in fact, here in arizona 200,000 more young people have registered than the last midterm elections. now the question is are they going to turn out to vote especially after a really controversial supreme court decision? >> what do we want? >> reporter: it was a red wave of teachers crashing into arizona's capital that caught the nation's attention in was a different kind of red. a red for ed. >> show me what democracy looks like. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: in april we watched as educators marched, demanding more funding for the classrooms and singing about coming back to vote. ♪ we will be back to vote in november ♪ >> it was something that i've never seen before. it was overwhelming but it was like exciting at the same time to see we finally have a voice. >> reporter: thousands of them millennials just starting their careers in teaching. like friends who helped collect some of the staggering 270,000