Tackling news credibility and making it easier to be informed

There are many reasons young people don’t vote: difficulties getting registered, uncertainty it will matter, lack of time etc. These reasons have existed for decades but a new one that has recently come to the forefront is a lack of trust in our institutions. America is now home to the least-trusting informed public of the […]

Texas Could Determine the Course of the 2020 Election

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez just announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate today in Texas. While there are many upcoming senate races in 2020, this one promises to be more interesting than most. The Texas electoral college accounts for 38 electoral votes — second only to California with 55 votes, and as large as Pennsylvania and Ohio […]

Voting With a Porpoise Hits the Shelves!

Our mission at Votergy is to strengthen American democracy by getting young voters of all backgrounds to the polls. As we were thinking longer term about how to talk to our young children about voting, we realized that there were no great resources out there. So we wrote one ourselves! Voting With a Porpoise is a […]

Introducing SaysWe, the Social Pledge-to-Vote App

When we started thinking about and researching the decline in voting rates, we ran into some pretty interesting trends that could meaningfully motivate more people to participate in our democracy: First, people get super energized when events happen (like deportation events, mass shootings) that emotionally resonate with them. But that energy tends to fade over […]

Top Ten Reasons for Young Americans to Vote

Voting in the United States is often a painful process. Even in states like Colorado, California and Minnesota where voting is relatively easy, voters need to get registered, find time to get to the polling place or fill out a mail-in ballot, and often wait in long lines at the poll itself to cast their […]