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Five years after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision, what are the roles of large donors and average voters in selecting and supporting candidates for Congress?

Demos is a national, non-partisan public policy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. Demos’ lawyers, researchers, and advocates have extensive legal and policy expertise on money in politics. These comments are

How America’s Big-Box Retailers Turn Their Economic Power into Political Influence

Democracy has at its heart a basic promise: citizens have an equal voice in deciding who represents them.

More than 1.2 million African Americans in 175 communities across the country have councils that do not descriptively represent them

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, Americans battered by job loss, foreclosure, and plummeting home values tightened their belts and paid down debt. The Latino community, hit particularly hard by the housing crash, was no exception. Yet new research from Demos’ National Survey on Credit Card

If we do not close voter turnout gaps, our democracy is destined to become less and less representative in the coming decades.

Connecticut’s investment in higher education has decreased considerably over the past two decades, and its financial aid programs, though still some of the country’s most expansive, fail to reach many students with financial need.

Americans are famously concerned about values and personal morality. The United States ranks among the most religious of all the advanced industrialized democracies, and it has frequently experienced eras of intense moral introspection. The past several decades have been such a period, with heated

A breakdown of the public policies needed to ensure that all Americans have a chance to move into the middle class and stay there.