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Democrats target 'Swiftie' voters as The Eras Tour returns: 'We're not taking any vote for granted'
The DNC launched its new "I Will Vote" campaign as Taylor Swift began the final US leg of her Eras …
Eve Crosbie
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These 38 GOP senators just voted against protecting contraception. Here's why.
Republicans complained that Democrats were simply holding a show vote. But they also said they were…
Bryan Metzger
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EC identifies 266 Lok Sabha seats with low voter turnout, mostly in rural areas
The Election Commission on Friday said it has identified 266 parliamentary constituencies, includin…
PTI
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Counting of votes begins for Mizoram Assembly elections
The counting of votes for Mizoram Assembly polls began on Monday morning amid elaborate security ar…
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Republicans vote unanimously to ban basic income programs in a state with one of the highest homelessness rates
Arizona's GOP state House voted unanimously for a bill banning basic-income programs. Arizona has o…
Katie Balevic,Kenneth Niemeyer
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South Dakota lawmaker quotes MLK Jr. out of context during her vote to restrict health care for trans youth
Rep. Brandei Schaefbauer joined a long list of Republican lawmakers who seem to love quoting Dr. Ma…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Kellyanne Conway said Democrats could turn the youth vote into a 'turnout machine,' warning the GOP shouldn't just 'wait for the young to get old'
"The Republican Party cannot wait for ... the single to get married to find new voters," Conway tol…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,John L. D…
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Georgia's new Senator-elect Jon Ossoff is a millennial success story
The first millennial senator, Jon Ossoff is also likely the first senator to tweet "n00b 4 lyfe" an…
Juliana Kaplan
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Young people of color voted overwhelmingly for Biden while young white voters were much more evenly split, driven by white men supporting Trump
Young white voters backed Biden over Trump by 6 percentage points. Black, Asian, and Latino youth b…
Kelsey Vlamis
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'I don't want to die:' How 14 youth advocates in Hawaii are fighting climate change by taking the state to court
A group of youth advocates have sued the state's Department of Transportation over greenhouse-gas e…
Yoonji Han
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Meet post-pandemic Gen Z, the most unemployed generation which is now in danger of repeating millennials' struggles
The generation, the oldest of whom turned 23 this year, has been grappling with the pandemic during…
Hillary Hoffower
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More than 100 teenagers gathered on the steps of the Capitol to throw an epic prom for trans youth
The celebration was an act of pride and defiance in the midst of a record-breaking year for anti-LG…
Yoonji Han
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A bipartisan group of Georgia teens is trying to flip the Senate by enlisting thousands of students to vote in the January runoffs
The group hopes to register the 23,000 Georgia teens who could not vote in the general election but…
Kelsey Vlamis
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86 House Democrats voted against a GOP-proposed resolution 'denouncing the horrors of socialism'
The resolution, sponsored by Cuban-American Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, was met with eye-…
Bryan Metzger
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The coronavirus pandemic could actually finally change youth turnout in elections, according to a March For Our Lives cofounder and an expert in generational differences
"This is the biggest cultural event since World War II," said psychologist Jean Twenge, while David…
Juliana Kaplan
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'We can't just rally every four years:' Young people of color stand up to voter suppression in Florida and Texas
Florida and Texas lawmakers introduced voting rights legislation organizers say are designed to dis…
Gwen Aviles
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Bernie Sanders and the youth vote: Stats and history suggest he may doom the Democrats
Here is how Americans voted in the 2016 presidential election, broken down by age group, according …
Jim Edwards
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Iowa Republicans voted just before 5 a.m. to roll back child labor laws, letting teens work on packaging lines and serve alcohol
An Iowa state labor leader said it was a "disgrace" that the GOP-controlled Senate passed the bill …
Rebecca Cohen
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The vast majority of young Americans likely to vote want Biden to act on student debt — but many don't believe their votes make 'a real difference,' Harvard poll finds
Harvard polled Americans under 30 who are likely to vote in the midterms and found 85% of them want…
Ayelet Sheffey
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The Texas governor said he plans to strip the Legislature's pay after Democrats staged a walkout to prevent restrictive voting laws from passing
"No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on Twitter when…