GOP lawmakers receive free KN95 masks — and respond with racist anti-Asian attacks
Experts say Republican rhetoric has fueled thousands of racist incidents against Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic.
By Josh Israel - January 14, 2022Experts say Republican rhetoric has fueled thousands of racist incidents against Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic.
By Josh Israel - January 14, 2022Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) referred to Asian Americans as ‘yellow people’ at a recent event.
By Josh Axelrod - December 21, 2021Republican Glenn Youngkin will face former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race in November.
By Josh Israel - June 30, 2021‘We’re not bringing you the virus,’ said Dr. Michele Lee. ‘We are literally trying to help you get rid of the virus.’
By Associated Press - May 07, 2021Asian American families are wrestling with whether to send their children back out into the world at a time when anti-Asian hostility and violence is on the rise.
By Associated Press - April 24, 2021Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) repeatedly summoned racist tropes about the coronavirus and incessantly blamed China for the outbreak.
By Amy Lieu - April 22, 2021‘An attack on one group in our country is truly an attack on all of us,’ said Sen. Mazie Hirono.
By Associated Press - April 14, 2021Sery Kim said she didn’t want Chinese immigrants coming to the United States.
By Emily Singer - April 05, 2021‘It’s personal. It could have been our aunt or our mom or our grandma,’ one organizer said of the recent vicious attacks targeting older Asian Americans.
By Associated Press - April 04, 2021Republican lawmakers lashed out this week after Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Mazie Hirono refused to confirm anymore non-diverse nominees until President Joe Biden pledged to add more AAPI appointees to his roster.
By Amy Lieu - March 24, 2021Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said people shouldn’t jump to conclusions and suggested the shooter had ‘underlying mental illness.’
By Oliver Willis - March 23, 2021‘It’s important that he knows there are still good people. That’s simply it,’ said one donor.
By Associated Press - March 22, 2021‘He’s absolutely taking no responsibility and putting all of that on the workers themselves and it also distracts from the race issue,’ one organizer said.
By Associated Press - March 20, 2021But it doesn’t think Rep. Chip Roy should resign over it.
By Josh Israel - March 19, 2021Republican Rep. Tom McClintock really wants people to think that structural racism doesn’t exist.
By Amy Lieu - March 19, 2021‘The way we get through this is together by organizing our people and feeling solidarity.’
By Associated Press - March 18, 2021Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson have histories of racist and discriminatory behavior.
By Amy Lieu - March 18, 2021Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) blamed China for the coronavirus at a hearing meant to address the rise in attacks on Asian Americans during the pandemic.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2021It is time to ‘invest in transformative justice that begins with cross racial dialogue and community-building,’ said one expert.
By Amy Lieu - March 17, 2021Many of the victims were women of Asian descent.
By Associated Press - March 17, 2021‘Losses due to gender and racial wage gaps are devastating for AAPI women and their families,’ one group warned. ‘This pandemic threatens to deepen these inequities.’
By Amy Lieu - March 09, 2021A rash of crimes victimizing elderly Asian Americans in the past two months has renewed outcry for more attention from politicians and the media.
By Associated Press - March 02, 2021‘It has been infuriating how casually our community continues to be dismissed,’ one expert says.
By Amy Lieu - February 15, 2021Julie Su has fought to protect low-wage workers for 17 years, freeing enslaved Thai workers in 1995.
By Amy Lieu - February 11, 2021Recent CDC reports show a troubling lack of data on the matter.
By Amy Lieu - February 02, 2021New analysis shows both populations make up just a small percentage of the 117th Congress, though they’ve made important strides in recent years.
By Amy Lieu - January 29, 2021Lawmakers and advocates praise Biden for having ‘the most diverse administration ever’ but worry about the lack of AAPI representation in his Cabinet’s top roles.
By Amy Lieu - January 08, 2021Asian Americans are the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. electorate.
By Amy Lieu - January 02, 2021‘Let’s show the rest of the country that Asian voters are a force to be reckoned with.’
By Amy Lieu - December 30, 2020Katherine Tai is set to ‘break barriers’ as the 14th U.S. trade representative and the first woman in 24 years in the Cabinet post.
By Amy Lieu - December 10, 2020