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  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 24, 2020 at 3:02 PM

The highly decorated VP candidate who has burst onto the scene

          Friends,   “You had all the other names there, and it was as if she didn’t exist...suddenly people began to look at her -- this highly decorated woman, member of Congress, senator.”   That’s former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 23, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Treasury Secretary Elizabeth Warren?

        Friends,   Big Banks have been a huge obstacle to racial justice over the years -- underserving communities of color, engaging in housing discrimination, and taking untold sums of taxpayer bailout money at the expense of small businesses struggl…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Help us Make America Sane Again

        Friends,   Ted Lieu, we couldn’t agree more.   Source: Twitter   Press Secretary McEnany’s statement was completely insane -- and so is the idea of putting millions of teachers and families in harm’s way just because Trump wants us to pret…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 23, 2020 at 12:02 AM

GOP Governor Kemp bans local governments from mandating masks

        Friends,   With Coronavirus hitting record highs nearly every day and Trump and the GOP failing to govern, here’s the latest from GOP Georgia Governor Brian Kemp:   NBC News reports that “The governor of Georgia has thrown a wrench into the dr…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 22, 2020 at 9:01 PM

USPS saves lives. The GOP wants to kill it.

        Hello there,   The United States Postal Services is saving lives, from delivering medications to social security checks.    But the Republican Party is ready to let USPS go bankrupt.   First, Donald Trump put a top donor with no Postal Service…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 22, 2020 at 6:34 PM

With your help, we can realize John Lewis’s dream

        Friends,   Congressman John Lewis was an American hero. And in the wake of his death, we should all be fighting even harder to further the causes he championed.   Unfortunately Mitch McConnell has offered empty gestures -- calling Lewis “great” w…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 21, 2020 at 9:02 PM

Is Trump starting to change his ways?

        Friends,   It seems impossible, we know -- but Donald Trump’s latest statement has us thinking it’s possible that he’s starting to change his ways.   The President previously said that face masks weren’t his ‘style’ -- telling reporters, “Someho…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 21, 2020 at 3:01 PM

We can’t wait for what RBG will do next

        Friends,   Where would we be without Ruth Bader Ginsburg?   She’s been an iconoclast since the very start. And she’s proven that, in a government full of old white men, strong women leaders can pave the way for a brighter future.   That’s exac…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 20, 2020 at 9:00 PM

White Americans are waking up

        Friends,   It looks like white Americans are starting to realize how widespread racial discrimination really is -- at least if the state of California is any guide.   According to survey data published in the LA Times, “White Californians are…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 20, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Warren & Pressley demand Trump administration follow the law

        Friends,   Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is in violation of the law.   According to POLITICO, “Under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, HHS is required to submit a report to Congress detailing its efforts to allevi…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 19, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Senator Kamala Harris speaks truth to power

        Friends,   Leave it to a prosecutor to call out wrongdoing. Source: Twitter   It’s no surprise that Senator Harris, who has led the charge for police reform in Congress, is now taking on the systemic racism deep within our justice system --…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 19, 2020 at 3:01 PM

32% of households couldn’t make July rent

        Friends,   One week into July, 32% of American households hadn’t yet paid their rent.   It marked the fourth consecutive month of record-setting rent defaults. Of course, we can hardly blame American renters -- the government has completely fa…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 18, 2020 at 9:01 PM

History proves Obama right and Trump wrong

        Friends,   Anti-racist activists have won another battle.   Washington D.C.’s NFL team has announced they’ll be dropping their racist name and logo after public outcry made waves across social media and across the country.   And to think tha…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 18, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Mitch McConnell wants credit just for considering relief measures

        Friends,   Do you think Mitch McConnell is enjoying his two week vacation?   The Senate hasn’t yet returned from their July recess -- although it didn’t seem like they were working all that hard before the break either.   But McConnell has now …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 17, 2020 at 9:01 PM

How racist voting laws could give Trump the election

        Friends,   A new study proves that strict voter ID laws suppress votes from Americans of color -- and could swing the election toward Donald Trump.   The study, published by the Western Political Science Association, finds that people of color …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 17, 2020 at 6:07 PM

The highly decorated senator who has burst onto the VP scene

          Friends,   “You had all the other names there, and it was as if she didn’t exist...suddenly people began to look at her -- this highly decorated woman, member of Congress, senator.”   That’s former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 17, 2020 at 3:01 PM

The effects of Trump’s xenophobia

        Friends,   According to Pew Research Center, 31% of Asian Americans have been subjected to racist slurs or jokes since the start of the pandemic.   26% say they’ve feared physical attack.   Donald Trump’s xenophobia has forced wide swaths of …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 16, 2020 at 9:03 PM

Trump moves to ban refugees during historic crisis

        Friends,   Donald Trump is using the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to restrict immigration even further.    According to CNN, a newly-proposed rule by the Trump administration “would make it more difficult for migrants to seek refuge in the Un…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 16, 2020 at 6:02 PM

Facebook won’t stop defending Trump -- so advertisers boycott

        Friends,   If Facebook wants anything to do with Trump’s glorification of violence, then we don’t want anything to do with Facebook.   That’s the message that almost 100 backers -- including civil rights groups like the NAACP and the Anti-Defa…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 16, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump speaks out against Black Lives Matter

        Friends,   In the middle of a national reckoning on systemic racial injustice, Trump has made his views on Black Lives Matter clear -- according to the president, it’s a “symbol of hate.”   Donald Trump’s campaign has run Facebook ads that fea…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 15, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Treasury Secretary Warren?

        Friends,   Big Banks have been a huge obstacle to racial justice over the years -- underserving communities of color, engaging in housing discrimination, and taking untold sums of taxpayer bailout money at the expense of small businesses struggl…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 15, 2020 at 6:02 PM

“Black women mayors are having a moment.”

        Friends,   “Black women mayors are having a moment.”   That’s POLITICO with the understatement of the century. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen America’s mayors of color -- leaders like Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, Lori Lightfoot of Chica…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 15, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Rachel Maddow talks to Susan Rice about VP rumors

        Friends,   Susan Rice was America’s first black UN ambassador, Barack Obama’s national security advisor, and is now -- potentially -- America’s next vice president.   When Rachel Maddow asked Rice about her take on VP speculation, Rice said she…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM

The newest voice of hate from the right

        Friends,   AAPI Senator Tammy Duckworth is a decorated combat veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart for her service in Iraq. She also happens to be a Daughter of the American Revolution who can trace her ancestry all the way back to the War fo…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 14, 2020 at 6:03 PM

Trump blames his inevitable loss on “FOREIGN COUNTRIES”

        Friends,   Trump isn’t just using xenophobia to hide his pandemic response failure. He’s now embracing it as a way to cover up his election defeat in advance.    The president tweeted that unnamed “FOREIGN COUNTRIES” will interfere in the upcoming…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 14, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Trump’s lies threaten our frontline workers

        Friends,   When the president says something like this, doctors and nurses everywhere are put at risk.   Source: Twitter   Not only does Donald Trump’s xenophobic use of the term “China Virus” instead of COVID-19 encourage hate against the…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 13, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Trump’s racist attack on Warren reveals his character

        Friends,   Trump has responded to antiracist conversations in the sports world the same way he responds to everything -- with ugliness, racism, and unbridled misogyny.   Source: Twitter   There was no reason for the president to make the abov…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 13, 2020 at 6:04 PM

A victory for Standing Rock, for now

        Friends,   “Today is a historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the many people who have supported us in the fight against the pipeline. This pipeline should have never been built here. We told them that from the beginning.”   That’s S…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 13, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Stung by SCOTUS, Trump renews attacks on DREAMers

        Friends,   Trump’s cruelty toward immigrants knows no bounds.   Though the Supreme Court blocked him once, the president is now seeking -- yet again -- to end DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.   Worse still, the president is bla…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 12, 2020 at 9:01 PM

The impact of Trump’s xenophobia

        Friends,   According to Pew Research Center, 31% of Asian Americans have been subjected to racist slurs or jokes since the start of the pandemic.   26% say they’ve feared physical attack.   Donald Trump’s xenophobia has forced wide swaths of …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 12, 2020 at 6:03 PM

How racist laws could give Trump the election

        Friends,   A new study proves that strict voter ID laws suppress votes from Americans of color -- and could swing the election toward Donald Trump.   The study, published by the Western Political Science Association, finds that people of color …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 12, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Donald Trump fans the flames of war

        Friends,   Donald Trump could have used his Independence Day address to unite the country. Instead, he fanned the flames of fear and violence.   Trump called the ongoing wave of anti-racism protests “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 11, 2020 at 9:01 PM

This highly decorated senator could upend the VP contest

          Friends,   “You had all the other names there, and it was as if she didn’t exist...suddenly people began to look at her -- this highly decorated woman, member of Congress, senator.”   That’s former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 11, 2020 at 6:02 PM

New data on racial inequality during the pandemic

        Friends,   The New York Times had to sue the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to get them to release federal data on how Americans of color have been impacted by the pandemic.   When they did, here’s what the Times found: “Black and L…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 11, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump skips AAPI town hall to play golf

        Friends,   Last month, Joe Biden attended a virtual town hall to speak to the concerns of the AAPI community.   Donald Trump couldn’t be bothered to attend, so he sent a surrogate in his place and spent the day playing golf instead.    The pr…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 10, 2020 at 9:02 PM

Brett Kavanaugh votes against the right to choose

        Friends,   Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is letting all of America know that he dissents against the right to choose.   That was the essence of Kavanaugh’s vote last month -- when Trump’s handpicked ally on the high court said he would up…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 10, 2020 at 6:02 PM

Protect Asian American frontline workers at risk

        Friends,   The Washington Post reports that “Asian Americans have experienced a sharp increase in racist verbal abuse and physical attacks during the pandemic, with the FBI warning of a potential surge in hate crimes against Asians as the coronavi…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 10, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump accuses Obama of treason

        Friends,   “Treason. Treason. It’s treason.”   According to Donald Trump, that’s the crime Barack Obama has committed against the United States of America.   In an interview with CBN News, Trump spouted wild allegations about Obama “spying” o…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 9, 2020 at 9:03 PM

Trump attacks Warren over Confederate symbols

        Friends,   Recently, Elizabeth Warren introduced an amendment to a defense bill that would scrub any mention of Confederate soldiers from American military bases.   In response, Donald Trump went off on a racist tirade against her.   To avoid…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 9, 2020 at 6:02 PM

Donald Trump speaks out on Black Lives Matter

        Friends,   In the middle of a national reckoning on systemic racial injustice, Trump has made his views on Black Lives Matter clear -- according to the president, it’s a “symbol of hate.”   Donald Trump’s campaign has run Facebook ads that fea…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 9, 2020 at 3:03 PM

“The obvious option to be Joe Biden’s running mate”

        Friends,   Slate magazine has weighed in on Kamala Harris as a VP contender -- their take? “Kamala Harris has been the obvious option to be Joe Biden’s running mate for a long time.”   The analysis mentioned Senator Harris’s skill as a debater…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 8, 2020 at 10:31 PM

Don’t let Donald Trump drown out 70% of Americans

        Hello there,   Over 70% of Americans say they’d like the option to vote by mail in November.   Five states: Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Hawaii, have conducted their elections almost exclusively by mail for years -- and all available e…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 8, 2020 at 9:03 PM

Obama offers the comfort that Trump can’t

        Friends,   Barack Obama has stepped in to provide the kind of human decency that Donald Trump is clearly incapable of.   We now know Obama called George Floyd’s family to offer comfort for the heartbreak that’s gripped a nation, telling them “I…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 8, 2020 at 6:07 PM

Rachel Maddow asks Susan Rice about VP rumors

        Friends,   Susan Rice was America’s first black UN ambassador, Barack Obama’s national security advisor, and is now -- potentially -- America’s next vice president.   When Rachel Maddow asked Rice about her take on VP speculation, Rice said she…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 8, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump chooses statues over people

        Friends,   At a time when civil unrest is gripping our nation and Americans of color face threats from all sides, Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to prioritize protecting the country’s statues.    This is unacceptab…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 7, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Kamala Harris is interrupted on the Senate floor

        Friends,   Senator Kamala Harris has said it was the heroism of civil rights icons that inspired her to pursue a career in law in the first place.   Now, Senator Harris is fighting for racial justice on all fronts -- leading the charge for poli…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 7, 2020 at 6:02 PM

AAPIs threatened by Trump’s growing anger

        Friends,   We wanted to make sure you saw this statement from the president.   Source: Twitter   Hate crimes against the AAPI community have been on the rise since the pandemic began.    And right now, all we’re “seeing” and “feeling” …
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 7, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Biden’s list for the Supreme Court vs. Trump’s

        Friends,   So far, Donald Trump has nominated exclusively white men to the Supreme Court.   But during a historic reckoning of racial justice, Americans are demanding better.   That’s why Joe Biden has committed to nominating a Black woman to…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 6, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Racism is alive and well at the ballot box

        Friends,   For proof positive of systemic racism, look no further than the ballot box.   The evidence that voices of color are being disenfranchised at the polls is enormously clear -- with the Atlantic reporting that Black and Latinx voters wa…
  ASPIRE · [email protected]
July 6, 2020 at 6:02 PM

Michelle Obama supports students, Donald Trump insults them

        Friends,   Michelle Obama is encouraged by the effect that anti-racist demonstrations are having across the country -- and she wants us all to know it.   Source: Twitter   Michelle is talking about the Princeton Board of Trustees’ decisi…