Notable personal detailsYan Xiong is a Democratic candidate who previously ran for the U.S. House in New York’s 10th Congressional District in 2022. He has been described in public materials as a community activist, pastor, and U.S. Army veteran/chaplain, and has been publicly associated with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent imprisonment. His later U.S. public-service profile includes U.S. Army service and chaplaincy.