Friends, ASPIRE is incredibly proud to endorse 19 House and Senate candidates in the 2020 cycle.
Some of our endorsees are familiar names because of the incredible work they’ve done in Congress to stand up to the bigotry of the Trump administration: incumbents Tammy Duckworth (IL-Sen), Mazie Hirono (HI-Sen), TJ Cox (CA-21), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Andy Kim (NJ-03), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Barbara Lee (CA-13), Ted Lieu (CA-33), Stephanie Murphy (FL-07), Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (CNMI), and Mark Takano (CA-41).
We’re also endorsing Gil Cisneros (CA-39), Susie Lee (NV-03), Katie Porter (CA-45), and Harley Rouda (CA-48) -- frontline Democrats who are strong allies to the growing AAPI communities they represent. These members won tremendously difficult races in 2018 with your support, and we need to make sure they have the support they need to win in November.
Today, we’d like to introduce a few folks we’ve endorsed that you may not have heard of yet, but who will be flipping red seats and expanding the Democratic House majority in November:
- Pritesh Gandhi in TX-10 -- Pritesh is a primary care doctor and the associate chief medical officer at People’s Community Clinic in Austin, serving vulnerable, low-income communities. He’s also the son of immigrants, father of three young daughters, and a University of Texas professor and Fulbright scholar who’s studied political, social, economic, and environmental impacts on health.
- Sri Kulkarni in TX-22 -- Sri is a career diplomat and foreign service officer. He served our country overseas in Jerusalem, Iraq, and Russia for 14 years before Trump’s election and the Nazi rally in Charlottesville inspired him to come home and run for this seat in 2018. He ran his 2018 campaign in 15 languages, dedicated to reaching all communities in this diverse district, and closed a 30-point gap. Cook Political is already calling this race a “toss-up.”
- Gina Ortiz Jones in TX-23 -- Gina was raised by a hard-working immigrant single mother, and she served our country as an Air Force intelligence officer during the Iraq War and as a civil servant working in national security, intelligence, and defense. Throughout her work overseas, she saw the dangers in governments that attacked the free press and sought to silence the voices of women and other marginalized communities. She’s running for Congress to stop that happening in America.
- Hiral Tipirneni in AZ-06 -- Hiral immigrated to the U.S. with her family at age 3 and has served the Phoenix area as an ER physician, cancer research advocate, and public health administrator over the past 20 years. She’s also been endorsed by End Citizens United, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and EMILY’s List for the incredible work we know she’ll accomplish in Washington.
So often it’s harder for women and candidates of color to get traditional institutional support for their campaigns or be taken as seriously by the media as they deserve to be. We’re in this fight to fix that, but none of what we do would be possible without your support. Thank you for everything you’ve done to help level the playing field -- when voters hear our message, our candidates win.
Thank you again for being part of the fight,
ASPIRE
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