The midterm elections are on Tuesday November 2018. 

It has been one of the most contested midterm elections in a long time. A significant number of women and people of color have started running. And despite the usual low voter turnout in NYC and the United States as a whole compared to other developed nations, registration and early voting records across the country according to reports in CNN and NPR. 

Many on social media, including local politicians like Nydia Velázquez have been calling for a #bluewave of progressive politics and for young people to vote: