If experienced democracy activists and funders are feeling burned out, imagine how high school students are feeling.
You may find it hard to consider high school voter registration important when federal health agencies are ordered to cease external communications, when nondiscrimination efforts are stopped in their tracks, when security details are being ominously removed from public servants who face threats to their lives, or when Senate-confirmed inspectors general are fired late at night.
In the face of all this, though, high school voter registration remains important—because democracy is important. Because the power to press back against authoritarianism is in our hands. Because genuine progress is possible and individual and collective effort can make a real difference.