All parents want to see their children thrive in school, but when your child has a disability, this goal can seem out of reach. The parents of children with disabilities fight every day to get their children a fair education that ensures they continue to grow. This extra work compounds the already heroic task of…

Over the past two years, teachers marched in Illinois, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Arizona, and other states to win higher wages for themselves and better conditions for their students. The United Auto Workers struck a deal with General Motors to raise wages and prevent over-reliance on temporary labor. Airline workers are striking for better benefits. Last…

We are having the wrong conversation on healthcare.  Instead of addressing the underlying problems driving unaffordability and access, we Democrats are spending all our time arguing over who is the most zealous in wanting to cover Americans. Over who has wanted to do so longer. Over who cares more about the health of Americans.  We…

Voting is a pillar of our democracy that has helped keep our government accountable for hundreds of years. As generations of activists fought and died to protect and expand the right to vote, we won ourselves a more inclusive and representative government. We all know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s marches in Washington D.C….

The advancement of technology in America has driven the advancement of humanity nationally and globally. But technology has also outpaced our government’s understanding of it, and regulations are falling short of protecting us from Big Tech companies that are prioritizing profits over our well-being. Today, we live in a hyper-connected environment, led by these tech…

Restoring Democracy, Rebuilding Trust Only 17% of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job; fewer believe members of Congress are doing their jobs with high levels of honesty and ethical standards. The Environmental Protection Agency, Food & Drug Administration, and Veterans Administration all have approval ratings that are underwater. The net approval…

INTRODUCTION Our planet is a mess. The past four years have been the four hottest on record, and July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded. Greenland is expected to lose 440 billion tons of ice this year, a rate that was the “worst-case scenario” for 2070. The West is on fire, the middle of…

Combating Gun Violence and Hate in America Gun violence is a scourge in this country. Nearly 40,000 Americans die every year to gun violence: 24,000 from suicide and 15,000 from homicide. After the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton, there have been 255 mass shootings in 2019 – more than days have passed in the…

“If we’re going to send our men and women into harm’s way and break ‘em, it’s our responsibility to fix them when they come home.” – Richard Ojeda Somewhere between 7 and 8% of the US population has served in the military. These brave individuals took on the sacred duty of protecting our democracy and…

Thank you all for your continued support!  Without you, this campaign wouldn’t be here.  As it is, we are at #9 in the latest CNN rankings and climbing fast. I’m spending this last weekend before the debate in South Carolina, one of the early primary states.  We are at 3% here.  This is my…

I’ve been running for President for over a year now, and I’ve become even more convinced that moneyed interests have captured our democratic system.  Especially since the decision in Citizens United, the amount of money that it takes to run a campaign is ridiculous, and it ensures that the rich will have both an easier time......

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. In some ways, we as a country have made great strides in providing equal rights to LGBTQ+ individuals, highlighted by the decision in Obergefell in 2015. That Supreme Court decision had a tangible, positive impact on the lives of millions of Americans who were looking......

Hello all and thank you for your support!  I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. It’s been a busy week in the press for our campaign.  In addition to the recent Politico profile and CNN putting me in its top 10, TIME did a profile on my campaign, and VICE News also did a......

Happy Memorial Day!  I hope you are enjoying a wonderful day with loved ones and family. Memorial Day became a federal holiday in 1971, though it has been celebrated in some form since the 1860s.  Today, many Americans—especially those who have not experienced personal loss in this arena—have a natural inclination not to look too......

As you know, I’ve been running for President for a while.  Our campaign publicly launched in February of 2018 in the New York Times. Still, most people had never heard of me.  This led to many awkward conversations that went like this: “So what kind of work do you do?” “I’m running for President of the United States.”......

Hello and thank you for the support!  It means a ton to me and the team. I spent the past weekend in South Carolina and had the opportunity to meet with hundreds of amazing, hard-working Americans.  And, like all Americans, they are worried about the future for their families. If you’re like me, you associate drinking water......

This is Zach Graumann, Andrew’s campaign manager. I’ve been working with Andrew since the early days when we operated out of an apartment. We knew we had a real shot to win this election then. Today, thanks to you, we’re more confident than ever. Last week, Andrew emailed you about our new goal of raising......

On Tuesday night, we held our long-anticipated outdoor rally in Washington Square Park in New York.  Our team had been planning this event for weeks in advance.  We were working around the clock to make it a success.  Then, we woke up Tuesday morning to find it was going to rain. We became worried that......

Hello and hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend!  I spent it with both Evelyn and my mom.  We should all call our moms more often. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I was back in New Hampshire for our best trip yet.  At each stop, I talked about going to high school in New Hampshire and my......

We were in Des Moines the other day wrapping up a town hall.  It was Zach, Carly, Luke, and I.  It was raining and chilly.  Our white Chevy Suburban was parked far across the parking lot. We looked at each other for a second.  Were we all going to go to the car in the rain?  Or was someone going......

Hello and thank you for the support!  It means a ton to us. This weekend was a lot of fun.  We started in Seattle where we were greeted by a crowd of thousands. The rally in Seattle was enormous on a beautiful day.  We made the evening news, which is always great.  I enjoy the thought of people turning......

Hello and thank you for your support!  It means a ton to me and the team. I’m writing this on the plane out West—we are having a rally in Seattle on Friday, Detroit on Saturday, and Minneapolis on Sunday, and are stopping in the Bay Area for a day first to say hello to some people......

Hello and thank you for the support! We just got back from 4 days in Iowa.  As you know, Iowa is the first state to vote and will be crucial in 2020. I have been visiting Iowa since last summer, when I spoke at the Wing Ding.  I have returned every month since. This time was different. We......

Hello and thank you for the support—we really appreciate it! I landed in Las Vegas on Tuesday for our first campaign trip in Nevada.  We met with local activists and hosted a town hall with 500 Nevadans: Our visit to Nevada was preceded by reality on the ground.  It turns out that Nevada is the #1 state out of......

Hello, I hope you are doing great! I am writing this from LA, where we met with local community leaders and then proceeded to have one of our biggest rallies yet.  2,000+ people came out to celebrate our message, and we made the local LA news. It was a blast.  The Humanity First Tour has been a......

Hello and thank you for your support!  It means everything to us. Our latest rally was Thursday night in Atlanta—more than 1,000 amazing people came out.  We made many new friends; the Humanity First Tour is a blast and getting bigger and better as we grow.  The rally was covered in the Atlanta Journal Constitution the next day.......

Thank you so much for your support! It’s been an amazing few days.  Rave reviews continue to come in from our CNN Town Hall on Sunday—I’ve been described as “the most human,” “knowledgeable,” “likeable,” and “presidential” in various outlets.  Our website traffic has spiked, press asks have been streaming in, and we’ve raised over $250k in donations......

Thank you for your support.  It’s been an amazing week! I am writing this from Washington D.C. where we are gearing up for our CNN Town Hall TONIGHT at 7pm EST.  There is a lot in this email but I promise if you read the whole thing it will be worth it! There are now over......

Hello and thank you for your incredible support!  It means the world to us. This past week was an enormous one in the media.  I was interviewed by Ali Velshi, Chris Hayes, and Joy Reid on MSNBC, Ben Shapiro on his Sunday Special, and George Stephanopoulos on ABC.  I also did a Town Hall in Concord, New Hampshire......

Thank you for your support!  It means a ton to us.  I hope to see as many of you as possible on the Humanity First Tour.  It kicks off this weekend—check out the event calendar here. The first stop is this Sunday in New Hampshire, where I’ll be doing a town hall with Lawrence Lessig.  He......

Thank you for your incredible support!  Our Moneybomb was immensely successful, as we raised over $260k from thousands of donors in the last weekend.  For the quarter, we raised over $1.7 million from 80,000+ donors.  What’s most exciting to me is that 99% of these donations were in amounts under $200, with an average of only......

Brief GDP continues to go up and up, while the number of dogs per household has remained stagnant. Nothing would do more to improve the mental health of every American than providing them with 1,000 dogs (of varying breeds) per month, free and clear, no questions asked. Studies show that simply by petting a friendly......

Hello, I hope you had a great weekend! I just spent 3 days last week campaigning in New Hampshire.  I met with the Editorial Board of the Conway Daily Sun and spoke to the Plymouth Democrats, which was broadcast on C-SPAN.  I was accompanied for much of the trip by Steve Marchand, who ran for governor of......

I hope that you are doing well. We have all been horrified by the tragic shootings in New Zealand.  That so many innocent people were killed simply for attending their place of worship is reprehensible.  It shows how destructive beliefs can drive the worst of human atrocity.  As the son of immigrants myself, extremity and violence towards an......

Hello all.  What a week!  I spent the first half of the week in Iowa where we had over a dozen events across the state. A poll came out recently that showed we have a LONG way to go in the state.  Most Iowans still have never heard of me.  We are changing that. This week helped.  We had events......

Holy cow—we did it!  We reached 65,000 individual donors more than two months before the May 15th deadline!  Not only did we raise 65,000 individual donations, we also raised over $750,000 in the last month.  Incredible!  Thank you so much for everything you did to make it happen. This all but assures that I will be in......

February was the best month ever for our campaign—we received donations from 34,025 different people for a total of $570,954.82!  The average donation was $16.78.  That’s incredible.  THANK YOU for making it happen.  We raised as much as many other major candidates for the month. Aside from the raw numbers, which are staggering, here’s another reason I am excited.  I......

Thank you for the help and support—we appreciate it a great deal. I spent the weekend in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland meeting with supporters in Ohio. I’d visited Ohio during the Humanity First tour a few months back—this time the crowds were a bit bigger: Among my stops was an event with the Euclid NAACP, where......

Hello and thank you for the support! I spent this past weekend in Washington, DC, and Baltimore for President’s Day.  We had a rally in Baltimore on Monday that drew a couple hundred enthusiastic supporters at Charm City Meadery.  It was a blast.  I bought some honeyed mead to take home, which made my wife happy. On Tuesday,......

Hello and thank you for the support!  We appreciate it a great deal. HUGE news—the DNC on Thursday released the criteria for making the Democratic primary debates in June and July.  They are: Receive at least 1% in 3 polls either nationally or in early states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina) between January 1 and mid-May;......

Thanks for the support—we appreciate it a great deal! I just got back from LA where I was on the Joe Rogan Experience.  Joe hosts one of the most popular podcasts in America.  We landed in LA on Monday and went to his studio on Tuesday. Joe’s studio is very impressive.  It has a full gym, a......

Hello and thank you for your support! I am writing this from New Hampshire where I have been campaigning the last few days.  I spoke at Phillips Exeter Academy—where I went to high school—this morning.  You can read the full text of my speech here. This week started with some huge news—I am polling nationally!  On Monday,......

Hello everyone—I hope you had a wonderful weekend watching the nefarious Patriots win the Superbowl with friends and family. I spent Sunday afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the College Democrats of America.  I had the chance to address some of the most passionate college activists in the country.  It was a great opportunity and the campaign......

Hello and thank you for the support! I’m writing this from Des Moines—it’s been a tremendous trip.  I had the opportunity to address the Democratic legislators of Iowa at the State Capitol yesterday.  They greeted me with a standing ovation, which was a welcome surprise.  The backdrop, the audience, and the reception made me feel positively Presidential. I......

On Friday, Richard Ojeda, one of the other declared Democratic candidates for President, ended his campaign. He will be working on veterans’ issues and may run for another position in West Virginia, where he is very popular. He felt that his campaign wasn’t going to succeed and that he couldn’t take money from people who needed it.......

Thank you for your belief and support – it means a lot. It’s been a huge week for the campaign.  The New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Business Insider, and dozens of TV stations have all included me on their list of declared presidential candidates.  Just this past week, we got a feature......

Hello everyone, and Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend!  I hope that you have plans to enjoy a great holiday with friends and family. I remember when Dr. King’s Birthday first became a national holiday.  It was 1986.  I was in sixth grade.  We were amazed that there would be a new holiday.  We watched MLK’s I Have a Dream......

Thank you so much for your birthday wishes!  I celebrated this weekend with my family with a pumpkin cake: I also received some incredibly exciting news: A family in Georgia would like to sponsor a Freedom Dividend for someone in another part of the country!  One member of the family said to me: “We must do more......

Thank you for your support! I hope that 2019 is off to a tremendous start for you and yours. We’re starting the year off with some excitement – we have a new campaign video!  It is called “A Campaign of Ideas.”  Please do check it out and share it as widely as possible.  Luke, the videographer, is now full-time......

“He solves problems. That’s what he does best, and that’s what we need. That’s how we move forward – with knowledge. Not with hiding from knowledge.” See the full story here. (The video contains content missing from the written version.)...

Hello and thank you for your incredible support!  Thanks to you, we received hundreds of new donations for thousands of dollars in the final weeks of 2018 and set a new quarterly record for the campaign.  The team and I celebrated New Year’s Eve together in New York City with supporters from all over the country:......

December 31st is a crucial reporting deadline for the campaign.  We want to report a growing number of supporters each period – right now we are close but not quite there. Please do make a contribution today and let the establishment know that this campaign has the people on its side.  Every bit helps – particularly if......

Hello and Happy Holidays to you and yours!  I hope you are enjoying a wonderful time with your family and loved ones.  I am writing this on the way to Florida where I am visiting my in-laws with my family. Last Thursday, I spoke at the Progress Iowa event in Des Moines to 250 Democratic activists and......

“The 2020 presidential race is shaping up on the Democratic side to be one of the largest in history. With no clear frontrunner, dozens of candidates have expressed interest in campaigning for the chance to take on President Trump in the general election. It’s also possible Trump could get a primary challenger from a Republican, though he......

“In his speech, Yang, an entrepreneur, blamed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 squarely on the automation of manufacturing jobs. “When jobs disappear, people get angry, and blue turns to red,” he said. With his “friends in Silicon Valley” threatening millions more jobs, Yang said, the solutions were single-payer health care and something called the “Freedom......

I’m writing this from my 7th trip to Iowa, which has been tremendous. Over the last two days, I’ve met with everyone from city councilwomen, activists, teachers, union leaders, small business owners, and tech entrepreneurs to everyday Iowans.  I also attended a house party held for me in rural Iowa. Our message has gotten out. ......

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Some tremendous news came out this weekend: CNN released its first poll of Iowa caucus voters to measure the presidential field.  Iowa will be the first state to vote in 2020. The leaders were whom you’d expect:  Biden at 32%. Bernie at 19%.  Beto at 11%. But then, after the others, there I was:  Andrew Yang at 1% of voters’......

Thank you for the support! It means a ton to us. Some huge news came out this week in the Washington Post: The Democratic National Committee is close to finalizing a 2020 primary debate plan that would give lesser-known candidates a chance to share the same stage as the party’s front-runners, avoiding the two-tier “kiddie table” approach......

Hello, I hope that the Holiday Season is off to a great start for you and yours!  Thank you so much for your support. I spent the weekend campaigning in Florida, including a phenomenal event in West Palm Beach.  We met with a number of progressive activists who have been excited since the launch of the campaign:......

Happy week-after-Thanksgiving!  I hope that you had a wonderful holiday with loved ones.  Evelyn and I hosted a record number of relatives ourselves. I have some exciting news to share – I have been invited to keynote the year-end event in Des Moines for Progress Iowa, one of the leading activist organizations in the state.  It will be......

Hello all, and thank you for your support!  It means the world to us. The team and I just wrapped up the Humanity First Tour in Iowa City on Friday night. It was magic.  We started in Detroit and went to Chicago, New Hampshire, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore before ending up in Iowa.  At each stop there were dozens,......

Greetings from Cleveland!  We had a phenomenal event last night on the Humanity First Tour and are on the way to Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Iowa City.  We also visited New England College in New Hampshire on Monday: I will have more from the Tour shortly – but I’m writing about something that has been on my mind......

Hello all. Thank you for the support – I appreciate it more than you know. The Humanity First Tour kicked off on Thursday in Detroit!  It was great to be back. We were hosted by my friend, Zak Pashak, the founder and CEO of Detroit Bikes in their manufacturing facility in the city (yes someone......

Hello and thank you for your support! Tuesday was Election Day, and it felt like the most important one in decades.  Turnout was up by 31 million voters over the last midterm in 2014.  Democrats won the House of Representatives, which is a vital step in the right direction.  However, Democrats lost several red-state seats......

Whether you’re one of the millions of Americans fed up with seeing Trump in the oval office, or you’re one of the silent masses eagerly awaiting Trump’s next political upset, we’ve all got one question right now: Who is running for President in 2020? Lucky for you, we are political nerds and did all the......

Like all of you, I was devastated by the events at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh this weekend.  It is heartbreaking that so many innocent lives were brutally taken in a place of worship and peace. I feel particularly terrible and terrified for my Jewish friends.  So many have lost family members to violence and......

Thank you for getting behind my campaign from the early days!  I really appreciate it. On Thursday, I spoke at Net Impact 2018, a gathering of 1,600+ college students, business school students, and young professionals in Phoenix, Arizona.  Net Impact is a non-profit based in the Bay Area that organizes hundreds of chapters of students and professionals......

I hope that you’re doing great! November 6th is quickly approaching.  Having now met dozens of local, state, and Federal candidates, this Election Day feels more important than others.  I admire many of the candidates deeply as people – and of course I can now relate to what they’re going through in running for office. I often joke......

It’s a short review, but he calls for, “smart, thoughtful, empathetic, science-believing leaders.” We have just the candidate! Read the (very short) review here....

  Last week, heading into the Q3 reporting deadline, we received hundreds of donations and set a new high-water mark.  It’s amazing that our campaign is growing so quickly.  Please know that I appreciate every bit of support, particularly when someone donates. I am writing this from Des Moines, where I addressed 250 Democrats Friday night.  The speech I......

Hello all and thank you for your support. I, like many of you, have been transfixed by the testimony and hearings of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. I was initially hesitant to weigh-in as I believe that we are, in general, paying too much attention to the drama in Washington.   But this has become the......

Hello Friends, Thank you for your support for the campaign!  We really appreciate it. I am writing this from New Hampshire, where I met with the St. Anselm College Democrats Monday and am heading to Plymouth State University and New England College Tuesday. The young Democrats of New Hampshire are wonderful—active, thoughtful and passionate about......

My friend Anand Giridharadas recently wrote a book, Winners Take All, about how the world of philanthropy has adopted a Win-Win mentality where praise is given to those who talk about how to make others stronger and more successful, but it is unacceptable to talk about taking less or changing the underlying system. Instead, the......

Happy post-Labor Day! Hope you had a wonderful time with friends and family. I spent my Labor Day speaking at a workers’ rights rally in Fairfield, Iowa.  It was a lot of fun.  The organizer of the event was Chris Laursen, the head of a United Autoworkers chapter in Ottumwa, Iowa. In preparation for my speech, I researched......

Hello all, I hope that the summer is ending on a high note for you and yours! The huge news from this week, which is not receiving appropriate national attention in my opinion, is that democracy has returned to the Democratic Party.  This past weekend, the DNC decided to strip superdelegates – officeholders and party officials – of......

    This past week was a big one for the campaign on several fronts. First, I was interviewed by Ezra Klein this week on his podcast on Vox. Ezra is one of the top political and economic journalists in the country. We debated the labor market, automation, the impact of technology, universal basic income, and......

Friends, I arrived home from Iowa on Tuesday night and am reflecting on what we learned in an incredible week. The big takeaway – we can win this election.   There are two states that play key roles in determining presidential major-party nominees – Iowa and New Hampshire. No candidate has won without finishing in......

Thank you for the support!  I appreciate it a great deal. I was in Seattle last week talking to an awesome group of supporters. One person who worked at Amazon commented on how the warehouse workers wear sensors that beep at them any time they fall behind a certain pace. That’s a clear sign of......

It’s been a tremendous week.  I spoke at Stanford to a class on AI about the impact of AI on the labor market.  I also met with the leader of a think tank about the future who advocates for a form of Universal Basic Income based on assets (e.g., personal data) as well as a......

I’ve been in San Francisco meeting with various leaders and entrepreneurs. We had our first sighting of a bumper sticker in SF which was a thrill. I’m speaking at a public event on Tuesday the 17th. I will be in Los Angeles on Friday — tell your friends in SoCal!       My book was featured on the front page of the......

This is an exciting time for the campaign. I appeared on Sam Harris’s podcast ‘Waking Up’ which led to hundreds of people donating and joining our campaign. Apparently everyone listens to Sam’s podcast. Sam is a voice of reason in a world that needs it and I appreciated the conversation a great deal. I was also included......

This past week I spoke at Google and also appeared on a YouTube show with 1.8 million followers — warning that this video will make you hungry. I also made trips to Los Angeles, Boston, and New Hampshire. In Los Angeles I met many amazing people including a very well-dressed baby — the first baby I’ve kissed as a presidential candidate.......

Watch Andrew Yang’s headline speech at the 2018 Iowa Wing Ding, the largest Democratic event in the state of Iowa with 1,000+ activists, that received a standing ovation and countless press stories....

This past week was a fruitful one. I spoke at the Techonomy event in New York City as well as at a national gathering of Christian entrepreneurs upstate. Photo by Rebecca Greenfield for Techonomy Meeting with the Christian entrepreneurs was enlightening. I found that the themes of the campaign and their point of view are......

The past week was an exciting one for the campaign. The press coverage continues to grow. Yahoo had me visit to talk about the Freedom Dividend, the Huffington Post did a profile and the latest NowThis video was viewed almost half a million times. Also, Fox News posted an article which included me among the major Democratic contenders for the Presidency in 2020.......

Zach, Andrew F., and I went to New Hampshire on Wednesday. We were invited by Ray Buckley, the Chair of the Democratic Party to meet with Democratic state legislators in Concord. I haven’t been to New Hampshire since I graduated from high school in 1992. (I went to a boarding school there, Phillips Exeter Academy, for......

Friends, Hello, and thank you for your support of my campaign! It means the world to me. This week I was on Bloomberg to talk about Universal Basic Income as a response to increasing automation: The reception was great.  More and more Americans are realizing every day that we need big new solutions that will actually improve......

The last couple of weeks have been phenomenal. The week before last I was in San Francisco for an event with Jim Pugh that drew 100 people. While I was out there I met with the team at OpenAI, a leading research outfit backed by Elon Musk. OpenAI is working to advance artificial intelligence for......

The past few weeks have been intense and productive—we have a lot of exciting news to share! I had an incredibly positive meeting with Grace Meng, the Vice Chair of the DNC and the Congresswoman from the 6th District of New York which includes Flushing and Bayside, where my wife grew up. Grace is amazing! She is......

I’m writing with some big news to share—I’m running for President as a Democrat in 2020. This is not something I arrived at lightly. I’m running because I’m confident that we are going to automate away millions of jobs in the next number of years and we need big changes to get through this time.......

Introduction: The Great Displacement By Andrew Yang Limited Edition Pre-Release _____________ I am writing from inside the tech bubble to let you know that we are coming for your jobs. I recently met a pair of old friends for drinks in Manhattan. One is an executive who works at a software company in New York.......