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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Impact of Federal Cuts to Social Safety Net in Mississippi
Families across Mississippi are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. But the looming federal budget cuts will have an outsize effect on our state because federal funding is essential to supporting the basic needs of many Mississippians. Unfortunately, Mississippi is home to the highest…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Impact of Federal Cuts to Social Safety Net in Louisiana
Families across Louisiana are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. But the looming federal budget cuts will have an outsize effect on our state because federal funding is essential to supporting the basic needs of many Louisianians. Unfortunately, Louisiana is home to some of…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
League of Women Voters of Louisiana, et al. v. Landry, et al.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of voting rights groups against the state of Louisiana following its passage of a proof of citizenship law that violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The NVRA does not allow states to require the collection of additional documentation to register…
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Impact of Federal Cuts to Social Safety Net in Georgia
Families across Georgia are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. But the looming federal budget cuts will have an outsize effect on our state because federal funding is essential to supporting the basic needs of many Georgians. Unfortunately, Georgia is home to some of…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Alabama Advocacy Institute fellows foster strength in their communities
Before 2005, Pearlington, Mississippi, wasn’t known for much — if at all. The small riverside town, population 1,153, hugs the southern corner of the state’s western border with Louisiana near the mouth of the Pearl River. When Warren Tidwell arrived that fall, it was mostly rubble. After Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall a couple…
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Impact of Federal Cuts to Social Safety Net in Alabama
Families across Alabama are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. But the looming federal budget cuts will have an outsize effect on our state because federal funding is essential to supporting the basic needs of many Alabamians. Unfortunately, Alabama is home to some of…
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Impact of Federal Cuts to Social Safety Net in Florida
Families across Florida are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. But the looming federal budget cuts will have an outsize effect on our state, because federal funding is essential to supporting the basic needs of many Floridians. Unfortunately, Florida is home to some of…
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Creative Combat: 10 steps for resistance in an age of crisis and chaos
We live in chaotic times. Yet much of the political, legal and activist response is shackled to the ways of the past. The recent “Hands Off” demonstrations are indicative of the problem. The protests brought groups together and motivated (mostly older and white) liberals but did little to change the status quo. How, then, to…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Letter opposing confirmation of Joe Kent to serve as director of the National Counterterrorism Center
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Antigovernment leader Ammon Bundy loses pandemic-era court case in Idaho
In August 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, antigovernment leader Ammon Bundy and his supporters stormed the Idaho Capitol during a special session of the state’s Legislature to protest pandemic health measures. Bundy and others were charged with misdemeanors for trespassing and resisting and obstructing officers. When he refused to leave the premises,…
