This 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,...
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