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News: 2026
February 2. Madi Smith: Students at 5 midcoast high schools walk out of class to protest federal immigration enforcement.
February 9. Lex McMenamin: These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over.’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities.
June 29. Emma Schartz & Pooja Salhotra: ‘No One’s Coming to Save Us but Us’: Gen Z Runs for Office.
September 5. Lex McMenamin: Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it.
September 9. Victoria Namkung: ‘They’re ready to come home’: the movement to bring young voters back to Democrats.
September 18. Anna North: No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards.
News: 2025
February 1. It’s Going Down. Students Shut Down Pro-ICE Neo-Nazi Demonstration on ASU Campus.
February 20. Anthony Vidal Torres: This youth-led group wants to spark mass refusals to MAGA’s white supremacist agenda:Inspired by the abolitionist and civil rights movements, Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons that defy Trump-Musk’s authoritarian power grabs.
April 11. Rebecca Kheel & Thomas Novelly: Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies.
July 23. Davin Faris: A new youth-led lawsuit is challenging Trump’s fossil fuel orders: In Lighthiser v. Trump, 22 young people are using the protections of the Constitution to demand a livable future.
October 5. Dharna Noor: Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism: Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities.
June 25. Michael Tedder: The Political Youth Movement That Propelled Zohran Mamdani to Victory.
November 18. Spencer Chrisman & Akim Powell: Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say.
December 8. Holly Bartholomew: Hundreds of Washington County students stage walkout over ICE activity.
2024
December 10, 2024. Austyn Gaffney: As Teenagers, They Protested Trump’s Climate Policy. Now What? Some young climate activists who were galvanized under Donald Trump’s first presidency are taking a different approach to his second.