The year in young Asian Americans doing the political organizing that campaigns didn't

SectionsTVFeaturedMore from NBC Follow 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. Older Latino voters tended to support Hillary Clinton, but the campaign found younger Latinos latching onto Sanders’ message and convincing their parents to support him, too.“In Vegas, in Arkansas, in Iowa, it was young people as young as 12 years old who were coming to our campaign offices, or those who were Dreamers who didn’t have the power to vote… they were actually the ones mobilizing our families, they were the ones registering them to vote and they were the ones explaining policies to their families,” Cesar Vargas, Sanders’ national Latino strategist in 2016, said.Vargas also points out the pivotal role kids in these communities play given the “oversight” of campaigns not to specify their outreach to different nationalities within the Latino community.