An offshoot of Rock the Vote, which has been working to engage young people in the American political process since 1992, the Get Out & Vote '08 tour wound its way from Minneapolis to its eventual end in Milwaukee, Sunday, where Crosby & Nash [ tickets ] joined the finale.

Breaking from their current "Two Together" outing, which will continue through Nov. 9, the outspoken duo not only lent their harmonious voices to what was certainly a politically-charged evening, but also their collective spirit of activism, which has been a trademark going all the way back to that famous "... scared s---less" set at Woodstock.

In an exclusive interview with LiveDaily, Nash looked back on his three-plus decades of US citizenship--he was born and raised in England--and his lifelong pursuit of an American ideal: where the people who vote still have a collective voice, and can join together to change the world.

LiveDaily: You just issued a re-mastered version of your "Songs for Beginners" album, which begins and ends with tunes that may have more relevance today than when you originally recorded them in 1971. Was the plan to re-release this project because of today's politically volatile times, or was it just fated coincidence?

Graham Nash: The art of a songwriter is an interesting one. It's interesting to have written songs 30 or 40 years ago and still have them resonate today. When I come across a situation I need to speak my mind about, I go to the very kernel of truth, the essence of what it is I am trying to say. In the case of "Military Madness," that kernel of truth is, "War is completely wrong. War is a completely dysfunctional part of the human condition." You know, there are more than 40 wars going on across the globe right now. And the United States is involved in two of them in Afghanistan and Iraq. In terms of [the song] "Chicago (We Can Change The World)," when you bind and chain and gag a man and call it a fair trial, that's not right. I don't care what is going on. And that kernel of truth holds true today as well.

Did you ever think at the time you would still have a venue to espouse these ideas 40 years in the future?

Yeah. It's just me shooting off my mouth. I have an opinion and that's what you're going to hear. We're doing a song now called "In Your Name" where I'm talking to whatever higher power is running this insane universe of ours, about what's going on with all this killing "in your name"--my god is better than your god, and I'll kill you to prove it. It's unholy to me. We have to face ourselves as human beings and deal with this problem. So many people have died in wars perpetrated by religious differences, it's insane.

You became a US Citizen more than 30 years ago. What inspired you to transplant to America?

My parents taught me that I was a decent person, and that if I followed my heart and didn't harm anybody--tried to be positive and bring some good into the world--I would be okay. So I tried to bring that with me to America. And when I was going around with David and Steven [Stills] in the early days [of Crosby, Stills & Nash], I knew I could not be hypocritical. If I was going to be critical, or praise the United States for the wonderful country it obviously is, I didn't want to be one of those people on the sidelines lobbing hand grenades into our society. I wanted to be a part of it, I wanted to feel a part of it, and I wanted to vote.

One of your longest standing points of political and environmental activism has centered on nuclear power. Who would have thought with all the influence you helped create in the '70s with MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) that you would still be calling on your fellow musicians to shine a light on this issue in 2008?

The nuclear snake is raising its head once again. Thirty years ago, we took a stand against nuclear power, making people aware of: the dangers of nuclear power; the people who mined radioactive substances who were dying of lung cancer; the transportation of nuclear waste; the fragility of nuclear waste; all the things that may have not been covered up but certainly haven't been covered enough in the media. This country is 230 years old and we're trying to control nuclear waste that will be around for thousands of years. It's just insanity.

So, we started to bring awareness to the problem, and we've been fighting ever since. And recently, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and I found out about a sentence in an energy bill that would make taxpayers fund this industry no Wall Street firm will ever invest in, and will never insure. The only way they can exist is if they have public money to do it. So we launched nukefree.org, we got an Internet campaign going, and we got about 130,000 signatures to present to Congress to get that clause out of the energy bill. Then it just comes back again as a clause in a global warming bill. They want to rip off the public for billions and billions of dollars.

So this brings us to your current political action: the Get Out & Vote initiative. Was it your activism against nuclear energy that inspired you to re-engage--to get young people out to vote?

Here's what's going on: John McCain wants to build 45 new nuclear power plants. And when asked recently about what he would do with the nuclear waste his answer was "let's put it in a third world country." [Washington Post, May 28, 2008 from Reno, NV: McCain: "I can push for some place internationally where we can ship nuclear waste and have it stored."] Complete madness. Barack Obama, on the other hand, has not taken nuclear off the table, but he is talking with Army scientists to see if we can deal with the problem of nuclear waste, and the terrorism targets nuclear power plants will become. He realizes that we're in an energy crisis that is controlling our foreign policy, controlling our pocket book and hurting the American people. And he's working diligently with scientists to solve these problems instead of just saying, "let's build 45 new nuclear plants."

You also brought your political activism to the screen this year along with Stills, Crosby and Neil Young with your documentary "Deja vu." This had to be a targeted move on your part.

This film shows a side of CSNY and the American people you might not be aware of. What Neil did was a brilliant job of showing people who loved us and people who absolutely hated us. There were a lot of people who agreed with us when we were calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush and his cronies, and there were a lot of people who did not agree with us. And we put them all into the movie. It's called "Deja vu," because we've all been here before. It shows our history, and it's a very spirited film. We started out 40 years ago protesting the Vietnam War and we're protesting the Iraq and Afghanistan war right now. And I think people who see it will get a very interesting perspective about what's been going on in this country.