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Oct 29, 2024 | theyappie.com | Rachel Lee

Sign up here to receive The Yappie’s weekly briefing on Asian American + Pacific Islander politics and support our work by making a donation. President Joe Biden’s win in Georgia marked the first time in close to three decades that a Democratic presidential candidate carried the vote—something made possible by the state’s AAPI community, which emerged as the margin of victory.

Oct 23, 2024 | theyappie.com | Preston Lieu

Sign up here to receive The Yappie’s weekly briefing on Asian American + Pacific Islander politics and support our work by making a donation. AAPIs represent a small fraction of eligible voters in Michigan, but they remain one of the fastest-growing voter in the Great Lake state. With Republicans and Democrats trading wins in the past two presidential elections, AAPIs will play a pivotal role in deciding which candidate will receive Michigan’s 15 electoral votes.

Oct 22, 2024 | theyappie.com | Katrina Pham

Sign up here to receive The Yappie’s weekly briefing on Asian American + Pacific Islander politics and support our work by making a donation. AAPIs make up roughly 2.75% of the electorate in Wisconsin, according to a 2024 report from APIAVote and AAPI Data. That may seem like a small percentage, but in a battleground state such as Wisconsin, the hundreds of thousands of AAPIs who are eligible to vote could make the difference in this year’s presidential election.

Oct 22, 2024 | theyappie.com | Preston Lieu

Sign up here to receive The Yappie’s weekly briefing on Asian American + Pacific Islander politics and support our work by making a donation. AAPIs represent a small fraction of eligible voters in Michigan, but they remain one of the fastest-growing voter in the Great Lake state. With Republicans and Democrats trading wins in the past two presidential elections, AAPIs will play a pivotal role in deciding which candidate will receive Michigan’s 15 electoral votes.

Jul 9, 2024 | theyappie.com | Katrina Pham

Sign up here to receive The Yappie’s weekly briefing on Asian American + Pacific Islander politics and support our work by making a donation. In just 19 days, a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organization cleaned over 70,000 pounds of marine debris from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, which stretches across 583,000 square miles of ocean waters. Conducted from April 15 to May 3, the mission is the first of three marine debris clean-ups planned for 2024.