For Christmas, I saw Ali Wong’s panties.
I was in the balcony.
But she showed them to me–along with more than 3,000 other ticket holders at one of the 18 sold-out shows in her native San Francisco for the holidays.
Do the math. At an average of $50 a ticket, Ali Wong is making bank, as they say. ...
As you read this, Donald Trump is no longer merely POTUS. He’s been christened by the actions of our U.S. House of Representatives as TIP or T-I-P.
TIP? Yes, “The Impeached President.”
It hurts even saying the phrase.
There have only been three in the 243-year history of our country.
That’s noth...
If you missed out or were disgusted by the impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee last week, I don’t blame you.
I just hope you saw Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
Impeachment is a test of courage and conscience.
And for those lacking both, Jayapal was there to help.
From he...
If you haven’t noticed, we’re having an historic battle in Congress over the future of our democracy.
So why aren’t we out in the streets like they are in Hong Kong?
In Hong Kong, an estimated million people yearning for democracy marched on Sunday to mark six months of protests. And it’s not just...
I figured Kamala Harris would have a shot at regaining some campaign heat as a star at the coming impeachment trial. And yes, barring Trump pulling a Nixon and resigning in disgrace, there will be a Senate trial. After that new 300-page Intelligence Committee Report, with all those new phone calls a...
On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, at 6 pm, join AALDEF and Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS) for a special presentation on The Asian American Vote in Georgia in the 2018 midterm elections.
At the presentation, learn more about how Asian Americans voted in Georgia gubernatorial, senator...
First things first: Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers!
I am grateful and thankful for all of you, and will have you in mind with each bite of my humane tofu pot pie.
But for now, let’s go amok.
When you watch the impeachment inquiry hearings from Hawaii like I did recently, you know you are an una...
Texas Tribune - With a population greater than that of 26 states, speaking more than 145 languages, Harris County can be a difficult place to make oneself heard. That’s especially true at the ballot box. . .
Following a dust-up last year during which translators crossed the protected zone to approa...
Aloha!
I’m in Hawaii to give a speech on being a die-hard ethnic media journalist and a First Amendment Asian American (which one has to presume is better than being an Asian American forced to take the Fifth).
I’ve paid the price.
Which is why I’m shopping at the ABC store, where I found a uniqu...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 250 Asian American voters in the Nov. 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Louisiana. Asian Americans, primarily Vietnamese Americans, strongly favored the Republic...
Following the oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court today over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) urges the Court to consider this case as one about people’s lives: those of DACA recipients, their lov...
“Thank you for your service.”
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that on Veterans Day, I might be in the one percent (and I’d gladly pay Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax).
I personally stopped saying the phrase after I greeted a Filipino American friend of mine who served in the Air Force in Vi...
NBC News - Asian Americans appear to currently favor Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren when it comes to the Democratic presidential candidates, according to a recent informal survey by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Andrew Yang, who’s Taiwanese American, still lags behind.
The gr...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated cases that will determine whether the administration can end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which has provided relief from deportation for more than 800,000 undocumented youth who have lived most of the...
As Dylan sang, “The times they are a-changin.” Is our Asian American stereotype?
In San Francisco, where about 30 percent of the city is Asian, we still mourn the passing of the city’s first Asian American mayor, the late Ed Lee–the community activist turned bureaucrat turned can-do civic cheerlead...
News India Times - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 500 Asian American voters in the Nov. 5, 2019 elections in Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
In Virginia, a state that turned Blue from Red, giving...
New York City… The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 500 Asian American voters in the Nov. 5, 2019 elections in Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Asian Americans strongly favored Democratic candidate...
The Washington Nationals—baseball’s new champs– will be parading in DC over the weekend, and I hope all the politicos in town will be there to remember what it was like to be on the same team.
Because the people in the nation’s capital have forgotten.
I used to live in the DC-area and except for t...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will conduct a nonpartisan multilingual exit poll to get a snapshot of Asian American candidate preferences, party enrollment, and issues of significance to Asian American voters in Lou...
The president is finding out that killing a global terrorist doesn’t necessarily make you a conquering hero.
So in his unique Trumpian form of humility, the prez tweeted out a picture of a real hero–the yet unnamed dog who was instrumental in last weekend’s raid and killing of Islamic State leader ...
