What Is Progress 2025?
In response to Project 2025鈥檚 regressive political agenda, 精东影业 has launched this hub for the big ideas鈥攁nd grassroots methods鈥攖hat offer solutions for democracy.
Democratic reforms
How Disabled Voters Are Accessing Democracy
The vast majority of U.S. polling locations are not fully accessible. Disability justice activists are working to change that.
The Rise of Indigenous Candidates Raises Awareness of Key Issues
Indigenous values helped shape American democracy, and now they鈥檙e helping increase Native representation.
Collective Bargaining for the Workplace and Democracy
Rubynell Walker-Barbee shares her story of service workers organizing in Georgia.
Does the Supreme Court鈥檚 Power Pose a Threat to Its Legitimacy?
A court seen as becoming increasingly politicized in ways unpopular to the majority of Americans risks decades of reputational damage.
How Women of Color in Congress Are Pushing a Grassroots Agenda
Despite roadblocks, the 鈥淪quad鈥� has pushed progressive legislation, scrutinized the powerful, and changed the conversation around who gets to hold political power.
Riding to Protect Voting Rights
Arizona activists fighting voter suppression at home join a freedom ride reminiscent of the civil rights era.
Building Bridges Without a Foundation for Peace Won鈥檛 Work
We shouldn鈥檛 reach out to the other side just for the sake of talk or 鈥渦nity.鈥� We need to build a safe and just society for all of us.
Ah, Sweet Normalcy: Obstruction and Dysfunction
Initial progress in Biden鈥檚 first weeks may be overshadowed by rising obstructionism, and timidity in his own party.
A Tale of Two Insurrections
In the wake of an insurrection, reconstruction has always been an optimistic act of rebuilding, reimagining, and recreating our country.
Unity Is Impossible Without Accountability
President Biden鈥檚 inaugural address focused on bringing the nation together. But that won鈥檛 happen if 鈥渦nity鈥� means we revert to the way things used to be.
This Insurrection Demands Justice
We can鈥檛 afford to wait 13 days until Trump is gone. The time to act is now.
Biden Needs to Go Big to Rebuild America
There鈥檚 an easy way for Biden to help restart the U.S. economy, invest in infrastructure, and repair environmental damage: Revive the Civilian Conservation Corps.
In Brazil, Women Candidates Find Strength in Numbers
Brazilian women are breaking into politics by joining together in collective candidacies, which allow politicians to build stronger coalitions and push for progressive change.
How We the People Can Take Back the Country
From its origins in snobbery and slavery to our current dilemma of equity and equality, the Electoral College represents a lot of what is wrong with our democracy.
America Is Not a Democracy, But We Must Become One
The founders of this nation did many things, but establishing democracy was not one of them. That鈥檚 our job.
The Secret to Corporate Power
Campaign finance is part of the problem, but have you heard of the 鈥渃apital strike鈥�?
The SCOTUS Electoral College Decision Is a Vote for the Status Quo
Electors thought they could vote their consciences in 2016. The Supreme Court just said 鈥渘o.鈥�
Basic Education Is Now a Constitutional Right
Although each state's constitution contains a right to education, state courts interpret these rights in different ways鈥攕ometimes to the detriment of children.
90% Don鈥檛 Want to Return to the Way We Were
What should happen in the aftermath of the coronavirus?
How to Save Elections From a Pandemic
Utah has shown both how to get more people to vote and how to overcome the political resistance that electoral reforms inevitably run into.
Ranked Choice Voting Gains Traction For 2020
As an independent candidate for public office, Tiffany Bond might typically be seen as a spoiler in a conventional election. But when she ran for Congress in 2018 in Maine鈥檚
To Address Climate Change, We Need to Take Back the Supreme Court
Thom Hartmann on why we should use constitutional solutions to rescue our democracy from the agendas of billionaires and corporations.
How the Supreme Court Became Supreme
For a branch of government originally conceived as the weakest of the three, the high court has taken much more power for itself in the past 230 years.
Impeachment Won鈥檛 Save Our Democracy
Congress is officially moving toward impeaching the president. But even then, it鈥檚 up to the people to keep our republic.
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