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👋 Welcome to AAPI Nation.
We’re trying something new this week—an Instagram Reel/TikTok chronicling the history of the Asian American movement for voting rights. (I promise I don’t always look that serious.)
The vertical explainer is part of an effort to mobilize voters for the midterm elections in partnership with APIAVote and the Asian American Journalists Association. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Vivek Ramaswamy. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr
🚨 Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is under fire after his campaign released an attack ad suggesting that Democratic opponent Amy Acton lied about her experience as a childhood sexual abuse survivor for political gain, The 19th reports.
The ad features her estranged mother Donna Arthur, who claims Acton has “lied her entire life.” Arthur lost custody of Acton and her younger brother after her second husband was charged with raping Acton, then 12.
📉 Republicans have lost ground with AAPI adults when it comes to handling the economy, according to the latest AAPI Data/AP-NORC survey.
Ahead of the midterms, most AAPI adults say they are “extremely or very concerned” about fake or false information about candidates. 4 in 10 are “extremely or very concerned” about threats of violence at the polls.
📣 Candidates for Office of Hawaiian Affairs at-large trustee shared their positions on grant programs, military lease negotiations, and policy priorities, per Hawai‘i Public Radio.
🔎 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois) led 105 members of Congress in urging FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a recent mass shooting attempt at a Hindu temple in Illinois as a potential federal hate crime.
🗳️ Seven Native Hawaiians are running for local seats in the midterm elections, part of a broader uptick in Indigenous candidates across all elections and parties, IndiJ Public Media reports.
✉️ The U.S. Postal Service’s new Diwali Forever stamp, featuring a rangoli pattern created by Houston-based artist Sangita Bhutada, was unveiled at the Indian Embassy on Wednesday.
💸 Recovery loans for damage and loss from Super Typhoon Bavi are now available to Guam residents and businesses, the Pacific Daily News notes.
🎓 A new South Asian American studies center is coming to UC Santa Barbara.
🕊️ An Truong, the first Vietnamese American to serve as mayor of a city in Tarrant County, Texas, has died at 78, per the Fort Worth Report.
🎓 A new bill moving though the Guam Legislature aims to preserve CHamoru traditions by allowing certain cultural practitioners to teach at the University of Guam even if they lack formal academic credentials, per the Pacific Daily News.
📺 Beloved Kwik-E-Mart operator Apu returned to the world of “The Simpsons” after nearly a decade—this time voiced by an actual Indian American actor, AP reports.
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