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Last Tuesday, New Americans made history. From Boston to Dearborn, Michigan to New York City and all across the country, the 2021 elections [[link removed]] once again showed that New Americans and BIPOC can run for office and win anywhere in the U.S. and that voters understand, like us, just how much representation matters. Candidates like Mayors-elect Michelle Wu, Abdullah Hammoud, and Aftab Pureval made history along with a number of our alums! Scroll down to the NAL News section to read more about these exciting wins.
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The U.S. is now open to non-essential travel, yet fully vaccinated asylum seekers are still being denied [[link removed]] their legal right to entry. If vaccinated tourists can enter the U.S., so should vaccinated asylum seekers. It’s time to end Title 42—which has never actually been about public health—once and for all.
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This year, amid the ongoing pandemic, a reckoning on race and social justice, and critical policy fights, these conversations are all the more necessary if we want to continue building coalitions for a more just country that works for and represents us all.
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New American and BIPOC candidates won big in last week's elections, including a number of NALpistas! One of them is our alumna, Shahana Hanif, who became the first Muslim woman ever elected to the New York City Council as well as one of the first two South Asians (along with our alum Shekar Krishnan!) on the council. One of the key things that helped her win is that she succeeded in mobilizing multiple constituencies, our President Ghida Dagher noted [[link removed]] :
“She ran a campaign in addition to her normal one that was all in Bangla. It was actually run by her mother. And so these are very deep community ties and they’re meeting their voters where they’re at. Educating them in their own languages. In a way that non-New American candidates do not.”
Along with Councilmember-elect Hanif, we had more than 20 NAL alumni win elections this year:
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Amanda
Farías
(New
York
City
Council)
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Shekar
Krishnan
(New
York
City
Council;
one
of
the
first
two
South
Asians
on
the
NYC
Council)
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Shahana
Hanif
(New
York
City
Council;
the
first
Muslim
woman
and
one
of
the
first
two
South
Asians
on
the
NYC
Council)
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Crystal
Hudson
(New
York
City
Council;
one
of
the
first
out
queer
Black
women
elected
in
New
York)
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Alexa
Avilés
(New
York
City
Council)
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Kamal
Alsawafy
(Dearborn
City
Council)
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Pierina
Sanchez
(New
York
City
Council)
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Julie
Won
(New
York
City
Council;
one
of
the
first
Korean
Americans
on
the
NYC
Council)
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Gabriela
Santiago-Romero
(New
York
City
Council;
the
first
LGBTQ
Councilwoman
in
Detroit
and
first
Latina
out
LGBTQ
woman
elected
in
Michigan)
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Abdullah
Hammoud
(Dearborn,
Michigan's
first
Arab
American
and
Muslim
mayor)
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Coco
Alinsug
(the
first
LGBTQ
Councilor
in
Lynn
and
the
first
Filipino
American
City
Councilor
in
New
England)
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Dora
Rodriguez
(Trenton
City
Council)
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Rami
Al-Kabra
(Bothell
City
Council)
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Anne
Keke
(Aurora
Public
Schools
Board)
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Elsa
Mejia
(Madera
City
Council)
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Khemarey
Khoeun
(Skokie
Village
Trustee)
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Erin
Chan
Ding
(Barrington
Board
of
Education)
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Karen
Colon-Hayes
(Malden
City
Council)
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Vivian
Nguyen
(Everett
City
Council)
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Rebecca
Chamberlain-Creanga
(Troy
City
Council)
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Theresa
Tran
(Brentwood
School
Board)
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Iris
Guzman
(SeaTac
City
Council)
We're so proud of all NALpistas who stepped into their power and claimed a seat at the table. We can't wait to see what you do in your first term and how you use your voices to transform politics!
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We're so excited to introduce our 2021 Ready to Win cohort! Starting today and over the coming weeks, these 27 leaders from 11 states will get the tools they need to run for office and win or lead a successful campaign. Please join us in welcoming and congratulating them!
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