Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan: ICE Killings Demand Accountability, Not Silence
Lt. Governor Flanagan discusses due process, AIPAC funding, and what's at stake in Minnesota's primary
ICE fascists have killed three more innocent people this week.
Two fathers, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine, and a third 28-year-old yet unnamed victim in Florida.
This week, I sat down for an interview with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, to talk about ICE extremism, and several more critical topics that corporate media is ignoring. This includes a grotesque $13M in AIPAC attacks, the fact that Rep. Angie Craig voted to send Netanyahu the 2,000 pound bombs he repeatedly dropped on Palestinian civilians to commit genocide, and Rep Craig’s embrace of anti-Muslim and anti-Somali hate in Minnesota.
Lt. Gov. Flanagan warned that we cannot let ourselves get desensitized to this violence, and drew a sharp contrast with her primary opponent, Rep Craig, who voted for the Laken Riley Act, voted to thank ICE, and still refuses to call to abolish ICE.
By contrast, Lt. Gov Falangan’s consistency and commitment to justice is exactly why we need her in the US Senate. She’s a leader whose values haven’t shifted with political convenience; but have been the same since the start of her career—with a firm commitment to working families. That consistency is the most powerful endorsement I can envision. Tune into our live interview below. Let’s Address This.
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Lt. Gov. Flanagan closed by laying out her vision for the Senate: Medicare for All, real accountability for ICE, and justice for the people killed and detained. She’d also be the first Indigenous woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Minnesota’s primary election is August 11th. Let’s get Lt. Gov. Flanagan elected.
Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, author, and host of Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights, accountability, and the people powered independent media that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union.
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All of this needs to stop now. Other countries have to be incredulous. There ARE people here trying their best--you, Qasim, Marc Elias, but most of our Congress is comatose. He will never give up the WH--which is why it has to be a fortress, why there are 5,000 National Guard troops in DC. A strategy is needed here--and we bloody Hell don't have one. The US is destined for a massive explosion in DC. It will be horrific. We've squandered our time to avoid it.
No AIPAC funding for all