Our Impact
At NextGen America, we know it’s always taken the courage and imagination of young people to ensure we can tackle our country’s biggest challenges. Our nation needs that courage to solve climate change, racial injustice, runaway inequality, and to save democracy itself. Year after year, we’ve seen that courage in young people across this country. We’ve made it our mission to harness that power for progress.
From the start, NextGen has been the home of the youth vote. Take a look at our record.
2025 (& beyond!)
Today, NextGen America is the nation's largest youth voter organization.
This year, we’re empowering young voters to preserve our democracy, fight back against extremism, and defend our rights. With an online base of over 2.3 million young voters and a field presence in eight key states, we’re ready to face the challenges that confront our generation. We've done it before and we’ll do it again.
2024
In 2024 alone, NextGen registered over 130,000 young people to vote!
We mobilized young voters across 249 college campuses in eight key states: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.
We made over 3 million calls, sent over 22.6 million texts, launched an influencer campaign that reached over 6.6 million people, partnered with 297 content creators, and collaborated on social media with NBA stars Aaron Gordon, Magic Johnson, and Draymond Green.
2023
Young voters turned out in historic numbers in state elections nationwide!
With abortion access, voting rights, and climate justice on the line in Virginia and Pennsylvania, the youth vote’s massive turnout exceeded expectations, and made it clear that when it comes to our fundamental rights, we refuse to back down!
2022
NextGen mobilized in eight key states for the midterm elections: Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin — we even got involved in Georgia’s runoff election!
Alongside the work directly in our key states, we ran one of the largest distributed organizing and digital outreach programs ever, to ensure the youth vote was heard from coast to coast. We made nearly 1.5 million calls, sent 23 million texts, engaged a volunteer base of 28,000, and built a potential influencer audience of over 180 million.
2021
We kept the drumbeat going as we geared up for midterm elections. This cycle, we sent 10,625,308 texts, made 672,680 calls, and activated a community of 6,709 volunteers.
2020
By 2020, NextGen had registered over 1.4 million young people to vote. In 2020 alone, we contacted 10.5 million young voters and helped drive 4.7 million to the polls in 16 key states — leading to the largest youth voter turnout in American history.
2019
We registered and turned out young voters across Virginia in the statewide elections. Our organizers registered 8,442 young Virginians to vote in 2019 alone, mobilizing 542 volunteers throughout the state to help get out the vote.
2018
NextGen made history with the youth vote again! We registered 257,857 voters, knocked on over 1 million doors, sent 9.1 million texts, and recruited 16,009 volunteers across 11 key states. We contributed to the largest youth midterm election turnout in history.
2017
NextGen Climate expanded its mission and relaunched as NextGen America! We doubled down on our commitment to fight for a wide breadth of progressive solutions to economic and social justice issues that deeply impact young people.
2016
Once again, we proved the power of the youth vote by registering 296,247 voters, sending over 7.2 million text messages, and recruiting 12,828 volunteers nationwide for races in 13 key states.
2015
NextGen made it a priority to advocate for young people in on and off election years, becoming a key player in passing the Clean Power Plan and rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline.
2014
NextGen hit the ground running and engaged in the 11 key states where young people were underrepresented in the electorate, pledging over 270,000 people to vote.
2013
Tom Steyer established NextGen Climate to support candidates and policies that take action against climate change. Young people, and especially young people of color, have always been hit hardest by climate disaster. NextGen committed to be part of the solution.
