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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

D.C. Council unanimously votes to create public campaign finance program

The D.C. Council unanimously backed publicly financed campaigns Tuesday, a move lauded by clean-government advocates in a city long plagued by its association with a pay-to-play culture.[...]
In the media
Rachel Chason

Congress Needs to Pass a Clean DREAM Act with TPS To Protect Nearly 1 Million De-Legalized

As the Trump Administration takes the unprecedented action of de-legalizing nearly a million residents, a Clean DREAM Act with TPS is urgent—leaders of both parties in Congress must act.
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Katherine Culliton-González

Supreme Court to rule on state efforts to purge voters

"None of these voters had become ineligible to vote by reason of a change in residence or otherwise," the voting rights group Demos, representing the A. Philip Randolph Institute, argued in court papers. "Nonetheless, all had been purged from the rolls." [...] But Stuart Naifeh of Demos says about
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Richard Wolf

After Trump Commission Setback, Voter Fraud Alarmists May Get Boost From SCOTUS

“They want the ability to use non-voting to remove people,” Demos senior counsel Stuart Naifeh, who is representing the Ohio challengers, told TPM. “And in these cases that they’ve brought or threatened to bring, they want counties or states to adopt that as a practice.”
In the media
Tierney Sneed

To Protect Voting Rights, Sunlight Is Still the Best of Disinfectants

President Trump announced the dissolution of the so-called Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
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Stuart Naifeh

Following Oral Arguments in Historic Ohio Voter Purge Case, Legal Team and Voting Rights Advocates to Speak at Supreme Court

Immediately following oral arguments on the case, the legal team and voting rights advocates will give remarks on the courthouse steps.
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Larry's Fight Against Ohio Voter Purges Goes to the Supreme Court

Larry Harmon shares his experience of finding out he was purged from Ohio's polls.
In the media

With renewed vigor, U.S. top court scrutinizes curbs on voting

The justices will hear arguments in Republican-governed Ohio’s appeal of a lower court ruling that blocked its policy of erasing from voter registration lists people who do not regularly cast a ballot. Under the policy, such registration is deleted if the person goes six years without either voting
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Andrew Chung

Supreme Court to Decide on Trump-Backed Voting Rights Rule That Could Disenfranchise Thousands of Americans

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide on a Trump-backed Ohio voting rights policy that has disenfranchised thousands of American voters by using lists to purge names of those who vote infrequently.
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Grace Guarnieri

Republican Leaders Celebrate Millions Losing Health Care

Thousands of Americans will die because of an attack on Obamacare in the Republican tax cut bill. This is the conclusion of the economist Lawrence Summers, based on a review of the scholarly research on the impact of not having health insurance.
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Algernon Austin