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Organizers said they struggled with whether to hold the celebration, as the community mourned along with the rest of the country over the Jan. 21 shooting deaths of 11 in neighboring Monterey Park.
The year in young Asian Americans doing the political organizing that campaigns didn't Deepa Shivaram © Provided by NBC News Cookie Duong was at home in Oklahoma City a month before the election when she posted a TikTok she didn't expect to go viral. “Not me making a 20 page presentation in vietnamese explaining to my parents why they shouldn’t vote for Tr*mp in november,” the text on the video said. Duong, 22, was, in fact, doing just that. Duong’s father, an ardent Republican and Trump supporter, was difficult to communicate with when it came to politics, she said....