The reality is that the national cable and telephone companies behind these laws banning or limiting municipal broadband are focused on maximizing their short-term revenues.

Schools are at the heart of our local communities, but legislation now being enacted allows states to dictate what can or cannot be taught in the classroom – decisions that are currently and rightfully made at the local level in communities where students live.

Most Americans can agree that for democracy to work for everyone, it must include everyone.

The speed and scale of this lobbying effort shows how alarmed the gas industry is by the efforts of cities, states, businesses to sharply reduce fossil fuel use.

By preempting a city’s power to increase wages and failing to raise the minimum wage at the state level, state lawmakers have made it difficult for workers in the lowest-paying jobs to support their families.

None of us should be forced to choose between taking care of a loved one or losing our jobs -- but that’s exactly what too many people had to do during the pandemic.

The right to dissent is fundamentally American and core to our values. Protests are inextricably tied to some of our most consequential moments and movements in American history.

Cities and municipalities have the right to enact local policies that protect the health, safety, and well-being of the people who live and work within their communities - and that includes immigrants.

The volume of housing preemption that occurred in the years before the pandemic left many local governments unable to respond to the ongoing public health crisis and uneven economic recovery

A supermajority of Americans support measures protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination – including majorities in every single state. But that hasn’t stopped some state legislatures from singling out LGBTQ people.

Local control over local budgets is essential – it ensures that local elected officials can respond to the unique needs and concerns of their communities and enact measures that protect the health, safety, and well-being of their constituents.

By redistributing public health decision making power around COVID to state governments, these preemption measures are setting a new and dangerous precedent, where local governments will continue to be stripped of their authority to make any public health decisions for their own communities.