"The Court has effectively stripped Black, Latino, Native American, Asian American and other voters of color of the most powerful protection against racial discrimination in redistricting."
In a sense, this is not a surprise. This administration has made it clear that it will attack, persecute, and villainize any person, organization, or group that decries its actions and tries to hold it to account.
Charged with both honoring Dēmos’ legacy and looking to the future, current president Taifa Smith Butler closes the Presidents’ Series by reflecting on the present moment and what it calls us to do.
From protesting outside a courthouse to shaping policy inside the White House, former Dēmos president Sabeel Rahman learned a defining lesson during his tenure: transformational change must begin with people power.
Former Dēmos president Heather McGhee reflects on how the organization grew from a small experiment in policy advocacy into something more distinctive: a multi-issue “think and do” tank.
In the second piece of the series, Dēmos co-founder David Callahan takes us back to the late 1990s—a moment that appeared prosperous on the surface yet held deeper warning signs.
In a new report, Stand Up Mobile, Dēmos, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose the barriers pushing more than 815,000 Alabamians out of the electoral process — and offer commonsense solutions to bring them back in.
More than 815,000 Alabamians are missing from the electoral process. In this report, Stand Up Mobile, Dēmos, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice examine who's missing, why, and what Alabama must do to fix it.
