Tippecanoe, Indiana, Reports Early voting up 700%, so far, over 2014 midterm!
In 2008, thanks in large part to Purdue University turnout, Obama won the county of Tippecanoe, Indiana. Those 18-29 years old Indiana voters, like their counterparts in NC, tipped the state for...
View ArticleAnother national school walkout is coming, but this time young people plan to...
Eleven thousand voters turn 18 every day, according to the Future Coalition, a national network of youth-led organizations and initiatives. It’s those newly eligible voters, and others comprising the...
View ArticleIMPORTANT! Help college students vote
Suppression of college students’ votes is common, especially in rural small town America. Please help disseminate the information in this documentcloud.org .pdf file to Democratic election officials,...
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Record 2018 Midterm Voting Turnout? Credit the Grassroots
By all accounts, voting levels in the 2018 U.S. midterm election are set to shatter previous records, with numbers and engagement more comparable to a typical presidential election than a midterm...
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TX SEN: 5.8 million early voted, 8.2 million turnout projected!!!
The TX Secretary of State only publicly releases early vote totals for its top 30 counties. Including absentee vote by mail and in-person votes, their tally stands at 4,884,528. According to Tom Bonier...
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Young people this cycle have doubled their 2014 early vote totals
Early voting by young people this cycle is already up 125 percent over early vote totals from 2014, according to a progressive voter database group called Catalist. The data holds potential for...
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Parkland students make music video saluting their lost friends—and demanding...
The students, turned survivors, turned activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are some of the most amazing and hard-working young people in this country. In between...
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Remember all the pre-election talk about how youth would vote in higher...
Democratic activists, many of them young people themselves, worked diligently the past few months to spur a big showing for the 2018 elections by youthful voters. And there was much discussion by...
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Unprecedented 2018 Turnout: Something New is Happening Just When We Need it Most
A big hat tip to the ever vigilant Greg Dworkin with his Abbreviated Pundit Round-up this morning and the excellent link to the 2018 turnout ratio tweet by Evan Siegfried. This number has been getting...
View ArticleYoung Rural Voters
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View ArticleNext Gen worked, but we must prepare in case it dies.
I spent the entire 2018 cycle in a bit of a jealous mood. Whenever given the chance, I have been jumping up and down to suggest that young people, and in particular college students with their...
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BERN - 'April 27th Yuuge Day for Bernie, Foreign Policy, and Defeating Trump...
This is the weekly BERN (Bernie Election and Revolution News), a collaborative effort of the Daily Kos Group The Political Revolution. Numerous group members have contributed to this effort as an...
View ArticlePlease Share With Millennials and Gen Z
Hello, (relatively) young person — Just a few things here to consider before the next elections: Are you worried about how you’ll ever get the student loan millstone off of your neck so you can think...
View ArticleDems finally closed guns "intensity gap," ranked it 2nd only to climate...
“In a recent Morning Consult survey, 62% of Democrats wanted to hear the presidential candidates discuss the issue of gun violence that plagues our nation and schools.”— German Lopez, Vox.comGun...
View ArticleMeet 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...
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