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Time for the Senate to Do Its Job

Today President Obama fulfilled his constitutional duty by nominating Judge Merrick Garland to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Now the question is whether U.S. Senators will do their jobs.

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Adam Lioz

Coalition Secures Settlement That Expands Voter Registration Opportunities Across Nevada

Low-Income Nevadans Will Have Federally Required Access to Voter Registration

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We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality

The scheme to use race to divide Americans who would otherwise be united in their economic goals is the best-kept secret in American politics.

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Heather McGhee

We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality

How the single most important solution to economic inequality isn’t an economic policy, it’s tackling racism.

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How Do Potential Supreme Court Nominees Stack Up on "Citizens United"?

Adam Lioz, who is counsel and senior adviser for the campaign finance reform advocacy group Demos, agrees, telling Truthout he is confident that the president will select a nominee with a strong record on campaign finance reform, but is more worried about whether the president will be able to move forward any potential nominee at all.

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Candice Bernd

Voting Rights Advocates: DMV Is Breaking the Law by Failing to Register Voters

The advocates' letter threatens legal action if the state doesn’t cooperate.   Scott Novakowski, an attorney with Demos, said the groups hope to come to an understanding with the state and map out short-term and long-term solutions for the problems.   Nevada still is mired in a lawsuit filed in 2012 by some of the same groups concerning a different part of the law, which requires public assistance agencies to register people to vote.
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Megan Messerly

Demos Welcomes Communications Expert and Award-Winning Journalist Liz Flowers

Demos is proud to announce the addition of Liz Flowers to our team as Director of Communications.

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The For-Profit College Scam That These Students Are Still Paying For

Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst focusing on higher education at the nonpartisan think tank Demos, is also critical of the Department of Education: “The problem that we’ve seen over the past year and a half is that the effort to ensure that Corinthian’s fall wasn’t a total catastrophe is not being met by the effort to make sure that the students who were defrauded — and we know now that they were defrauded — have a very easy, simple, expedited process for debt relief.” Forprofit colleges, he notes, make most of their money from the federal government either through student loans or
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Sarah Jaffe

Groups Threaten to Sue Nevada Over Longstanding Voting Rights Violations

LAS VEGAS and NEW YORK (March 7, 2016) ­– Voting rights advocates have sent a pre-litigation notice letter to Nevada officials, warning that the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles is failing to meet its federally-mandated voter registration obligations and threatening litigation if the state does not comply with the law.

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