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Image accompanying an opinion article titled 'Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups' by Taifa Butler and Carol Lautier, published by Demos. It shows a crowd of demonstrators sitting closely together, many wearing masks and raising fists in a sign of solidarity.

In the media

February 3, 2025

Taifa Smith Butler

Carol Lautier, Ph.D.

Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups

Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few.

A voter registration sign covered by red tape

The SAVE Act's Threat to Community-Based Voter Registration Drives

The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter registration, a method more often used by Black and brown voters and other groups that have historically faced greater hurdles in voting.

Research

March 13, 2025

Neda Khoshkhoo

Angelo Ancheta

Statement on the 2024 U.S. General Election

Over the next four years, people power will be more important than ever in making our democratic process and economy work for our communities.

Press release/statement

November 6, 2024

Taifa Smith Butler

Microphones and recording devices gathered around a person

Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Cancel Registration of 1,600 Voters Just Days Before the Election

"Protections like the National Voter Registration Act are there for a reason. It is unconscionable that the Court is permitting a voter purge this close to an election"

Press release/statement

October 31, 2024

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