>> again, thank you for having me. >> senator anna kaplan was part of the 2018 democratic blue wave. she did her flipping in the new york state senate, and she did it all while being the first jewish iranian american citizen to do it. >> i was a political refugee who came to this country at age 13. as jews, we never voted in iran. we didn't really have a say, so there isn't a day i didn't feel blessed to do what i do. >> i didn't realize there was such a large population of iranian jews. >> if you compare that to the muslims of iran, we're just 0.1%. >> at one point in history, there were an estimated 150,000 jewish people living in iran. the revolution and the creation of the islamic state changed all that in an instant. >> my mom and sister escaped in the trunk of a car, knowing that if they got caught, they would kill them. >> iranian jews fled in vast numbers. many of them ended up here in long island, specifically great