Endorsement Alert: Minnesota has done so much for this country. Let's help them get a senator they deserve.

Indivisible

Indivisibles,

I know there are a ton of candidates asking for money all the time. It’s hard to know who’s the real deal, who’s tilting at windmills, and who’s secretly taking corporate campaign money on the side. Cutting through this fog is a big part of Indivisible’s primary program -- and it’s why I’m writing this email personally asking you to donate what you can to Peggy Flanagan for the US Senate in Minnesota.

She’s a real fighter and a real organizer, and she’s won the wholehearted endorsement of the statewide Minnesota Indivisible Alliance, as well as numerous local Indivisible endorsements. If that’s enough for you, you can give a split 50/50 donation to Flanagan’s campaign and Indivisible’s electoral arm that’ll be working hard to get her elected.

If you’d like more details, read on!

There is both a strong case for Flanagan, and a strong case against her opponent in this race. Let’s start with the bad so I can end on a high note.

Angie Craig is not your friend. In some Democratic primaries, you’ve got multiple equally great candidates, and it can be tough to choose between similar options! This is not the case in the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary. Angie Craig is a conservative Democratic Member of Congress with a track record of taking bad positions, bad votes, and bad statements. Now she wants to be a senator of a blue state.

Craig was a leader of the Democratic capitulation caucus in the House for much of last year. She hit the ground running by joining the Republicans last January to pass the Laken Riley Act, further empowering ICE to strip immigrants of their rights. A few months later she voted to thank ICE for its service. To put that into context, there are 214 Democrats in the House. Only about 40 of them voted for both. None of the Democrats from Minnesota voted for either…except Angie Craig.

The dirty cherry on top of all of this is where Craig gets her money. Chuck Schumer is raising money for her. Crypto is coming in big for her. According to the nonpartisan Open Secrets organization, her biggest contributor to her last campaign was…AIPAC!

This year, as the Senate campaign has gotten underway, Craig has tried to present herself as a real fighter. She’s now protesting ICE instead of praising ICE! She’s given speeches pointing fingers at Trump! She says she regrets her past votes. And she’s gotten a ton of money from corporations and funders of fascism, so she’s got the resources to finance a total rebrand.

This is why it’s so important for those of us who want a real fighter in the Senate to actually support that real fighter -- not the candidate who just poses like one during election season.

Peggy Flanagan is a real fighter and a real organizer. You can catch my and Leah’s conversation with her on What’s the Plan last week to hear this from her directly. But let me summarize what we hear from the candidate who we hope will become the first indigenous woman to serve in the US Senate:

She’s an organizer. She trained tens of thousands of grassroots activists in Minnesota, was executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund–Minnesota, and co-chaired the Raise the Wage Coalition, successfully pushing to raise Minnesota’s minimum wage.
She’s a Paul Wellstone protege. She got her start on Paul Wellstone’s 2002 campaign. The progressive champion from Minnesota who tragically died in a plane crash, gave me and Leah inspiration when we were founding Indivisible. It was Wellstone who said simply, “we all do better when we all do better.” He advised us all that politics wasn’t something we consume: “Politics is what we do…what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”
She’s a doer. As Lieutenant Governor Flanagan has been hoping, she has been imagining, and she has been doing. She raised the minimum wage, won paid family and medical leave, provided free school meals, and expanded healthcare -- while standing firm against ICE abuses.

The thing that struck me about our conversation is how much Flanagan clearly actually cares about her constituents. She is in this race for the right reasons. It’s not about power or career advancement or press attention -- she’s in this race to do good. And we need more senators in the Senate for the right reasons.

I have to give a big shout-out to the statewide Minnesota Indivisible Alliance for nominating her for a national endorsement. We ran the vote and she came through with a supermajority of support from Indivisible members all across the state. We follow the lead of local Indivisible groups, and the local organizers in Minnesota have said loud and clear: We want Peggy!

Minnesota has done so much for all of us this year -- I think it’s our responsibility to support them now.

Because I believe in putting my money where my mouth is, I have just personally donated $100 to Flanagan’s campaign. My little donation is not going to make or break her campaign. But if enough of us support her, collectively we will counteract the big money flooding in behind her opponent. This is a race and a state and a cause and a candidate worth investing in -- I hope you’ll join me in making that investment.

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In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

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