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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 06:00 PM · 29 rsvps
Online via ZoomHS Voter Registration Workshop
Granite Staters! Join students, teachers, and volunteers across your state to help NH high school students register to vote before they graduate this spring!
More than 16,000 people turn 18 in New Hampshire every year. As of the close of the 2022/2023 school year, however, only 15.6% of the Granite State’s 18-year-olds are registered to vote. This compares to 80% of voters age 35 and above who are registered to vote in NH and an estimate of 30.6% of 18-year-olds nationwide in 2022.
Across the country, The Civics Center consistently finds that when young people are registered to vote, they turn out at high rates. In fact, a 2022 report by TCC showed that 83% of New Hampshire 18-year-olds who were registered turned out to vote in the 2022 midterms.
Open Democracy, in partnership with the The Civics Center, developed a program aimed at boosting NH high school voter registration. The pilot ran during the 2022/2023 school year and generated further student and faculty engagement in the Fall of 2023.
The Civics Center and Open Democracy’s joint effort contributed to a near doubling of voter registration rates for 18-year-olds in the state as a whole from June 2022 to July 2023. During that period, the rate increased from 8.5% to 15.6%.
Register for this virtual 90 minute workshop down below! Join us on Tuesday, March 26th at 6:00 p.m. (ET) to learn how to encourage and empower students and educators to organize voter registration events for their schools.
This workshop is hosted by The Civics Center and Open Democracy New Hampshire, two non-partisan, non-profit organizations that provide voter education and outreach to help high school students register to vote.
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 07:00 PM · 35 rsvps
Online via ZoomOpen Democracy Book Club: Unthinkable
The next book that has been chosen for the Open Democracy Book Club is
On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief—both personal and professional—and lead the impeachment effort against President Trump for inciting the violence. Together this nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in American history.
Now for the first time, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy’s convictions fueled the Congressman’s work in the aftermath of modern democracy’s darkest day. Going inside Congress on January 6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup—not against a President but for one. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden’s election. With an inside account of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate, Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans alike of Trump’s responsibility for inciting insurrectionary violence against our government.
Through it all, he reckons with the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son, a Harvard Law student whose values and memory continually inspired the Congressman to confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump. At turns, a moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence he fomented, this book is a vital reminder of the ongoing struggle for the soul of American democracy and the perseverance that our Constitution demands from us all.
Purchasing information
Available at your local book store (Hardcover 18.99):
Gibson's Bookstore, 45 South Main St., Concord, NH 03301 603-224-0562
Water Street Books, 125 Water St., Exeter, NH 03833 603-778-9731
Toadstool Bookstores, 12 Depot St., Peterborough, NH 03458 (603) 924-3543
Details
- Publisher : Harper; First Edition (January 4, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0063209780
- ISBN-13 : 978-0063209787
- Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches