Entrenched interests are eager to make Rashida Tlaib a one-term member of Congress.Tlaib is willing and able to confront the powerful. She’s a strong progressive who doesn’t back down.
The establishment has no use for her -- because she refuses to be used.“They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse,” Congresswoman Tlaib (D-Michigan) wrote recently about leaders of the Democratic Party. “However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for, and why we ran in the first place, we are ignored. To truly honor our diversity is to never silence us.”
Those who want to silence Rep. Tlaib on Capitol Hill -- by preventing her re-election next year -- are already gearing up.
To support her campaign, and the work of RootsAction, click here.At her political peril, Tlaib speaks up while most other Democrats are silent. She continues to be one of the foremost defenders of another first-term congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, who has been subjected to bigoted denunciations from President Trump and countless threats of violence from Trump admirers -- as well as vilification in news media.
The dynamic is reminiscent of what happened years ago when the poor people's organization ACORN was smeared in the media -- and powerful Democratic politicians who had benefited from ACORN’s work suddenly pretended never to have heard of it.
This year has brought escalating smears of Tlaib and Omar -- Muslim women of color who are advancing a
progressive populist agenda against corporate interests and militarism. Even when violent threats have been incited against them, the response from those in power has been weak.
Let's show those in power we stand with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib -- and that most definitely includes support for her principled solidarity with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar when she is threatened by
violence-inciting presidential tweets.
Click here to contribute to Congresswoman Tlaib, and to the work of RootsAction.org.
Thank you!
—Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon, and the RootsAction Team
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