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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / July 15, 2016
Working for Justice after Last Week’s Turmoil and Violence
This is the height of the political season, with the two party conventions taking place later this month. But platforms and Vice-Presidential selections aside, in a year when the electoral stakes have never been higher, there is a palpable sense ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / July 5, 2016
Brexit Vote Has Echoes in the U.S., but Progressives Can Write a Different Ending
Last month’s Brexit vote in the United Kingdom sent shock waves through Europe and the world. The “leave” campaign had several things in common with the United States in this election season, making many anxious about whether ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 24, 2016
DA Founder Rob Stein on the Koch Brothers and Political Trust-Busting
The lurid attraction of a Donald Trump-dominated presidential election spectacle is likely to obscure another clear and present political danger that will be hidden from most Americans. That danger is the purchase — there’s no other way to put ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 14, 2016
In Orlando, the Price of Hate and Inaction
Mass shootings occur with grim regularity in our country, whose gun laws are insanely growing steadily more lax, not more stringent, thanks to the enormous power of the National Rifle Association and its stranglehold on politicians petrified to ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 1, 2016
Social Movements Matter: The Untold Story of the Democratic Primaries
In its final stages, the Clinton-Sanders contest has been distressingly dominated by arguments over party rules while Donald Trump consolidates his control over the Republican Party and begins his general election campaign. But for most of the ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / April 22, 2016
The DA’s 2020 State Funds: Spring Updates
Nearly a year ago, the Democracy Alliance released its 2020 Vision Investment Portfolio, a collection of organizations and efforts that not only comprise a robust “progressive infrastructure” but whose work, taken together, has the potential to ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / April 22, 2016
2020 Funds Update: The State Engagement Initiative
The contrast between red and blue states could not be more clear. On Democracy: Arizona dramatically cut its number of polling places in Maricopa County, requiring many of the states’ Latino residents to wait up to five hours to cast a ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / April 21, 2016
2020 Funds Update: The New American Majority Funds
Although there is much about the 2016 election that is defying conventional wisdom, we know some things for sure, namely that the 2016 electorate will be the most diverse in history, with nearly 1 in 3 voters being a person of color. In many of ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / April 20, 2016
2020 Funds Update: The Climate Fund
Last week, the New York Times reported that new models are predicting that the West Antarctic ice sheet could disintegrate within decades, causing sea levels to rise by six feet by 2100, drowning coastlines and destroying major cities such as ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / April 19, 2016
2020 Funds Update: The Democracy Fund
Over the course of the last year, the Democracy Alliance has solidified its funding strategy for countering the Right’s voter suppression efforts. Under the guidance of our new Democracy Fund’s Advisory Board, we have consulted with leading ...
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