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The Contentious Role of Third-Party Candidates

In a high-stakes election, left-leaning third party candidates are receiving Republican support, and may be wooing disaffected progressive voters. Former Green Party vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente shares her take on this year鈥檚 race.

| Oct 16, 2024

Criminal justice reform | Voter suppression

Could This Make It Easier to Vote in Florida If You Have a Felony Conviction?

A new statewide proposal is the latest development in a years-long saga over the voting rights of felons in the Sunshine State.

Michael Anguille, Prison Journalism Project | Oct 11, 2024

Here鈥檚 How to Respond to Crime, Not React to It

A new ballot measure in California would reverse progress on reducing mass incarceration. Here's what our regular correspondent Dortell Williams has to say about it.

| Oct 4, 2024

Happiness is more than a mood 鈥� it may factor into how we vote.

Happiness Swings Votes鈥擝ut Not How You鈥檇 Expect

New findings challenge the political adage that youthful idealism gives way to conservative pragmatism with age.

Carol Bishop Mills | Sep 27, 2024

Clean elections | Local power

Progress 2025: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy

Instead of Project 2025's white supremacist vision for voting rights, Progress 2025 envisions universal early voting, a national federal holiday and more.

| Sep 26, 2024

Arn H. Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, speaks with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the dangers posed by the fake electors.

Clean elections

Trump鈥檚 Fake Electors Eye 2024 Election Theft

A new report by Insurrection Exposed prepares voters on what to expect from Trump鈥檚 next effort to steal an election.

| Sep 20, 2024

Iv谩n Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, Boston discusses immigration issues with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.

Immigration | Racial Justice

A Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration

Instead of Project 2025鈥檚 harsh anti-immigrant policies, here鈥檚 what a progressive, human-centered vision for immigrant rights looks like.

| Sep 18, 2024

What Do Young Voters Want From Kamala Harris?

Gen Z voters are cautiously optimistic about the vice president. But they want her to end the Gaza genocide.

Lajward Zahra | Sep 18, 2024

Native rights | Activism

Can U.S. Voters End the Gaza Genocide?

Votes are power, and many protestors are declaring that without an arms embargo on Israel, no candidate will get their vote.

Arun Gupta | Sep 16, 2024

Clean elections

Misogyny Didn鈥檛 Need a Mic During the Trump鈥揌arris Debate

Despite muted microphones during the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, each candidate's face spoke volumes.

Errin Haines | Sep 12, 2024

Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director for the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress, outlined a progressive vision for health care in conversation with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar.

Health care

A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care

Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.

| Sep 12, 2024

LGBTQ+

Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights

The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence

| Sep 11, 2024

Democrats Embrace the Power of Nontoxic Masculinity

To show their support of a future Madame President, Gov. Tim Walz and others in the party are publicly relinquishing male power and privilege.

Karrin Vasby Anderson | Sep 6, 2024

How Zionism Wove Itself Into U.S. Politics

In the wake of AIPAC鈥檚 ouster of two pro-Palestine congressional Democrats, a Jewish American digs into the reality of Zionist influence in American politics.

Shane Burley | Sep 5, 2024

In Defense of the 鈥淲eird鈥�

It's hypocritical for each party to claim to speak on behalf of the forgotten and marginalized while mockingly calling the other side 鈥渨eird.鈥� It鈥檚 also deeply regressive.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | Aug 30, 2024

Racial Justice | Criminal justice reform

Voters Behind Bars

Incarcerated Americans aren鈥檛 allowed to vote. Those with felonies also face barriers. Here鈥檚 what that means for democracy.

| Aug 29, 2024

Disrupting the DNC for Palestine

Breaking the DNC blackout on Gaza, Codepink's Jodie Evans joined other activists working to keep Palestinians on the Democratic Party鈥檚 radar.

| Aug 28, 2024

Democratic reforms | Local power

What Is Progress 2025?

In response to Project 2025鈥檚 regressive political agenda, 大象传媒 has launched this hub for the big ideas鈥攁nd grassroots methods鈥攖hat offer solutions for democracy.

大象传媒 Editors | Aug 19, 2024

The Quiet Success of the Israel Divestment Movement

The United States has historically provided hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel. The flow of taxpayer funds to Israel鈥檚 military has only increased since Israeli forces

Marianne Dhenin | Aug 6, 2024

Local economies | Local power | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands

Nurturing Seeds of Freedom in Palestine

Surrounded by a 26-foot-high separation wall, barbed wire, and a watchtower, a group of young Palestinians prepares a 3.5-acre piece of land for the growing season in spring. The noise

Marta Vidal | Aug 5, 2024

What Is (and Is Not) Political Violence?

Violence against communities of color has always been political, but American elites have avoided that framing, says NDN Collective鈥檚 Janene Yazzie.

| Aug 2, 2024

Activism | Climate

Youth Take J.D. Vance to Task on Climate

Community organizers with the Sunrise Movement explain why they protested outside the GOP Vice Presidential hopeful鈥檚 office.

| Aug 1, 2024

Racial Justice | Clean elections | Women

The Complexity of Harris鈥� Historic Candidacy

Women of color want demographic and political representation, just as wealthy white men have had for generations.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Jul 30, 2024

Activism | Local power

Why Protest Works鈥擡ven When It鈥檚 Unpopular

High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization鈥攂ut often still yield increased public support for the protest鈥檚 goals, even if the tactics are criticized.

Mark Engler, Paul Engler | Jul 26, 2024

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