Meet Assata's Daughters: Black feminism, mentorship, activism.
Assata’s Daughtersis a Black women-led organization formed by Black feminists and organizers in the south side of Chicago as a reaction to the violence in their neighborhoods. Under the shared respect...
View ArticleThe #Scary16: who wins the title of worst rep?
Does it ever feel like Republican politicians are duking it out to see who can be the most awful on the issues that matter to us? Well now they can! Welcome to Scariest Reps, the March Madness of...
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Are We Boomers Too Old to Dream?
I was 15 in 1968. The world was swirling around us in even more turmoil than today—at least so far. In March, an incumbent President announced he would not run for re-election after having been...
View ArticleThe kids are alright: Undergrads seriously rocking the vote in North Carolina
Primary elections are always low-turnout affairs, and North Carolina’s early-voting run-up to Super Tuesday is no exception, with a turnout thus far of just 6.6% statewide.In a biennial orgy of...
View ArticleBiden has a huge problem with the youth. Ignore it at our all peril.
Joe Biden does not have a complicated relationship with young voters. He has made no real effort to get us to like him and accordingly a large majority of young people do not like him.Generation Z and...
View ArticleBiden's wins can't be dismissed as 'the establishment' taking over. We have...
As former Vice President Joe Biden won state after state on Tuesday night, the accusations flew: The Establishment stole the election from Sen. Bernie Sanders. Former rival and current campaign...
View ArticleMy baby is growing up
My baby is turning 18 this year and already has a plan in place to register on his 18th birthday, I swear it was only yesterday he took his first steps or in his case first run. He was raised on a...
View ArticleOur Kailua-Kona Costco Run of 31 March, 2020: an Exercise in Reflection
You know, it was like a scene out of a rejected Rod Serling skit yesterday. My wife and I decided to make the 2 hour drive to the other side of the Big Island before the sunrise to take advantage of...
View ArticleHere's what progressive groups are asking of Joe Biden for the general...
After Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for president, a number of progressives took to Twitter to discuss what they hope to see from former vice president and likely nominee Joe Biden....
View ArticleThe Young Don't Come Here
It’s time to have a roll call. I don’t have access, but I’m gonna bet, based on comments and articles written, that the average Daily Kos commenter is well over 40. Maybe even older. Over the past...
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Biden and the "Youth" Vote (aka Bernie Supporters)
There has been a growing concern expressed about the need to attract the “Bernie” vote which was comprised of progressives of all ages but also a large number of Millennials and GenZ voters. But while...
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Black Voices Matter, Too
You may know me from Twitter as "Politidope" or at least you know someone who does. If you lived in Downtown Richmond, VA around 2012, you remember me as the tall black guy with braces asking folks,...
View ArticleTrump is losing it, Activating the young vote, DNC review.
It sure looks like Trump is losing it. Delilah Agho-Otoghile discusses the young vote and more. We talk about the DNC and its aftermath.Delilah Agho-Otoghile talks 2020 election, youth vote, &...
View ArticleSky High Youth Vote Enthusiasm: 63% in 2020 vs. 47% in 2016 intend to vote;...
The poll found 63% of respondents (age 18-29) indicated they will “definitely be voting,” compared to 47% during this same time before the 2016 presidential election.Young voter enthusiasm and the...
View ArticleThis Is What This Election Looks Like Among Voters Under 35 - The Future of...
Source: www.axios.com/…Also, for those who argue that voters inevitably grow more conservative as they age, that theory has now been widely debunked by numerous studies. What seems to happen instead is...
View ArticleOur secret weapon this election? Texting millennials.
Turning swing state voters out to their polls or their mail-in ballot box is going to make or break whether we can reclaim the White House and flip the U.S. Senate. With young voters quickly becoming...
View ArticleOne of the most popular GOTV activities, but space is limited
The election is almost over—and one reason I’m cautiously optimistic is the youth vote. Despite millions of students displaced from college campuses due to the coronavirus, the enthusiasm of voters...
View ArticleYoung Americans came out in droves to cast first-time votes—and it’s having...
Young voters brought the heat to this election year. Millennials and Gen Z not only made a wave in voter turnout but encouraged others to do so via technology and social media. Since the start of the...
View ArticleThis week on The Brief: How Native-led groups flipped Arizona, key lessons...
On this week’s episode of The Brief, hosts Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld continued to to analyze 2020’s election outcomes and parse the specific lessons we can learn from organizers of color who...
View ArticleThis week on The Brief: Young voters, corporate accountability, and canceling...
Last election cycle, Democrats were able to capture the trifecta of the White House, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate by thin margins. On this week’s episode of The Brief, hosts Markos Moulitsas and...
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Republicans' Last Desperate Stand
hilarybrowngreetings.comat any rate, I really hope this is the case!!!
View ArticleThe census confirms that the future of America is less and less white, in...
So, how about that census? Daily Kos contributor David Jarman has an extensive overview here of the winners and losers. Thematically, the story is that cities grew, suburbs grew, the Latino and Asian...
View ArticleWhy young people need to vote in massive numbers, and how you can help.
A critical reason for the 2020 election result was massive turnout of young voters, whose record participation made the difference: 52.5% of voters 18-29 turned out in 2020, compared with 32.6% in 2018...
View ArticleLet's Politicize The $#@! Out of This Tragedy
A suggestion for all Democrats in office and those seeking to be elected: Every single time after yet another mass shooting in our country, whenever anyone mentions anything to do with the problem of...
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📌ThisWeekInTheWarOnWomen: Young women, especially women of color, are...
📌 from TheConversation Although voters age 18-29 have historically been the least likely age-cohort to vote, 78% of them favor legal abortion and 69% disapprove of Dobbs, compared to roughly 62% of...
View ArticleA Week in the Life of a College Music Student Running for Office
This weekend concludes my first week back on campus, and I thought it would be interesting to provide a look into what that looks like!My name is Zach Coltrain and I am a 19-year-old college student...
View ArticleThis week on The Brief: Women and youth turnout surges as Democrats...
Welcome to another recap of The Brief! In this week’s episode, hosts Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld talk all things midterms, with an eye toward how several recent pieces of legislation, Supreme...
View ArticleCome on in, the water’s fine
I am by far (10+ years) the youngest candidate in the room in almost any political situation I could find myself in throughout the commonwealth of Virginia. How can we fix this?
View ArticleThis week on The Brief: Winning the youth vote with Cristina Tzintzun Ramirez
This week on The Brief, hosts Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld chatted all things midterms as we are now only mere weeks out from the election. They welcomed Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez of NextGen onto...
View ArticleEarly Voting Can Also Be A Canary In the Coal Mine
I do not share anyone’s optimism regarding early voting. We saw this before in 2020. I saw it first-hand here in very red Staten Island in 2020. The very first day of early voting in 2020, the line...
View ArticleVoters under 30 will be the difference between Democrats solidly beating...
Young voters under 30 showed up in historic numbers in 2018 and 2020, helping to shift the outcome of those elections toward major Democratic victories in both cycles.This cycle, under-30 voters once...
View Article2022 Midterms: Two causes for concern (not panic)
This election cycle has been an “emotional roller-coaster” for me! I guess others two. Crazy polls, crazy politicians, crazy electorate. As we get closer to Election Day , there are two developments...
View ArticleWe have four final days to get out the Democratic vote—we get to decide who...
This is it, folks. The politicians and the pollsters don’t get to decide on the midterm elections. The voters do. And it’s on us to do all that we can to get out the Democratic vote for the FINAL FOUR...
View ArticleYoung Voters Saved our Asses Tonight. Now Democrats Must Repay Them
The conventional wisdom, going into this evening, was that Dems were going to get their butts kicked. The polling averages all showed significant GOP leads. Certain blue-state governorships, and a...
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Young people voted in large numbers—largely for Democrats
Young voters once again proved to be a critical part of the Democratic coalition according to a post-election analysis conducted by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and...
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Under-30s key in Georgia runoff. Abortion drove them to polls nationwide....
Commentators have attached much comfort and hope to the turnout of young voters in this year’s election. At 27%, youth turnout was the third-highest in the 13 midterms since 1974, with peaks at 32% in...
View ArticleLower the voting age to 14, and several more commonsense solutions
During the Vietnam war era, the argument was made that if one could fight and die for our country, one should have the right to vote at the age of 18, which was the draft age for military combat duty...
View ArticleLet’s please not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again here. TikTok...
The tl-drFor the headline tl-dr above the fold if skimming this Diary, there’s been a serious and dangerous misunderstanding fuelling the proposed TikTok ban in the House panel (a lot of Dem votes)...
View ArticleThoughts on 2024 election gloom based on two CNN articles
After a good dose of positive momentum in mid-late April, I have recently felt, along with various others around here I’m sure, a weight on our spirits and diminished hopes for a not-Trump-autocracy in...
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What Do You Tell the Kids to Get them To Vote?
One of my children is in college, and the other just graduated. They vote. I’d like to think that has something to do with my long campaign to instill civic values, critical thinking, and interest in...
View ArticleGeneration Z Loves Kamala Harris. She is Brat! What the Heck Does that Mean?
I think Gen Z voters will be a significant force in this election. They have embraced Kamala Harris and developed a ton of memes. A British pop singer, Charli XCX, (real name Charlotte Emma Aitchison)...
View ArticleALL-YOUTH Call for Harris Happening Now
Another short-notice message just came across my desk. Please share. Even if they join the zoom late, they will be counted as an interested young voter.It’s tonight, Thurs. 7/25 6pm mtn time.Things...
View ArticleInside the Harris campaign's push to get young voters to the polls
The Harris-Walz campaign used Voter Registration Day to launch a “Youth Vote Week of Action” on Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Gen Z to head to the polls. The initiative combines social media outreach...
View ArticleHarris leads Trump by 32 points among young voters!
I haven’t seen this diaried yet around here, so I thought I’d share it. A new poll released today by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among...
View ArticleThose young enough to hope for another 50 years of life will vote on their...
This November we will collectively decide the nature of the nation we subsequently will spend our lives in. It could be the last time we have that choice. Under the democracy all of us grew up with,...
View ArticleYoung voters urge Kamala Harris not to take them for granted
By Nadra Nittle for The 19thIn November, Adah Crandall plans to vote in her first presidential election. There’s no question which candidate she’s supporting: Vice President Kamala Harris. Crandall,...
View Article"Direct instruction" on the impact of third-party candidates?
Phone banking PA voters with Unite-HERE this morning went well. Even hangups were polite. Helped a few people make a plan to vote. Saved one lady from “provisional vote" status. Got some to change plan...
View ArticleA Great Ad to Share with Young Voters
Please check out this political commercial.votenow2024.us
View ArticleLies at the Speed of Light
Tuesday is the election and mainstream media has a real problem dealing with what happens on the internet instantaneously.High profile individuals make a social media post and it travels around the...
View ArticleRetracted
Admin note: This story has been retracted for misrepresenting the count of Active Users as Early Voters.
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