In the latest post of our 2022 Research Cohort blog series, Mildred E. Warner of Cornell University explores how abusive state preemption legislation suppresses wages, undermining inclusive growth. Warner explains how we can promote more inclusive growth by raising returns to labor.

Some states have begun to use preemption to force localities to criminalize camping in public, taking local resources away from proven solutions that could address the root causes of homelessness. This new white paper calls attention to this alarming new preemption trend and begins the conversation with cities about fighting back.

The Local Solutions Support Center is excited to continue a blog series featuring our 2022 Research Cohort. Each month, a member of our Research Cohort will explore a different topic and its connection to preemption. Here, Courtnee Melton-Fant shares the story of Boxtown, a majority black neighborhood in Memphis harmed by the abuse of preemption.

We’re excited to release a new series of message frames designed to help you talk about preemption through different lenses and to different audiences.

In this document, a supplement to our white paper from Columbia Law Professor Richard Briffault, we outline what local election administration involves, common preemption practices for local election authority, and how preemption of this authority threatens democracy.

In this report, Undermining Democracy: How Far-Right State Lawmakers & Corporations Are Abusing Preemption to Take Power Away from People, LSSC tracks how abusive preemption has been used by state lawmakers in the 2022 legislative session.

We love to stay in touch with advocates, attorneys, legal scholars, organizers, and more who are actively involved in the work to resist the abuse of preemption.

The Local Solutions Support Center is excited to continue a blog series featuring our 2022 Research Cohort. Each month, a member of our Research Cohort will explore a different topic and its connection to preemption. Here, Noah Kazis explores a case study in New Jersey.

As part of the Local Solutions Support Center’s ongoing efforts to help local leaders understand and deploy their authority to address their communities’ needs, we have produced this memo outlining what local election administration involves and how it threatens democracy.

The guide reflects the latest messaging for how to talk about the abuse of state preemption and how many elected officials use preemption to entrench inequities and take power away from people and communities.

The Local Solutions Support Center has designed a toolkit to help organizers understand what public health authority preemption looks like and how to talk about it in a way that’s both accessible to broader audiences, and effective.

Each month, a member of our Research Cohort will explore a different topic and its connection to preemption. Here, Professor Lori Riverstone-Newell kicks things off by examining three different strategies local leaders have relied upon to resist abusive state preemption: dissent, litigation, and defiance.

State lawmakers who are abusing preemption haven’t slowed their efforts to take power away from local communities this year – LSSC’s new 2022 Mid-Session report looks at how state elected officials are continuing to undermine local authority on topics ranging from educational curriculum to voting rights to labor laws to LGBTQ equality.

This month the Local Solutions Support Center launched new social media platforms so we can more consistently share news, insight, and analysis of the ways that preemption is being abused in state legislatures across the country.

LSSC is are compiling issue-specific preemption guides that serve as a one-stop-shop for the best high-level resources associated with individual issue areas commonly preempted.

This week the Local Solutions Support Center published a new resource that takes a look back at 2021, an unprecedented year for abusive preemption. It examines the landscape for preemption and highlights what the LSSC team accomplished last year.

The second edition of the Local Power & Politics Review is now live and features a series of articles that explore how some states preempted local authority across a host of issues during the pandemic.

Now that the Delta variant’s rapid spread has again sparked showdowns over masking orders, school and business closings and vaccine passports between state and local governments nationwide, LSSC has reprised this once-a-week recap.

Only a handful of states have targeted municipal police reform, but left unchecked, such preemption strategies will likely spread to other states. And without scrutiny, some states will feel emboldened to encroach further on municipal ability to control and reform their police departments.

A new report highlights how state lawmakers in the Midwest have abused preemption to impede progress on a variety of issues that would improve the economic security and well-being of residents.