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Following President Biden’s announcement that he would not seek the Democratic Party Nomination and instead endorsed Vice President Harris, Diana Hwang, the founder of AAWPI Mobilize blasted out the following message:
“We are ALL IN for Kamala Harris for President - and with our freedoms, our right to make decisions about our own bodies, and our democracy on the line, we know the stakes couldn’t be higher. As the only national organization dedicated to mobilizing and electing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women, we were made for this moment.
Today, we are launching the ‘AAPI Women Fighting to Win’ Fund to turn out our aunties, sisters, mamas and grandmamas in critical swing states like Georgia and Pennsylvania to WIN in November and elect the first Black and Asian American woman president. In these tight battleground states, where it’s predicted that the presidential election could be won and lost by just thousands of votes, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and AAPI voters could decide the election - and we’re taking nothing for granted. We are fighting like hell for each other, for ourselves and for our communities.
In 2020, communities of color flipped both Pennsylvania and the once very red state of Georgia to blue. Without AAPI women and our AAPI communities turning out in these states, Trump would have won. We fought and won then and we can do it again - but we need you in this fight, now more than ever.”
Followed by this urgent call to action:
“Will you donate and help us hit our goal of raising $250,000 to powerfully launch the AAPI Women Fighting to Win Fund? With 104 days until Election Day, the time to organize and mobilize our communities is NOW.”
Hwang declared that the group would be rolling out ways that supporters can plug into their swing state mobilization campaign in Georgia and Pennsylvania from the ground. The two-fold goal involves supporting down ballot candidates that are fighting bans on women’s bodies and on IVF, attacks on their voting rights, an anti-immigrant English-only movement, and continued anti-Asian hate and driving turnout that will deliver the margin of victory for Harris on the national level.
Hwang goes on to note that Georgia was one of at least 33 states with legislation to ban Chinese non-citizen immigrants from owning property. The legislation was signed into law in May, and communities are already seeing widespread racial profiling across the state.
By helping progressive leaders in key states who are fighting to protect and defend AAPI communities to flip individual seats and ultimately control of state legislatures from red to blue this effort will also be turning out voters that will elect change all the way to the top of the ticket in November.
AAWPI Mobilize, a 501(c)(4) organization, is building a first-of-its-kind national infrastructure to activate, mobilize and elect progressive Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women.
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