To Reach Young Voters, Try Giving a Sh*t with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

The Recount

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

More than half of Americans are under the age of 40, and according to Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, President and Executive Director of NextGen America, they are facing three crises simultaneously — a climate catastrophe, a democracy in decline, and grotesque income inequality. Cristina is a progressive labor organizer and former 2020 U.S. Senate candidate who truly understands the complexity of the youth vote, especially in her home state of Texas, and particularly within the Latino community. She joins Amanda this week to pull apart the Democrats’ mistaken assumption that young voters are all college kids; discuss why campaigns clinging to the ‘young people don’t vote’ myth after impressive turnout in 2020 do so at their own peril; and, as always, they tackle money in politics. Plus, breaking up Facebook: it’s time.

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0:00.0	I'm Amanda Lippman and this is Battleground, a podcast from The Recount.
0:10.6	Today's guest is Christina Tsundra-Mieres, the executive director of NextGen America,
0:15.2	one of the leading national progressive youth voter mobilization organizations.
0:19.9	I talked to Christina about why the youth vote, which is one of the most diverse voting
0:24.2	groups that we've ever seen, is such an important piece of building and preserving a multiracial
0:29.4	democracy.
0:30.4	And how much effort is being put into making it harder for them to vote, especially
0:34.8	in places like Christina's home state of Texas?
0:38.0	We break down why you can't just funnel the young people into one topic categories like
0:42.4	you sometimes can do with older voters, and what most political campaigns get so wrong
0:47.8	when it comes to connecting with and inspiring them to participate in politics at all, and
0:52.4	honestly, what NextGen gets right.
0:55.5	Now before my conversation with Christina, I want to talk about Facebook.
1:00.7	So on Monday of this week, as basically anyone who lives online is familiar, Facebook,
1:07.1	Instagram, WhatsApp, Ocula, if you use that, all went down for about six hours.
1:13.4	These are not just places where you post photos and make fun of boomers.
1:17.2	Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are critical platforms for conducting business, arranging
1:21.8	medical care, holding class, carrying out political campaigns, responding to emergencies,
1:27.2	and so much more.
1:29.7	WhatsApp in particular is used to send more than 100 billion messages a day.
1:33.4	It's been downloaded more than six billion times since 2014 back when Facebook bought
1:38.0	it.
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