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Not only will this Act help avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it will create hundreds of thousands of good jobs.

New York — Millions of low-income Americans can be brought into the political process through proper implementation of an often-neglected provision of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), according to a report published recently by Demos, and cited in yesterday's New York Times editorial, 

Today, Demos proposed establishing a public credit registry, housed in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as an essential part of a larger effort to reshape rules around debt and lending in order to reduce racial wealth inequality. 

We have faith that with the tireless work of the grassroots organizers, we will one day live in an America where every election — in every corner of the country — is free and fair for everyone.

“Representation can vary wildly, and it matters crucially to how your case turns out."

"There is more consensus about the need to go big on college affordability than there has been in previous election cycles."

“There are massive benefits to institutions, to students themselves in the long term in being more diverse and having a set of students from different backgrounds.” 

“You get a federal judge involved, then you don’t have the danger of having political leadership that isn’t committed to the work.”

Why New York State must act now on climate justice and public financing of elections.

Following the lawsuit Demos and its partners filed last year, Florida has began the process of adopting two rules related to making elections accessible for Spanish-Speaking Floridians.

Demos strongly supports the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) that will protect and strengthen climate-impacted Latinx communities by reducing climate pollution and targeting clean energy investment based on principles of equity and racial justice.

Obama put[s] the U.S. government solidly back on the side of the middle class

WeVoteWeCount.org aims to drive change ahead of 2020 presidential election 

A conversation on antitrust law as guardrails on capitalism at Bold v Old in Washington DC. The conversation includes an overview of the history of anti-trust law, why and how anti-trust law became broken, and more.