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Reflections on the 2022 IDP Convening: We want to see change in our generation

The Inclusive Democracy Project (IDP) convening brought together a community of Demos’ partners and leaders in the movement to share space and connect with each other.
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June 16, 2022
Taifa Smith Butler
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The Ongoing Fight for Our Freedom

The same lawmakers working to make it harder to vote have also worked to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. These efforts to control our bodies, our lives, and our futures are also threats to our democracy, and that's why the Biden Administration must integrate voter registration into healthcare.gov.
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Sharné Haywood
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Privatization is No Solution for Any Water Crisis

Profit-seeking companies should not control what should be free, basic, and universal necessities.
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Daniella Zessoules
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Strengthening the Right to Vote: How Biden's Executive Order Can Ease Access to the Ballot

Today is National Voter Registration Day. This year, this important day comes in the midst of extreme efforts to undermine our democracy in states across the country.
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Laura Williamson
Keep Abortion Legal Sign at protest on SCOTUS steps

The Ongoing Fight for Our Freedom

The same lawmakers working to make it harder to vote have also worked to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. These efforts to control our bodies, our lives, and our futures are also threats to our democracy, and that's why the Biden Administration must integrate voter registration into
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Sharné Haywood
Rusty water faucet

Privatization is No Solution for Any Water Crisis

Profit-seeking companies should not control what should be free, basic, and universal necessities.
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Daniella Zessoules
Voter Registration Application Form

Strengthening the Right to Vote: How Biden's Executive Order Can Ease Access to the Ballot

Today is National Voter Registration Day. This year, this important day comes in the midst of extreme efforts to undermine our democracy in states across the country.
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Laura Williamson
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Kiara Pesante Haughton Joins Demos as First-Ever Chief of Communications

PR Veteran, Political Strategist to Lead Communications Team
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Heed Us: Community Organizing Works – Even Against Amazon

How Northern Virginia activists and community members are organizing to prevent one of the biggest corporations in the world from taking over the civic, social and political life of Northern Virginia and beyond.
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Daniella Zessoules
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Motor-Voter Settlement Will Bring Far-reaching Improvements for South Dakota Voters

"Ensuring that all eligible South Dakotans, particularly Native Americans who have been systemically disenfranchised by the state, have the right to vote puts us a step closer to realizing a more just, inclusive, democracy.”
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For Us, Not Amazon Seeks End to Impending Corporate Takeover of Arlington

New Report from Demos, FUNA Coalition Highlights Fight to Address Power Imbalance Between Amazon and Working People in Virginia 
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With Acquisition of OneMedical and iRobot, Amazon is Expanding its Surveillance State

With its purchase of OneMedical—and, even more recently, its purchase of iRobot, Amazon is able to harvest even more data, sound, and video. This has frightening implications for people’s civil and human rights.
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Lebaron Sims
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Demos President Taifa Smith Butler on House Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act

"Today's passage of the Inflation Reduction Act is a testament to the tireless organizing by Black and brown communities to elevate climate change and rising, unchecked corporate power as existential threats."
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Taifa Smith Butler
Lyndon Johnson shakes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s hand after signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Still Fighting for Voting Rights 57 Years after the VRA

Fifty-seven years ago, the Voting Rights Act became law. Today we find our democracy regressed in a moment eerily similar to that turning point in 1965.
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Taifa Smith Butler