As the 2024 presidential election approaches, many Latino voters, the fastest-growing voting block, express distrust, confusion and anxiety about choosing candidates. “I often feel that when going to vote, I change my mind because of the anxiety,” said Unique Gonzalez, 22, a Mexican-American resident of Chicago. “Because I’m American and live in a democracy, my…
By Ava Steffens >> With a tight presidential race, both major party candidates are trying to pick up voters, particularly among Generation Z, where 8 million young people join the electorate and could cast ballots for the first time on Nov. 5. These young voters are progressive and tend to lean toward the Democratic Party.…
As a teen in St. Louis, Gabriel Dickerson said his life had veered off course. He was trapped in a cycle of bad choices and was in trouble. In December of 2021, at the suggestion of an associate, Dickerson attended a Saturday service in Cairo, a small town at the very bottom of Illinois at…
For a century, Wisconsin has been a swing state in American politics, basically up for grabs to either a Democrat or a Republican running for president. Kenosha County in southeastern Wisconsin, less than an hour north of solidly blue Chicago, has reflected that same division in the past three presidential elections. In the 2012 presidential…
The Trump campaign has aggressively pursued a strategy of podcast appearances in the last weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 election in an effort to appeal to young men ages 18 to 24, a voting bloc that consistently has the lowest rate of voter turnout. According to the Center for American Women and Politics,…