Elijah Cummings: “That is why we are still in this government shutdown. That is why people say Speaker Boehner is holding our country…”

Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that.

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

And I don't give a damn how you look at it; there are efforts to stop people from voting. That is not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.