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I just cast my ballot for James Talarico.
As a second-generation Indian American, I am thoroughly disgusted by the xenophobia, racial resentment, and increasingly brazen attacks on my identity. My family has contributed to the American story through hard work, sacrifice, and an unwavering belief in the opportunities this nation promises. I am every bit as American as anyone else, and I will not tolerate being treated as a perpetual foreigner in the country I call home.
I implore every eligible Texan to get out and vote. This election is about the kind of state and country we are prepared to defend—and the principles we refuse to surrender.
@TeamTalaricoHQ
@texasdemocrats
Vasant Bhatt retweeted
Could Vivek Ramaswamy publicly celebrate a Hindu festival and hope to be accepted by MAGA? I think we all know the answer.
This week, I was blessed to join Hindu New Yorkers in Queens celebrating Navratri, Durga Puja, Dashain, and Vijayadashami.
We danced garba, performed aarti, witnessed Sindoor Khela, and honored the Goddess Durga.
It was an honor to come together in joy, faith, and community in temples across our city — especially after the attempted mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Illinois last week.
May we all join together in our shared responsibility to stand against hate and care for one another.
Jai Mata Ki.
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
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What does the future of Hindu advocacy look like? Ask the generation that will lead it.
What happens when your temple comes under physical attack? What happens when your Professor teaches Hinduphobic materials in class?
At a time when prejudice is finding new platforms, Hindu identity is increasingly misunderstood, and silence carries consequences, what does it mean to be a young Hindu in America?
Join us to directly from the next generation of American Hindus. @vasantbhatt14
Tomorrow-Oct 22 at 4 pm pacific/7 pm eastern
To join, please visit:
🔗 bit.ly/cohna-youth
Grateful to have joined Antonia Hylton on MS NOW to discuss my decision to step away from the Republican Party and the broader questions of identity, belonging, and representation shaping our politics.
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'Indian-Americans Being Targeted'
Hindu American activist Vasant Bhatt (@vasantbhatt14) discusses the rise of anti-Indian racism in the U.S, the Republican Party’s response under President Donald Trump’s second term, and the lack of strong condemnation from GOP leaders. He also examines how Democrats are addressing anti-Indian hate and what the future may hold.
Watch his exclusive conversation with Utsav Parekh on Firstpost.
#MidtermVerdict
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'Republicans Don't Condemn Anti-Indian Rhetoric'
Hindu American activist Vasant Bhatt (@vasantbhatt14) says the lack of strong condemnation from mainstream Texas Republicans over anti-Indian racism has disappointed many in the community. He argues that such incidents should draw unequivocal criticism across party lines.
Watch his exclusive conversation with Utsav Parekh on Firstpost.
#MidtermVerdict
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These 52 Houston area MAGA pastors have endorsed Ken Paxton who gave a lenient plea deal to a child predator
I do wonder why JD Vance, whose own wife is Indian American and whose children share that heritage, couldn’t bring himself to say the same thing. Surely it shouldn’t take an extraordinary act of political courage to condemn something as fundamentally indefensible as racial bigotry.
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Or, hear me out:
His support for conservatism shattered when it was overtly revealed across a decade these people don’t give a shit about the principles they espouse and are actually just low IQ, racist, losers.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together has already re-thought whatever prior allegiance they had to the right.
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Far-right grifters attacking @vasantbhatt14 are so cartoonishly racist & bigoted, that they could be ignored entirely if they didn’t radicalize crazies like the would-be Aurora temple shooter.
But if/when the Republicans lose the Indian American vote share—that they were clearly gaining—it will be because the Vance’s, Cruz’s, Paxton’s & others didn’t just call out & condemn that hate.
It is the responsibility of a political party to earn the support of its coalition, not the responsibility of voters to endlessly court a party that increasingly treats them with contempt. That is one of the most elementary principles of representative democracy.
I spent years involved in Republican politics. I stuck my neck out for this party, bent over backwards defending it, worked on campaigns, and stood by people even when doing so wasn’t particularly easy. I genuinely believed in what I was doing.
I wasn’t pretending to be a conservative, and I certainly wasn’t involved in Republican politics because I had nothing better to do with my time. I gave that movement a great deal of my energy because I believed there was a place for me in it.
And after all of that, I have to sit here and watch people like Bo French insinuate that I’m not an American because of where my family comes from?
If voting according to my conscience makes me a “libtard,” then so be it
Where, exactly, is the “foreign ethnic conflict” here, Jack? I am an American exercising my First Amendment right to condemn what I regard as the reckless, fraudulent, and increasingly belligerent conduct of the President of the United States.
I thought Trump campaigned on ending endless wars, rejecting the neoconservative foreign-policy establishment, and confronting the war hawks he now appears increasingly willing to emulate.
But your response is revealing for another reason. Given your defense of Bo French, I am beginning to understand precisely what kind of worldview informs your definition of American identity.
Rather than engage with the substance of my tweets, you immediately attempt to portray me as someone preoccupied with foreign ethnic grievances.
Your disagreement with me does not make me a foreigner. It makes me an American with an opinion you apparently cannot refute without resorting to insinuations about my identity.
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A vote for @jamestalarico is a chance to reject the politics of nativism and division.
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Just spoke with Vasant, a self-described conservative & former Cruz campaign intern, about his decision to vote for James Talarico and to walk away from the GOP. More on that soon.
Meantime, the online right not taking it too well:
I just cast my ballot for James Talarico.
As a second-generation Indian American, I am thoroughly disgusted by the xenophobia, racial resentment, and increasingly brazen attacks on my identity. My family has contributed to the American story through hard work, sacrifice, and an unwavering belief in the opportunities this nation promises. I am every bit as American as anyone else, and I will not tolerate being treated as a perpetual foreigner in the country I call home.
I implore every eligible Texan to get out and vote. This election is about the kind of state and country we are prepared to defend—and the principles we refuse to surrender.
@TeamTalaricoHQ
@texasdemocrats
Vasant Bhatt retweeted
A really strong case for voting against the Republican Party is clowns like you.
You’re invoking “legal immigration” simply because Vasant is brown.
Vasant is a second generation American citizen, born in America.
Your racism knows no bounds. That’s why you can’t platform candidates like Bo French.
You are why the Republican Party is being destroyed from within.
It is the responsibility of a political party to earn the support of its coalition, not the responsibility of voters to endlessly court a party that increasingly treats them with contempt. That is one of the most elementary principles of representative democracy.
I spent years involved in Republican politics. I stuck my neck out for this party, bent over backwards defending it, worked on campaigns, and stood by people even when doing so wasn’t particularly easy. I genuinely believed in what I was doing.
I wasn’t pretending to be a conservative, and I certainly wasn’t involved in Republican politics because I had nothing better to do with my time. I gave that movement a great deal of my energy because I believed there was a place for me in it.
And after all of that, I have to sit here and watch people like Bo French insinuate that I’m not an American because of where my family comes from?
If voting according to my conscience makes me a “libtard,” then so be it