Insights - Democracy Alliance

“Give ‘Em Hell” – CPD Launches Campaign Against “Corporate Backers of Hate”

The Center for Popular Democracy’s latest pressure campaign targets corporations “standing by the President and… positioning themselves to profit from his hateful...

News Roundup, April 29

Smart investments: for a party looking to build in a progressive direction, for lifting the wages of millions of workers, and for reforming money in politics. In...

The Resistance Takes on Trump’s Assault on Climate Action

Just as the first hundred days of the Trump Administration began with the massive resistance of the Women’s March, they will end tomorrow with marches all across...

Democracy in the Balance: A Time to Resist and Restore

“Business must learn the lesson... that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used...

News Roundup, March 15

How to fix a broken Electoral College; what the Democratic Party should (and shouldn't) do next); delving into Trump's baseless allegations of voter fraud; and...

How Philanthropy and Civil Society Tell America’s Story – And Their Own

DA President Gara LaMarche delivered the following keynote remarks to San Diego Grantmakers, a donor network helping grantmakers' philanthropy have greater impact...

Progressives Must Mobilize and Persuade – And Get Better at Each

The 2016 election is more than three months past, and we are living each day with its apocalyptic consequences. We need to fight Trump and what he stands for on...

Trump and Us, One Month and Counting

Though it seems to many of us like it’s being measured in dog years, the Trump Presidency is just one month old, today. Though Donald Trump in office has proved...

Inequality and Privilege

Sitting down for a quick talk as part of the Ford Foundation’s “Ford Forums” video series on inequality, Gara LaMarche talks about being an angry white man – and...

News Roundup – Dec. 16

Inside Philanthropy reports on the progressive donor response to the Trump presidency; Issue One focuses on what it would take to really "drain the swamp"; Economic...