The attempt to bridge our country’s great divide has begun with the first meeting in the White House between President Obama and his one-time birther tormentor, President-elect Trump.
It’s like we’re in some disconnected time and place after that hate-filled scorched earth campaign of the last 19 m...
New York City…Preliminary AALDEF exit poll findings of close to 14,000 Asian Americans on Election Day reveal that voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, and Nevada strongly favored Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race.
“The extreme anti-immigrant...
New York City…Many Asian American voters across the country, especially new citizens and first-time voters, encountered barriers and discrimination at polling places, including improper requests for identification, inadequate language assistance, no provisional ballots, being sent to multiple incorr...
As an early bird, my vote is in the mail.
If you haven’t voted yet, vote now.
Now is always the best candidate.
Better than later.
And maybe that’s what finally got to FBI Director James Comey when he gave everyone his November surprise.
He’s not the patron saint of voter suppression or electio...
Addison Russell is an Asian American name.
And now he’s a newly minted World Series Champion, the first Asian American of Filipino descent to become one since Tim Lincecum, three-time World Series winner while with the San Francisco Giants.
After an epic World Series Game 7, Russell, the all-star ...
Asia Times - Campaign websites in US elections often use templates to create pages that appeal to constituencies such as Latinos and African Americans. The worst change a few words or phrases to fit the group being courted…
NBC News - Amid threats of voter intimidation, Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) nonpartisan groups have been training poll monitors across the country, teaching them what to look for to ensure no one is denied the right to vote on Election Day…
Earlier in October, my dogs tore up a nerf-like facsimile of a Donald Trump head, thinking perhaps it was more nutritious than it looked.
Many of my social media followers liked it. Maybe it helped them to design dog-proof Trump Halloween masks? More on that in a bit. In the meantime, the Trump h...
New York City…The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 42-year old national civil rights organization, will dispatch more than 800 attorneys, law students, and community volunteers to polling places in 14 states and Washington, DC to document voting problems in the 2016 electi...
NBC News - With just two weeks to go before the general election, community nonprofits have been hard at work making sure Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters head to the polls on Nov. 8. From phone banks to door knocking…
Donald Trump can’t help himself. Even after the third presidential debate, he stood Thursday before an Ohio rally and couldn’t give in.
Instead, he said he would “totally accept” the election results.
But then added: “If I win.”
That’s a version of the Trumpian catch-all clause that is probably i...
I confess Trump’s admission for his predilection of the Trumpian sexual offense known as the “pussy grab” distracted me so much in the last week I plumb forgot about Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct. 10.
Sorry.
I wasn’t even able to appropriately dis that overreaching Genoan sailing for Spain, Christop...
Denton Record-Chronicle - Mallika Das, a U.S. citizen who was born in India, walked into a Williamson County polling place in 2014 eager to cast her ballot. Because she was not proficient in English and had found it difficult to vote in the past, Das brought her son…
Austin American-Statesman - Asian-Americans, the fastest-growing demographic group in Austin, are emerging as a factor in upcoming local elections, expected to vote in record numbers and becoming a force in political fundraising…
https://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/ho...
New York Times - In a packed federal courtroom in Brooklyn on Friday, it was one-stop shopping for 262 New Yorkers: They became American citizens and registered to vote – all from their seats and just before the deadline…
Texas Tribune - Mallika Das, a U.S. citizen who was born in India, walked into a Williamson County polling place in 2014 eager to cast her ballot. Because she was not proficient in English and had found it difficult to vote in the past, Das brought her son…
In New York State, the deadline to register in order to vote in the Nov. 8, 2016 elections is Friday, Oct. 14. It is also the deadline to register in a political party or change your party registration if you want to the vote in the 2017 NYC primary elections.
You can mail in your voter registratio...
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote, including segregated “Asian” voting lines. When the news media reported on election results, Asian Americans were often overlooked. In response, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund...
For much needed contrast, after the sad spectacle of the Sunday presidential debate, I figured I needed some laughs.
So immediately after watching it streamed live on CBSN, I caught a performance by the former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald, the last comedian to appear on ...
