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Spending on our collective well-being helps people keep a roof over their heads, feed their families, and help grow our overall economy.

For too long, Black and brown people have been kept out of the promise of our democracy. If we are serious about building a just, multiracial democracy, we must restore the VRA and expand opportunities for participation in our democracy.  

Every inch of progress, from emancipation to voting rights, seemed impossible until grassroots organizing, and advocacy made it inevitable.

These wins are a reminder to the nation that rights for some but not for all is not how we build an inclusive democracy.

Justice Thomas’s egregious actions are part of a long pattern of justices with deep ties to wealthy, politically motivated far-right donors. Congress must act.

How this Executive Order can be a tool to fight voter suppression, and why President Biden and the agencies cannot waste any more time in seeing it through. 

How U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) can assist thousands of New Americans to register to vote.

Young people are finding more inspiration than ever to vote and participate in the political process. President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting offers significant opportunities to make voter registration easier for youth voters.

In the midst of extreme efforts to undermine our democracy we need our government to take urgent action to protect and promote the fundamental right to vote

Fifty-seven years ago, the Voting Rights Act became law. Today we find our democracy regressed in a moment eerily similar to that turning point in 1965.

Congress still has an opportunity to craft another legislative package and resuscitate crucial elements of the Build Back Better package.

Organizers from the Texas Organizing Project (TOP) have been working to change the balance of power in the county to ensure a more equitable distribution of disaster funding, so that the people most impacted by climate change have the most say in how that funding is spent. 

Grassroots organizers in Texas offer a blueprint for cementing equity into local recovery efforts.

We must not underestimate the progress and yet-untapped potential of this executive order.

This urgent, defining moment in America calls for The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.

It’s time for America to lead by example and take action to repair our broken system. There is much work to do around the world, but for this country, saving democracy must start at home. 

Tomorrow the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case that has great relevance for our efforts to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy.

The Build Back Better Act would dramatically help working people and families. Now, the passage of this once-in-a-lifetime framework is in the hands of a few legislators who are beholden to corporations and the ultrarich.