I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia or if it's Israel or any other country. I can't imagine our members of Congress or even the residents back in the day that pushed back against apartheid in Africa not to be able to boycott.

I can tell you, you know, I am a person that every - people that do really know me well know that I'm extremely passionate about fighting for my families and the residents back home.

My God, do we have some of the most amazing people. You won't find stories like ours. You almost feel like, if there's ever a need to tell an American story, just come to Detroit.

I'm so much of a proud Detroiter.

I love being a mom.

Voters will never wonder where I stand on an issue or if I will be there when needed. I will be side by side with them as we fight back against the Trump agenda together.

Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to set auto insurance pricing compounds racial discrimination and exacerbates wealth inequality.

The first thing I think about when somebody says you're going to be the first Muslim is celebrate this moment.

I'm constantly working, and I've earned everything that I've been able to achieve on my own, and that's what being the eldest of 14 taught me.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

I went to Detroit Public Schools: Harms Elementary, Bennett, which is now called Phoenix Academy. This is all in Southwest Detroit. I graduated from Southwestern High School, so I'm a 'Prospector,' which is what we used to call each other.

President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.

We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

Big money has hijacked our politics.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

Old models of development simply seek to lure business with substantial tax breaks and then hope (and pray) that economic benefits will trickle down to residents. It has not worked for our city in the past, and it will not work for the future city that we all hope want to see.

Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.

Confrontational or not, my approach to public service has always been fighting for my families.

Being in southwest Detroit, when my dad would want to say anything about me or my brothers or sisters, he would start speaking in Spanish to my uncle and my grandmother because we didn't understand.

I really truly respect and honor the fact that the majority of my district is African-American and that I have to make sure that I surround myself with people with that lens.

I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her.

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in southwest Detroit, watching my mother learn how to drive for the first time.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.

I'm very proud to be a Detroiter.

I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.

We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

Allowing workers' compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

I take a very different approach to public service. I'm a person that always takes it out in the streets and in the courts... the tool box that is attached to me is very diverse.

I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that.

When I think of immigration, I want to think of families. I want to think of unity. I want to think of a safe place, you know, free of persecution, a place where we can welcome a child that is hungry.

We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.

When we shift our public dollars away from our schools and city services and into company developments, it increases the root causes of poverty: unemployment, underemployment, lack of community resources, and lack of quality public education.

Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

Throughout my career in public service, the residents I have had the privilege of fighting for have embraced who I am, especially my Palestinian roots. This is what I want to bring to the United States Congress: an unapologetic display of the fabric of the people in this country.

My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.

From capitalizing housing trust funds, which allow low-income people to obtain grants to fix up and stay in their homes, to creating job training programs in schools, these are the kinds of economic stimuli that will give families the opportunity to thrive.

I'll do everything I can to ensure the Clean Water Act is enforced here in Michigan, and I'll work to ensure everyone in Michigan has access to safe, affordable water, regardless of where they live.