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Blackburn’s Campaign Video Mislabels Japanese Fortune Cookies as Chinese

7/10/2026

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) posted a campaign video that crushes fortune cookies, shows a Japanese maneki-neko, and includes a pledge to stop Communist China.
Historians say fortune cookies were popularized in early-20th-century California by Japanese immigrant Makoto Hagiwara, not by China.
Blackburn, a former Tea Party conservative running for Tennessee governor, has not received an endorsement from U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) posted a campaign video that crushes fortune cookies, shows a Japanese maneki-neko, and includes a pledge to stop Communist China.
Historians say fortune cookies were popularized in early-20th-century California by Japanese immigrant Makoto Hagiwara, not by China.
Blackburn, a former Tea Party conservative running for Tennessee governor, has not received an endorsement from U.S. President Donald Trump.