No eligible voter should be shut out of our democracy because election materials aren't available in the language they know best. This brief with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund ...

In a major victory for democracy and constitutional protections, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's ...

In a major victory for democracy and constitutional protections, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's attempt to strip birthright citizenship rights. Dēmos President Taifa Smith ...

A look at the policies of the Inclusive Democracy Agenda, why they are needed, and how we went about developing them. Demos, in partnership with grassroots leaders on the front lines of the struggle ...

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

The freedom to vote is America’s most important political right outside of the original Bill of Rights, and it is also the most hard-won right. In the early years of our republic, only white ...

How past racial injustices are carried forward as wealth handed down across generations and reinforced by “color-blind” practices and policies Issues of racial inequity are increasingly at the ...

Campaign finance laws protect our democracy from corruption and preserve the integrity of our elections. These rules governing the use of money in politics were in a sorry state before Citizens United ...

Erosion of Chevron deference would be a massive win for corporations and the conservative legal movement, at the expense of the public interest. Federal agencies would have less power to enact ...

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

Emerging concerns about mass challenger data programs highlight that flawed data methodologies may put voters without stable housing at risk of having their registrations questioned or canceled.

Evaluating a spectrum of states for their voter removal practices related to an important but often overlooked voting barrier: voter purges. Purges played a part in more than 19 million voters being ...