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Policy Briefs
Nick Wertsch

Building Worker Power With Public Funding at the State and Local Levels

Discover how state and local policies can effectively protect workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. This brief examines approaches to worker protection through federal funding opportunities and provides real-world examples of successful policy implementation by workers and communities.

Organizations Urge Senate to Confront Corrupting Supreme Court Influence & Issue Subpoenas to Harlan Crow & Leonard Leo

Letter to express our grave concern regarding the revelations and allegations surrounding
special interest judicial influence, corruption, lack of ethical standards, and apparent
lawbreaking by justices on the Supreme Court.

Testimony and Public Comment

Voter Purge Legislative Resource Guide

This resource guide is intended to help advocates and local leaders make common-sense improvements to current voter removal practices and oppose bad bills that limit access to the ballot.

Research
Campaign Legal Center
Common Cause
Demos
Fair Elections Center
League of Women Voters
Southern Poverty Law Center
State Voices

Letter in Support of Updating Federal Regulations to Restore and Extend Overtime Protections

Dēmos strongly supports updating federal regulations to restore and extend overtime protections. However, we urge the Department to finalize a stronger rule than the one proposed.

Testimony and Public Comment
Udochi Onwubiko

Economic Democracy Explained: Community Control over Institutions through Co-Governance

This brief makes a case for directly empowering frontline communities to help govern public and private institutions that impact their lives.

Policy Briefs

Amicus Brief in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

Litigation
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Leadership Conference
Leadership Conference Education Fund
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
The Campaign Legal Center
Demos
League of Women Voters
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Protecting Voter Registration: An Assessment of Voter Purge Policies in Ten States

Evaluating ten states across a spectrum of voter removal practices on an important but often overlooked voting barrier: voter purges. Purges played a part in more than 19 million voters being removed between the 2020 and 2022 general elections.

Research

The Shadow Docket: Shedding Light on the Supreme Court's Dangerous Use of Its Orders List

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public.

Policy Briefs
Ashley Tjhung

Economic Democracy Explained: Reimagining Public Goods

Why it is so important we expand our definition of public goods and protect them from profit-seeking private hands

Policy Briefs

Economic Democracy Explained: Deconcentrating Corporate Power

This explainer outlines the consequences of corporate actors consolidating their power to act against the public good, and how Black and brown communities can come together to collectively advance and envision a just, inclusive economy.

Policy Briefs

Strengthening Democracy: A Progress Report on Federal Agency Action to Promote Access to Voting

After evaluating the progress of 10 federal agencies in responding to President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, we find that most federal agencies have room for improvement. 

Policy Briefs