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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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Gov. Cuomo's Pension Reform Proposals Risk Greater Retirement Insecurity

When it comes to retirement savings, the last thing you want is too much risk -- yet Governor Cuomo's proposed reforms to New York state employee retirement plans will likely encourage more workers to place their savings in unpredictable and unreliable 401(k)'s.
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Robert Hiltonsmith

A Collection of Wealthy People Complaining

In the era of Occupy Wall Street and vast income inequality Bloomberg reporter Max Abelson is performing a public service. With a therapist's knack he's getting all sorts of bankers to spill their guts on the frustrations that come with making a ton of money. It's surprising that these conversations
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Alex Amend

Who Wins from Hyper-Partisanship As Olympia Snowe Departs?

Moderate Republicans from the Northeast used to be a common species in the U.S. Congress. Remember John Chafee, Jim Jeffords, Chris Shays, and Alfonse D'Amato? Or, for that matter, George H.W. Bush? That sure seems like ancient history. For years now, such Republicans have been on the endangered
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David Callahan

Speaker Boehner's Voodoo Math on Gasoline Prices, Keystone

Let’s set the record straight: the high gas prices we have right now will not go down just because the Keystone XL pipeline is approved. The solution to high gas prices is straightforward: stop trying to go to war with Iran, stop letting Wall Street get away with making massive profits off
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J. Mijin Cha

The Climate Change Movement Needs a Reboot

A few weeks ago, Desmogblog.com released a series of internal documents from the Heartland Institute, one of the leaders of the climate denial movement, which shows the Institute’s strategy for pushing their climate denying message.
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J. Mijin Cha

What Santorum Gets Right -- and Wrong -- About Skills and College

It's not entirely clear what Rick Santorum was thinking in going after President Obama this past week for wanting more young people to go to college. Perhaps he thought that bashing college is a great way to bond with the blue collar voters Santorum needs to win Michigan. Or perhaps he thinks that
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David Callahan

How Can We Save Detroit -- and Michigan?

With the Michigan primaries just one day away, the spotlight has been put back on the economic pain felt across the state. On MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" this Saturday, Demos' Bob Herbert posed the million dollar question to advocates and civic leaders from the hard-hit city of Detroit:
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Anna Pycior

The "Biggest Single Stimulus" is NOT Deficit Reduction

In a speech today before Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank, Steny Hoyer -- who is the second highest ranking Democrat in the House as Whip -- said that a big deficit reduction agreement would "provide the biggest single stimulus to the economy we could achieve. Setting our economy back
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David Callahan

Chardon High School Shooting, Bullying, and T.J. Lane

Get ready, after today's shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio, for yet another round of superficial analysis of what lies behind these deadly episodes. Media accounts of school shootings almost always focus on the availability of guns or, sometimes, on the influence of violent video games or
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David Callahan

Sheldon Adelson: Surprise Campaign Finance Reformer

“ I’m against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections” You might think this statement was made by Buddy Roemer, or a member of Occupy Wall Street. But you’d be wrong.
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Liz Kennedy