SupChina - In 2016, BiLan Liao moved from Kentucky to Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Having voted for Hillary Clinton that year, the 62-year-old Chinese immigrant, who came to the U.S. in 1999, was deeply worried about the “authoritarian style” of leadership that Trump has pres...
If you’re a DACA recipient or want to be one, thank goodness, there are people out there we can rely on for the truth.
Over the weekend, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn federal court ruled the Trump administration’s restrictions on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) ...
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 6 pm ET for our monthly immigration and DACA renewal virtual legal clinic. Get updates on immigration law and the New York federal court’s recent DACA decision. Register here: bit.ly/37TuhLl
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Annie Wang
Director, Immigration Justice Proj...
New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released new data from its exit poll of 5,424 Asian American voters in 13 states and Washington, DC, noting the importance of the Asian American vote in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.
AALDEF Executive Di...
NBC Asian America - “TikTok Titas” in the Silver State may have helped Joe Biden win gold in this year’s dramatic presidential election.
Older Filipina American women — known as “titas” — made a splash in Nevada in get-out-the-vote moments during the campaign, from vibrant car parades to popular Ti...
It’s been a rough and tumultuous four years, accented by an Election Day that turned into a week.
But by noon Saturday ET, it was finally over—our long national “countmare.”
The media companies (I was watching CNN) prudently waited until there was no chance for a Trump electoral comeback. Philadel...
EMIL GUILLERMO: COUNT THEM ALL–THE PRESIDENT CAN’T DICTATE THE ELECTION
On Thursday, the biggest transgression against the election without a doubt came from the president of the United States, who insists on being the autocrat-in-chief.
Stop the count? That’s what dictators say. That’s not what t...
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New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan multilingual exit poll of more than 5,000 Asian American voters in the November 3, 2020 Presidential ...
Vox - Many political campaigns have historically fallen short when it comes to Asian American voter outreach.
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A lack of outreach can also mean that campaigns miss out on how best to serve their AAPI constituents. “The harm is that they don’t know what issues are important to the community, an...
Scroll.In - By 10 AM, over 200 ballots had been cast at the JP Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey. By 12 PM, poll workers expected to run out of paper ballots.
Indian-American voter turnout over the past week has hit record highs, and Election Day turnout at a polling site in Middlesex Count...
It used to be some people didn’t see themselves in our democracy. So they didn’t vote. They’d say, ”Why bother?”
We can’t say that any more. Bother now.
Especially if you’re part of America’s great diversity, say, an Asian American, or a person of color, or a working class person, or a woman, or a...
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New York, NY – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will dispatch close to 400 attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availabil...
Vox - When Tram Nguyen, a Democratic state representative from Massachusetts, posted a Facebook video declaring support for the Black Lives Matter movement, she thought the message to her constituents was relatively uncontroversial. Millions of Americans were taking to the streets to protest police ...
AALDEF has compiled data for an absentee ballot chart listing requirements for all 50 states and DC. For details regarding your state, use the magnifying glass (top right-hand corner of chart) and type in your state.
*Ballot requirement info was taken from https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-an...
The Nation - Limary Ruiz Torres, a 51-year-old accountant in Lawrenceville, Ga., was eager to vote in this year’s presidential primary. But when Torres, who was raised in Puerto Rico and speaks limited English, received her mail-in ballot application in April, she felt shut out. “I cannot read the a...
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6pm for our monthly immigration and DACA renewal virtual legal clinic. We’ll keep you up to date on the latest immigration updates. Register in advance: https://bit.ly/37TuhLl
For more information, contact:
Annie Wang
Director, Immigrant Justice Project
awang@aaldef....
Houston Chronicle - Nhat Nguyen stood Sunday morning on a sidewalk on Bellaire Boulevard with a bullhorn in one hand and phone in the other. “Go Trump!” he shouted while live-streaming to Facebook a parade of honking cars bedecked in Trump flags. Trucks blasted music from open windows as they cruise...
Leave it to Donald Trump to redefine all the political cliches about self-aggrandizing acts of governance.
Trump’s most shameless political stunt may have been the South Lawn celebration Monday night for the record-breaking Supreme Court confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
By a 52-48 vote, it was t...
Nevada Independent - The familiar rhythm of the festivals has been absent this year.
The Japanese spring festival in April. The Indian food festival in May. Filipino kamayan feasts in the fall.
Like so many other events this year, festivals across Asian American and Pacific Islander communities ha...
America likes pills, especially a single pill that could solve all our problems. Like our presidency. That’s why we had to have one last debate. It’s the illusion we could get the whole schmear of a campaign in 90 minutes of muted real time.
And besides being the best moderated debate (the Presiden...
