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December 17, 2020 at 3:45 PM

The GOP’s base is racist -- and that’s why they’re focusing on Warnock

        Hi friend,   There’s two Senate runoffs on January 5, but the GOP has homed in on who they think is the easiest target to rouse their base: Rev. Raphael Warnock, the only person of color on the ballot.   As The New York Times writes: “Spotlighti…

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December 16, 2020 at 10:47 PM

GA is a tossup

        Friend,   Asian American voters helped to give Joe Biden Georgia. But now many AAPI activists are worried.   The Republicans are gunning for the Georgia Senate runoffs. If they win, they’ll regain control of the chamber and get a free pass to ob…

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December 16, 2020 at 7:46 PM

McEnany: “Gov. Kemp is no different than Stacey Abrams”

        Friends,   “Governor Kemp is Stacey Abrams and that is despicable.”   This is a real thing that White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in one of the administration’s many attempts at smearing the Georgia governor after he refused to o…

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December 16, 2020 at 3:47 PM

We have a future with Fauci

        Hi there,   The moment we’ve long waited for is here: Dr. Anthony Fauci has accepted a role in Biden’s presidential administration.   The president-elect officially asked Fauci to be his chief medical adviser, and to continue leading the country…

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December 16, 2020 at 3:46 AM

Donald Trump’s pardon party

        Hi there,   The New York Times: “President Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant preemptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and talked with Mr. Giuliani about pardoning him a…

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December 16, 2020 at 2:47 AM

Georgia isn’t a blue state yet

        Friend,   Asian American voters helped to give Joe Biden Georgia. But now many AAPI activists are worried.   The Republicans are gunning for the Georgia Senate runoffs. If they win, they’ll regain control of the chamber and get a free pass to ob…

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December 16, 2020 at 12:46 AM

Social Security is on the brink of a major crisis

        Friend,   The latest polling shows that 57% of retirees rely on Social Security as their largest source of retirement income -- not IRAs, 401(k)s, or any other work-sponsored pension plans.   And now, 71% of Americans over the age of 70 are conc…

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December 15, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Black women aren’t surprised that Georgia flipped blue

        Hi there,   When Georgia flipped blue for Joe Biden, many Democrats across the country heralded it as a welcome surprise -- and an indication of new hope for the blue wave in the South.   However, for the Black women organizers of the Peach Stat…

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December 15, 2020 at 3:46 PM

The country sees through Trump’s xenophobic lies

        Hello,   POLITICO: “A federal judge in California [last week] slapped down the Trump administration's latest effort to limit legal immigration, vacating new restrictions on H-1B high-skilled foreign worker visas that were expected to affect a thi…

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December 15, 2020 at 2:47 AM

GA isn’t solid

        Friend,   Asian American voters helped to give Joe Biden Georgia. But now many AAPI activists are worried.   The Republicans are gunning for the Georgia Senate runoffs. If they win, they’ll regain control of the chamber and get a free pass to ob…

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December 15, 2020 at 12:45 AM

Social Security is on the brink of major catastrophe

        Friend,   The latest polling shows that 57% of retirees rely on Social Security as their largest source of retirement income -- not IRAs, 401(k)s, or any other work-sponsored pension plans.   And now, 71% of Americans over the age of 70 are conc…

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December 14, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Donald Trump’s pardon palooza -- come one, come all

        Hi there,   The New York Times: “President Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant preemptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and talked with Mr. Giuliani about pardoning him a…

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December 14, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Increased AAPI voter turnout helped flip GA blue

        Hi friend,   Have you seen these stats from Georgia that Tom Bonier, CEO of political data firm TargetSmart, recently shared on Twitter?   “31% of Georgians who voted in the '20 general election didn't vote in 2016. 9% of them had never voted be…

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December 14, 2020 at 3:46 PM

They're trying to tarnish voter registration gains in Georgia

        Friend,   The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has begun an investigation into the New Georgia Project, a voter registration organization, for allegedly trying to register voters in other states.   Their single piece of flimsy evidence? A twe…

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December 13, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Social Security is on the brink of catastrophe

        Friend,   The latest polling shows that 57% of retirees rely on Social Security as their largest source of retirement income -- not IRAs, 401(k)s, or any other work-sponsored pension plans.   And now, 71% of Americans over the age of 70 are conc…

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December 13, 2020 at 3:46 PM

Trump’s pardon palooza

        Hi there,   The New York Times: “President Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant preemptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and talked with Mr. Giuliani about pardoning him a…

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December 12, 2020 at 7:47 PM

At last, a "flurry of congressional activity" over relief

        Friend,   Hundreds of thousands of Americans are now dead. Tens of millions are unemployed. And Congress hasn’t passed any substantial COVID relief since April.   And we shouldn’t hold our breath that anything will get done before January. As PO…

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December 12, 2020 at 3:49 PM

The highest-ranking Republican to rebuke Trump

        Friend,   Attorney General William Barr: “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”   As The Hill pointed out: “Barr’s comments are his first about the integrity of the election sin…

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December 11, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Stephen Miller’s reign of terror in the White House

        Friends,   NBC News: “The Trump White House blocked the Justice Department from making a deal in October 2019 to pay for mental health services for migrant families who had been separated by the Trump administration … The Office of White House Co…

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December 11, 2020 at 7:46 PM

Would YOU pass Trump’s citizenship test?

        Hi there,   Your first citizenship test question: “Who does a U.S. senator represent?”   No, it’s not all people of their state -- the ONLY acceptable answer has been changed to citizens of their state.   Trump’s discriminatory legacy on immigr…

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December 11, 2020 at 3:48 PM

Georgia election workers are receiving death threats and nooses

        Friend,   POLITICO: “Gabriel Sterling, a top official in the Georgia secretary of state’s office, condemned President Donald Trump and the state’s two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, in a fiery press conference [last week] a…

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December 10, 2020 at 10:46 PM

Stephen Miller’s reign of terror isn’t over yet

        Friends,   NBC News: “The Trump White House blocked the Justice Department from making a deal in October 2019 to pay for mental health services for migrant families who had been separated by the Trump administration … The Office of White House Co…

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December 10, 2020 at 7:46 PM

Trump doesn’t think undocumented immigrants deserve representation in Congress -- will SCOTUS agree?

        Hi there,   The Supreme Court recently heard arguments on Trump’s last-minute efforts “to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the calculations used to allocate seats in the House,” according to The New York Times.   “If the court rules for the …

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December 10, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Georgia isn’t solid

        Friend,   Asian American voters helped to give Joe Biden Georgia. But now many AAPI activists are worried.   The Republicans are gunning for the Georgia Senate runoffs. If they win, they’ll regain control of the chamber and get a free pass to ob…

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December 9, 2020 at 10:48 PM

Members of Congress push for AAPI representation in Biden’s Cabinet

        Friend,   The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, along with Representatives Grace Meng, Judy Chu, Mark Takano, Raja Krishnamoorthi, and other members of Congress, are imploring President-elect Joe Biden to appoint AAPI officials to his …

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December 9, 2020 at 7:47 PM

AAPI voter turnout could make all the difference in the GA runoffs

        Friends,   “Georgia’s hand recount and vote certification confirmed that Asian American and Pacific Islander voters — who make up the fastest-growing demographic in Georgia — helped swing the state for the Democrats for the first time since 1992,…

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December 9, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Stephen Miller’s reign of terror

        Friends,   NBC News: “The Trump White House blocked the Justice Department from making a deal in October 2019 to pay for mental health services for migrant families who had been separated by the Trump administration … The Office of White House Co…

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December 8, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Stacey Abrams will change this country’s direction

        Friend,   The once unthinkable happened -- Georgia turned blue. And as POLITICO reports, we owe our gratitude to Stacey Abrams and the network of activists who have been planning this for nearly a decade:   “The people leading the effort to flip…

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December 8, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Sen. Perdue: “Kamala-mala-mala, I don’t know, whatever.”

        Hi friend,   “The most insidious thing that Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden are trying to perpetrate, and Bernie, and Elizabeth, and KAH-mah-la, or Kah-MAH-la, or KAH-mah-la or Kamala-mala-mala, I don’t know, whatever,” blathered Sen. David Perdue at…

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December 8, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Kelly Loeffler is interviewing with neo-Nazis

        Hi friend,   Forbes: “U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler aggressively promoted an otherwise typical media interview she gave to a conservative media outlet. The problem is that her interviewer, Jack Posobiec, is someone who has been accused of promoting…

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December 7, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Stacey Abrams will change the direction of this country

        Friend,   The once unthinkable happened -- Georgia turned blue. And as POLITICO reports, we owe our gratitude to Stacey Abrams and the network of activists who have been planning this for nearly a decade:   “The people leading the effort to flip…

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December 7, 2020 at 7:57 PM

We MUST protect Georgia from the Proud Boys

        Friends,   Enrique Tarrio, a Proud Boys leader, along with Infowars creator Alex Jones, led hundreds of Trump supporters in a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally outside Georgia’s Capitol building while ballots were being recounted.   “The fraud’s been proven,…

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December 7, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Attorneys beg Barr to drop election fraud investigation to no avail

        Friends,   Bill Barr’s colleagues are speaking out about how baseless his -- and Trump’s -- election fraud claims truly are.   “Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor malfeasance in the 2020 election urged Attorney Genera…

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December 6, 2020 at 7:46 PM

We can kiss immigration reform goodbye -- unless we act now

        Hi friend,   Good news: Rep. Grace Meng recently helped pass the National Apprenticeship Act in the House. The amendment she added makes the language of apprenticeship programs more accessible for immigrant families.   We are thrilled to hear ab…

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December 5, 2020 at 10:46 PM

Stacey Abrams will change the trajectory of this country

        Friend,   The once unthinkable happened -- Georgia turned blue. And as POLITICO reports, we owe our gratitude to Stacey Abrams and the network of activists who have been planning this for nearly a decade:   “The people leading the effort to flip…

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December 5, 2020 at 3:46 PM

Why 71% of older Americans are concerned for Social Security’s future

        Friends,   “71% of Americans aged 70+ are concerned about Social Security drying up,” according to Simplywise’s most recent Retirement Confidence Index.   It’s not hard to understand why. The future of Social Security depends on President-elect …

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December 4, 2020 at 10:47 PM

Stacey Abrams will change this country’s course

        Friend,   The once unthinkable happened -- Georgia turned blue. And as POLITICO reports, we owe our gratitude to Stacey Abrams and the network of activists who have been planning this for nearly a decade:   “The people leading the effort to flip…

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December 4, 2020 at 7:47 PM

WaPo: The GOP’s coordinated push to preserve White power in elections

        Friend,   The GOP’s assault on our multiracial democracy is far from over.   As The Washington Post reports, “the majority of Republican members of Congress, Trump enablers in right-wing media, the Republican National Committee and local Republi…

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December 4, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Our first Democratic Korean American Congresswoman

        Hi there,   We’re simply bursting with joy over the victory of our endorsee Congresswoman-elect Marilyn Strickland, who will become the first African American U.S. representative in Washington’s history and one of the first three Korean American …

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December 3, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Sorry, Steve Carell

        Friend,   POLITICO: “Nearly three dozen progressive groups have appealed to President-elect Joe Biden to fold up the new Space Force and cancel major weapons, impose a cap on private contractors, and prohibit lobbyists from filling top Pentagon p…

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December 3, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Stacey Abrams has a plan for that

        Friend,   The once unthinkable happened -- Georgia turned blue. And as POLITICO reports, we owe our gratitude to Stacey Abrams and the network of activists who have been planning this for nearly a decade:   “The people leading the effort to flip…

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December 2, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Stacey Abrams will change the course of this country

        Friend,   The once unthinkable happened -- Georgia turned blue. And as POLITICO reports, we owe our gratitude to Stacey Abrams and the network of activists who have been planning this for nearly a decade:   “The people leading the effort to flip…

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December 2, 2020 at 3:47 PM

The vaccine is ready -- here’s what’s next

        Finally, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.   Recent data from drugmakers Moderna and Pfizer show their experimental COVID-19 vaccines could prove over 90% effective in preventing the virus. If all goes as planned, millions of people could…

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December 1, 2020 at 10:46 PM

Advancing human rights for Asian Americans on Giving Tuesday

        Hello there,   NBC News has reported that “Asian American swing state early and absentee voting increased 300%” in this election -- the highest among any racial group.   This election cycle, we made significant gains in increasing political visibi…

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December 1, 2020 at 7:48 PM

The GOP is so desperate for a Georgia win that they’re cleaning house

        Friend,   POLITICO: “Republicans Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia called on the state’s GOP secretary of state to resign … citing ‘failures’ in the election process but not providing any specific evidence to support their claims.”…

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December 1, 2020 at 12:46 AM

12 million Americans will lose their only source of income next month

        Friends,   A new unemployment report found that about 12 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits, their only source of income, before December ends -- all while Congress fails to act.   Millions of Americans have lost their jobs …

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November 30, 2020 at 12:46 AM

Trump convinced 1⁄3 of the AAPI electorate

        Hi there,   Vox: “AAPI voters are far from a monolith, and although the majority aligned themselves with Democrats in the presidential election, Trump still picked up roughly a third of the group.”   It’s no fluke that Trump was able to win over…

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November 29, 2020 at 12:47 AM

The former Trump political target who will move us forward

        Hello there,   Once fired by Donald Trump, Dr. Vivek Murthy is now the co-chair of Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force and has said that “rebuilding public trust” is the foundation Biden’s team will follow as they beat COVID-19.   As we enter wha…

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November 28, 2020 at 12:46 AM

To GOP senators, we all look alike

        Hello,   Orientation began earlier this month for the freshman class of the 117th Congress, and some new representatives still can’t escape the pervasive racism of U.S. society even as they prepare to serve in our highest offices.   Representati…

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November 27, 2020 at 7:47 PM

Attorney General Barr authorizes investigations into Trump’s election fraud claims

        Friends,   The New York Times: “Attorney General William P. Barr, wading into President Trump’s unfounded accusations of widespread election irregularities, told federal prosecutors ... that they were allowed to investigate “specific allegations”…

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