The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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16-Year-Olds Want to Vote—and States Are Starting to Listen to Them
Oregon may become the first state to lower the voting age to include youth in all local and statewide elections.
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#WalkOutToVote: Demanding Change, Youth-Led Alliance Brings Power to Polls
The Future Coalition, including organizers with March For Our Lives, are leading students in hundreds of planned walkouts at schools nationwide for Tuesday's midterm election.
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Robert Reich: Message to Millennials
Robert Reich explains why it is so important for young people to vote in the midterm elections.
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8 Lessons U.S. Progressives Can Learn From the U.K. Labour Party
A grassroots network called Momentum, formed in 2015 to build participation and engagement in the Labour Party, mobilized 23,000 members and 150 local chapters through on-the-ground campaigning and social media.
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Why Are So Many Young Voters Falling for Old Socialists?
Politicians like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn have carried the left-wing torch in a sort of long-distance relay, skipping generations of centrists like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, to hand it to today’s under-35s.
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The Afterbern: “He’s Not Moving A Party to the Left – He's Moving A Generation to the Left”
Without Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Fight for $15, the mobilization of teachers and nurses, immigrant movements, and many other struggles, there would never have been a Bernie Sanders campaign.
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The New Generation Gap
Three realities – social injustice on an unprecedented scale, massive inequities, and a loss of trust in elites – define our political moment, among young people more than anyone.
