YDG AAPI Caucus

Happy New Year and year of the horse! Whether you call it Chinese new year, Losar, Tet Nguyen Dan, Seollal, Shōgatsu, Ryukyu, Nyepi, Tsagaan Sar, etc.

🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔

Happy Diwali (or Deepavali) everyone! 🪔 While Diwali is technically a 5 day celebration (with the third day being the primary day of celebration for many) that does vary in name for some. We’ve come to celebrate this occasion and those who celebrate it!

We encourage people to do their own research regarding the intricacies and diversity within the celebration, that simply cannot be diluted or included in one simple Instagram post.

Happy Diwali, Deepavali, Dewali, Tihar, Kali Puja, Bandi Chhor Diwas, and Swanti! 🪔🪔🪔

✨️✨️💥🎆🎆🎇🧨🎉🎉🎉

The AANHPI caucus is looking to one of you to fill a very important role: as treasurer!

The deadline to apply is in 2 weeks (October 28)!
So please reach out to the chair: .jaikumar for the application! Don’t miss out!

Immigrants are the backbone of America. Their rights are our rights, we cannot have progress if one group’s rights are infringed upon.

This is a call for everyone to have grace, not just those victims to this raid but the countless others who have had their voices stolen. Stay informed and stay up to date.

Join the YDG LGBTQ and AANHPI Caucuses for a Pride discussion with executive director and on the current state of organizing for both LGBTQ+ and AANHPI communities!

See you on June 25 from 6-8pm! Free boba for the first 30 RSVP’s!

📍Decatur Lunar New Year Festival

Our chair spent her day volunteering at the , introducing their guest children’s authors and with over 4000 attendees, the event was a huge success!
All proceeds go to Asian American Voices in Education ()

Special thanks to YDG AANHPI members and showing out as well as of the Latino Caucus.

📣📣 Hey everyone, we are so excited to announce that we will be launching a member of the month to celebrate a member of .aanhpi that’s working hard and staying active in politics.

Our first member of the month is Christy Lam! Christy was a founding member of the caucus and has stayed active in YDG and politics as Digital Director for and Communications Director for and . Additionally, she’s Digital Director for and VP of Membership with .

This legislative session, she is one of the prestigious Gloria Butler fellows, working as a Communications Fellow for the Georgia Senate Democrats.

We’re so proud of Christy and are excited to see all that she does!

Thank you to for hosting such an amazing post-election event! You are so inspiring and the YDG AANHPI Caucus cannot wait to continue to work with you!!

All our thanks to and for lending the space! (The boba was so good!!)

We feel so energized and hopeful and only hope to continue the momentum through this next year :)

Join the AANHPI Caucus at link in bio ‼️

Like most election seasons, this one is bittersweet. We must remember not to lose hope and forget why we organize. It isn’t because our goals are achieved by electing a candidate. We know how important it is to support our community. To and the Harris-Walz team, it was a beautiful opportunity to rally behind hope when it seemed to be lost; that hope is still alive with us. To our endorsed candidates and whose races didn’t go as we wanted, we are so proud to be part of the youth coalition your campaigns inspired; we are excited to see your faces in the future. To our endorsed candidate , we are so excited to see you continue organize and do the work that matters. To and who advised us in our campaigning and housed our efforts, thank you so much for your dedication and support to youth voices. To the whole caucus, this was an incredible few months of rallying, campaigning, collaborating, and working. Thank you all!

Election day is here! The YDG AANHPI Caucus has been hard at work in the past week canvassing and enthusiastically meeting Tim Walz, Congresswoman Judy Chu, Congressman Hank Johnson, and Texas State Representative Gene Wu! Special thanks to Ankita, our Chair, for the work she’s put in during this election cycle.

Polls close at 7 PM, but STAY IN LINE even after 7. Make sure to bring your Photo ID, and go to IWILLVOTE.COM if you have any inquiries. VOTE!

On October 26th, a Neo-N@zi organization known as the Ary@n Freedom Network organized an event in Lexington, Georgia which they called the Ary@n Fest.

The Young Democrats of Georgia AANHPI Caucus strongly condemns this organization and this event.

Far-right aggression, terrorism, and organizing has risen in past years and continues to be a danger to all communities, especially to minorities.

The event was hosted by Georgia Haynie III, a Machine Shop Manager at the University of Georgia, and Shannon Haynie, founder and President of the Board for Schatzkind Services Co, a Neo-Nazi pregnancy crisis housing project.

Please contact University of Georgia administration below and notify them that they are currently staffing an active Neo-Nazi.

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We must continue to come together in calling out, condemning, and fighting far-right aggression and extremism.

For more information, visit atlantaantifa.org/tag/aryan-fest

YDG AANHPI had a busy weekend! Yesterday, we were thrilled to meet Congressman Ted Lieu, the highest-ranking Asian American in House Democratic leadership as Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus. On Friday, we phonebanked at the Gwinnett Harris-Walz campaign office and met with representatives like Sam Park. On Saturday, we canvassed with Rep. Ruwa Romman for HD 97 and had fun with s’mores and Hocus Pocus!

only 8 days til election day! early voting ends this friday, so make sure you have a plan to VOTE! Go to IWILLVOTE.COM if you have inquiries about voting.