Katie Phang's Substack piece "The Numbers Don't Lie" argues that AAPI voters were decisive in the 2026 midterms, citing Census-based turnout gains, AAPI early voting in Georgia up 63% over 2022, a nine-point shift toward Democrats, and Bottoms' and Hinojosa's gubernatorial wins. She ties the surge to kitchen-table economics and anger over the ICE raid on Georgia's Hyundai battery plant, traces the "model minority" wedge back to Petersen's 1966 article, and says campaigns that never reached AAPI voters should be ashamed.