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Dear Editor Sally Buzbee and the Washington Post Staff,

I am an independent candidate running to represent Virginia’s 8th Congressional District. As a first-generation immigrant from Ethiopia, I know first-hand the important role a truly free-press plays in defending freedoms and preserving the rule of law. My family and I fled my birth land because fascism disguised in the cloak of security and the greater good ended up unleashing a genocide that claimed the lives of over 500,000 Ethiopians a couple of years after I was born in 1974.

You possess an awesome responsibility in your hands, you can tip the balance of power and dictate the public discourse with what you choose to publish or omit from your narratives. It is precisely for this reason that I am writing to you today in order to request equal access given the copious times you have featured my opponent, Representative Don Beyers. As you well know, you have a duty to your readers and Americans writ large to ensure that the issues and concerns of voters are debated vigorously without playing favors to candidates....continued...

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