October 18, 2024
18 Days Until Election Day (11/05/24)
Across the country, voter registration deadlines are rapidly approaching. Our team has been working around the clock, in-person and online, to ensure the largest and most diverse generation in history has the resources they need to make their voices heard. Since the start of the school year, NextGen America has registered over 71,000 young people to vote across eight states.
🤝On the Ground🤝
Puff n’ Politics
NextGen America and the Detroit Pistons spent last Saturday celebrating an evening of premium cigars, cannabis, cocktails, and conversation with executives and leaders across culture and community. As part of NextGen America’s Men’s Voter Power (MVP) campaign, the event focused on educating and mobilizing young Black and Brown men, collecting over 200 ‘pledge to votes’ from participants.
Team Arizona
CBS News joined our field team in Arizona for a story highlighting our organizing efforts both on the ground and online with college athletes. Watch the full segment here!
Team Pennsylvania
Last month, NextGen America joined the Philadelphia Eagles, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and many of our other partners and PA community leaders to host a summit at Lincoln Financial Field to discuss violence prevention efforts and how to build on White House’s ongoing program to prevent gun violence through a coordinated response and support structure. The summit featured over 100 leaders including elected officials across all levels of government, direct service and violence interruption non-profits, public health leaders, survivors, and more.
Team Texas
As team Texas shifts into GOTV, the field program has shifted from voter registration to working with students to make voting plans. This work includes a multi-layered voter engagement program with tabling, high traffic canvassing, door knocking, phone banking and text banking. Here’s our team door-knocking in San Antonio!
📸Creator Corner📸
🏀NBA HIGHLIGHTS
Aaron Gordon, NBA player for the Denver Nuggets and University of Arizona alum, posted on his IG story encouraging young voters to register to vote.
Magic Johnson came through to encourage his Spartan family to register to vote ahead of Michigan’s voter registration deadline.
Draymond Green, NBA player for the Golden State Warriors and Spartan alum, posted on his IG story encouraging the Spartan fam and other young voters to register to vote.
🏅Student Athletes
Fun Fact: In this cycle, alone, we have already worked with over 200 unique content creators and generated over 400 pieces of content reaching over 3.6 million people online!
🧠Leaders Lab:
The Leaders Lab students have finished their training curriculum, and are getting to work on their organizing projects!
Leaders Lab student, Ashmeen Kaur, had an op-ed outlining “how to vote” published in Ms.Mag: Harness the Power of Your Vote: A Young Voter’s Guide for 2024
Additionally, students have been organizing on their campuses, hosting class raps, tabling, or recruiting new members to NextGen clubs:
✨Young Voter Spotlight:
This November will be Charlotte’s first time voting. She is extremely passionate about civic engagement and is eager to make her voice heard by showing up to vote. Charlotte considers reproductive rights to be the most important issue when thinking about who to vote for.
Charlotte believes that young voters play a major role in shaping the future of the country and credits young voters for a number of the positive changes we’ve seen in our society.
