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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

Immigration Reform Would Support Employment in Rural Communities

Talking points about immigration reform often focus on whether undocumented workers are taking jobs away from Americans who need the work. A story in the Toledo Blade yesterday draws attention to the cost to other American workers of failing to fix the immigration problem.
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Michael Lipsky

Marriage Rulings Should Spark Broader Movement Building

The Supreme Court’s rulings on marriage will not lessen the everyday – sometimes subtle, often not – ways that many LGBT people get treated as less than equals.
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Sean Thomas-Breitfeld

Four Questions for Spencer Overton on the Shelby Decision

Q. How would you summarize the decision in a single sentence? A. The court effectively rolled back an important provision of the Voting Rights Act, ruling that the act’s formula requiring federal preapproval of election changes for some states but not others was outdated because it was based on data
In the media

High Court's Decision Striking Down Key Provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Cannot Stand

Today, a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, upending a law that has been central to our nation’s commitment to eradicating the shameful legacy of racial discrimination in voting, especially in the deep South. The Court
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How to Update the Voting Rights Act

Five Supreme Court Justices just rolled back the most effective civil rights provision in our nation's history. What should we do now? One option is to declare "mission accomplished" and forget about race in politics. That, however, will not work. Although we have made amazing progress in the past
In the media

How to Update the Voting Rights Act

Five Supreme Court Justices just rolled back the most effective civil rights provision in our nation's history. What should we do now? One option is to declare "mission accomplished" and forget about race in politics. That, however, will not work. Although we have made amazing progress in the past
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Here’s How Congress Could Fix the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court dealt the Voting Rights Act a serious body blow Tuesday, but it did leave Congress an out. The court said, “Congress—if it is to divide the States—must identify those jurisdictions to be singled out on a basis that makes sense in light of current conditions.”
In the media
Dylan Matthews

Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision: The Civil War Is Over, And A New War Begins

The Supreme Court just declared that the Civil War is no longer relevant to the history and administration of racial justice in America. In a sense, the court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder validated a generations-long effort -- first by Democrats and later by Ronald Reagan and the Bush
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Howard Fineman

TANF: The Broken Safety Net Program

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously warned in 1996 that welfare reform was a huge gamble and that the result could be extraordinary human suffering. Those predictions came to seem extreme as the years passed. The boom of the late 1990s and then the credit fueled prosperity of the Bush years
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David Callahan

How Immigration Reform Will Boost Wages

Immigration reform is likely to mean higher wages for workers at the bottom of the economic ladder—both foreign and native born. The reason is that the large number of undocumented workers in the U.S. exerts a downward drag on wages because employers routinely exploit such workers by paying them
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David Callahan