@teenvogue: 🗳️ INTRODUCING TEEN VOTE 🗳️ “I have a responsibility to vote…. I want my ideas heard because I think that we have an obligation to help with our future,” Kingston Rumi Southwick tells Teen Vogue. The 18-year-old Widow’s Bay actor is one of dozens of first-time voters who spoke with us in the weekdays before the 2026 midterm elections. Whether sitting in front of a wall of collages, movie posters, and Taylor Swift merch in California, at their parents' dining room table in Ohio, sprawled on a dorm-room floor in Texas, on the grass in a Mississippi park, inside a car in college campus parking lot, young people tell us that they are ready to be heard—and they want to encourage their peers to follow suit. Ahead of the midterms, we spoke to 52 first-time voters, mostly ages 18 to 19, about what’s driving them to the polls, and why they think it’s so important to vote. Read the special Teen Vote cover at the link in our bio. The production of this story was supported by The Brennan Center for Justice. (@Brennan Center for Justice)

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