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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

The Story of the Racial Wealth Audit™

A tool that will clarify and measure the way policy reinforces racial disparities.
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Catherine Ruetschlin

The Biggest Bigot, and Other Colorblind Tales

“You know who talks about race? Racists!” That was a Fox commentator, unintentionally providing a pithy summary of the conservative reaction to the national conversation surrounding the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting. To note that the officer is white and the victim black — well, that’s just
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Ian Haney López

One Million Comments Urge the SEC to Stop Secret Corporate Political Spending

In a record-breaking demonstration of support, over one million commenters have submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling on the agency to take immediate steps to require publicly traded corporations to disclose their use of corporate resources for political
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Reflecting on the Labor Market on Labor Day

This year, Labor Day came on the heels of the annual Jackson Hole conclave of central bankers.
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Wallace C. Turbeville

Detroit’s Final Bankruptcy Hearing: What to Watch For

The City of Detroit’s groundbreaking bankruptcy proceeding enters what may be its final phase this week. The court will conduct hearings over the next month or so to decide whether to approve the plan for exiting bankruptcy presented by the emergency appointed by the Michigan Governor under the
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Wallace C. Turbeville

My Students Pay Too Much for College. Blame Reagan.

This fall, I’ll be teaching some of the most financially distressed students in America.
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Demos Calls on SEC to Stop Secret Corporate Political Spending

(New York, New York) – Almost five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC granted new rights to business corporations to spend unlimited corporate resources to influence elections, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yet to act to require disclosure of
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McCutcheon Money Floods the 2014 Midterms

More than $11 million in McCutcheon Money has already flowed into this year's mid-term congressional elections.
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Adam Lioz

It's Not About the Leaks. It's About the Boats that Can Get Us Out of the Flood.

When you find a leak, do you jump up and point at it? Yell about it? What if the leak is part of a massive flood? Do you call up your friends and make plans to build a dam? What if the leak comes at you when you’ve been trapped in a basement with floodwater rising up to your neck? Early Wednesday
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Jodeen Olguín-Tayler

The Humanity of Michael Brown

Michael was a human being. This is a simple truth, Michael’s humanity. Yet it is also implicitly a fragile insight, one that the police indifference to the dignity of his corpse and to the sentiments of his gathering neighbors suggests that many officers failed to grasp.
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Ian Haney López