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Rashida Harbi Tlaib [a] (/ t ə ˈ l iː b / tə-LEEB; born July 24, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2019, representing the state's 12th congressional district since 2023.
First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995. [6] Rashida Tlaib: Democratic: MI-13: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 51 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. Born to a Muslim family of Palestinian immigrants. [7 ...
In the 2018 midterm elections, DSA members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib were elected to the United States House of Representatives [2] and DSA members were elected to over forty state and local offices. [3]
Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan woman running for Congress, talks about getting arrested, why protests matter, and being Muslim in the Trump era.
[1] [2] On November 6, 2018, four additional Arab Americans, all of whom are female, were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Ilhan Omar, Donna Shalala, and Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said there is worry among Americans that Elon Musk is causing a constitutional crisis amid the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) access to several ...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a member of the far-left group "The Squad" in Congress, used the American holiday of Thanksgiving to take another swipe at Israel.
Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley unseated Joe Crowley and Mike Capuano, respectively, in primary elections.Omar won the seat previously held by Democrat Keith Ellison, who retired from the House to successfully run for Attorney General of Minnesota, and Tlaib won the seat once held by Dean of the House John Conyers, who resigned in 2017 after nearly 53 years in Congress.