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Why it is so important we expand our definition of public goods and protect them from profit-seeking private hands

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public.

This brief makes a case for directly empowering frontline communities to help govern public and private institutions that impact their lives.

As states impose new voter suppression tactics, the push for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is crucial to ensure equal voting rights for all.

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

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

Progressives must see every policy fight as about more than its issues —it's an opportunity to shift power to Black and brown communities and working families. 

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.

A toolkit to help local leaders and communities identify and act on the warning signs of a wrongful purge and to understand how federal law restricts  such purges.

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

This brief describes the challenges currently facing Black and brown people when voting by mail and presents policy recommendations at each step of the vote-by-mail process to mitigate those problems.

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.

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.

Voter registration operates as a tool of racist voter suppression and has long been weaponized to silence communities of color.  

Today, we have the opportunity to change this by providing voter registration at federal agencies.

This report analyzes new voter turnout data to understand how Same-Day Registration (SDR) is reducing barriers to voting and boosting turnout for Black and Latinx Americans.

Detailed guidance on how to conduct effective voter registration at federal agencies, based on lessons from state agency voter registration via the NVRA, and a discussion of policy considerations, for agency staff engaged in the implementation of the Voting Executive Order.

Explanation of why voter registration at agencies—both state and federal—is strictly nonpartisan and sample training materials for agency staff.

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.

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