People Power from YES! Magazine

No matter who wins the 2024 presidential race, immigrant rights advocates are laying the groundwork for long-term justice.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/11/01/election-rights-immigrants-prepare

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/voting-election-north-carolina

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/10/31/trump-election-white-women

Investigative journalist Arun Gupta offers an eyewitness account of the hate—and sense of belonging—on display at Donald Trump’s New York City rally.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-election-new-york-rally

New citizens—whose votes may prove pivotal in swing states—are considering myriad issues as they cast their first ballots in a presidential election.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/10/30/election-voting-new-citizens

According to the actor and activist: “The choice is very clear: Do we vote for the future, or do we vote for burning up the planet?”

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/10/25/election-climate-activism-jane-fonda

Only a few localities nationwide allow voters to elect judges. What impact would democratizing judge selection have on the judiciary?

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/voting-election-judge

An extremely tight race for the presidency is sparking a last-minute, Black-led GOTV effort aimed at Black voters in swing states.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/black-voting-election-president

From vote-by-mail to making Election Day a national holiday, voting rights advocates are engaged in myriad efforts to increase voting access.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/10/23/how-to-vote-voting-election

It’s time to let all voting-age Americans influence their government.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/10/18/texas-vote-jail-prison

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 R...

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-harris-stein-election

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/10/11/florida-election-voting-felony

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.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/california-incarceration-prop36

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/09/27/happy-vote-election-mood

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/election-black-voting-rights

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/2024-trump-election-theft

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/immigration-project-progress-2025

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/09/18/harris-young-election-voting

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/09/16/harris-election-voting-israel-gaza

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/09/12/debate-trump-harris-misogyny

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/2025-election-healthcare-medicare

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. I...

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/election-rights-progress-lgbtq

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/09/06/men-harris-walz-election

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/09/05/israel-politics-palestine-gaza-zionism

It's hypocritical for each party to claim to speak on behalf of the forgotten and marginalized while mockingly calling the other side “weird.” It’s also deeply regressive.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/08/30/election-weird-republican-democrat

Incarcerated Americans aren’t allowed to vote. Those with felonies also face barriers. Here’s what that means for democracy.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/jail-election-prison-vote

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/dnc-election-democrats-gaza

A Bangladesh-born labor explores the South Asian nation’s prospects to transition to a stable democracy now that the dust has settled from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/student-revolution-democracy-bangladesh

In response to Project 2025’s regressive political agenda, YES! has launched this hub for the big ideas—and grassroots methods—that offer solutions for democracy.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/08/19/what-is-progress-2025

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/08/06/israel-taxes-palestine-gaza-divest

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/08/05/seeds-growth-freedom-palestine

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-native-political-violence

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/ohio-vance-jd-climate

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

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/07/30/kamala-harris-women-president

High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization—but often still yield increased public support for the protest’s goals, even if the tactics are criticized.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/07/26/why-protest-works

The Vice President becomes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in a game-changing political moment.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/kamala-harris-women-president

In times of trouble, cowards choose the easiest path. It is only the courageous—and almost always those who are most marginalized—who dare to say and do the hard, but right, thing.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/07/23/harris-biden-president-election-courage

Indigenous communities have long resisted the false narratives of imperialist nations and are experts at countering the political violence of white supremacy.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/07/18/trump-shooting-assassination-political

The Heritage Foundation has a plan to rewrite the rules of government under a second Trump term, and they’ve helpfully laid it all out for public viewing.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-project-2025-election

The RNC’s idea of “Making America Safe Again” is centered on policing and harsh anti-immigrant detention, not on gun violence.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/rnc-gun-political-violence

Amid ongoing colonization, the Indigenous Shuar people are taking back control of their economic and political futures.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2024/07/16/ecuador-native-dragon-fruit

Analyst Jean Bricmont offers a deep analysis of how France's left-leaning coalition swept a plurality of seats in the recent snap elections.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/france-left-election-nfp

In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling granting former president Donald Trump immunity from prosecution, Lisa Graves explains what‘s at stake.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-election-supreme-court

Author and activist Brea Baker explores why Black land ownership is a critical aspect of reparations for Black Americans.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/black-american-land-reparations

After his disastrous debate performance, the incumbent president is facing a chorus of calls to step aside from the 2024 election.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/debate-biden-election-democrat

Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/06/24/pride-laws-bills-lgbtq

Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/06/20/police-election-defund

A new database of tribal constitutions tells a more nuanced history of self-governance than the one explained in textbooks.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/06/17/history-database-tribe-constitution

An Indian journalist explores why voters have lost enthusiasm for the BJP and Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu-supremacist policies.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/india-election-modi-bjp

Have voters forgotten about the slide toward fascism precipitated by Trump? Journalist Tara McGowan sounds the alarm.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/trump-2024-election-voting