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Threats to Ballot Access: New Report Examines Risks of Wrongful Voter Removals Across the Country

Dēmos examines ballot access issues, voter suppression in AZ, GA, OH, CA, IN, WI, MI, NC, TX, LA 

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August 10, 2023

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Unfinished Business: Revisiting Dodd-Frank and the Path to Economic Progress

On the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, we reflect on recent banking failures and the inequities inherent in our current financial system. 

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Daniella Zessoules
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A Supreme Court Power Grab: Attacking Federal Agencies to Advance an Extremist Agenda

Why the Court's decision to limit the EPA's power to regulate water access is yet another case of eroding the power of the other branches of government at the expense of Black and brown people.

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Ashley Tjhung
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Supreme Court's Rejection of Affirmative Action Widens the Divide: Dēmos Calls for Renewed Efforts to Combat Systemic Racism

“The 14th Amendment is supposed to be a shield against racism, and now it’s being used as a sword.” 

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Taifa Smith Butler

Illinois Moves to Expand Voting Rights

Same‑Day Registration in Illinois is now permanent.
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Damon L. Daniels

What Does It Take to Indict a Killer Cop?

Eric Garner said “I can’t breathe” 11 times as a New York City police officer squeezed his neck in an illegal chokehold. More officers piled unto the 43-year-old until he was lying motionless on the ground. It was all caught on video from beginning to its sickening end.
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Donovan X Ramsey

When Retailers Shop the Season Doesn't End at Christmas

Unfortunately for voters, the $3.7 billion spent over the most recent election cycle did not come with a gift receipt. Despite being rung up as the most expensive midterm in US history, nearly two-thirds of Americans sat out the election -- the lowest voter turnout in more than 70 years.
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Sean McElwee
Catherine Ruetschlin

We Can Do Better

For the past four months, the people of Ferguson have been standing up for the very oldest American ideal: democracy, a say in the decisions that affect their lives. Just now, I was shocked to learn that the state of Missouri will not pursue a trial over the killing of Mike Brown. This latest
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Heather McGhee

New Demos Report Reveals Retail’s Increasing Political Spending

(NEW YORK, NY) – Following the nation’s most expensive mid-term election cycle, where political spending hit an unprecedented $3.7 billion high, the national public policy organization Demos has released a new report on the federal election spending of big box retail companies.
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Are Manufacturing Jobs Joining the “Walmart Economy?”

Manufacturing jobs were supposed to be the good jobs.
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Amy Traub

Following the Money: How Goldman Sachs Manipulates Commodity Prices

Once again, maybe for the last time, Senator Carl Levin and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation has demonstrated how government, and the legislative branch in particular, can work in the public’s interest regardless of partisanship. Yesterday’s hearing laid out a complex system of price
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Long Before Ferguson, Authorities Feared Riots at King’s March on Washington

As Ferguson, Mo. and the nation await a grand jury decision on whether or not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing Mike Brown, authorities are “ preparing for the worst.”
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Donovan X Ramsey

Goldman Sachs’ Merry-Go-Round of Metal

Last year, the Daily Show hilariously lampooned the Goldman Sachs “merry-go-round of metal” in which the firm uses its ownership of the major Midwest aluminum warehouse (think auto manufacturing and beer) to slow availability of supply, with a predictable effect on prices.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

The Real Hardship Underlying Obama's Immigration Executive Order

Thousands of families in the United States are separated due to immigration laws that have affected hard-working immigrants who are just trying to support their families.
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Pamela Cataldo