I need to tell you something I don't talk about enough.
Outside of my office, a group of extremists gathered and screamed what translates to "Death to Krishnamoorthi" at the top of their lungs.
A crowd of people, in America, calling for my death.
I'm an immigrant. The son of people who came to this country with nothing because they believed it was a place where you could live freely, speak freely, and serve your community without fearing for your life. A place where disagreement didn't end in threats of violence.
Sadly, this is nothing new. I have faced this before.
A sitting Republican elected official also publicly tagged the Department of Homeland Security on social media to report me as a "foreign occupier" with an "unpronounceable name" and called for the mass deportation of Indians. I have been mocked, threatened, and told in a hundred different ways that someone like me doesn't belong in American public life.
And every single time, I have made the same choice.
Keep going.
Because the moment I stop — the moment I let the hatred win — is the moment I break faith with every family that came to this country believing it was worth fighting for. Including my own.
This is the America we are living in right now. Extremists feel emboldened to threaten, intimidate, and silence the people who are trying to do the work. Hatred has been given permission to operate in the open. The machinery of government is being used to make certain communities feel like they don't belong.
Equal Opportunity Now exists because we need leaders who have faced this kind of hatred and didn't flinch. Who know what it costs to keep going and choose to keep going anyway. Who will stand up — not just for themselves, but for every family that is being targeted, threatened, and told they don't belong.
Those leaders are out there. And they need our support right now.
Will you chip in $10, $20, or $50 to Equal Opportunity Now today to help us elect leaders who won't be intimidated — no matter what they face?
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