Democracy Forward

Research & Reports

Midyear Impact Report: Freedom on the Brink and the Path Forward

Amidst growing public awareness regarding extreme and harmful proposals in Project 2025, our midyear report highlights anti-democratic threats currently facing people and communities across the nation and describes the way in which hundreds of communities and organizations have worked together to counter them.

Democracy Forward provides legal representation and strategic counsel to people who make up the fabric of our nation: workers, parents, teachers, young people, researchers, voters, business owners, doctors and health care professionals, artists, authors, creators, caregivers, immigrants, faith communities, and many more.

The report features our work with these communities to advance social progress and create a bold and vibrant democracy for all people, including efforts to fight for access to affordable health care, and to defend workers’ rights, civil rights, and our nation’s civil service workers.

The road to 2025 and beyond–the road to our freedom – runs through our communities across the country. And that is where you will find us.

With an expanded team and more than 400 partners, we are actively working in 38+ states to ensure that We, The People counter threats to our freedoms and our future.

We’re investing in enhancing our capacity for work in the states, where some of the most egregious attacks on a fair and inclusive society are taking place. We will be harnessing the infrastructure we have built to track where the far right is headed so we can beat them there, and ensure that communities have the tools they need to thrive. And you will find us in courts – from local courts to the US Supreme Court – ensuring that We, The People are represented.