I've faced a lot of hatred in my time in public life. I want to tell you about some of it — not for sympathy, but because I think it says something important about this moment.
When I first ran for Congress, there were people who tried to paint me as un-American simply because of where I was born. There were questions about whether someone with a name like mine could really represent this country.
More recently, a sitting Republican elected official publicly called for the mass deportation of Indians and labeled me a "foreign occupier" with an "unpronounceable name."
In Frisco, Texas, a demonstrator tore an Indian flag to pieces while a crowd around them chanted anti-India hatred.
This comes from anyone who has decided that people like me — immigrants, people with hard-to-pronounce names, people who don't fit some narrow idea of who belongs — don't have a right to be here, let alone lead.
Every single time, I've made the same choice: Keep going.
Because I know exactly what they're trying to do. They want to make people like me feel small, afraid, and unwelcome enough to quit. To go quiet. To let someone else do the fighting.
I refuse.
That's exactly why I started Equal Opportunity Now — to find and support leaders who have faced this same hatred and refused to be intimidated by it. Leaders who understand that extremism, wherever it comes from, only wins if we let it stop us.
Chip in $25 or $50 right now and tell them their hate doesn't get the last word! There’s no time to waste:
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