Today’s Supreme Court decision that federal courts have no ability to check extreme partisan gerrymandering is a stunning blow to our democracy. This decision represents an abdication of judicial responsibility to protect against constitutional violations.

We must envision—and work toward—a democracy agenda that reflects and responds to all the diverse communities who call the United States home.

The counter to this neoliberal vision involves, then, a more thorough moral critique—and a more transformative policy agenda—that tackles the underlying forces of corporate power, market inequities, structural racism, and anti-democratic political institutions. That progressives are finally talking

LGB+ Voices in the 2019 Black Census

The suspension of driver’s licenses for unpaid criminal justice fines and fees should be found unconstitutional.

How and why the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 has played such a critical role in increasing access to voter registration.

The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

The justice system has been deployed against people of color to imprison would-be-voters and keep political power in the hands of white men.

If included, analysts predict the question would effectively deter 6.5 million people – overwhelmingly from historically undercounted communities – from participating in the 2020 Census.