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27 Feb, 7 tweets, 2 min read

We just celebrated Chinese Lantern Festival. It is a time to be with our families. It signifies the end of our new year celebrations. It also signifies letting go of the past and shining a light into our brighter future. 1/

This year, it is much harder...the xenophobia and the racism that has been so pervasive this last year has hurt and harmed and wrought fear and anxiety into our communities that cannot be just simply let go...to have the brighter future we are looking for, we need change. 2/

Just yesterday, an Asian American man was stabbed by someone who just didn’t like the way he looked at him. He is fighting for his life. A elderly woman was set on fire. People spray chemicals on Asian Americans riding the train. Doused an Asian American man with dirty water. 3/

Called an aapi woman a diseased whore for wearing a face mask. Beat up an Asian woman for not wearing a mask. Posted racist rants about how dirty Asian food is. Our community is hurting. It is hurting and it is in pain and we don’t deserve to be treated this way. Nobody does. 4/

We are constantly seen as “perpetual foreigners” to leave us out of resources. Labeled the “model minority” to pit us against other communities. We are erased and silenced and assaulted and killed. And so it is hard to look at how to light our way into the future today. 5/

But today, I want to remind my AAPI family...we didn’t do anything wrong by existing...you are so loved. You belong. You deserve to live. You deserve to be safe. You deserve to have a seat at the table. You deserve to be counted. We deserve to be accepted just as we are. 6/

Now we make change. We build coalitions. We fight. We challenge the system that was built to leave us out. We demand our share of budgets. We fight for our seats at the table. We dismantle the hate, racism and the systems that oppress and we rebuild everything in our image. /end

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Every vote has been counted, and it's official: we won with over 64% of the vote!

Every neighborhood in our Assembly District, every big building, and nearly every Election District voted for our vision for a more equal New York, a more just New York, and a better New York. 1/

The way we won isn't complicated:

☑️ We ran an unapologetically progressive campaign that puts the needs of working families first.

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☑️ We out-worked and out-organized our opponent

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This is the same way we won in 2016. It's the same way that progressives across the City and State have been winning since, from my friends in the Senate who took down the IDC to the progressives I'll be calling colleagues in January.

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“The definition of disasters is general enough that critics fear Cuomo, a governor who already enjoys aggressively wielding executive power, can abuse the new law in a wide array of circumstances to override existing law.”

gothamist.com/news/ny-corona…

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