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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
Black mother and daughter looking at the city river

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

Senate Rejects GOP's Plan for $61 Billion of Budget Cuts

Just a Prelude to the Real Fight, Robert Hiltonsmith writes at The American Prospect. What Republicans really want to cut is Social Security and Medicare, he writes.
In the media
Elspeth Reeve

The Master Key

Creative ideas regarding energy, education, jobs and so forth have trouble even getting a hearing. The United States is not racked with the turmoil that is shaking the Arab world, or the tragic devastation that has hit Japan. We are not in a state of emergency. We’re in a moment when it is possible
In the media
Bob Herbert

Congress' Anti-Consumer-Safety Contingent

As Michael Lipsky explained today, "One would think it hard to find a politician who opposes reducing preventable dangers to children. [ Pompeo] has stepped up to this challenge."
In the media
Steve Benen

Seeing An Acorn But Missing The Oak Tree

There is an April 6th hearing on the Democrat’s appeal of the Indiana Recount decision that allowed White to proceed as Secretary of State. The next question, apart from the allegations in the indictment, is whether White was eligible to be on the ballot at all. You’ll find the Indiana Democratic
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Affordable Public Jobs Program Could Provide Work For Millions Of Americans, According To New Report

NEW YORK – As budget debates continue to play out at the state level, it is apparent that Americans everywhere are still suffering from the long-tail of the recession and need jobs, not austerity measures that will likely reverse emergent economic gains. A new report by the policy center Demos
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Flailing After Muslims

To focus an investigative spotlight on an entire religious or ethnic community is a violation of everything America is supposed to stand for. It has often been the case in America that specific religions, races and ethnic groups have been singled out for discrimination, demonization, incarceration
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Bob Herbert

Public Distrust of Government in an Age of Market Failures

Reflecting on the current anti-government sentiment, Patrick Bresette—Associate Program Director of Public Works: The Dēmos Center for the Public Sector— calls for a need to rebuild trust in government by rebuilding trust in each other: finding shared goals, identifying common purposes and promoting
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New Mexico Settles Lawsuit, Agrees to Offer Voter Registration to Public Assistance Clients

Voter registration will be offered at public assistance offices following settlement of lawsuit brought by coalition of voting rights groups
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Preventing Prison-Based Gerrymandering in Redistricting: What to Watch For

Sometimes, a district that seems to have a majority-minority population really doesn't, because of prison-based gerrymandering.
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Brenda Wright
Peter Wagner

From Washington to Wisconsin, an Assault on a Decent Society

In November, after the elections, it wasn't so clear how the tenor of our public debate would be shifted. Four months later, at least for the short term, the answer is staring us in the face. An agenda is being presented, in the budget amendments in the House of Representatives, in the conservative
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Miles Rapoport