You are here:
  1. Home
  2. Search

Search

Filters

  • Blog Post

History of MAP: Building Common Ground Through Messaging

This blog highlights the legacy and ongoing impact of MAP’s messaging work. Alongside this history, we include several perspectives from MAP’s strongest supporters.
  • Blog Post

History of MAP: Leading Through Collaboration

This third installment of our spotlight anniversary series identifies important examples of collaboration and partnership across MAP’s history.
  • Blog Post

History of MAP: Tracking Equality and Democracy Through State Policy

In this second installment of our “History of MAP” series, we highlight MAP’s extensive collection of policy research — from its origins in the early 2000s to its most recent expansion through the Democracy Program.
  • Blog Post

History of MAP: Analyzing the Movement’s Capacity

  • Press Release

MAP Partner Report Tells a New Story of LGBTQ Youth in Their Own Words

MEDIA CONTACT: Dana Juniel, Movement Advancement Project dana@mapresearch.org | 303-578-4600 ext. 131 September 17, 2025 In many ways, LGBTQ youth are just like any other youth in America: they are creative, curious people trying to grow into confident, fulfilled adults. They live in every community across the country, and they simply want to be…

  • Blog Post

Forecasting Democracy: Expected Changes to Voting and Election Policies in 2026

This brief from MAP’s Democracy Program forecasts trends and potential shifts in the voting and election policy landscape in 2026.
  • Map

Voting Rights for Formerly Incarcerated People

Every state has laws outlining who is eligible to vote, and almost all states restrict voting for those who are currently incarcerated for a felony offense—though a few states allow citizens to vote while incarcerated. States differ on when and how formerly incarcerated people can have their voting rights restored.
  • Map

Direct Citizen Initiative States

The initiative process is a tool through which citizens can propose statutes or constitutional amendments to be put on the ballot in their state. Often referred to generally as ballot measures, the initiative process can be direct or indirect depending on the state.
  • Map

Voter Registration Rate

MAP relied on research and data from the MIT Election Data + Science Lab’s Election Performance Index for this map, which depicts voter registration rates from the 2020 election.
  • Map

Partisanship of State Primary Election Systems

State primary elections determine the candidates that will be on the ballot for the general election. States primary election systems vary widely, with some elections only open to voters registered with a particular party, while other states allow non-affiliated voters to participate as well. While most state primary systems are partisan, a few states have adopted nonpartisan primaries, in which voters cast a ballot in a single primary with all candidates on the same ballot.