campaign for Congress. This is the first big step in Rashida’s re-election and it’s thanks to supporters like…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 23, 2024 at 8:13 PM

Sign if you agree: We must listen to students demanding an end to genocide, not silence or brutalize them.

Students are putting their bodies on the line to demand their universities divest from genocide. John, In response to the Israeli military’s attacks on Rafah, hundreds of thousands of people have fled the city. But there is nowhere safe in Gaza to go. While bomb…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM

Re: Jamaal Bowman visited my grandmother in the West Bank and saw how Palestinians, like Black Americans, are criminalized just for existing.

Jamaal is one of the strongest progressives in Congress. John, In an ad buy last week, AIPAC’s super PAC spent about $2 million to flood the airwaves attacking Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who’s an outspoken advocate for Palestinians’ human rights. The anti-Palestinian g…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 20, 2024 at 8:36 PM

Anti-Palestinian PAC just spent $2 million attacking Jamaal Bowman

Jamaal is one of the strongest progressives in Congress. John, AIPAC is planning to spend $20 million against Jamaal Bowman in the next month. The anti-Palestinian group’s super PAC just spent $2 million for one week’s worth of attack ads targeting Jamaal, who h…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 18, 2024 at 3:41 PM

Re: The Nakba never ended

Please sign on today to support my resolution in Congress to commemorate the Nakba, support UNRWA, and support Palestinian refugees’ internationally-recognized right to return. John, I just re-introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives to recog…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 17, 2024 at 7:06 PM

Re: This ceasefire candidate needs our help now

I need more allies by my side demanding a ceasefire now. John, There are just a few days left to help Get Out The Vote for pro-ceasefire candidate Susheela Jayapal in her Democratic primary. Susheela is running for an open congressional seat in Oregon, where ant…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM

This ceasefire candidate needs our help now

I need more allies by my side demanding a ceasefire now. John, Another ceasefire candidate needs our support. Susheela Jayapal―the sister of Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus―is running for an open congressional seat …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 15, 2024 at 8:57 PM

The Nakba never ended

Please sign on today to support my resolution in Congress to commemorate the Nakba, support UNRWA, and support Palestinian refugees’ internationally-recognized right to return. John, Today is Nakba Day, marking 76 years since the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM

Re: the only candidate demanding a ceasefire in her Democratic primary:

Dr. Pamela Pugh is running for an open seat in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District and is the only candidate in her Democratic primary to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. John, Last month, Congress voted to send $17 billion in bombs and ammu…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 13, 2024 at 10:44 PM

the only candidate demanding a ceasefire in her Democratic primary:

Dr. Pamela Pugh is running for an open seat in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District and is the only candidate in her Democratic primary to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. JOHN, I need strong progressives by my side in Congress who understand…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 12, 2024 at 3:01 PM

Maternal health crises for Black women in the U.S. and Palestinian women in Gaza

This is reproductive genocide. John, This Mother’s Day, let’s continue the fight for reproductive justice from the United States to Palestine. In Rafah, where 1.5 million internally displaced Palestinians are sheltering, Gaza’s last maternity hospital is under t…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 11, 2024 at 2:56 PM

Re: As the Israeli military’s assault intensifies, a new bill passed the U.S. House that could criminalize protesters

They’re courageously leading the push for a permanent ceasefire. John, In the midst of the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinian people, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that could criminalize protests criticizing Israel’s government. Wh…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 10, 2024 at 5:43 PM

As the Israeli military’s assault intensifies, a new bill passed the U.S. House that could criminalize protesters

They’re courageously leading the push for a permanent ceasefire. John, This week, with ammunition and bombs paid for by our tax dollars, the Israeli apartheid regime began its long-telegraphed assault on Rafah in Gaza. Over 610,000 displaced children are trapped …
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 9, 2024 at 5:35 PM

Re: Sign now to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire

Our tax dollars are funding genocide. John, Israel’s military is escalating its genocidal attacks on 1.5 million Palestinian refugees trapped in Rafah, who’ve been living in makeshift tents, without food, clean water, sanitation, or medicine. With U.S. bombs an…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 8, 2024 at 9:33 PM

Sign now to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire

Our tax dollars are funding genocide. John, In an escalation of the U.S.-backed genocide of Palestinians, Israeli forces are beginning a ground invasion of Rafah in Gaza. They’ve seized control and closed the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, an essential entry …
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  Team Rashida · [email protected]
May 6, 2024 at 8:48 PM

The first big step in Rashida’s re-election campaign for Congress

Rashida will never back down from speaking truth to power. John, Rashida has officially filed petition signatures to be on the ballot for her re-election campaign for Congress. This is the first big step in Rashida’s re-election and it’s thanks to supporters like…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 2, 2024 at 6:20 PM

Re: Sign on to support my Public Housing for the 21st Century Act:

Families across the country are facing homelessness. We need urgent action. John, Housing is a human right, but our government’s investments in affordable housing and public housing have long been insufficient. That's why I’m urging my colleagues in Congress to…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
May 1, 2024 at 7:22 PM

[take action] This May Day, stand in solidarity with workers everywhere

I have seen how labor rights transform families and communities. John, On May 1, 1886, workers across the U.S. began to strike, demanding an eight-hour workday. Since then, workers have won additional labor rights including the minimum wage, child labor laws, a…
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April 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM

Uplifting a grassroots group of Arab American neighbors

This month, I want to support Arab Women United, a group in my district that’s empowering young women and advocating for human rights. John, I am deeply proud to not just serve as an unapologetic Arab American Congresswoman but also to represent the largest Arab…
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  Rashida, AOC, Ayanna, Cori, Ilhan, and Jamaal · [email protected]
April 29, 2024 at 8:26 PM

The full strength of our Squad is undeniable

All six of us are up for re-election this year — and we have some well-funded, MAGA-backed challengers to ward off. Hi there — AOC, Ayanna, Cori, Ilhan, Jamaal and Rashida here! We’ll cut to the chase: All six of us are up for re-election this year — and we have some well-funded, MA…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 28, 2024 at 2:15 PM

Sign on to support my Public Housing for the 21st Century Act:

Families across the country are facing homelessness. We need urgent action. John, April is National Fair Housing Month, and we’re in an urgent housing crisis. With 78% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and rent continuing to skyrocket, families across th…
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April 26, 2024 at 5:07 PM

Our country’s anti-war movement is growing, with students at campuses around the country demanding their colleges divest from genocide.

The right to protest is essential to democracy John, Our government continues to send billions to Israel’s military with no conditions on upholding human rights. Each day we hear and see new atrocities from this U.S.-backed genocide on the Palestinian people, su…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 25, 2024 at 9:04 PM

Re: Squad members are under attack

Anti-Palestinian PACs are trying to defeat our Squad. John, When our grassroots movement comes together, we can defeat right-wing billionaire donors and their unlimited money. That’s exactly what we did this week in Pennsylvania, when Summer Lee defeated her rig…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 24, 2024 at 7:34 PM

Summer is the first Squad member to win her 2024 primary. Let’s make sure she’s not the last.

Anti-Palestinian PACs are trying to defeat our Squad. John, Our progressive allies in Congress are under attack from right-wing billionaires who want to silence our anti-war movement and maintain the unjust status quo. In her Democratic primary, Congresswoman S…
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April 23, 2024 at 9:42 PM

Re: Sign to support the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act

We’re in a maternal health crisis, particularly for Black women and babies. John, Last week, our Congressional Mamas’ Caucus recognized Black Maternal Health Week with advocates and allies who are trying to eradicate racial disparities in our healthcare system. …
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April 22, 2024 at 9:02 PM

Let’s dismantle systematic racism in our health care system.

We’re in a maternal health crisis, particularly for Black women and babies. John, We’re in a maternal health crisis: the United States maternal mortality rate is rising, and Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 21, 2024 at 3:50 PM

Re: My colleagues just voted to send $26 billion to Israel’s government as it commits genocide

We urgently need more lawmakers who will invest in life rather than death and destruction. John, Yesterday, my colleagues in Congress passed a bill to send $26 billion U.S. tax dollars to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu as he carries out the genocide of Palest…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to send $26 billion of our tax dollars to Israel’s government as it commits genocide against Palestinians.

We urgently need more lawmakers who will invest in life rather than death and destruction. John, Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to send $26 billion of our tax dollars to Israel’s government as it commits genocide against Palestinians. All while m…
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April 20, 2024 at 3:36 PM

Re: Sign to tell Congress before tomorrow’s vote: Don’t send $26 billion of our tax dollars to Israel’s government while it commits genocide.

Our country isn’t just complicit in this genocide—we’re actively participating in it. John, Today, the House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill that would send over $26 billion of our tax dollars to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu as he carries out th…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 19, 2024 at 4:40 PM

Congress will vote to send $26B to Israel’s government as it commits genocide against Palestinians

Our country isn’t just complicit in this genocide—we’re actively participating in it. John, Tomorrow, my colleagues in Congress want to vote to send over $26 billion of our tax dollars to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu as he carries out the genocide of Palest…
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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]
April 18, 2024 at 9:11 PM

Just a few days to phone bank for Summer Lee’s first re-election

Between now and Tuesday April 23, can you sign up for a phone bank shift? John, Despite facing $5 million in attacks from anti-Palestinian PACs when she first ran for Congress, Rep. Summer Lee has taken courageous stances for Palestinians’ rights even as a polit…
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