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Illegal Executive Order Would Make it Harder for Everyone to Vote

Trump’s Executive Order would likely exclude communities of color and low-income voters from the ballot and hurt all voters.

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

Nearly Two Dozen Leading Civil Rights Groups Condemn Trump Administration Memo Threatening Lawyers and Law Firms That Bring Suits Against the Federal Government

Dēmos joins 22 civil rights organizations in condemning President Trump’s memorandum and calling for urgent action to defend the rule of law.

Testimony and Public Comment

Taxes Explained: Tax Credits and Deductions

Tax Code Should Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Mobility

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

The SAVE Act's Threat to Community-Based Voter Registration Drives

The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter registration, a method more often used by Black and brown voters and other groups that have historically faced greater hurdles in voting.

Research
Neda Khoshkhoo
Angelo Ancheta

Taxes Explained: Taxing Income versus Wealth

U.S. Tax Code Widens the Racial Wealth Divide

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding
Daniella Zessoules

Taxes Explained: Corporate Taxes

Lowering the corporate tax rate will cost the country at least $522 billion over 10 years, money that should be invested in public goods that benefit us all, not further enriching the already wealthy.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

Career Opportunity: Summer 2025 Law & Policy Externship

We're looking for externs to work with our Democracy team on policy advocacy, research, and impact litigation.

About Dēmos

Dēmos is a non-profit public policy organization working to build a just, inclusive multiracial democracy and economy. We build power with and for Black and brown communities

Ways to Support Dēmos

Dēmos means “the people”, and since our founding in 2000, we have been fighting to ensure that all people in this country are given an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. However, inequality—economic, political and racial—is on the rise. It threatens the promise of America

Taxes Explained: 2025 Tax Fight Proposals

Today, congressional Republicans are pushing tax reform proposals that would cost the country over $5 trillion and would likely widen the racial wealth gap and slow economic growth.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

Closing the CFPB Would Harm Working People, Empower Bad Corporate Actors

A response to the Trump Administration's closing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an essential way to safeguard consumers against financial injustice.

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

Leveraging Public Funding to Strengthen Worker Protections

A successful union drive at a bus manufacturing company demonstrates how employers listen to their workers much better when their public funding is on the line.

Blog
Inequality.org
Nick Wertsch

Taxes Explained: A Fair and Just Tax Code Is Critical for Improving Economic Power for the People

In a fair tax system, everyone pays their fair share, no one pays more than they can afford, and the government raises enough money to fund public goods that benefit us all, like education, housing, transportation, and health care. But the current tax code is inequitable.

Policy Briefs
Eliana Golding

Dēmos' 2024 Annual Report

Financial Information

Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups

Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few.

In the media
Common Dreams
Taifa Smith Butler
Carol Lautier, Ph.D.

Voter Purge Legislative Resource Guide

This resource guide is intended to help advocates and local leaders make common-sense improvements to current voter removal practices and oppose bad bills that limit access to the ballot.

Research
Campaign Legal Center
Common Cause
Demos
Southern Poverty Law Center

Dēmos Statement on President Trump’s Sweeping Anti-Democracy Executive Orders

These executive actions are a clear signal of this administration’s enduring hostility toward the fundamental right to vote, citizenship for immigrants, and empowered workers. 

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

Dēmos Statement on the Presidential Inauguration

The concurrence of today’s presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day underscores the promise of the multiracial democracy Dr. King envisioned and highlights the stark test our country is about to embark on. 

Press release/statement
Taifa Smith Butler

Economic Security For All

 

Dēmos envisions an economy where all people can regularly meet their daily needs.

Our economy leaves working families with inadequate pay and unaffordable goods and services, making it difficult to make ends meet. Structural racism in our economic institutions makes economic security even harder for

Economic Mobility For All

 

Dēmos envisions an economy where everyone has an opportunity to improve their economic situation over time and each generation is better off than the last. 

Our economy fosters deep income and wealth inequality, making it difficult for working families to reach or stay in the middle class. Resource