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Generation Z is stepping up in national politics and state legislature – and in this small Arkansas town. Instead of heading away to college, 18-year-old Jaylen Smith ran for mayor, and won.

Former Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler served on the House Appropriations Committee and its subcommittee that covers HHS.

A new lawsuit could blaze the trail to hold social media companies accountable for an increase in eating disorders, anxiety and depression.

And Biden is getting closer to naming a replacement for National Economic Council chair Brian Deese.

A number of Gen Z candidates are running for — and winning — local and state offices nationwide. Jason Melendez hopes to join them.

As a nation, our social contract has frayed. Trust is broken. But there are Gen Z and millennial leaders who are working throughout the country on mending divisions. The Millennial Action Project honored two of them.

A group of young state lawmakers are banding together to support policies important to younger people. Meet the Futures Caucus on the Know the News podcast.

The panel was held at The Momentary on Wednesday night

State representatives Aaron Pilkington and Jamie Scott will speak at the panel.

This fall’s midterm congressional elections are witnessing the biggest effort yet by younger candidates to take charge from the capital’s aging political establishment.