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Same Day Registration (SDR) allows eligible voters to register to vote and cast their ballots on the same day. Depending on the state, this one-stop process for registering and voting may be offered on Election Day, during the early voting period, or both.

If we do not close voter turnout gaps, our democracy is destined to become less and less representative in the coming decades.

More than 1.2 million African Americans in 175 communities across the country have councils that do not descriptively represent them

Background on one of the landmark pieces of financial reform legislation associated with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

All money in politics events should be planned in a way that elevates the most marginalized voices.

The Financial Infrastructure Exchange (FIX) is a federal tax-and-subsidy program to promote long-term investment in a financial system that otherwise prioritizes short-term gains. 

Spoiler alert: they do not. Rules work in corporations favor and against workers.

The Volcker Rule is a requirement in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 that is sometimes referred to as a “mini-Glass-Steagall.” 

Empirical data showing policymakers, organizers, and progressives that there is clear public support for the notion that racism is a divide-and-conquer tactic creating distrust, undermining belief in government, and causing economic pain for everyone, of every color.

Infrequent Voters Who Were Unlawfully Purged from Ohio’s Registration Rolls Will Be Permitted to Vote in the November 2016 General Election

How the dominance of politics by the affluent & business undermines economic mobility in America

While GDP has been steadily increasing, indicating a growing economy, other metrics of progress show a very different picture.

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.

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

Large disparities in turnout benefit the donor class.

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.

The causes of Detroit's bankruptcy and what the city's emergency manager can do to turn it around.

Are States Complying with the Motor Voter Requirements of the National Voter Registration Act?

Our current voter registration system, which is designed as a voter-initiated or “self-registration” system, creates barriers to registration that do not serve any significant purpose in a democracy. Automatic voter registration is the answer.

26 state policies for a race-forward, populist agenda to empower all Americans.