Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani and Thomas Middleditch Harassed as #EmboldenedRacists Get Even Bolder
Silicon Valley‘s stars Thomas Middleditch and Kumail Nanjiani tweeted over the weekend that they were targets of harassment Friday night…
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#EmboldenedRacists After Election of Donald Trump
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign by calling Mexicans “rapists” and “killers”. On the campaign trail, he has advocated a…
National Exit Polls Totally Underestimated Clinton’s Support among AAPI Voters
Following the devastating defeat of Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton by Republican nominee — and now President-elect — Donald Trump,…
In Search of Political Power: Captured Minorities and the AAPI Electorate
On Tuesday, America will mark yet another Election Day. For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), this coming election seems…
When the Donald Embraced ‘The Hindu’
By Guest Contributors: Lakshmi Gandhi (@lakshmigandhi) and Asha Sundararaman (@mixedtck) Lakshmi: If you follow lots of South Asians on Twitter (as…
5 Lessons I Learned While Protesting a Trump Rally
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya “I need to pee, and I need a cookie,” I told my friend as we drove…
Pro-Trump Group Shares Super Racist Anti-Asian Meme
(H/T P.D.) Yesterday, a Facebook group called “Wisconsin for Trump” — which has more than 25,000 likes — shared a super…
New Poll Shows that Trump has Alienated Two-Thirds of Asian American Voters
A rarity among national polls, a new political poll jointly conducted by NBC News and SurveyMonkey has included much-anticipated survey data…
Trump Includes Philippines, Pakistan Among “Terrorist” Nations Whose Immigrants He’d Restrict
Earlier this month, Donald Trump spoke to a rally in Portland, Maine where he repeated one of his most infamous…
Why This Election Matters
By Guest Contributor: Timmy Lu (@timmyhlu) I’ve been voting and tracking national electoral politics since I was nine, when I…
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Would Donald Trump still be a Freddie Mercury fan if he knew Freddie’s life story?
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) Before journalist Jarrett Hill broke the story of Melania Trump’s alleged plagiarism of Michelle…
Why a Vice President Mike Pence is Bad News for AAPIs
Hours ago, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump confirmed weeks of political gossip with his announcement that he…