NextGen America to Launch NextGen Insider, Weekly Updates on Youth Vote Program

Celebrates registering nearly 36,000 voters, signing up over 50,000 supporters, and recruiting more than 1,500 active volunteers this year

San Francisco, CA — Today, NextGen America launched NextGen Insider, a resource for staying up to date on NextGen America’s youth vote program across the country. The NextGen Insider website will be updated weekly and provide numerical updates, broken down by state, on NextGen’s efforts to engage young people and get out the vote in November, including voter registration totals, number of active volunteers and completed shifts, and supporter sign up figures.

This launch comes as NextGen celebrates its successes in 2018 thus far. Since the beginning of 2018, NextGen Rising has registered nearly 36,000 young voters, signed up over 50,000 supporters, and recruited more than 1,500 active volunteers. This unprecedented amount of involvement of young people this early before a midterm election shows heightened enthusiasm for progressive candidates and issues going into November 2018.

“Across the country, NextGen America organizers and volunteers are working everyday to engage young people and build political power for November 2018 and beyond. Young Americans are passionate, motivated, and eager to build a nation that provides equality and justice for all, and we are providing them with the tools and resources to realize that future,” said Youth Vote Director Ben Wessel. “As the youth vote momentum and energy continues to grow across the country, NextGen Insider will allow you to watch this movement take shape in real time.”

NextGen America’s youth organizing program — NextGen Rising — is the largest youth organizing program in American history to register, engage, and mobilize young voters, on and off campuses, across eleven states ahead of November 6th, 2018. In 2017, NextGen America set the standard for engaging and turning out the youth vote in Virginia by organizing on 26 campuses across the Commonwealth and registering over 20,000 young Virginians to vote. The young people activated by NextGen — through field, mail or digital — turned out at double the rate of young Virginians statewide.

Click here to view NextGen Insider.