1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

As you know, Zohran Mamdani's campaign made big waves this year. Democrats said he couldn't win, but the people are speaking. I have contacted your offices countless times asking you to think of us, protect us, fight for us; and you never do. Zohran showed us that a better world is possible. That he's as fed up, maybe more so, of the tired, geriatric, paid-for politics of this country. Business interests and personal gains do nothing for the working class, and we have been suffering. Older politicians refuse to understand us. We are constantly dismissed and waved off. We are living paycheck to paycheck on six digit salaries. We can't own homes. We're entering another needless war. What this letter is about isn't that the Democratic Party needs to wake up and start changing. It's the absolute and horrendous silence of democrats in light of the rampant and flagrant Islamophobia against Zohran. How is it that the party of identity politics can turn a blind eye so effortlessly when it comes to a millennial Muslim liberal? If representatives said "this is the end of western civilization!", implied terrorist connections to 9/11, commented on religious law, tweeted a doctored photo of the Statue of Liberty with a yarmulke or a habit rather than the one posted in a burqa; heads would be rolling and there would be absolute outrage. There would be vehement calls for resignation. There would be violence. But with regard to a young Muslim man, you remain silent. You allow republicans and the president to attack and call him names. You've said nothing in response to the death threats he's received. This letter is a demand to condemn the Islamophobia that is being so flagrantly thrown at Zohran and NYC without anyone doing a single thing to announce just how unacceptable it is. It is your responsibility and your duty to represent all New Yorkers, and you have failed so far to right this wrong. Midterms are coming, and New Yorkers are tired of status quo politics. I urge you to condemn this Islamophobia, because we are watching and we're voting in solidarity.