“My campaign for Congress challenged the conventional wisdom that you have to uncritically support Israel’s government in order to win U.S. elections. I’ve joined other progressives in Congress who are unafraid to speak out for Palestinian human rights, and to hold our government accountable for its complicity in apartheid.”

“I first started learning about the Israeli government’s human rights abuses against Palestinians while protesting police brutality in the Ferguson Uprising.”
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”We cannot police our way to public safety.”

”Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.”

”Decades of racist, dehumanizing immigration policies have created systems that have criminalized and traumatized our immigrant neighbors, friends, and families in St. Louis and across our country.”

”White nationalist groups have infiltrated federal and local law enforcement agencies.”

”Research shows that communal violence increases when the heat increases. When the heat increases. So while we’re talking about a safe city, we got to attribute that to climate change, a lot of it, to climate change.”