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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/09/2026

Like an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants, Pierre Damas Bel had recently lost temporary protected status, which is given to people fleeing nations experiencing disaster. He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 01/09/2026

Uh…so when will my university email be working again? #outlookoutage

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 22/08/2026

me: young people are hardwired to find a “civic home” where they can connect with others forming their political voices around similar issues and challenges

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 21/08/2026

How many peer reviews do you do a year versus how many submissions (initial submissions and revisions) do you do per year?

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 10/03/2026

New global poll shows younger Gen Z men are more likely to think we've gone "too far" in promoting women's rights (49% in the U.S.). Given that young American men don't hold particularly extreme gender views, I suspect a key reason is earning power, perceived and felt. www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/...

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 27/02/2026

Excited to share CIRCLE’s new report on political homes for youth! What was your political home as a young person? What political homes do young people around you have today? circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...

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Building Political Homes for Youth

Authors: Sara Suzuki, Seona Maskara, Ruby Belle Booth, Alberto Medina Contributors: Sarah Burnham, Eva Kroh

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 07/01/2026

Only 1% thought the government should prioritize "cost of living" in 2018. That number has now shot up to 1 in 3. And among all age groups, youth were most likely to prioritize housing costs with almost 1 in 4 saying it is what the government needs to focus on in this new year. buff.ly/CVArMmW

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 07/11/2025

‼️ Young voters powered Mamdani to victory and TURNED OUT in Virginia and New Jersey! Full analysis here: circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 02/10/2025

Wow the Census's data tables and MDAT tool are both not loading right now because of the shutdown...

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 02/07/2025

I’ve had many Prolific responses fail the Qualtrics bot/fraud detection scores!

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 29/06/2025

Ok, but this equates turnout with “turning out registered voters” as every data source used except the Pew data only had registered voters. More unregistered nonvoters would have voted Harris than Trump. Source: CES 2024 data.

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Demos @demosorg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🧵 New research reveals 1.5 million North Carolinians are missing during election time, in part because NC has become one of the hardest states to vote in. The solution? Remove the barriers. Empower voters. Read our new report with @scsjofficial.bsky.social: demos.nyc/nc-missing-v...

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Who Are North Carolina's 1.5 Million Missing Voters? | Demos

In this report, Dēmos and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose a crisis in North Carolina's democracy and its voter rolls, and share commonsense policy solutions to fix it.

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Melissa Deckman @melissadeckman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My latest piece @prri.org , which helps explain how our politics have become so gendered. open.substack.com/pub/prri/p/o...

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Our Increasingly Gendered Politics

Unpacking the political dynamics behind conservatives' commitment to gendered hierarchies

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 29/06/2025

“young voters have not become more likely to identify as conservative…Gen Z might not be the disaster for Democrats that Shor and others are predicting. The 2024 election might have been an anomalous event in which young people’s deep dissatisfaction with the economy…drove them to want change.”

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 08/04/2025

Dig into a brand new study from CIRCLE and Protect Democracy on Gen Z’s views of democracy—both as an ideal and how it is in reality. See what underlies these attitudes so we can understand what it takes to bring all youth into the urgent fight for democracy. protectdemocracy.org/work/how-doe...

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How does Gen Z really feel about democracy? - Protect Democracy

A new survey offers three profiles of how young Americans perceive democracy, engage with civic life, and see their role in shaping the future.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 30/03/2025

New Amicus episode: @dahlialithwick.bsky.social‬ talks with @wendyweiser.bsky.social about everything that's wrong with the executive order on voting and elections. Weiser calls it "completely unlawful" and "disastrous." slate.com/podcasts/ami...

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Think All This Gets Fixed With The Midterms? Think Again

The midterms will be too late to tackle Trump’s extraordinary attempt at restricting voting.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 28/03/2025

We needed to listen to how different groups of young people understand and are experiencing democracy. We needed to hear their urgent calls for change and action. And, we wanted to uncover the root causes behind a young person losing faith in democracy, or never developing that faith to begin with.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 28/03/2025

CIRCLE and our incredible partners at Protect Democracy started this important research about Gen Z's attitudes toward democracy in September 2024. Already back then, it was clear to us how important it was to dispel myths and generalizations about young people's relationship to democracy.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 19/03/2025

My conclusion from dinner last night with the TBR crew (The Black Response, Cambridge) is that I need to read David Graeber. Which book should I start with?

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 02/03/2025

Wonderful working with my good friend & colleague Dr. Elena Maker Castro on this piece! LPTA is hard to do but can uncover diversity in developmental experiences. The prevalence of stress and anxiety among those who stayed "Liberated Actors" is a very important finding. doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/02/2025

"...among the biggest errors many democracies have made...is to view individual dignity primarily through the prism of political freedom without being sufficiently attentive to the indignity of corruption, inequality, and a lack of economic opportunity." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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How Democracy Can Win

The right way to counter autocracy.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/02/2025

Very insightful article.

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 12/02/2025

“Democracy is not in decline. Rather, it is under attack.” In a 2023 essay, Samantha Power made the case for a new approach to democracy promotion—one that tackles corruption, inequality, and the rise of digital authoritarianism.

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How Democracy Can Win

The right way to counter autocracy.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/02/2025

What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent’s abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The small city of Reading in central Pennsylvania is around 70 percent Latino. In 2024, it shifted toward Trump by a staggering net 16 points. I spent some time trying to figure out why that happened. The result is this piece. I hope you'll check it out: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

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This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes

Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 15/02/2025

The most common religious hate crimes in the United States are against Jews, followed by hate crimes targeting Muslims. Sikhs also experience more hate crimes than Christians in the U.S., though Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs together make up a much smaller share of the population than Christians.

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Melissa Deckman @melissadeckman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Glad to see PRRI's Census of American Religion used in this new CSM piece on which religious groups are actually facing hate crimes in the US. www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...

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Trump decries ‘anti-Christian bias.’ Which religions are targeted in US?

With President Trump creating a task force to stamp out anti-Christian bias, what does religious discrimination in the United States look like today?

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 10/02/2025

If you are a staff member in #HigherEd what resources would be helpful for you in this moment? What do you need?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth
By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.

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Melissa Deckman @melissadeckman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Essential read from @franciswilkinson.bsky.social at Bloomberg, featuring a great assessment of PRRI's new 50-state report on Christian Nationalism. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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MAGA’s Driving Force Is Christian Nationalism

Evangelical votes have mattered to the GOP for decades. But not like this — and not with such extreme views.

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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Please sign up for our once a month newsletter to stay in touch with us regardless of what social media platform you are on: alexvitale.substack.com. Paid subscriptions support our interns and community partners.

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This is the monthly newsletter for The Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Click to read Alex’s Substack, by Alex Vitale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscriber...

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 07/02/2025

💡#3: Address Disparities by Access to Education 48% of non-college youth were never contacted about the election compared to 29% of college youth. This highlights the urgent need to develop organizing strategies that reach young people without college experience.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 07/02/2025

Political homes are foundations for sustained communities of engagement. Other forms of outreach aren't working—less than 1% were motivated by influencers, and only 9% by party loyalty. Instead, 46% of voters said they were motivated by having an impact on issues they care about.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 07/02/2025

💡#2: Build Long-Term Political Homes, Not Just Short-Term Mobilization Only 24% of youth feel part of a political movement. We need to build authentic political homes grounded in young people's core concerns.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 07/02/2025

💡#1: Center Economic Justice While Building Multi-Issue Movements Our data shows the centrality of economic struggles for youth. But, young people also care about healthcare, abortion, climate, and immigration. Lead with economic justice and connect it to other issues that matter to youth.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 19/01/2025

“I found that discussing the countertrends could spark people’s democratic imaginations. While no single one had much impact, discussing several had a cumulative effect—people became less cynical and more open to the possibility that our democracy might be fixable after all.”

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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It's not our fault, but we sure as hell pay the price.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 19/01/2025

Really interesting article! Shifting beliefs were catalyzed by three key experiences: (1) distancing from ideological community, (2) desire to seek out information, and (3) solidifying experiences of gradual or epiphanic realization.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 18/01/2025

Let me know if your organization wants to be listed in this starter pack! go.bsky.app/L9R28dw

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/01/2025

📌 Young people are in search of a political home: Less than 1 in 4 youth, and just 13% of those who didn't vote, feel like they belong to a group or movement that expresses their views politically.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/01/2025

📌 38% of youth who voted, and over 60% of young non-voters, "sometimes" or "often" find it difficult to meet basic needs (food, housing, etc.).

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/01/2025

📌 "Cost of living & inflation" was the top issue among all youth. "Jobs & unemployment" ranked #5 among voters but was a #2 issue among non-voters, with nearly double selecting it as a top issue. Said another way, those w/ top issues dominated by economic concerns were least likely to vote.

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Sara Suzuki @sara-suzuki.com · 17/01/2025

📌 More than 1 in 3 young people were never contacted by an organization about the election. This lack of outreach is much worse for youth without college experience: 48% of non-college youth were never contacted. This feeds into non-college youth feeling less qualified to vote.

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