Friend —

I'm not watching tonight's debate and I hope you'll give me a second to explain why:

Not one of those candidates on the stage tonight speak for me. Most don't speak for you.

Billionaires and millionaires, people who bought their way onto the stage, establishment mouthpieces, a candidate who appropriated my culture — they don't represent our diverse American voices.

Where are the indigenous voices? The women of color? The warriors for peace? The people like Tulsi who time and time again have stood on the front lines of the most important challenges facing our nation.

Tulsi is all of those things, but mostly she's a leader who shows up.

She showed up at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to stand arm in arm with my tribe against Big Oil and the Dakota Access Pipeline when they tried to grab our land and soil our planet for dirty profits.

She showed up as a soldier in Iraq, and then Kuwait, to put her life on the line for all of us.

Tulsi always shows up… and then she listens.

I firmly believe now more than ever — while we face a warming world, a planet on the brink, the threat of war with Iran, and nuclear war — we need a president who will ensure the history, the lived experience and the voices of indigenous people, and black and brown people around the world, are heard.

We need a candidate who can bridge the great and growing divide between Americans that ignores our common humanity. Our common dreams of shared health, wealth and happiness. I believe Tulsi is the ONLY candidate who can do this, and that's why we need to stand with her now. When our voices are being silenced, and left off that debate stage. When we're being out-raised and outspent by candidates who don't represent ALL of us.

Will you donate now to help lift up our voices — our dreams and our hopes — and make sure we are heard?

Tulsi represents the values of living in harmony with nature and having respect for the Great Spirit, Father God and Mother Earth. She has the spirit of aloha, respect for all.

Tulsi is not just speaking up for my people, she's a voice for indigenous people everywhere: No other candidate is standing up for the indigenous people of the Middle East, the indigenous Yazidis, Druze, Christians and minority Muslims that are being targeted and persecuted based on their beliefs, bankrolled by Saudi Arabia.

Will you me today in lifting up Tulsi's voice for peace, for our planet, for all of us?

Cody Two Bears
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Member

PS — While the least diverse group of candidates to ever grace a debate stage answer questions from the corporate media tonight, Tulsi is instead sitting down with Dennis Kucinich, Lawrence Lessig, and Stephen Kinzer in an urgent and timely conversation about the escalating war with Iran, the constitutionality of Trump's actions and the best path forward to peace. It starts now (6:30pm ET) and you can tune-in to the live streamed conversation by clicking this link: https://tulsi.to/discussion