June 16, Georgia Democrats choose between two candidates for Lieutenant Governor in a runoff that deserves far more national attention than it's getting.

Nabilah Parkes: grassroots organizer, former state senator, fighter for working people and human dignity—and if elected, GA's first Muslim Lt. Gov.

Josh McLaurin: the establishment favorite whose record reveals the kind of complicit, cowardly, centrist Democrat we cannot afford right now.

Here are the receipts.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/georgia-can-make-history-on-june

Democratic Congresswoman Angie Craig’s PAC is attacking MN LG Peggy Flanagan with deepfake AI to mislead voters. This is disqualifying. I would expect this from MAGA but beyond the pale to see this from Democrats.

Dr. King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail not to condemn the Klan — but to condemn the allies who refused to act like allies.

He called the white moderate the "greatest stumbling block in the stride toward freedom" — more dangerous than open racists because they hide behind caution and comfort. Governors Sherrill, Spanberger, Whitmer, and Polis are still proving him right 63 years later.

Read my analysis: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-did-dr-king-say-white-moderates

Did you know the first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn't on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor? It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — when white supremacists flew planes to drop bombs and shoot at Black Americans.

This week marks the 105-year anniversary of one of the most horrific and underrecognized acts of racial violence in American history.

Today, the culprits faced zero consequences.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/105-years-after-the-tulsa-race-massacre

Mayor Mamdani: Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

NY POST Pitch Bot: SHARIAH ENFORCING MAYOR FORCES NYC CHILDREN TO WATCH LATE NIGHT TV AND RUIN THEIR CHANCES OF GETTING INTO HARVARD

MAGA: WE MUST CUT FOOD STAMPS TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY

ALSO:
- $150 MILLION on Trump golf trips
- $172 MILLION for jets for ICE Barbie
- $300 MILLION for an illegal vanity ballroom
- $1.776 BILLION for illegal slush fund for criminals
- $40 BILLION to Argentina while our farmers suffer
- $50 BILLION on illegal war on Iran
- $117 BILLION in annual tax cuts to the .1%
- $170 BILLION ICE budget to round up Americans like Gestapo
- $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon budget to wage never ending illegal wars  

There is a difference between fighting antisemitism and weaponizing the word antisemitism.

I will not allow the memory of Jewish suffering to be used as a shield for government war crimes. And I will not let baseless accusations against American Muslims go unchallenged when 25 years of data flatly contradict them.

Read my analysis of the data from the ADL report that shows who is really behind antisemitism in the U.S.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/who-is-igniting-antisemitism-in-america-103

In this last month, Spanberger in VA and Sherril in NJ have shown that centrists will not save us. Centrists are folding in the moments we need them most. Meanwhile Mamdani in NYC has shown how progressives focused on working families get the job done.

None of this is surprising. Centrism is complicity. Always has been.

40+ states still have primary elections. Elect progressives, elect fighters accountable to working people, not corporate interests.

Yesterday I published this detailed article arguing that women are simply not safe around men. I cited history, data, legal analysis, and meaningful solutions to combat the systemic violence men commit against women.

It is currently approaching 500,000 reads.

Plenty of insecure men have sent me angry messages. But also, plenty of men have sent gratitude for better understanding the systemic violence men impose on women. Read here:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-not-safe-around-men

As a human rights lawyer representing survivors of domestic and sexual violence for 15+ years, I've learned a hard truth. One that will make some men uncomfortable. This is good. Discomfort is the beginning of accountability.

Women are not safe around men. This is a documented, data-driven, empirically supported fact our society has spent generations refusing to confront. Let's Address This.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-not-safe-around-men

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu just ordered the Israeli military to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip. This is a violent violation of the ceasefire.

Now, if Hamas responds or even if ordinary Palestinians defend themselves they’ll be labeled the instigator—even though war criminal Netanyahu is again in breach of international law. The only thing more shameful are the US politician cowards who continue to fund this genocide.

Florida has a choice.

Vindman: moved to Florida to run for Senate, denies genocide on video, smeared Muslims without a single piece of evidence, twin brother votes to the right of nearly 75 Republicans

Angie Nixon: born in FL, elected in FL, protested unconstitutional redistricting with a bullhorn, 100% people-funded

Courage in 2019 does not excuse this record in 2026. Florida’s answer is Angie Nixon. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/alexander-vindman-is-not-the-hero