It wasn’t just new voters that made this election the biggest ever: Youth turned out in droves to work on campaigns behind the scenes, too.
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Since 2016, organizers have identified campaigns sowing falsehoods about the pandemic and the presidential election and have worked to counteract them.
“Strategic discrimination” is a subtle yet pervasive behavior that keeps people from voting for women and people of color.
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Young voters are intimately aware that they will be forced to bear the full effects of climate change—and they’re voting with that in mind.
It starts with knowing how we actually elect a president, and what your vote really means.
The example of gender equality in Haudenosaunee society gave 19th-century White women some big ideas.
Voting rights have always been inconsistently applied. Now the coronavirus pandemic is threatening those rights even more, and activists are pushing back.
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Along with community care, accountability, and the disruption of oppressive systems.
By insisting that Wisconsin’s primary election proceed in-person, Republicans inadvertently showed why early voting and mail-in ballots should be a priority.
Utah has shown both how to get more people to vote and how to overcome the political resistance that electoral reforms inevitably run into.
With 10 million skiers in the U.S. who are at risk of losing their snow to climate change, it's time to mobilize.
Political interest is high— from the number of small-donor contributions made to presidential candidates to cable news viewership—signaling voter turnout may reach new heights in November.
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