Politics
Exclusive: New Biden campaign ad buy targets AAPIs in battleground states
The ad buy, first shared with The Yappie, highlights Biden’s investments in small businesses and working-class families.
March 19, 2024
Exclusive: Biden campaign warns AAPI voters on economic, health care costs of another Trump term
In new messaging shared with The Yappie ahead of the State of the Union, the campaign will aim to convince Asian American and Pacific Islander voters that Trump’s agenda would “raise costs, jeopardize their Social Security, and rip away their rights.”
March 7, 2024
Senate confirms first Native Hawaiian woman to federal bench
Native Hawaiians have long been disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system. Park’s confirmation could change that.
December 5, 2023
Exclusive: AAPI Victory Alliance, Emerging Voters join forces to drive civic engagement
The new strategic partnership is aimed at building AAPI bargaining and political power at state and local levels ahead of the 2024 elections.
September 26, 2023
Perspectives in conversation: The fall of affirmative action in admissions
The Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious admissions has re-opened a window into Asian Americans’ varying opinions on the policy.
July 1, 2023
AAPIs face knowledge gap with abortion pills, study reveals
A little over a third of survey respondents said they had not heard of—or did not know if they had heard of—medication abortion.
June 5, 2023
Patsy Mink’s path to Congress
Patsy Mink made history in 1964 when she became the first woman of color elected to Congress. Well…
May 8, 2023
The little-known case of Purvi Patel
Purvi Patel, an Indian American woman living in Indiana, was convicted of feticide in 2015 for allegedly inducing…
May 8, 2023
Nikki Haley becomes first Republican to announce 2024 challenge to Trump
The former South Carolina governor is one of the nation’s highest-profile Asian American Republicans.
February 15, 2023
Monterey Park shooting: A tragedy in America’s first suburban Chinatown
The attack, in a city that is two-thirds Asian American, is the deadliest mass killing in the nation since the Uvalde shooting last May.
January 23, 2023