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Victory in Challenge Against Florida’s Anti-Voter Law

Federal court rules in favor of voting and immigrants' rights advocates challenging Florida's SB7050

Press release/statement

Protecting Our Democracy: The Urgent Need for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

As states impose new voter suppression tactics, the push for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is crucial to ensure equal voting rights for all.

Policy Briefs
Neda Khoshkhoo
Phi Nguyen

Meet Aklima, Chief of Programs & Strategy

From the streets of Brooklyn to the heart of voting rights litigation, Khondoker's journey is a testament to the power of personal experience in driving systemic change.

Blog

Letter from the President

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.  Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

After working more than 20

The Dēmos Power Agenda

Introducing a framework rooted in racial equity designed to amplify new narratives around power.

Research

Two Out of Three Middle Class American Families on Shaky Financial Ground, According to New Report

New York, NY — Fewer than one in three middle-class families in America is financially secure, and the remaining majority are either borderline or at high risk of falling out of the middle class altogether, according to a new study published this week by Demos and the Institute for Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University.

Press release/statement

#YesJulieSu: Why the Senate Should Confirm Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su

This women’s history month, we celebrate Acting Secretary Julie Su’s leadership and call on the Senate to stop this egregious delay and confirm her as nominee.

Blog
Daniella Zessoules

Federal Trial Challenging Florida Law that Targets Voter Registration, Civic Engagement, and Political Speech Begins

Civil Rights and Latinx-led organizations are challenging a provision in SB 7050 that prohibits noncitizens from collecting or handling voter registration forms

Press release/statement

Dēmos Event Policies

The Conservative Attack on Federal Agency Power

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest.

Policy Briefs
Ashley Tjhung

Federal Court Blocks Provision of Florida Law that Targeted Voter Registration and Civic Engagement by Community Organizations

This ruling reaffirms the sanctity of civic engagement and democratic participation. 

Press release/statement

In CFPB v. CFSA Decision, the American People Notch a Win Against Predatory Corporate Entities 

Today's ruling is a powerful affirmation: the CFPB stands as a fortress against financial predators, especially crucial for communities of color battered by decades of discriminatory banking practices.

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

Economic Security For All

 

Dēmos envisions an economy where all people can regularly meet their daily needs.

Our economy leaves working families with inadequate pay and unaffordable goods and services, making it difficult to make ends meet. Structural racism in our economic institutions makes economic security even harder for

Amicus Brief in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

Litigation
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Leadership Conference
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
The Campaign Legal Center
Demos
League of Women Voters
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Provisional Ballot Problems Widely Reported in 2006, New Report Finds

New York — Provisional ballots were a significant source of voter frustration and administrative problems at polling places during the 2006 election, according to a new report, A Fallible 'Fail-safe': An Analysis of Provisional Balloting Problems in the 2006 Election. The new study, published this week by the non-partisan public policy center Demos, underscores significant concern over provisional ballot implementation, a topic that has been the subject of recent hearings in the United States House of Representatives.

Press release/statement

Economic Mobility For All

 

Dēmos envisions an economy where everyone has an opportunity to improve their economic situation over time and each generation is better off than the last. 

Our economy fosters deep income and wealth inequality, making it difficult for working families to reach or stay in the middle class. Resource

Juneteenth Was Not Freely Given—It Was Won

On Juneteenth's call to justice and the U.S. Supreme Court's role in the eternal quest for Black liberation.

In the media
Common Dreams
Taifa Smith Butler
Aklima Khondoker

Full Political Participation

Dēmos envisions a democracy where systems are designed to encourage and cultivate the fullest expression of political voice by all. 

Structural inequality and racism hinder Black and brown people from wielding their full political power. From voter suppression tactics to laws that criminalize protest

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court Chooses Corporate Interests over the American People

"By undermining the power of federal agencies, the Court has supercharged a new battlefield for anti-regulation interests to attack our labor, consumer, and civil rights regulations."

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

An Inclusive and Expansive Electorate

 

Dēmos envisions a democracy where all people can fully participate, and immigrants and people impacted by the criminal legal system are explicitly embraced.

America systematically denies the right to vote to millions, creating a democracy that neither includes nor represents all of us. Both the