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How America’s Big-Box Retailers Turn Their Economic Power into Political Influence

In November 2014, voters in Montana will face a very important choice: to repeal or to continue SDR. They should keep it.

​​​​​Big companies are using data to preserve the power imbalance that keeps them rich. This economic model is rooted in chattel slavery and relies on the extraction and commodification of data.

Empowering Small Donors to Break the Vicious Cycle of Racial Exclusion in our Democracy & Economy

A coalition of Black and brown community organizations and activists helped enact a first-of-its-kind democracy dollars program in Seattle.

Until voters and elected leaders in Baltimore, Maryland took action to bring small donor public financing to their elections, big money in politics was a growing problem in the city.

Financialization is a major driver of growing inequality and undermines key sources of growth and job creation.

How our work to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act has resulted in over 3 million new voter registration applications through public assistance agencies.

This report elevates the voices of affected communities across the country and provides important insights on the quest to vote.

This report assesses the impact of better Motor Voter compliance on voter registration rates and shares model procedures that state motor vehicle departments should consider. 

Every year, millions of eligible voters fall through the cracks of our antiquated voter registration system because they have moved sometime in the last year.

From the time a baby is born, American families are trapped between the need to provide care for their children and the necessity of earning income. 

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.

“For let it be agreed that a government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has an equal voice in the direction of its concerns…”  Thomas Jefferson Letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

Democracy has at its heart a basic promise: citizens have an equal voice in deciding who represents them.

Our data sets were provided and cleaned by Public Campaign. For the purposes of this report, Public Campaign used federal campaign contribution data made public by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and then refined and augmented by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP). 

How social exclusion blocks Black people from full participation and power in the United States.

The case for mandatory participation in U.S. elections.

From March through May, New Florida Majority Education Fund surveyed over 21,000 Floridians to ask how the pandemic was affecting their lives and well-being. This report presents our findings from those surveys.

This report presents new research on the scope of federally-supported employment in the private economy and shows how, using our over 1.3 trillion dollars in federal purchasing, the President of the United States can place over twenty million Americans on a pathway to the middle class.