{"id":1775417,"date":"2022-12-14T17:17:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775417"},"modified":"2022-12-14T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:17:57","slug":"democrats-court-their-newest-voting-bloc-high-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-court-their-newest-voting-bloc-high-schoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Court Their Newest Voting Bloc: High Schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-court-their-newest-voting-bloc-high-schoolers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Think high-school-junior-to-Democrat-voter pipeline. That\u2019s the model for <a href=\"https:\/\/futurevoter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a> left-wing nonprofit\u2019s latest Democrat get-out-the-vote scheme. <\/p>\n<p>In a fundraising email to its supporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/voteamerica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VoteAmerica<\/a> \u2014 a left-wing nonprofit that focuses on voter registration and turnout \u2014 writes that because 50 percent of high school students take either the SAT or ACT, it\u2019s partnering with high schools across the country to register students to vote when they sign up for standardized testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want students to be directed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/futurevoter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">futurevoter.com<\/a>, where they can pledge to register to vote as soon as they turn 18,\u201d the email reads. \u201cStudents who join the FutureVoter initiative will receive automated text message voter registration prompts as soon as they turn 18 and will experience comprehensive get-out-the-vote campaigns over their first three elections.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Simply put: by signing underage students up to register to vote, FutureVoter and its parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/voteamerica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VoteAmerica<\/a>, can send them Democrat Party-specific prompts and groom them into becoming future Democrat voters. While VoteAmerica claims it\u2019s nonpartisan, its <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/va_future_voter?refcode=121322footer&#038;amount=22&#038;link_id=1&#038;can_id=eacf89e39a32bbbb195be8f16ef59307&#038;source=email-re-the-youth-vote-matters-5&#038;email_referrer=email_1765891&#038;email_subject=re-the-youth-vote-matters&#038;refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1765891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fundraising page<\/a> is serviced by ActBlue Charities, a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/actblue-charities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pass-through organization created to facilitate donations to left-of-center 501(c)(3) nonprofits<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/political-party\/actblue-pac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ActBlue<\/a> itself is a left-wing PAC that funnels millions of dollars into left-wing causes and Democrat campaigns every year through its fundraising platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake about what <em>kind<\/em> of voter FutureVoter wishes to cultivate. Gen Z helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/e2-80-9cwe-e2-80-99ve-grown-up-in-unprecedented-circumstances-from-economic-turmoil-to-the-pandemic-to-climate-change-to-school-shootings-e2-80-9d\/ar-AA140uGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pull many Democrat candidates to the finish line<\/a> this past midterm cycle, with about two-thirds of them backing Democrat House candidates (<a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/2022-election-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">27 percent of Americans aged 18-29\u00a0cast votes<\/a>). While Democrats don\u2019t quite have Gen Z or millennials in the bag (in fact, a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-biden-politics-pennsylvania-state-government-a42e61b5a9fa590dabd1e61762fac31b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing percentage of young people are supporting the Republican Party<\/a>), schemes like <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/06\/leftists-aim-to-expedite-the-public-school-to-democrat-voter-pipeline-with-votes-for-16-year-olds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lowering the voting age<\/a> or fronting as CollegeBoard itself are all part of the larger Democrat Party plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/06\/leftists-aim-to-expedite-the-public-school-to-democrat-voter-pipeline-with-votes-for-16-year-olds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cinch<\/a> the youth vote. <\/p>\n<p>Never mind that a third of high school seniors fail to attain a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2011\/0504\/A-third-of-high-school-seniors-lack-basic-grasp-of-civics-US-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">basic understanding of civics<\/a>, or that high school (and for that matter, college) graduates are coming out of school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicschoolreview.com\/blog\/are-high-school-graduates-ready-for-college-studies-are-dismal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woefully uneducated<\/a>. This is the perfect kind of voting bloc for Democrat GOTV efforts: one that can be effectively propagandized for years to come (according to VoteAmerica, \u201ca young person who casts a ballot in three consecutive elections will become a lifelong consistent voter\u201d). And on this new voting bloc rests the future of the country. <\/p>\n<p>FutureVoter is just one small piece of the puzzle that is Democrats\u2019 complicated network of 501(c)(3) nonprofit \u201ccharities\u201d that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-charity-voter-registration-scheme-tax-exemption-soros-democracy-philanthropy-501c3-georgia-11663883529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stack voter rolls in their favor<\/a>.\u201d Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/01\/thank-sam-bankman-fried-for-democrats-2022-ground-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mother<\/a> is in charge of one such foundation that funnels millions in tax-exempt cash from Silicon Valley moguls into groups that cherrypick and register potential Democrat voters. The Center for Tech and Civic Life is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/ctcl-kicks-off-2024-election-cycle-with-a-new-80-million-zuckbucks-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another<\/a> one. If Republicans hope to mitigate the effects of these left-wing nonprofit powerhouses (and want a chance at winning elections), they must create their own.<\/p>\n<p>VoteAmerica did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> Victoria Marshall is a staff writer at The Federalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think high-school-junior-to-Democrat-voter pipeline. That\u2019s the model for this left-wing nonprofit\u2019s latest Democrat get-out-the-vote scheme. In a fundraising email to its supporters, VoteAmerica \u2014 a left-wing nonprofit that focuses on voter registration and turnout \u2014 writes that because 50 percent of high school students take either the SAT or ACT, it\u2019s partnering with high schools across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1641592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[9097,4733,3685,6919,9096,4351],"class_list":["post-1775417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bloc","tag-court","tag-democrats","tag-federalist","tag-schoolers","tag-voting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}