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Government
Georgia voting laws disproportionately affect AAPI voters: report
The Georgia legislature’s new restrictions on absentee voting are disproportionately affecting the Asian American and Pacific Islander...
Michelle De Pacina
Councilwoman in Georgia shamed as ‘un-American’ for wanting to add ballots in Vietnamese, Spanish
A councilmember in Georgia was shamed by her fellow councilmember for petitioning to add voting ballots in Spanish and Vietnamese. Dean’s ad...
Civil Rights
New Ohio law requiring IDs to indicate if individual is ‘noncitizen’ sparks controversy
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed a controversial law that requires driver’s licenses and state identification to indicate whether ...
Ryan General
News
TikTok suppressing get-out-the-vote content, study suggests
Nonprofit organization Accelerate Change released a study on Sunday claiming that TikTok is suppressing video content that encourages peopl...
Politics
Sen. Hirono says Republicans want to stop ‘minorities, Black people, Chicanos, Asian-Americans’ from voting
Sen. Mazie Hirono spoke out about the “hundreds” of voter suppression bills passed by Republicans. She accused Republicans of trying to pa...
Jiselle Lee
‘Dividing areas based on race is indeed racism’: Alderman proposes Chicago remap with 48% Asian American ward
In a letter posted to Twitter, Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson expressed concerns that current proposals to unify Chicago’s Asian communitie...
Chicago
Chicago to get its first-ever Asian American ward if map proposal is approved
If all goes according to plan, Chicago City Council members will introduce the first Asian-majority ward to the city on Dec. 1. Discourse ov...
Texas AAPI communities in Houston counties split into different districts, lessening voting bloc power
The Asian communities in Texas’ Harris County and Fort Bend County have been split up into new districts. Diversity in Texas: Gov. Greg Abbo...
Kamala Harris Makes History as the First Black South Asian Woman VP Candidate
Kamala Harris was chosen to be Joe Biden’s running mate in his 2020 presidential campaign. Despite the delays in Biden’s announc...
Maina Chen
The 26 Asian American Politicians Aiming to Re-Elect Trump in 2020
A coalition of Asian Americans have joined President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign advisory board. Called the “Asian Pacific Amer...
University of Illinois Chicago Accused of Denying Over 450 International Students Voting Rights
Hundreds of international students were robbed of their right to vote in a recent student election at the University of Illinois at Chicago ...
Carl Samson
Most Asian Americans Don’t Want to Give Prisoners the Right to Vote, Poll Shows
Majority of Asian Americans do not want to give prisoners the right to vote, a new poll has revealed. According to The Hill and Harris X sur...
Asia
Taiwan Rejects Chance to Be the First Asian Country to Legalize Gay Marriage
The dream of Taiwan becoming the first Asian country ever to embrace same-sex marriage as part of its constitution has taken a step back as ...
Bryan Ke