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Federal Advocacy: Fighting Back & Fighting Forward

About the Campaign

Affiliates in the CPD Network have decades of experience winning progressive policy reform and passing progressive legislation at the local and state level. By working together with CPD, we have the power to pass expansive and far-reaching policies that directly impact hundreds of millions of people across the U.S.

Our federal advocacy department advances just policies on immigration, housing, education, criminal injustice, civil...

Affiliates in the CPD Network have decades of experience winning progressive policy reform and passing progressive legislation at the local and state level. By working together with CPD, we have the power to pass expansive and far-reaching policies that directly impact hundreds of millions of people across the U.S.

Our federal advocacy department advances just policies on immigration, housing, education, criminal injustice, civil rights, voting rights, and healthcare. 

How we work:

  • We approach federal advocacy as organizers. We prioritize bringing people to directly speak their truth to those in power.

  • We refuse to operate within the framework of what is possible in the moment. As we’ve developed and won our policy at the local and state level, we’ve learned that organizing expands the limits of possibility.

  • We use all of the tools in the advocacy tool box. We combine strategic research with deep and expansive organizing, legal analysis and expertise, lobbying and direct action.

Campaign Blog

Our Summer of Action is Heating Up

This summer, we have the opportunity to influence crucial policy decisions that could impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers and...

New Reports Released on Immigration and Housing

Last month, the Center for Popular Democracy released three new publications: CPD’s 2021 Federal Housing Agenda, Advancing Universal Representation:...

Demanding Federal Action on COVID-19 Relief

Over the last month CPD has worked with affiliates to push the Biden administration to go as big as possible on all COVID-19 relief measures.

Seeking Justice for Families Impacted by COVID-19

Since late spring, the Center for Popular Democracy has been engaging families who lost loved ones due to COVID-19 to demand accountability and...

CPD Network Takes to the Capitol

On Wednesday, January 29, our sister organization CPD Action (CPDA) joined the Poor People's Campaign, Remove Trump, By the People, Demand...