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October 11, 2020 at 6:45 PM

Trump’s Proud Boys are waiting in the wings

        Friends,   Trump refused to condemn white supremacy at the first presidential debate, instead telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”   But who are the Proud Boys? The Washington Post tells us this of the all-male group: “Created i…

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October 11, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Trump plotting ICE raids in “sanctuary cities”

        Friends,   The Washington Post has reported that “the Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz next month that would target arrests in U.S. cities and jurisdictions that have adopted ‘sanctuary’ policies.”   That story…

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October 10, 2020 at 9:45 PM

McConnell rushing to fill SCOTUS seat before next presidential term begins

        Hello there,    POLITICO: “President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court did not commit to recusing herself from cases related to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to her written responses to a Senate Judiciary Commi…

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October 10, 2020 at 6:45 PM

Trump’s voter intimidation army takes shape

        Friends,   The New York Times reports Trump’s lies about voter fraud are taking an even more dangerous turn: “Republicans are putting together an army of Trump supporters to monitor election procedures.”   At the first debate, more than 73 mill…

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October 10, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Our DREAMers are at risk

        Friends,   Judge Amy Coney Barrett has made it clear that she is no friend of immigrants. This summer, she dissented in a 7th Circuit ruling, arguing that the Trump administration should be allowed to exclude potential immigrants from green cards …

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  Stop Trump’s Racism · [email protected]

October 9, 2020 at 6:55 PM

Trump and his base taunt Ilhan Omar: “Lock her up”

        Friend,   Trump has amped up his racist vitriol against Rep. Ilhan Omar, asking a rally crowd in Minnesota “What is going on with Omar?” before accusing the congresswoman of ballot harvesting, being “crooked and corrupt,” and “[telling] us how to …

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  Grace Meng · [email protected]

October 9, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Not the update I wanted to share

Good morning,    Emailed you last night, but we fell short of goal by $4,382 -- and we need to catch up today.   I am personally asking for your help, and I really hope I can count on you now.   Republicans are doing a better job reaching Asian Americans than the Dems. In fact, according to…

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October 9, 2020 at 1:45 AM

The rules about how to vote are changing

        Friends,    The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court has now ruled that mail-in ballots sent without “secrecy envelopes” will not be counted in November, even though ballots sent that way WERE counted in the primaries this year. Meanwhile, the Supre…

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  Grace Meng · [email protected]

October 9, 2020 at 12:55 AM

Working late!

Hi there,   I just heard from our team -- and right now, we're $8,250 short of this week's goal. Out of an abundance of caution, I'm reaching out to you for support. Our goals are directly tied to the impact we can have in the 26 days leading up to the November 3 election against Donald Trump. …

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  Statehood for PR · [email protected]

October 8, 2020 at 9:46 PM

Pres. Trump is finally giving aid to Puerto Rico -- 1,000+ days after Hurricane Maria

        Friends,    Donald Trump declared himself “the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico” after finally releasing the billions in aid Congress approved for the island -- even though it’s been over three years since the destruction of Hurrican…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 8, 2020 at 6:45 PM

Rules about how to vote are changing

        Friends,    The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court has now ruled that mail-in ballots sent without “secrecy envelopes” will not be counted in November, even though ballots sent that way WERE counted in the primaries this year. Meanwhile, the Supre…

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  Stand With Sen. Harris · [email protected]

October 8, 2020 at 2:46 PM

What last night means for Kamala

        Friends,   Last night, Senator Kamala Harris completely shut down Mike Pence, his obnoxious, countless lies, and his total backing of Trump’s racism.   After the first presidential debate, Senator Harris made it resoundingly clear what she though…

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  Rapid Response Debate Polling · [email protected]

October 8, 2020 at 3:03 AM

Weigh in on the VP debate before anyone else does

        Friends,   The first (and last) vice presidential debate of 2020 has now come to an end.   There was a lot said and a lot at stake. We’re reaching out to get your views on who won and who lost -- the information you share now will allow us to g…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 7, 2020 at 11:46 PM

CNN wonders about an electoral comeback for Pres. Trump

        Friends,    Just a few weeks ago, CNN reported that the president might be mounting “an electoral comeback,” citing the Cook Political Report’s reclassifying two swing states -- Nevada and Florida -- as leaning more toward Donald Trump.   We s…

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  Civil Rights Watch · [email protected]

October 7, 2020 at 9:46 PM

Two days into the first SCOTUS term without RBG

        Friends,   The Supreme Court only started hearing arguments Monday, yet two conservative justices are already criticizing the 2015 ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. This should make it clearer than ever why it’s so important that progressive…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 7, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Mike Pence: a wolf in sheep’s clothing

        Friends,   Tonight, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will go head to head in Salt Lake City for the vice presidential debate.   Pence has always been the carrot to Trump’s stick, the presentable and poised enabler who can get through a debate witho…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 7, 2020 at 1:46 AM

Republicans have a slight edge with AAPI voters on key issues

        Friends,    Axios News reports that “Only 30% of Asian Americans said they've received ‘a great deal’ or ‘some’ contact from the Democratic Party in the last year. 40% said they have been contacted by Republicans.”   It’s no wonder, then, that …

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October 6, 2020 at 11:45 PM

CNN wonders about an electoral comeback for Donald Trump

        Friends,    Just a few weeks ago, CNN reported that the president might be mounting “an electoral comeback,” citing the Cook Political Report’s reclassifying two swing states -- Nevada and Florida -- as leaning more toward Donald Trump.   We s…

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October 6, 2020 at 9:46 PM

“The Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade in the next few years”

        Friends,    “Women of color will lose the most if Roe v. Wade is overturned.”   That’s what the Center for American Progress found in 2018 upon Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court -- citing the way women of color are already more…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 6, 2020 at 6:46 PM

Elizabeth Warren is a one-woman GOP-fighting machine

        Friends,    Elizabeth Warren is taking on Republicans in the Senate and their ringleader in the White House. She condemned Donald Trump for “flirting with treason” by refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power, and ripped into GOP Sena…

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October 6, 2020 at 2:46 PM

GOP votes against anti-racism resolution -- because for them, it’s a campaign tactic

        Hi there,    Last month our chair, Rep. Grace Meng, introduced a resolution condemning anti-Asian sentiment to the House of Representatives.   164 Republicans voted against it. One representative, Jodey Arrington of Texas, took to the floor to …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 5, 2020 at 11:45 PM

The GOP has a slight edge with AAPI voters on key issues

        Friends,    Axios News reports that “Only 30% of Asian Americans said they've received ‘a great deal’ or ‘some’ contact from the Democratic Party in the last year. 40% said they have been contacted by Republicans.”   It’s no wonder, then, that …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 5, 2020 at 9:45 PM

CNN wonders about an electoral comeback for Trump

        Friends,    Just a few weeks ago, CNN reported that the president might be mounting “an electoral comeback,” citing the Cook Political Report’s reclassifying two swing states -- Nevada and Florida -- as leaning more toward Donald Trump.   We s…

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  Puerto Rican Statehood · [email protected]

October 5, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Trump is finally giving aid to Puerto Rico -- 1,000+ days after Hurricane Maria hit

        Friends,    Donald Trump declared himself “the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico” after finally releasing the billions in aid Congress approved for the island -- even though it’s been over three years since the destruction of Hurrican…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 4, 2020 at 2:46 PM

GOP has a slight edge with AAPI voters on key issues

        Friends,    Axios News reports that “Only 30% of Asian Americans said they've received ‘a great deal’ or ‘some’ contact from the Democratic Party in the last year. 40% said they have been contacted by Republicans.”   It’s no wonder, then, that …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 3, 2020 at 2:47 PM

CNN wonders about a Trump electoral comeback

        Friends,    Just a few weeks ago CNN reported that the president might be mounting “an electoral comeback,” citing the Cook Political Report’s reclassifying two swing states -- Nevada and Florida -- as leaning more toward Donald Trump.   We st…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 2, 2020 at 6:46 PM

Help us achieve automatic voter registration

        Hello there,    “If everyone had voted, Hillary Clinton would probably be president.”   That was the incredibly simple, incredibly powerful conclusion drawn by The Economist in the aftermath of the 2016 election.    Even Republicans agree that…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

October 2, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Trump calls eliminating health care for millions “a big WIN”

        Friends,    The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the future of the Affordable Care Act on November 10.   Donald Trump has made his view on the case clear -- to him, eliminating the ACA would be “a big WIN for the USA!”   We think removing …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 30, 2020 at 9:32 PM

Will you join us tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET / 4:00 p.m. PT?

        Hey there --    The Asian American community is a powerful voting bloc all across the country. That’s why we are writing to you today. We hope you will join us at tonight’s event for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) for Biden. We’ll be…

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September 30, 2020 at 6:46 PM

“The day of reckoning is upon us.”

        Friends,    Senator Lindsey Graham, who is making a blatantly partisan attempt today to discredit the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, has promised Americans they’re in for a real show.   Graham’s exact (and cryptic) words were that …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 30, 2020 at 2:47 PM

Tell us what you thought about last night

        Friends,    We couldn’t possibly have had a clearer vision of the differences between the two candidates last night.   One appealed to facts, reason, compassion, and progress -- the other spread a message of hate, fear, division, and anger.  …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 29, 2020 at 6:46 PM

Trump team’s warped strategy to beat Biden on debate stage

        Friends,    POLITICO: “The Trump team has been studying Biden’s idiosyncrasies in debates and other venues and preparing tactics for Trump, according to interviews with a dozen campaign aides, White House officials and outside advisers.”   Per…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 28, 2020 at 9:48 PM

Federal court to Trump: you can’t erase undocumented immigrants

        Friends,    Earlier this month, a federal court in New York blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census – ensuring they will have representation in congressional redistricting.   While …

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 28, 2020 at 6:48 PM

AAPIs are a “politically neglected minority.” That will have consequences.

        Friends,    A recent op-ed published in The Hill called Asian Americans “the politically neglected minority.”   The author finds: “AAPI’s political influence has grown exponentially; eligible voters have more than doubled since 2000 and more t…

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September 27, 2020 at 5:48 PM

The kind of rep you want in your corner

        Hi there,    We’re proud to endorse Marilyn Strickland for Washington state’s 10th Congressional District. The former mayor of Tacoma, Marilyn would be both the first Black leader to represent Washington at the federal level and the first Korean…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 27, 2020 at 2:47 PM

Trump filmed a video where he insults and then “fires” Barack Obama

        Friends,    Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has revealed that his boss once hired an Obama impersonator to act alongside Trump in a video where, according to Cohen, Trump “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 26, 2020 at 9:27 PM

The new Republican Party we’ll face tomorrow

        Hi there,    Republicans now know the name of the person they’ve already sworn to confirm to the Supreme Court: Amy Coney Barrett -- a judge with a history of fighting against reproductive rights, criticizing the Affordable Care Act, and opposing t…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 26, 2020 at 8:46 PM

Trump’s attack on a program “especially vital to women and people of color.”

        Friends,    A recent 2020 analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds that “Social Security remains the largest source of income for older Americans” and that the program is “especially vital to women and people of color.”   Th…

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  ASPIRE · [email protected]

September 26, 2020 at 2:48 PM

Social Security field offices have closed as Trump attacks program’s funding

        Friends,    In March, The New York Times reported that “Social Security’s field office network will be closed to the public in most situations until further notice,” and that help with benefit claims “will be handled only through the agency’s t…

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September 25, 2020 at 5:48 PM

Obama moves to protect election despite GOP criticism

        Friends,    Per NBC News, President Barack Obama has backed the “Power the Polls” initiative, encouraging young Americans to safeguard our democracy -- and earn some income -- by becoming poll workers this election.   But Obama has previously …

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September 25, 2020 at 2:47 PM

Trump admin evokes racist “welfare queen” myth

        Friends,    The Nation: “Republican President George W. Bush tried to privatize the beloved Social Security Program. Evoking Reagan’s ‘welfare queen,’ the racist and sexist myth that Black women game the system to buy fancy cars and name-brand c…

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September 24, 2020 at 9:51 PM

RBG's final award -- and Trump's next move

        Friends,    The 2020 Liberty Medal was one of the last honors bestowed upon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She received this award from the National Constitution Center in recognition of her “efforts to advance liberty and equality for all.”   …

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September 24, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Trump’s new rallying cry: lock Obama up

        Friends,    HuffPost reports that at a recent rally in Nevada, President Donald Trump once again incited his supporters to chant “lock him up,” calling for the imprisonment of former president Barack Obama. At the rally, Trump repeated his evide…

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September 24, 2020 at 2:47 PM

NAACP President speaks out on Social Security

        Friends,    In August, NAACP President Derrick Johnson sent out an SOS, to raise the alarm to save Social Security, referring to the program as a safety net that must be protected.    Johnson highlighted the essential aspects of the program, …

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September 23, 2020 at 11:46 PM

Justice Ginsburg's final award -- and Trump's next move

        Friends,    The 2020 Liberty Medal was one of the last honors bestowed upon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She received this award from the National Constitution Center in recognition of her “efforts to advance liberty and equality for all.”   …

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September 23, 2020 at 8:46 PM

Trump will tear apart one of the last remaining wildlife sanctuaries

        Hello there,    First, Donald Trump rolled back dozens of Obama-era environmental regulations meant to protect our environment and safeguard our future.   Then, Trump installed an anti-indigenous racist who wants to sell off America’s public lan…

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September 23, 2020 at 5:48 PM

Trump courting Indian voters “in ways Republican presidential candidates never have”

        Friends,    POLITICO: “Donald Trump has worked for years to make inroads with Indian Americans in ways Republican presidential candidates never have -- recruiting volunteers at Indian grocery stores, holding events in five Indian languages and p…

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September 23, 2020 at 2:46 PM

USPS blames mail delays on its employees

        Friends,    According to DeJoy’s supporters who are helping him ruin the USPS, the delays we’ve seen in the mail aren’t due to DeJoy’s destructive changes at all. Instead, the blame rests with the “poor judgment” of USPS employees and “workforce…

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September 23, 2020 at 1:03 AM

Donald Trump: Kamala Harris as POTUS would be “an insult to our country”

        Friends,    "People don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country."   That’s what Donald Trump told his North Carolina rally crowd about Kamala Harris…

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September 22, 2020 at 11:47 PM

Justice Ginsburg's final award -- and Trump's next steps

        Friends,    The 2020 Liberty Medal was one of the last honors bestowed upon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She received this award from the National Constitution Center in recognition of her “efforts to advance liberty and equality for all.”   …

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