The administration’s detention and removal of immigrants without free speech, due process, and judicial authority is a crisis for immigrants and a sign that our democracy is in peril.

These proof of citizenship bills capitalize on anti-immigrant sentiment and perpetuate outright lies to justify restrictive practices that will make it harder for everyone to vote.

Ending birthright citizenship would deprive millions of Americans of their foundational right to a representative government and would fundamentally alter and degrade the democratic equality that all citizens enjoy.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dēmos releases the Power Scorecard, a groundbreaking state-by-state snapshot of economic, civic, and political conditions that are conducive to building economic and political power for people.

Over the next four years, people power will be more important than ever in making our democratic process and economy work for our communities.

Dēmos and the grassroots mobilization nonprofit Organize Tennessee analyze who Tennessee’s nearly 2.3 million “missing voters” are and why they are absent or unrepresented at the ballot box.