Some localities are granting limited voting rights to noncitizens, especially on issues directly affecting them.

As we await election results, Vilissa Thompson reminds us that hope is a discipline that we cannot cede to despair.

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A growing number of U.S. municipalities are making it possible for minors to vote. Thousands of high school students in Oakland, California, will be voting for the first time this November after a ...

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is the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigration detention in the United States. She is also the author of the book Unbuild Walls: Why ...

Incarcerated people in California and many other states can be compelled to work for near-zero wages. A ballot proposition could change that.

There are two initiatives on California’s ballot this November dealing with the prison-industrial complex: Proposition 36 would worsen penalties for petty crimes, increasing the prison population and ...

A coalition of progressive groups, including labor organizers, are connecting the dots on climate and the economy in North ...

Even while trying to appeal to white women, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance continue to push policies that will harm them—and all ...

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