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These videos will get you fired up to vote in the midterms

sudshr47 November 2, 2018

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Voting PSAs are meant to make you laugh, get you excited about democracy, and above all, motivate you to cast a ballot on Election Day — a day that will influence the next 10 years of our lives. 

In an effort to combat historic patterns of underwhelming voter turnout during midterm elections, brands and advocacy organizations have released video campaigns designed to get out the vote. They’ve enlisted your favorite actors, like Black Panther‘s Chadwick Boseman and Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu, as well as President Barack Obama, to share one clear message: You need to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6.  Read more…

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Taylor Swift credited with surge in voter registrations

sudshr47 October 9, 2018

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With the midterm elections just four weeks away, voter registrations are surging — and it might be, at least in part, due to pop superstar Taylor Swift.

Kamari Guthrie, Director of Communications for Vote.org, told BuzzFeed the site had collected 65,000 new voter registrations within the 24 hours following Swift’s Sunday night Instagram post in which she blasted Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn and endorsed her Democratic opponent, Phil Bredesen, in the Tennessee Senate race.

Per Guthrie, that’s more voters than the site registered in all of August (56,669) and a third of those registered in September (190,178). Read more…

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The Avengers teamed up with March For Our Lives to create a PSA about their ‘first time’

sudshr47 October 2, 2018

In a new video full of double entendres, The Avengers: Infinity War stars share intimate details about their “first time” as the song “Feels Like the First Time” plays in the background. 
“I mean, I didn’t know how to do it,” says Mark …

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How to register to vote in less than two minutes

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

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All the cool kids are doing it. That’s what you can tell your best friend when you finally convince them to register to vote. 

Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, the nationwide holiday that celebrates democracy and promotes voter registration every fourth Tuesday of September.

So if you haven’t registered already, you should do so now because the midterm elections are just a few weeks away. If you’re not sure about your state’s election date or the location of your polling place, you can visit Rockthevote.org to learn more. 

As Rock The Vote President and Executive Director Carolyn DeWitt suggests, this is not an election day you can afford to miss. “This is the most consequential midterm election in the lifetime of young voters. National Voter Registration Day is a critical moment to ensure that their voices are able to be heard in the midterms,” she said in a statement.  Read more…

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Snapchat’s users are surprisingly old and it’s telling them to vote

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

Snapchat is a college favorite more than high school phenomenon. Only 20 percent of Snapchat’s US users are under 18, down from 22 percent in 2016 as some of its early adopters have now aged up and headed to college. Appealing to older users was a big motive for its otherwise-disastrous redesign that do a […]

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Instagram will promote mid-term voting with stickers, registration info

sudshr47 September 18, 2018

Facebook is getting ready to purposefully influence the U.S. mid-term elections after spending two years trying to safeguard against foreign interference. Instagram plans to run ads in Stories and feed powered by TurboVote that will target all US users over 18 and point them towards information on how to get properly registered and abide by […]

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Activists are registering voters at ‘Black Panther’ screenings for #WakandaTheVote

sudshr47 February 17, 2018

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It’s rare that blockbuster movies do anything to move culture forward besides make people really annoying on Twitter.

Ben Shapiro rants aside, Black Panther is a lovely exception. Activists Kayla Reed, Jessica Byrd and Rukia Lumumba from the Movement for Black Lives‘ Electoral Justice Project recently launched #WakandaTheVote to help register voters at Black Panther screenings across the country. 

“This weekend we wanted to meet our people in Wakanda,” the activists told Blavity. “We know that for some it’s a superhero world, but we know that the world we deserve is still waiting to be built — and we want to build it! This upcoming spring and November 2018 midterm elections are an important step in building that new world, and we want to take every opportunity to engage our communities in the conversation of electoral justice.” Read more…

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