Saturday, March 30, 2019

I won't ask you to help me impress the political establishment

TULSI 2020

Friend— We just hit our fundraising goal that we shared with you a few days ago for the organizing tools we’ll be rolling out in the next few weeks! We’re a grassroots campaign, and we want to show that to the world. We’re aiming for another 8,000 individual donations before the FEC filing deadline at midnight on Sunday. Can you pitch in $5, $10 or whatever amount you can spare?
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Friend—
The FEC deadline for us to report our first quarter fundraising is coming up in a few days.
Political pundits and the media will use this manmade milestone to declare who’s a “viable candidate” in this election. That means I should be drumming up urgency. I should be asking you to help me impress the political establishment and mainstream media by donating all you can. But I won’t.
I won’t because this campaign isn’t about me. It’s about us—about our present and our collective future.
Instead, I’m asking you to donate $25, $5, or $10 for a future without one regime change war after another and an end to the new Cold War and nuclear arms race.

When I speak out against regime change war, against the new Cold War, and against the nuclear arms race, the sharpest criticism I receive is from within our own party. It’s incredible how far members of the foreign policy establishment and military industrial complex will go to maintain the status quo.
But we don’t have to respond to dirty tactics with more hate. When everyone is being told to jump, we don’t need to ask, “how high?”
No. We are fighting for our future—we are fighting to ensure that we have a future—by leading with strength and a message of love for humanity and our world. The way we respond to vitriol is through faith in the power of our own hands, feet, voices, and hearts.
Don’t donate for me, or because the FEC filing deadline is approaching. Donate for us and for the kind of leadership you believe our country deserves.
Thank you for all that you do,
Tulsi


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