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What an ingrate. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who has enjoyed the enthusiastic support of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), sent out a Wednesday fundraising pitch that is bound to embarrass her loyal patron. Here’s the text of the email Ms. Flanagan sent via the Democratic National Committee: [Name of recipient], in almost 250 years, there’s never been a Native woman serving in the US Senate. It’s time to change that. I’m
Peggy Flanagan, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. I am Ojibwe and a proud member of the White Earth Nation. My family is the Wolf Clan. The mission of my clan is to never leave anyone behind — and that’s been my guiding principle. I am the descendant of people who were forced off their land onto the White Earth reservation. I am the relative of residential boarding school survivors. I am the daughter of a man who always spoke truth to power for the good of the Anishinaabe people. I’m thinking of my daughter — who just got her first jingle dress — and whether or not she will see Indigenous women in all parts of our government.
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