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The Disparate Impact standard is critical to continued and enhanced opportunity to access fair credit, housing, and homeownership. Demos strongly opposes efforts to undermine this longstanding enforcement tool.

Testimony and Public Comment
Amy Traub

Testimony to Congress on current voter suppression tactics including voter purges, registration barriers, felony disenfranchisement, and prison gerrymandering.

Testimony and Public Comment
Brenda Wright

How Albuquerque Campaign Donors Do Not Reflect the City’s Diverse Population and Needs

Research
Laura Friedenbach
Isaac J. de Luna Navarro

Florida’s returning citizen leaders filed the brief to ensure full protection of Amendment 4 in their continued efforts to engage, empower and protect returning citizens and their right to vote. 

Litigation
Chiraag Bains
Naila Awan
Emerson Gordon-Marvin
Dante Trevisani
Daryl Atkinson
Whitley Carpenter

Why amended versions of Florida's English-language, Spanish-language, and online voter registration forms are in clear violation of the Florida Administrative Procedure Act.

Testimony and Public Comment

Harris County should place voting machines inside of the Harris County Jail and ensure jailed, eligible voters are not disenfranchised.

Testimony and Public Comment
Naila Awan
Danielle M. Lang

To fairly evaluate any higher education reform proposal, we must understand the ways that these dual burdens—less wealth and more debt—lead to worse outcomes for Black students than white students.

Research
Suzanne Kahn
Mark Huelsman
Jen Mishory

Intervention on behalf of SEIU 1199 United Healthcare Workers East to defend Broward County, Florida from a right-wing group's attempt to bully it into aggressively purging voters.

Case
Updated August 23, 2019
Pending

Democracy Dollars Can Make Every Voice Matter in Albuquerque’s Elections

Policy Briefs

About the event series for black and brown millennials

Campaign
Shanaé Bass
David Perrin
Lesley Williams