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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

VP for Legal Strategies Brenda Wright Responds to the Supreme Court's Decision to Review Landmark Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

NEW YORK -- Today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will review the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark law in the advancement of voting rights. In response to this decision, Vice President for Legal Strategies Brenda Wright released
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Treasury Coddled Banks As They Fanned Foreclosure Crisis

President Obama's biggest failure in his first term was to not forcefully stem the flood of foreclosures that has been devastating lives, prolonging the economic slump, and stripping vulnerable groups -- particularly blacks -- of financial assets that took years to build up. In turn, that failure
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David Callahan

“Election Protection. Can I Have Your Name?”

Whatever your opinion of the election’s outcome, there seems to be have been a lot of agreement this year with President Obama’s assertion that the voting process itself is something “we have to fix.” One place to get a bird’s-eye view of Election Day chaos—besides your local polling place—was at
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Lizzie Widdicombe

Rethinking Waterfront Development After Sandy

Battery Park City after Sandy. (Flickr/WarmSleepy)
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Ilana Novick
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Why the Most Educated Americans Vote Democratic

Education tends to increase one's exposure to different viewpoints and kinds of people, fostering tolerance — a key basis for social liberalism.
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David Callahan

How Did Clean Energy Fare in the Election?

After an election season of climate silence that endured despite record-breaking temperatures and prolonged drought, not to mention Superstorm Sandy, President Obama stated in his victory speech that, we want our children to live in an America, “that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a
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J. Mijin Cha

Wealthy Voters: Please Raise Our Taxes

It's hard to recall a presidential election in which the Democratic candidate so aggressively called for higher taxes on the affluent. Yes, Obama made similar proposals in 2008, and Gore ran a pretty populist campaign in 2000, but none of that compares to how this year Obama repeatedly hammered the
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David Callahan

Money Well Spent? New Doubts About Corporate Political Donations

Tuesday’s race was the first presidential election to take place since Citizens United, and campaign spending this cycle exceeded $6 billion. With fundraising split roughly evenly between the two major parties, it was inevitable that some donors wouldn’t be able to buy the electoral outcomes they
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Anthony Kammer

Miles Rapoport on the Re-election of the President, and the Work Ahead

NEW YORK - In response to last night’s election, Miles Rapoport, President of Demos, released the following statement:
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It’s Not About the Spending, It’s About the Giving

As the election draws to a close, pundits and other race watchers are attempting to write the final word on the most expensive, secret, and billionaire-friendly election in history. Many are starting to take the position that in the end, the $6 billion in spending didn’t matter much because swing
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Heather McGhee