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I hope to be able to poll more on it in the future. Some interesting gender specific findings in a January survey from AEI, but def curious how this evolves!

www.aei.org/research-pro...

New: a majority of Americans under 45 say it's important to date or marry someone with the same political views. It matters less and less as Americans age.

Read & listen to my latest on the complicated relationship between politics and finding looove ♥️

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The next AOC? Young Democrats are aiming to topple incumbents inside their own party Frustrated with their party's response to President Trump, a wave of young Democrats are challenging incumbents in safe blue districts, hoping to mirror Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset win in 2018.

My look into the early campaigns of 5 young Democratic candidates challenging incumbents

Read about @elijahmanley.bsky.social @katmabu.bsky.social @saikatc.bsky.social in the digital and listen to @jakerakov.bsky.social @georgehornedo.bsky.social on the radio

here ⬇️

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my belated post-election next steps at NPR! add me to your lists/reach out/drop me a line!!! 💕✨🥯

If you’re a young person who felt left out of the election or let down by the candidates over Gaza, I’m hoping to talk to you today. DMs open

With fewer protesters and a renewed focus, activists plan for a second round of Trump President-elect Donald Trump takes office Monday and Democratic organizers are not seeing the mass-scale opposition they witnessed in 2017. So, they're adjusting with a focus on Trump's agenda.

see my reporting here!
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...

With fewer protesters and a renewed focus, activists plan for a second round of Trump President-elect Donald Trump takes office Monday and Democratic organizers are not seeing the mass-scale opposition they witnessed in 2017. So, they're adjusting with a focus on Trump's agenda.

On this Inauguration day, I take a look at how anti-Trump organizers are feeling about activism in his second term
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Watch live: Confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Trump's secretary of defense pick Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Defense, will answer questions Tuesday in a public hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Follow NPR's coverage of Pete Hegseth's Senate hearing here
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The Up and Up | Rachel Janfaza | Substack Your destination for news and insights about young people and our politics. Click to read The Up and Up, by Rachel Janfaza, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

From The Up and Up, a newsletter focused on Gen Z politics and culture by Rachel Janfaza: www.theupandup.us

"Of all 535 members of the Congress, just 11 are currently 35-years-old or younger. That’s a whopping 2%"

Maxwell Frost (FL-10), who is 27, remains the only Gen Z member of Congress

YouTube video by The White House Vice President Harris Delivers Remarks to Young Leaders

Vice President Harris is giving a speech directed at young Americans today.

It comes after she underperformed with voters under 30 last month. (She won the group, but compared to President Biden's 2020 performance, her margin dropped by 13 points.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQv...

I’ll stop for now, but more to come digging into the voter trends we saw this election.

& some reporting on Capitol Hill as I help out our team there!

I also reported on some of the cracks in support for Harris among young voters and voters of color

www.npr.org/2024/10/23/n...

All year I’ve been spotlighting how young voters were feeling leading up to the election. Here’s a snapshot from western PA

www.npr.org/2024/10/29/n...

One of my favorite pieces this year — and the last feature I did before the election — on first formerly incarcerated first time voters.

www.npr.org/2024/11/03/n...

My first post election look at the youth vote. More to come

Biden won big with young voters. This year, they swung toward Trump in a big way

www.npr.org/2024/11/07/g...

Haven’t been here in a while but I’ll try it again 🤗. Sharing some recent work I’ve been up to belowwwww

Hi! I'm officially heading to NPR's 2024 elections team to cover young and new voters as a political reporter!

It's coverage I've done for a while, but now I'm saying goodbye to producing the NPR Politics Podcast, and I'll be reporting full-time

Add me to your lists! Reach out! YAY

They have different battles. Wahl leads in a solid red state. Clayton is in a purple one. But they both head into 2024 with strong goals of broadening party support, and they say their age helps with that.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1196635417/democratic-party-north-carolina-anderson-clayton-gen-z-voters-rural-politics

On the Democratic side, we talked to Anderson Clayton, who’s 25. She’s the youngest state party chair of either party.

Listen below

It’s part of a 2 part series on youth leadership in state party politics.

A look at the youngest GOP party chair in the country, John Wahl, who is 37.

Latest from me and @ximenabustillo.bsky.social
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1196635596/alabama-republican-party-john-wahl-trump-desantis-gop-black-voters-young-voters

NEW: Gun control activist David Hogg is announcing a new group focused on getting young people into state and federal office.

It’s called Leaders We Deserve. And I spoke with him about it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/09/1191455776/young-voters-david-hogg-pac-campaign-elections-genz-millennial

The GOP faces a tough battle with recruiting young voters

But among young people already in the Republican camp, where do they stand more than a year out from the election?

I checked in with some of them

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188528155/young-conservatives-trump-desantis-voting-2024

This made me real lol 😂

We’ll be on the NPR Politics Pod this afternoon to talk about it.

And on the RADIO and podcast world this Sunday on All Things Considered.

Where does rural Gen Z stand? @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and I went down to North Carolina, and got a group together to talk about it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1185826401/rural-voters-lean-red-young-voters-lean-blue-so-whats-a-young-rural-voter-to-do

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