Last week, AAPI Victory Fund Acting President Brad Jenkins appeared on SiriusXM's The Qasim Rashid Show to discuss the importance of the AAPI electorate, getting involved in local and state politics, and how organizations are uniting to combat anti-AAPI hate.

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Brad Jenkins' Interview Highlights

Listen to Brad's interview with Qasim Rashid HERE

  • "Asian Americans are the fastest growing demographic in the United States. We have a larger and larger share of the electorate but, election cycle after election cycle, traditional Democratic institutions and state Democratic parties don't realize it. They don't know how many Asian Americans are in their community or how to even reach them."
  • "We just announced our first slate of candidates, the majority of whom are Asian American, but we are endorsing non-Asian American candidates in states where the AAPI electorate is incredibly important and valuable."
  • "We represent 23 million in this country yet only 0.9% of Asian Americans are in elected office. We have so much work to do to give AAPI candidates a platform to win."
  • "At AAPI Victory Fund, we are filling a gap that a lot of institutions like Super PACs overlook. We are investing in states like Georgia and Nevada-states where Asian Americans represent 11% of the electorate yet you never hear about the Asian American community."
  • "We have such a problem when it comes to data and a lack of investment in really even knowing where our community is and who we are. If we don't know where the AAPI community lives, we can't turn them out."
  • "One of the more exciting things we are doing is working with Collective PAC and Latino Victory Fund. The three of us are coming together to work on this issue because, at the end of the day, the only way that we win these elections is to turnout communities of color."
  • "The biggest weapon for white supremacy is pitting communities against each other, and they've been doing this since day one. They're doing it with affirmative action, they're doing it again with the rise in Asian American violence. We do not allow white supremacy to divide us. All of these issues are connected, and we can't fight to protect our communities without having really great candidates who are actually fighting for our communities."

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