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Why Are Asian Americans Politically Invisible?

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Why don’t Asian Americans count more, in the landscape of American politics? On its face, the answer is a simple matter of mathematics: Asians make up a much smaller slice of the electorate (An estimated 4 percent in 2016, according to Pew) compared to Blacks (12 percent) or Hispanics (12 percent).

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Advancing Justice | AAJC Comments for 2015 National Content Test

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Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, along with 24 organizations and 28 academics and leaders, proposes the following comments on the topics of the 2015 National Content Test as ways to enhance the quality, utility, and and clarity of the information to be collected for the 2020 Census.

Civil Rights Coalition Tells Census Bureau To Stop Displacing Minority Prisoners

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A broad coalition of 40 civil rights groups told the U.S. Census Bureau that its method of assigning residency to incarcerated people is discriminatory and harms democracy.

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A Community of Contrasts: AANHPI in the Northeast

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A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the Northeast breaks the myth of AANHPI as "model minorities" by underlining the enormous growth and diversity within these communities, paired with heightened civic awareness.

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A Community of Contrasts: AANHPI in the South

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Asian Americans in the South

A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the South is a much needed resource supporting growing Asian American and NHPI movements in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region with concrete and up-to-date data and policy recommendations.

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Left, Right, Or Center? Asian American Voters in 2014

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According to polling conducted by Advancing Justice | AAJC and Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIA Vote), it is clear that Asian Americans will have a say in shaping future elections and the future direction of our country. However, in 2014, 66 percent of Asian Americans hadn't heard from Democrats and 74 percent had not heard from Republicans.

“Asian Americans should no longer be an afterthought in our political process." – Mee Moua, president and executive director of Advancing Justice | AAJC

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