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A collage of the headshots of two Demand a Seat participants. On the left, a Latino man with short, curly, dark hair wears a white collared shirt and a navy blue blazer. On the right, a Latina woman with shoulder-length dark hair and tortoiseshell rectangular glasses wears a red Moms Demand Action t-shirt.

De qué modo dos participantes latines de Demand a Seat dejaron de ser espectadores y lograron un cambio tangible

A large group of Moms Demand Action volunteers and other gun violence prevention advocates rally in front of the Supreme Court.

What You Need To Know About Garland v. VanDerStok Ahead of Oral Argument

A purple-toned illustration of a sun rising over a small hill. A tree with branches that reach toward the sunrise extends from the left side of the image.

What A Survivor of Intimate Partner Gun Violence Wants You To Know

Survivor Stories

John Feinblatt, a white man with white hair, brown glasses, and a navy/brown plaid suit, smiles in front of a blue background. He wears an orange lapel pin and a white collared shirt.

Vance vs. Walz: A Tale of Two Gun Owners

Capt. Chris Marvin is a retired member of the U.S. Army. He is a white male with short grey-and-brown hair, a beard and mustache, and is wearing a white collared shirt.

How Veterans and Those Who Care About Them Can Help Prevent Firearm Suicide

Veteran Stories

A front-facing view of the White House taken at night. A fountain is bubbling in the center of the shot, bisecting the White House. The White House is lit up the color orange for gun violence awareness. The sky behind it is navy blue.

What the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Has Accomplished In Its First Year

A ghost gun frame rests on a table. The image is blue-tinged.

Polymer80 Is Morally Bankrupt—and Now It’s Out of Business

A group of students pose in front of a sign in the White Sox stadium that says

Peer-to-Peer Empowerment: Students Demand Action’s Chicago Summer Leadership Academy 2024

Students Demand Action

Six people pose for a photo inside of a bowling alley. Two are wearing Moms Demand Action shirts. They all are gathered around a white sign that reads

The Toledo Group Working to “Bowl Over Gun Violence”

Survivor Stories

Shannon, a white woman with blond hair wearing a grey Be SMART t-shirt, poses with Crystal, a Black woman wearing a black t-shirt and a black headband. In the foreground of the image are boxes of diapers they have collected.

How This Group Is Using Diaper Changes To Change How Firearms Are Stored

A Physician’s SMART Week Reminder: Recognizing the Role of Firearms in Suicide Is a Matter of Life and Death

Greta Willis, a Black woman wearing a pastel green collared shirt, matching pastel earrings, and dark, narrow oval sunglasses, turns toward the camera and poses for a photo. Green grass and trees are visible in the background behind her.

SMART Week Reminds Us That Advocating For Youth Starts With Asking About Secure Firearm Storage

Survivor Stories

Meet the Veteran Modeling Responsible Behavior Around Firearms During SMART Week and Beyond

Veteran Stories

The three co-founders of Teachers Unify To End Gun Violence pose in front of a poster at a conference. All three are women.

Why This Teacher Is Spreading the Word About Secure Storage During SMART Week

Survivor Stories

A blurred face and hand are visible in the background of the image, behind the foreground of splintered glass. In the center, there is a bullet hole through which the person's face is visible. The person appears to be reaching out toward the viewer. The image is meant to reflect how lives can be shattered by intimate partner homicide-suicide.

11 Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide—and 5 Ways to Prevent It

Research Explained

Gun Violence Is Down in Our Cities. Why Not Also in Our Schools?

Research Explained

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the presumptive Democratic candidate during an event at West Allis Central High School, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Didn’t Just Fall Out of a Coconut Tree

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the presumptive Democratic candidate during an event at West Allis Central High School, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

Five Things Kamala Harris Has Done To Protect Women and Families From Gun Violence

The headshots of the five featured students are superimposed on a cobalt blue blackground. The headshots are in a black-and-white color palette. The bottom half of the photo is plain white, and the headshots/blue background appear above the white background; they are blended by a texture that looks like a page has been ripped out of a notebook.

What Is the Students Demand Action National Training Team?

Students Demand Action

A total of 17 Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, all wearing red branded shirts, pose for a photo during Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill. They stand in front of a staircase with shade trees on either side of the path behind them; the Capitol building is visible between the trees in the background.

Calling on Congress: Powerful Stories From Our Largest Federal Advocacy Day

Volunteer Stories

Manny, a Black man in his mid-20s, stands in the center of a brown stage in front of a projected slide that reads

“Don’t Get Tricked Out Ya Spot” Conflict Resolution Tour

A black-and-white image close-up of a person's torso and hand holding a firearm resembling a rifle. This image is overlaid with a line chart in white, orange, and purple and with a pie chart in shades of light and dark blue.

How the Gun Lobby and Gun Industry Fan the Flames of Extremist Ideology

Research Explained

20 members of the Burnsville Care Team stand in front of a powerpoint slide that reads

Burnsville Care Team: Supporting Families and First Responders Grieving Their Fallen Heroes

A group of about 20 students pose in two rows, many of them holding signs that say

This Is How We Disarm Hate: Students Demand Action at DC Pride

Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

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