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Campaign finance reforms help address the racial and economic injustices that continue to plague our democracy.

The state legislature is on the verge of passing the Climate and Community Protection Act, and they need to hear from you.

While Demos celebrates the legislation’s strong mandate on emissions reductions, the governor’s exclusion of community investment mandates and labor standards prolongs the fight for climate justice in New York and nationwide.

Baltimore’s campaign donors lack diversity across race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The Baltimore Fair Election Fund, designed with equity and community engagement at the forefront, can change that.

“We don’t love where [the bill has] landed but we’re happy that we landed where we are."

“The equity components are the pieces that appear to have been weakened the most."

Women of color are generally underrepresented as campaign donors even though they vote at high rates, according to research by progressive think tank Demos.

In 2016, a report from the progressive think tank Demos found that most campaign dollars in local elections were coming from contributors who are white, male and high-income.

The future of our planet demands that we recognize our historic inequities and prioritize those who have been most impacted by climate change throughout history.

“It doesn’t address a lot of the co-pollutants that are also produced in fossil fuel combustion that have public health impacts.”

"I think Greta has been able to speak truth to power in a way that has resonated with a lot of young people who are frustrated, who have lived their whole lives seeing inaction on climate change."

Resources to make sense of the student debt crisis, the administration's Public Charge rule, the realities of our big-money political system, and more

Felony disenfranchisement is one of several ways people get stripped of their power.

Arguments Heard Today Suggest Precedents Limiting Corporate Political Influence Under Threat

Washington, DC — Today's argument in Citizens United v. FEC suggests that the Roberts Court is poised to sweep aside century-old restraints on corporate domination of the political marketplace — unless the wisdom of the Court's newest member proves persuasive when the decision is ultimately written.

High Court Threatening to Overturn Key Precedents Protecting Citizens Against Corporate Control of Politics

The COVID-19 pandemic is an environmental justice crisis—it has exposed inequalities that have persisted in places across the country with decades of pollution.

“The potential for executive action to jumpstart the transition that we need — to reorient our democracy for democratic engagement and redress historic inequities — is huge.”