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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

State of the Union Gets the Big Picture Right

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Amy Traub

Holding the Powerful Accountable for Bad Behavior

President Obama made a strong stab at outlining a progressive narrative last night that envisions a nation where "everybody plays by the same rules." It's a pretty simple idea, tapping the powerful American ideal of egalitarianism -- that all of us should get a "fair shot" and that nobody is too
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David Callahan

The Politics of Debt

All presidential candidates jettison long-held beliefs in exchange for political gain. One need look only as far back as the last election, when Barack Obama professed opposition to gay marriage, despite being on record as a proponent as early as 1996, and John McCain came out against the DREAM Act
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Elon Green

Ben Bernanke's Decade?

Over the last year, the American public has been inundated with conservative austerity arguments. Medicaid and Medicare needed to be reined in (or handed over to the states entirely, according Paul Ryan), unemployment insurance was, at times, too costly a burden for the nation, and even heating oil
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Rakim Brooks

Shutting It Off: Super PACs and Justice Scalia

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Liz Kennedy

The Wrong Foreclosure Settlement

A comfortable formula has emerged in the past decade for dealing with corporate crime, and it goes like this: Government authorities amass evidence of wrongdoing, confront malefactors with this evidence, and then the two sides agree to a "settlement" to resolve the charges.
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David Callahan

Progressives and Green Taxes

I wrote last week about how we can shift our tax model to taxing things that are harmful, like pollution, and away from taxing things that are productive, like work and wealth creation. But, there has been little discussion in the mainstream on this issue, even though tax reform is almost certainly
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J. Mijin Cha

Citizens United Turns Two: Democracy Is Not A Game

Citizens United, the misbegotten Supreme Court case granting corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections, has entered its terrible twos.
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Liz Kennedy

Wealth Elites on Both Sides in 2012 Election

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David Callahan

Rich Politicians, Strapped Citizens

It was reported Wednesday that Mitt Romney holds millions of dollars in the Cayman Islands. Some of the media and political cognoscenti have wondered out loud if Romney is too rich, or too elite to truly represent regular Americans.
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