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Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ https://t.co/u6aQiJB0hs 📚

Jul 27, 2020, 9 tweets

Join @BernieSanders, @RashidaTlaib, me, and more for our Day of Action live stream! pscp.tv/w/cey_EjFlVmpZ…

Share your questions for me + our guests in the replies below!

And chip in at any time to power our campaign for progress to victory: ilhanomar.com/donate

“The power of the people is always more powerful than profit, always more powerful than Wall Street, always more powerful than the wealthy elite.”
@JamaalBowmanNY

“You’re really a visionary. You see things before the need to deal with them happens and you have to have been that way your whole life, being an immigrant, being a refugee before that … looking ahead, thinking about how we’re going to make it.”
@MMFlint

Our organizing team has sent over 26,000 texts to get out the vote today alone! Help us keep up this momentum by signing up to volunteer at mobilize.us/ilhanomar

How do we have this cognitive dissonance where we’re OK with paying tens of thousands of dollars … a year to incarcerate folks but we’re not OK with paying that money to put it into communities to keep people OK?”
@CedFrazierMN

“The things that we’re saying are exactly what our residents taught us. ... The government should be about people first. Period.”
@RashidaTlaib

“We’re not fighting for just one issue here or one issue there. [Ilhan] understands that we are taking on an entire system based on greed, based on corruption.”
@BernieSanders

Thanks for joining us tonight!

Our campaign is leaving you with two calls to action:

✅ Chip in at ilhanomar.com/donate
✅ Help get out the vote at mobilize.us/ilhanomar

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