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Will conservative politicians’ hypocrisy on election integrity endure through the latest revelations?
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Adam Lioz
This week we're bringing you a deep dive into how an intersectional approach to money in politics brings new voices to the movement and helps those who are most harmed by big money politics take a stronger leadership role within the movement to stop it.
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In the United States, Sean McElwee, a policy analyst at the liberal think tank Demos, and Jason McDaniel, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University, examined data from American National Election Studies and reported in The Nation that:
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Thomas B. Edsall
"If every registered millennial voted, their turnout rate would still be lower than those 65 or older," Sean McElwee, a policy analyst at the progressive think tank Demos who studies voting patterns and behaviors, said in an interview. "Registration barriers disproportionately affect youth, who are
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Andrew Joyce
Addressing the needs of these drop-off voters and young non-voters, while reducing structural and political barriers to voting, are critical steps for the Democrats going forward, far more so than trying to win back Obama-to-Trump voters.
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Sean McElwee
Causten E. Rodriguez-Wollerman
What type of cognitive dissonance does it require to create an entire presidential commission to chase phantom cases of illegal voting by noncitizens in the 2016 election and yet studiously ignore the deeply disturbing and concrete evidence of aggressive attempts to skew our elections by a hostile
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Adam Lioz
In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection clause protects the rights of undocumented immigrants to equal access to public education.
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Katherine Culliton-González
Thanks to the bravery of Richard and Mildred Loving, on June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court held that laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the Equal Protection and Due Process protections of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Katherine Culliton-González
"One thing driving Labour’s over performance was youth turnouts," Sean McElwee, a policy analyst who studies voter attitudes and behavior at the progressive think tank Demos, said in an interview. McElwee thinks that Labour’s success could be a model for progressives in the United States provided
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Jack Smith IV
It’s easy to lose sight of what’s at the heart of this investigation.
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Adam Lioz