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Hearing from a number of young voters (who were not old enough to vote in 2008, 2012, and in some cases even 2016) that the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris is their "Obama moment."
Tonight, for the first time ever, two women - Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - will sit behind the President during an address to Congress.
Biden to sign executive orders:
- Rejoining the Paris climate accord
- Ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries
- Halting evictions and student loan payments during the coronavirus pandemic
Via
@merica
:
Gen Z and millennials make up 40% of today’s electorate.
15 million young people have turned 18 since the last Presidential election.
Today, 6.8 million more young people have a history of voting than did in 2016, in part because of turnout in the 2018 midterms.
Young leaders have asked the Biden admin to:
- Build an “Office of Young Americans" w/in the Executive Office of the President
- Appoint a "Director of Youth Engagement,” preferably someone who is part of Gen Z
- Hire young people across all levels of govt
Megan Thee Stallion’s Instagram reel from Vice President
@KamalaHarris
’ Atlanta rally yesterday has 14.3 million views. The caption has the hashtag “
#hottiesforharris
”
“When I go to speak, especially to young people, they're pissed off and mourning their civil rights,” Florida Rep.
@MaxwellFrostFL
said at Coachella, via
@fortesalatifi
for
@TeenVogue
.
👀 "Support for Biden to run for a second term is highest among 18- to 34-year-old Democratic voters, with 85 percent of the group saying he should run again."
Young people who witnessed Charlottesville, Parkland, this summer's movement for racial justice -- where many of them were teargassed or arrested -- & more, say "this moment will shape how young people see the country for the rest of our lives."
This is a coup. This is an insurrection. This is domestic terrorism. This is gun violence. This moment will shape how young people see the country for the rest of our lives.
Members of Gen Z have fought for racial, climate & immigrant justice, gun violence prevention & more since 2016.
Recognizing the intersectionality of the issues they care about most, young leaders have built a united front of young voters ahead of the 2020 election.
Thread.
🚨Voter registration deadlines by state:
Oct 5: AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, MS, OH, SC, TN, TX.
Oct 7: MO.
Oct 9: OK, NY.
Oct 10: DE.
Oct 13: KS, LA, NJ, OH, VA, WV.
Oct 16: NE.
Oct 19: AL, PA, SD.
Oct 24: MA.
In the days since the Capitol lockdown, I spoke with survivors of school shootings & gun violence prevention activists about the trauma of witnessing a lockdown.
It's a reality many students in America are familiar with.
This is what they told me:
NEW:
@sunrisemvmt
endorses former Ohio state Sen.
@ninaturner
, further bolstering her campaign's progressive support ahead of a special election for an open US House seat in Ohio’s 11th district.
Young Americans were key to many Democratic wins this week. With the Georgia Sen. runoff & 2024 on the horizon, The Up and Up will continue to report on the political power of Gen Z, from voters, to organizers, to members of Congress. Please subscribe! ⤵️
.
@AMarch4OurLives
is demanding the resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Tomorrow, youth activists with
@mfolgeorgia
will host a press conference at Greene’s district office in Georgia to demand she steps down.
“In response to this, March For Our Lives is doing everything we can,"
@davidhogg111
said.
"Part of that is asking people to text "resign" to 954-954," he said.
On a press zoom with youth activists about the "final midterm push,"
@davidhogg111
said the Parkland school shooting, climate change, the reverse of Roe v. Wade, & election of former President Trump, “showed our generation unlike anything else how politics is tangible to us.”
Inbox:
@Swifties4Kamala
to host its first national organizing call on Tuesday 8/27 at 7pm.
They say they've already had 13K sign ups.
Release has quite a few Taylor Swift references.
A reminder that amid everything -- the US reported 3,865 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, the highest number of deaths reported in a single day since the pandemic began.
👀 High school journalists from different schools came together to create
@TheIrisNYC
They cover local and international issues (including school reopenings, US gun violence, Beirut explosion, anti-Semitism in Poland) and have so far interviewed
@JamaalBowmanNY
&
@AndrewYang
“If they shoot me they prove my point and the reality is they can’t kill a movement,"
@davidhogg111
tells
@AlisynCamerota
on New Day in response to the video of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
At the time in 2019, Greene told Hogg she has a concealed carry permit and carries a gun.
🚨Young leaders will take the virtual stage at the Democratic National Convention tonight
Since Trump's election, young people have led the charge in a number of protest movements. 10% of eligible voters this November are between the ages of 18 and 23.
Per early voting data, youth voter turnout is up & it could surge in 2020.
There are many reasons why this could be:
6.8 million more young voters have a vote history in 2020 than 2016
The # of young voters on the voting record & visible to campaigns is 2x what it was in ‘16
Today in Florida, students at more than 300 high school and college campuses will:
- walkout of class
- check their voter registration
- hear a peer-led 5 minute banned history lesson
More about
@walkout2learn
for
@TeenVogue
:
"We need to work to have a Congress that looks like the country, and yes that means in race, but it also means in age and it also means in life experiences,"
@MaxwellFrostFL
, who could be the first Gen Z member of Congress, told CNN's
@jaketapper
on
@TheLeadCNN
Wednesday.
Inbox:
@sunrisemvmt
-- the youth-led climate organization that helped champion the Green New Deal and elect progressives to Congress in 2020 -- is launching their own candidate program to support young leaders looking to run for local or state office in 2021 or 2022
🚨This morning
@AMarch4OurLives
ran their first tv ad on Fox & Friends and Morning Joe with a message that young people will determine our nation’s future
Tonight
@AndrewYang
will join Young Americans for Biden for a town hall focused on student loans. The event is co-hosted by the youth-focused
@DebtCrisisOrg
@RiseFreeOrg
& start-up Savi, who are teaming up to launch a student loan education tool + hotline.
.
@Emma4Change
famously called “BS” in an address to lawmakers and gun advocates at a 2018 gun control rally just days after the shooting.
Audio from that speech will be used during the
@DemConvention
tonight.
An update — Yesterday was my last day at
@cnn
, and I’m beyond grateful for the
@cnnpolitics
team. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged my reporting & work on young voters so far. Excited for the next chapter. More to come soon!
.
@fred_guttenberg
says he'll continue to shine light on Greene until they meet in person, when he will "bring proof of what happened" to his daughter Jamie.
3/3
In a listening session last night, young people confirmed what was clearly the DNC’s thesis in bringing creators to the convention: many watched the convention via clips on social rather than cable/by reading traditional news. 🧵
👀 Early returns in Florida show the critical battleground state's pre-Election Day electorate is currently trending younger than four years ago.
via
@stark_talk
@adamplevy
@ethanbencohen
New: Young progressives warn that Democrats could have a youth voter problem in 2022.
Without the items promised in President Biden's social safety plan, progressive organizers worry there will be nothing incentivizing young people to vote in the midterms.
The Biden HQ TikTok account struggled to gain traction, hovering above 405,000 followers in early July... rebranded as 'Kamala HQ,' the now Harris campaign account has surpassed 1 million followers.
NEW:
@AMarch4OurLives
is calling on the Biden-Harris admin to appoint a National Director of Gun Violence Prevention and a Director of Youth Engagement – two positions that have never before existed in a presidential administration.
Keeping up with the Kardashians may be ending. But Kylie and Kendall Jenner keep encouraging voter registration.
Kendall also did an IG live with
@jonfavs
for her 139 million followers on National Voter Registration Day.
Kylie Jenner posting two thirst traps and encouraging her 196 million Instagram followers to click a link where they can register to vote and make a plan to vote.
.
@taylorswift13
's "Only the Young," is featured in an ad from
@ericswalwell
encouraging young voters to get out to the polls in the final days of the 2020 campaign.
Swalwell says the song is, "an anthem for 2020 and a call to action for the youth vote."
In 2016, youth led orgs
@AMarch4OurLives
&
@sunrisemvmt
didn't exist. This week alone, they've made thousands of calls to voters.
@AMarch4OurLives
is holding nightly phone banks, strictly calling voters under 25. They aim to reach half a million young Americans by Tuesday.
Over 1000 people are currently on a Zoom call led by Sunrise Movement.
@sunrisemvmt
contacted over 3.5 million young voters in the lead up to the general election.
🚨 Power the Polls hit 500,000 poll worker sign ups today.
That means half a million people have committed to working the polls in early voting or on Election Day.
More here:
Ahead of early voting in Georgia --->
@NextGenAmerica
, in partnership with
@votesaveamerica
, made 252,970 phone calls this weekend to 18-35 year-olds who requested absentee ballots for or voted early in the general election, urging them to request mail ballots for the runoff.
“He’s thinking about making ‘a guide or something’ to help Democrats communicate better with younger voters,”
@NYTBlake
writes about Gen Z Congressman-elect
@MaxwellFrostFL
.
I held a listening session tonight with 7 young Dem. voters, ages 18-27, from 7 dif states (GA, VA, NY, NJ, WA, IN, IL). They all plan to vote for Kamala Harris.
But before they do so, they said, they're looking for values > virality.
Here's some of what they had to say 🧵...
NEW: DNC to stream *vertically* on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube next week in a bid for younger viewers
— The vast majority of people who view conventions — or a live TV broadcast of any major political event — tend to be older than 55
@axios
👀 700 progressive young people signed up to run for local office with
@runforsomething
btwn last Tuesday and Friday -- in the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol building and on the heels of historic Democratic wins in Georgia -- per
@amandalitman
.
The video was tweeted by
@fred_guttenberg
, whose daughter Jamie was killed during the Parkland school shooting.
Guttenberg said he released the video on Twitter "to shine sunlight" on Greene, who has suggested the mass shooting was a "false flag" operation.
2/3
From spoofing the Bama rush trend on TikTok to leaning into BeReal, the brainpower behind the Gen Z-led operation supporting Gov-elect
@JoshShapiroPA
's campaign belonged to his daughter,
@SophiaShapiro_
.
More on Sophia &
@students4shaps
for
@TeenVogue
.
Vice President
@KamalaHarris
delivers a virtual address to the youth-led
@VotersTomorrow
summit: “We know your vote cannot be taken for granted. It must be earned. And that is exactly what we will do.”
It's been four years since the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, FL.
Today
@AMarch4OurLives
,
@GunsDownAmerica
&
@ChangeTheRef
launched the "Shock Market," to track gun violence in the US since President Biden took office.
Here's what's up: Across the country, youth-led & youth-focused organizations are making the final days of the cycle count. For example:
@VotersTomorrow
is building a “Gen Z War Room” of about 20 strategists in D.C. to oversee its GOTV organizing strategy.
“The move aims to boost Biden's standing among young voters who are crucial to Democrats' success in elections — and to potentially counter former President Trump's massive social media following, if he's the GOP nominee in 2024.” Via
@SophiaCai99
Young people fighting for racial, climate, immigrant justice & gun violence prevention w/
@AMarch4OurLives
@Dreamdefenders
@UWDAction
@sunrisemvmt
celebrate a Biden-Harris victory.
They say they are ready to push a Biden-Harris administration on the issues they care about most.
In the video, Greene mentioned that at 18, Hogg spoke with Senators on the Hill.
"She’s kind of self owning herself by saying an 18-year-old can do her job better than her with a group of mostly people under 20, like one of our head lobbyists,
@eve_levenson
,"
@davidhogg111
said.
Four years since the 2018 March For Our Lives, today
@AMarch4OurLives
is placing 1,100 body bags on the National Mall, spelling out the words “thoughts and prayers.”
New: Over two dozen youth-focused organizations & more than 100 other young people sent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer a letter urging the NY Democrat and his caucus to scrap the filibuster.
"Eliminate the filibuster to protect our future," they say.
For the first time in 2022, members of Gen Z could be elected to the US House of Representatives.
With the midterms on the horizon,
@MaxwellFrostFL
, a Democrat, &
@kleavittnh
, a Republican, have launched campaigns to be the first Gen Z-er in Congress.
A mixture of fear and hope allowed young people to buck speculation that without former President Donald Trump officially on the ballot, they wouldn’t show up. My latest, featuring
@CivicYouth
's analysis, for
@TeenVogue
.
It's Election Day in Wisconsin, where organizers have been working all winter to drive up youth voter turnout in the state Supreme Court race, highlighting the key issues at stake - hoping they once again resonate with younger voters.
Another sign of youth support for Vice President
@KamalaHarris
.
As part of its fundraising update, the Harris campaign says since June it saw “more than 10x the number of Gen Z donors.”
New: In a letter titled "Fight For Our Vote," which was published Sunday as an ad in the New York Times, Michelle Obama and her voting rights organization
@WhenWeAllVote
called on Americans to “vote like the future of our democracy depends on it."
Youth organizers are urging Republican Senators to hold off on a Supreme Court nomination vote.
@NextGenAmerica
is sending a message to Sen. Grassley via pigeon,
@sunrisemvmt
is demonstrating on lawmakers lawns +
@AMarch4OurLives
will be at their offices
"Joe Biden will be remembered as one of the greatest Presidents in American history,"
@0liviajulianna
tells me."I hope everyone who seemingly forgot that fact when they pushed him out is ready to unite behind one of the greatest Vice Presidents in American History Kamala Harris."
On July 1, the number one feeling I heard from potential young voters was frustration.
On August 1, I’m hearing feelings of hope, energy. They're still fed up with the status quo. But on both sides of the aisle, young people say they see someone to vote for, not just against.
Members of Gen Z have grown up amid hyper-partisanship and a polarizing political climate. This week, I’ve heard from many who are psyched by the possibility of hope rather than fear-driven politics for the first time in their political lives.
🚨 With 8 days until Nov 3,
@NextGenAmerica
is expanding into Texas with a 6 figure ad buy.
There are almost 5 million voters under 35 in TX. NextGen will add these voters to its outreach & launch a new TX specific ad in English + Spanish on Univision, YouTube & Snapchat.
Friendship bracelets, the summer-camp staples co-opted by Taylor Swift fans, are one of the hottest accessories at the DNC. Beyond their trendiness, organizers say the bracelets are a way to build community. My latest, for
@NYTStyles
.
New analysis from
@CivicYouth
shows that abortion was the
#1
issue for 18-29-year-olds in the 2022 midterms & that the 18-29-year-old cohort was the only age group that prioritized abortion > inflation.
Post-debate for
@POLITICOMag
, Dem creator
@0liviajulianna
told me the “normal people” in her life are “kind of all like, ‘We knew Joe Biden was old, but I’d rather vote for Grandpa Democracy than Grandpa Dictator.’”
Today the Biden Inaugural Committee is celebrating National Run For Office Day.
“Politician is not a title you are born with,”
@amandalitman
(who launched the holiday 4 years ago) said, stressing the need for young and passionate people to run for office.
👀
@isaiahrmartin
is the latest Gen Zer to launch a campaign for Congress. He graduated from University of Houston in 2021, where he was president of
#ForTheStudents
, a student advocacy group, and led a push to make the football stadium a polling site.
My name is Isaiah Martin and I’m running to become the next Gen-Z member of the United States Congress — because democracy is only guaranteed if we fight for it.
#TX18
“We’re asking for common sense gun safety legislation,” Ezri Taylor, a 19-year-old freshman at Vanderbilt and
@AMarch4OurLives
national organizer, told me.
WATCH: Students from Ralph Yarl’s high school walk out in support of their classmate, who was shot twice in Kansas City after he rang the wrong doorbell while trying to pick up his younger siblings.
"I think it's great that they're using alternative avenues especially through content creators on TikTok and elsewhere to kind of spread real information and combat misinformation,"
@AaronParnas
, a 22-year-old Ukrainian American who has 1.2M followers on TikTok, said of the call.
NEW: The Next 50 -- a PAC that aims to help young down-ballot candidates in swing districts -- is launching a national campaign to support 50 millennial and Gen Z candidates under the age of 45 ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
On both sides of the aisle, young people told CNN that President Biden has been more progressive on certain issues than they expected during his first 100 days in office.
Young organizers launched
@PromAtThePolls
, an initiative to energize and turnout young voters ahead of Nov 3.
Organizers are encouraging young people to make a “prom-poll-sal,” dress up and cast their ballot with a date 💃🕺🗳️
More here:
Up and down the ballot, Gen Z candidates are tackling fundraising — one of the biggest hurdles for first-time political candidates. Take a look at how
@MaxwellFrostFL
,
@NabeelaforIL
, &
@SamforOhio
have bucked the status quo. My latest for
@teenvogue
.