Desis for Progress

There's still time! Sign up to join APIAVote's phone bank today at 5PM in DC!

DC friends, join DFP and Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) for phone banking on Nov. 3! We will be conducting nonpartisan voter outreach to voters in Texas and Ohio between 5PM and 9PM (dinner provided). Sign up today to help us turn out the South Asian vote! https://buff.ly/3Uc9Gaf

is just one week away! Check out our updated Candidate Tracker to learn about some of the candidates this cycle. We’ve added primary results and more South Asian candidates running at the federal, state and local levels. https://www.desisforprogress.org/tracker/

"The British government’s hasty exodus from the region was a catalyst for a violent and chaotic migration between the two new countries: There were 500,000 to 2 million deaths, and 15 million South Asians were displaced.

According to experts, it has affected not only which South Asians get to be in the U.S. but how they are received when they get here."

As we mark the independence days of multiple South Asian countries, we're taking time to reflect on the remaining marks partition has left on the South Asian continent and across the diaspora. Read more reflections here:

75 years since partition: South Asians still grapple with the worst trauma of their families' lives Seventy-five years later, South Asian Americans whose families were forever changed by partition say generational trauma still lingers. “This affects everything.”

Join us THIS Wednesday @ The Admiral in D.C. from 6.30-8.30pm. Come mix & mingle, reflect on our last 6 years, & learn what DFP has in store for the future. Free snax & drinks available for purchase! RSVP: https://DFPturns6.eventbrite.com