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TargetSmart: Asian American Voter Registration Trends in 2022
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New AAPI Registrants: 2020 vs 2022 (photo credit: Tom Bonier) I forget when I first started following Tom Bonier of TargetSmart (“a Democratic political data and data services firm”), but he had recently tweeted out some interesting Asian American voter registration stats: Interestingly, since Dobbs the Dem margin among AAPI new registrants has been even […]

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Asian American TV Trailer Watch: NBC’s Reboot of ‘Quantum Leap’
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I remember the original ‘Quantum Leap’ TV series, which aired on NBC for 5 seasons from 1989 to 1993. I wasn’t a big watcher of TV back then, mostly because I was in college during most of that time and had little time to watch TV. There’s a re-boot, or more exactly I would say, […]

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8Asians Exclusive: Interview with Jay Chen for Congress
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(Full disclosure: I’ve donated to Jay’s campaign and endorse his run for Congress.) The last time I had interviewed Taiwanese American Jay Chen was back in 2012 when I first met him at the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Recently, when Jay was in town, I had a chance to do a brief interview with […]

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Summer Tunage: Jaeyoung – Obnoxioius
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  #JAEYOUNG #obnoxious #yearoftheox Stream Obnoxious by JAEYOUNG here: https://linktr.ee/yox_jaeyoung Produced by JAEYOUNG @yox_jaeyoung Directed by Richard Song aka Rich Shot It @ricchshotit Mixed and Mastered by PETER MSTR ROCKS HONG @misterxrocks Special Thanks to Kri Baldwin @thetailorlofts FOLLOW JAEYOUNG: @yox_jaeyoung @officialyox www.officialyox.com

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Representative Judy Chu On Monkeypox
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Monkeypox is a public health emergency and we must be diligent in our efforts to protect all American from this virus. Learn more about monkeypox and how you can help to prevent further spread in your community: https://t.co/BXDNjPxykf pic.twitter.com/zMJZPaxi1E — Judy Chu (@RepJudyChu) August 19, 2022

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Summer Tunage: Songs from Scratch | Deb Never x Audrey Nuna ‘Chump Change’
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  Created by Yours Truly Creative in partnership with Adidas Originals Directed by Alexandra Thurmond Producers – Stacey Thiel & Anastasia Solovieva Executive Producers – Will Abramson & Babak Khoshnoud Director of Photography – Tehillah De Castro Editor – Alex Warren Photographer – Babak Khoshnoud Deb Management – Michael Washington Audrey Management – Anwar Sawyer […]

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Summer Tunage: Conan Gray – Disaster
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  The official music video for Conan Gray’s “Disaster” taken from the new album Superache 🌹 https://conangray.lnk.to/superache Connect with Conan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conangray Twitter: https://twitter.com/conangray Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/conangrayoff… TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@conangray Official Site: http://www.conangray.com Lyrics: Let me just set the scene I’d just left the party at Blake’s And it’s Halloween Had the keys to my car in […]

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Summer Tunage: Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet feat. So!YoON!
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  This is the Korean version on the single–but still summer worthy. “Be Sweet” feat. So!YoON! (Korean Version) by Japanese Breakfast, out now on Dead Oceans. Stream/Buy: https://japanesebreakfast.ffm.to/be-s… http://japanesebreakfast.rocks/https://www.instagram.com/jbrekkie/https://twitter.com/jbrekkie/ #JapaneseBreakfast #BeSweet #KoreanVersion

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Drafting Our Own Existence: On Vincent Chin, Activism, Community, Blogging, Loss, And Adoption
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From a chapter written in 2021 on Vincent Chin, Community, and Blogging. While I think it turned out different than originally planned as I couldn’t help but find these tethered pieces of adoption and loss that also started to permeate my writing–I like the dual conversation. ======== I think Vincent Chin has stuck in the […]

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Gonzaga Basketball Players Kayleigh and Kaylynne Truong land Endorsement Deals and fight Stereotypes
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Photo credit: Gonzaga University Before reading this article about Gonzaga Basketball Players Kayleigh and Kaylynne Truong, I had no idea about any Asian American women college basketball players, much less any who were Division I players much less twins. I also didn’t know about The Sideline Post, which is a platform for college athletes to […]

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