ABOLISH ICE! Pressley’s MOST Rocking Midterm Speech In ‘Bald Crown, Bold Red Lipstick’

All right and our daughter Cora honored our election day tradition we voted together only this time y'all our Cora was not a bystander to democracy or a civics cheerleader she was an active and informed participant today our Cora a freshman poli-sci major at Howard University Forever changed by her chance meetings with Congressman John Lewis and Ruby Bridges, today Cora cast her first ballot. I'd like to, although she has yet to officially confirm, earned her vote for Congress too. Get back, in 2018, I stood here at this exact spot and asked this ballroom, come in rock braids, the jacket and a bold red lip. You answered with a resounding yes to the tune of a decisive 17-point margin. Later, the people of the Massachusetts 7th have once again humbled me with your trust, confidence, and partnership by way of your sacred vote that a congresswoman now can rock a bald crown, a bold red lip, and a black leather jacket to be decisively re-elected as your congresswoman for a fifth term. It is the honor of my life to fight for your family like you are my own. The stakes could not be higher for questioning what the future holds. In every corner of this commonwealth our neighbors have held my hands tight, locked eyes with me, shared their biggest challenges and their deepest heartbreaks. A business owner who depleted his savings to meet payroll, struggling to keep the doors open. A proud veteran whose only daughter was sent to war, her deployment extended again with no end in sight. The father whose baby isn't gaining weight is too embarrassed to tell the pediatrician that he can't afford another can of formula before payday. If you listen closely, beneath each story, the questions ring through. Do you see me? Will you keep my family safe? Will this country ever love us back? The questions that echo through our prayers, the pleas we make in the quietest hours of the night, that is what is at stake in this election. Now y'all make no mistake, there is a coalition of harm that wants to drag us back to the darkest chapters of this nation's history. Deny our enemy. to the ballot box. Leadership, museums, and brilliance. They rip children away from their parents' arms and they shoot black men with their hands raised in the air. It's the daily reality for too many. But y'all, tonight, we prove it's possible when people of good conscience leak arms, organize, mobilize, fight, and vote for our shared humanity. We'll call it a blue wave. But you and I both know that this is not about a trend or a wave. This is about thousands of hours of sweat equity poured into these campaigns. Personal sacrifices made in rebuke of Trump's rhetoric, policies, and vision for our world. I'm so grateful to my dedicated and indefatigable aid team. Grateful to every candidate, every volunteer, every voter. Y'all, you see, from the corner of Dorchester Avenue to the halls of Congress, this nation does not belong to small violent men. The people, the dreamers, stand for separation, famine, war, and genocide. The other side, because we must. Our children are counting on it. Generations before us wrote a blueprint for our survival. The work we take on together is not about a two-year election cycle, a century of our nation. Y'all, a more just America is possible if you believe in it. UGs are worth just a home in a community that raised you. deserve that. For my colleagues in the House who are likely watching. Democrats with you because y'all...