Youth Vote Coalition Responds to Election Results
NextGen America, Voters of Tomorrow, Alliance for Youth Action, For Michigan, Rally NC, Project 26 Pennsylvania, the Wisco Project, and NAACP Youth and College release coalition statement
Washington, D.C. — Young people make up nearly one-fifth of the electorate and are a critical section of our democracy. At this moment, youth coalition partners are standing together and acknowledging our collective power. We are proud of our work this cycle to mobilize young people, and we know the work of educating and empowering young people to engage in the civic process will continue. As we build our progressive movement for change, we remain united in our efforts and in our work to build our future.
Together, youth organizing leaders NextGen America, Voters of Tomorrow, Alliance for Youth Action, For Michigan, Rally NC, Project 26 Pennsylvania, the Wisco Project, and NAACP Youth and College release the following statement:
“Our work to educate, empower, and mobilize young people has always been about building a progressive movement that is larger than any single candidate or election year. Young people turned out this year, and we know our generation will continue to be a force for freedom, equity, and hope.
“We are proud to stand together with our youth coalition partners in our movement for change, and we are committed to continuing this work. Together, our youth movement directly contacted millions of young people this election cycle across the country. There is strength in our collective power, and the work we do day in and day out remains essential. We are here, we stand together, and we are not backing down.”
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About NextGen America
NextGen America is the leading national organization for engaging young people through voter education, registration and mobilization. We invite 18-to-35 year olds — the largest and most diverse generation in American history — into our democracy to ensure our government works for them and to find new solutions to the dire challenges facing our society and the world. Since 2013, NextGen America has registered over 1.6 million young voters, empowering the next generation to lead and drive lasting change.
About Alliance for Youth Action
The Alliance for Youth Action grows progressive people power across America by empowering local young people’s organizations to strengthen our democracy, fix our economy, and correct injustices through on-the-ground organizing.
About Voters of Tomorrow
Voters of Tomorrow is the largest Gen Z-led voter outreach organization in the country. The group has chapters in 25 states and a volunteer presence in all 50, and made more than 31 million calls and texts to young people in 2024.
About For Michigan
For Michigan empowers students to take leadership in their community to increase youth civic engagement in the democratic process. By organizing college students across the state on campuses large and small, we are ensuring progressive students are brought into our youth power building movement.
About Rally NC
Rally NC is an entrepreneurial and innovative operation to protect and expand democracy by elevating youth leadership across the state in order to empower thousands of college students to take control of their futures, get organized, and vote in the 2024 elections.
About Project 26 Pennsylvania
Named after the 26th Amendment, which gave 18 year olds the right to vote, Project 26 Pennsylvania works to promote and expand democracy in Pennsylvania by elevating youth leadership in order to get organized, vote in key elections, and exercise our power to take control of our lives through civic engagement.
About the Wisco Project
Wisconsin has a super power: it’s young voters. Over 300,000 college students call Wisconsin home – when we organize on campuses, students vote. Building on work started during the April 2023 Supreme Court Election, when young people showed up in record numbers, the Wisco Project is building an even bigger and scrappier movement to make sure we have another record breaking year in 2024 across campuses all throughout our state.
NAACP Youth & College
The NAACP Youth & College Division encompasses 700 College Chapters & Youth Councils, representing 28,000+ young, Black Americans across the nation. Over the last decade, their leaders and members have led nationwide efforts to advance police reform, cultivate safe school campuses, mobilizing Black youth voters to the polls, and create pathways to success for the next generation of leaders. Most recently, the NAACP Youth & College Division led the collective effort to cancel more than $160 billion of student debt, promoting economic equity as essential to racial equity.