Longtime #youthvote evangelist. Former @NextGenAmerica executive director. Tweets my own
Inner Sunset, SF, CA
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Commercial break, Seahawks game, Anchorage:
Peltola contrast ad
Sullivan anti-Peltola attack ad
Peltola anti-Sullivan attack ad
Pro-Bill Hill ad from Wheel Dog PAC
Just saying.
Lots of people are asking me where to give their money - if you can only do one race, I’d give what you can to @MaryPeltola
Several reasons:
1) It’s a small state, so your money goes further per expected senate vote
2) Direct donations buy 19x ads per dollar than committees due to the unit rule - this also frees up the DSCC and SMP to put their money on states with smaller IE/coord ad price spreads and frees them up to spend more on digital
3) it’s likely going to be close!
It’s not too late! Any money you send today will get spent immediately and will provide real relief to an overworked campaign workers across a bunch of orgs!
secure.actblue.com/donate/mp…
Ben Wessel retweeted
In 2022, this was the Republicans’ best day of early voting. Today may be their worst of 2026.
Ben Wessel retweeted
This piece on the massive shift of young voters back to Democrats (or against Republicans) has a quote from a 23-year-old Latino guy who voted for Trump in 2024 that captures how so many young voters feel right now: "I just don't know what I was thinking."
nytimes.com/2026/10/22/upsho…
Ben Wessel retweeted
Yes, AI is so irrelevant in Ohio that the NRSC begged the tech industry to spend money to bail out data center perceptions (which they did)
Prime example of what @adamkovac talks about of bandwagon groups running ads on the #10 ranked issue in the hopes of stealing credit for a victory that had nothing to do with them.
Literally the playbook The Groups™️ run every cycle.
Ben Wessel retweeted
We have two good candidates for Congress in San Francisco, but I'm voting for @Scott_Wiener. He's been a tireless fighter for the city, first as a supervisor and then in the State Senate. He takes climate change and clean energy seriously, and he's focused on bringing down costs for Californians.
If these numbers bear out, this would be higher #youthvote support for Dems than 2008 and 2018 waves.
🌊🌊🌊
Dusting off my #youthvote hat for a sec:
- Ds need at least 60% of youth vote to win (+20)
- Ds need 2-to-1 youth vote to wave (+33)
- Ds need 2-to-1 youth vote + record turnout to tsunami
Ben Wessel retweeted
a reminder to campaign digital teams to re-cut and re-post your greatest hits. in the lead up to the election, team talarico re-shared the below top performer from february. with the way algorithms work today, it likely reached an entirely new audience.
Ben Wessel retweeted
You might like Anthropic. You might think they're the good one.
They might even be reaching the conclusion that they don't want, say, an authoritarian government shutting them down capriciously in good faith.
But this is actually pretty illustrative of why a for-profit race to superintelligence just doesn't work: push comes to shove their incentive is to block federal limits on their work. It's why we need government to set the guardrails here, not the AI companies.
xitter.cf/politico/status/211121…
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
Ben Wessel retweeted
Excited to share (and be back on Twitter for) this new gig! Reporting for duty to make life difficult for Republicans who stand in the way of the very obvious demand for AI regulation and help Democrats get this thing right.
everyone should read @kylewilsontharp and @racheljanfaza on #youthvote turnout being the diff between a wave and a tsunami
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🚨 Young voters typically have abysmal turnout in midterm elections. Will that change this cycle?
I spoke to #YouthVote expert @racheljanfaza to find out...
chaoticera.news/p/a-blue-tsu…
another #youthvote signal 👀👀👀
At @flytedesk we've been polling students in battleground states — and Democrats’ advantage is clear.
Democratic candidates have a 50-point lead on the generic ballot, a 9-point increase from February 2026👀⬇️
Let this be a reminder that nothing in politics is forever.
Good candidate recruitment, great campaigning, an insane person in the White House, and $6/gallon gas can change the game in <18mo.
just insane how much the senate map has changed since the initial @Center4Politics ratings in Feb. 2025
Who wants to GOTV with me for @BillHillAK @MaryPeltola and @jktforak?
Just signed up to knock :) mobilize.us/s/rNn3RF
Was looking back at the @alliance4youth PAC polling from last week again (see full link here: allianceforyouthpower.org/yo…). These are 18-29yo registered voters.
Sporadic voting young people are back to their 2018/20 levels of support for @TheDemocrats. Truly impressive #youthvote
