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A Primer for Advocates on the National Voter Registration Act

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

Support for Growth, Job Creation, and Career Development

The Voter Empowerment Act of 2012

Home ownership is commonly understood as the quintessential marker of having arrived in the middle class: a family’s home is often the single largest asset that they own and has traditionally served as an important vehicle for wealth accumulation and economic security. 

Supreme Court cases clearly demonstrate that under the Tenth Amendment, the federal government may not coerce state and local governments to enforce federal law through threats to withdraw federal funding.

Why Protections for Schools, Hospitals and Courthouses Are Essential

A report on the ability of local communities to decide, based on their own form of local government, how they may enact policies to protect immigrant rights.

Debido a las preocupaciones acerca de las crecientes amenazas a las comunidades de inmigrantes respecto a varias posturas políticas migratorias de índole racial promovidas por la administración federal entrante,1 Demos y LatinoJustice PRLDEF presentan este informe preliminar sobre las decisiones que comunidades locales pueden tomar, considerando su forma de gobierno local, para implementar políticas que protegen los derechos de los inmigrantes.

The filibuster is a racist remnant of a Senate designed to entrench white minority rule. It undermines organizing, participation, and electoral victories fueled by Black and Brown communities.

For states to realize the NVRA’s promise, they must make registering to vote and updating voter registration addresses an integral part of obtaining a driver’s license or state identification card.

The U.S. Supreme Court today poses a grave threat to our democracy and to the political rights and economic well-being of Black and brown people.

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

Thought pieces from Black and brown Demos staff who have collaboratively reflected on the history of racism, the current state of our democracy, and envisioned the power of an inclusive democracy.

How We Can Fix the Housing Affordability Crisis

Why expanding and reforming the Supreme Court can restore legitimacy for this broken, inequitable institution.

Congress must address how Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people confront both the worst health outcomes and the greatest threats to household financial stability as a result of the pandemic.

This platform proposes a set of actions the executive branch can take to equitably address the climate crisis without new legislation, major new appropriations, or other Congressional authority.

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest.