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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

Voter Integrity' Vigilantes on a Purging Mission

It’s not just a disorganized group of citizens spontaneously challenging voters at the polls. It’s a coordinated campaign by groups like True the Vote that are well funded to try and reduce voting, often for partisan advantage.
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Nina Spaeling

Voting Rights Is an LGBTQ Issue

The Court’s decision in Husted v. APRI, decided a week after Masterpiece, is arguably just as dangerous to LGBTQ and other marginalized communities.
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Annie Melton

Supreme Court Upholds the Travel Ban Despite Underlying Bigotry

Today in Trump vs. Hawaii, the United States Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order restricting nationals of eight countries, including six Muslim-majority countries, from entering the United States (“the travel ban”). Writing for a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice Roberts rejected
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Allie Boldt

5 Years Later: The Effects of Shelby County Are Acutely Felt

Five years ago today, in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled one of the greatest voting rights achievements in the history of this country. This morning, in Abbott v. Perez, the Court affirmed its disregard for voting discrimination by upholding racially gerrymandered districts in
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John Sullivan

Demos Responds to Trump Administration’s ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Policy

NEW YORK, NY – Today Vijay Das, a campaign strategist at Demos, issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s end to the ‘zero tolerance’ immigration stance that has led to the forced separation of families and the traumatic accounts of infants and toddlers being ripped from their
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What Do Black People Have to Lose Under Trump?

Repeatedly during his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump appealed to black voters by asking, “What do you have to lose?” A year and a half into the Trump administration, we have enough evidence to answer the question definitively: everything. In nearly every major federal agency, the Trump
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Algernon Austin

The Right's Campaign to Expand Voter Purges

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to uphold Ohio’s controversial voter purge law spotlights the growing clout of right-wing “election integrity” groups that have aggressively bullied and sued states and jurisdictions into kicking thousands of voters off their rolls. [...]
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Eliza Newlin Carney

EXCLUSIVE: New Demos report investigates why Donald Trump is so horribly bad for Black people

[T]he public policy organization fights for racial equity, an expanded middle class and shaving the amount of money used in politics. Demos has just released a landmark report exclusively to theGrio explaining its studied view of why the Trump administration is bad for Black people and they have
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Melanie Eversley

You have the right to vote. Use it or lose it, the Supreme Court says.

The court’s decision is a major setback for voting rights. Ohio’s secretary of state has already called on other states to follow his lead.
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Chiraag Bains

U.S. Top Court Backs Ohio Voter Purge; Democrats Blast Ruling

“If states take today’s decision as a sign that they can be even more reckless and kick eligible voters off the rolls, we will fight back in the courts, the legislatures and with our community partners across the country,” Demos attorney Stuart Naifeh said.
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Andrew Chung