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A number of states have laws demanding citizens produce documentary evidence of citizenship to register to vote. These laws have far-reaching implications for voter participation in our democracy.

Climate change poses a tremendous threat to Florida. Sea level rise, more intense precipitation, and stronger hurricanes increase the risk of natural disaster and imperil the state’s economy and its citizens’ safety.

Why, without swift and bold action to mitigate climate change, Nevada will grow more and more vulnerable to potentially severe economic impacts.

Arizona’s citizens and its economy are among America’s most vulnerable to the growing adverse impacts of climate change.

Climate change threatens serious harm to Virginia’s economy, its people and its treasured natural resources.

An outline of Demos' approach to engaging across climate and equity issues, their respective fields, and partners working in the fields.

Quantifying the cost of climate change to millennials and their children, compared to a world without climate change.

New York State’s Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) is a bold climate action policy for the people of New York.

How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities

The CCPA is a climate bill, a racial justice bill, a public health bill, and an economic development bill. We need it to be all of these things.

We're asking Florida to immediately implement new procedures as a result of this crisis

We urge Ohio to take immediate action to ease and modify absentee ballot laws so that thousands of voters are not disenfranchised during Ohio’s March 17, 2020 primary.

The global coronavirus pandemic threatens to disrupt the Presidential Preference Primary election in Florida. The extension of vote-by-mail options and other accommodations at polling places is necessary.

Notice letter to the Ohio Secretary of State that aspects of the state's COVID-19-related election directive violate the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

Brief submitted on behalf of Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute and the League of Women Voters of Ohio 

Notice Letter to Missouri Governor Michael Parson and Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft Re: New June 2, 2020 Municipal Election Date Due to COVID-19

The specter of voter fraud is a talking point deployed to silence the voices of Black and brown voters across the country.

The three sets of steps policymakers and election officials must take to ensure that Black and brown Americans—and all Americans—can exercise their fundamental right to vote in 2020 and beyond.

Ways to increase access to the ballot for people who are released from incarceration and for eligible voters who are currently incarcerated. 

Over 100 community, civil rights, consumer, and student advocacy organizations urge House and Senate leadership to insist on student debt cancellation for all borrowers during negotiations over the next coronavirus relief package.